01 Cutting Top Greens Off Leeks With Machette To Plant The Living Roots
02 Splitting Up Garlic Bulbs For Planting
03 Cutting Green Onions With Folding Stainless Steel Scissors For Brine Fermentation
04 Filling Brine Fermentation Jar With Green Onions
05 Adding A Teaspoon Of Salt To Green Onion Brine Fermentation Jar
06 Adding Water To Salt Brine Fermentation Jar
07 Cutting Leeks With Folding Stainless Steel Scissors
08 Weighing Down Salt Brine Fermentation Jar Vegetables With Glass Weight 01
09 Weighing Down Salt Brine Fermentation Jar Vegetables With Glass Weight 01
10 Counting Out Bundles Of Green Onion Roots To Plant In Container Gardens
11 Counting Out Sweet Potatoes To Plant In Container Gardens
12 Seed Mix in Quart Jar For Planting In Container Gardens
13 Metal Bucket Filled With Plantable Produce From The Grocery Store
14 Opening The Door To The Desert Bonsai Food Forest Dome
15 Crawling In The Door Of The Desert Bonsai Food Forest Dome
16 Placing An Evenly Spaced Pattern Of Sweet Potatoes For Planting
17 Placing An Evenly Spaced Pattern Of Green Onions For Planting
18 Placing An Evenly Spaced Pattern Of Garlic For Planting
19 Using A Fork To Loosen Soil To Plant A Sweet Potato
20 Planting A Sweet Potato
Plantable Produce Mission With Sweet Potatoes Green Onions Leeks And Garlic In Bonsai Food Forest Dome
It's a been a long tradition of mine to save money and time, along with have more reliable cultivation by purchasing plantable produce from the grocery store. It's often much cheaper than buying potted plants from the nursery. Seeds are usually cheap enough, though some times they can be difficult to established. So for me, there's almost nothing better in life than the strategy of buying fresh produce with plantable viable root systems and other root crops that are living.
Here I'm harvesting the tops of green onions and leeks, cutting the greens up and putting them in salt brine jars with glass weights to keep the plant material under the water line to prevent molding at the top. Then I separate garlic bulbs and assemble sweet potatoes so that I can create bundled kits of each item to be distributed across 4 galvanized can container gardens. I also have a greens and herbs seed mix in a quart jar that will be mixed in with the plantable produce.
Once everything is sorted and placed into a metal 4 gallon bucket, I crawl in through the ground level door of the bonsai food forest and start to lay out evenly spaced patterns that will be planted and watered in along with the seed mix.