As the gardens empty from the summer produce I am adding Olla pots to them. As the soil is disturbed I am covering them back up lasagne style with leaves, compost pea straw after an autumn cover crop. This should give me a great start for spring.
Winter veg will take a back step this year, but the water saving benefits and constant water supply will be worth it.
There are smaller pots, the ones I made to experiment last year will be used as 1 per tomato plant and 4 big ones per bed. Double ones for deeper rooted plants and the single ones for lettuce and onions which have shallow roots.
1 bed wil be left as drip irrigation and that will be the potato bed so it can be lifted for harvest.
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