Photo album: Going Garden, June 2013

I created an album of photos taken by Jasmine van den Heuvel in June 2013, of my old forest garden in Portland. The new owners have changed a few things around in their first year and a quarter:

• Replaced half to two-thirds of the zone 1 perennial beds with annual beds
• Removed the double row of failing raspberries near the house and mostly left it open (at least for now?) as a big path
• Ironically, after we removed the herb spiral which didn't work very well and dug a catchment pond, the new owners filled in the pond and made a little herb spiral in its place
• Replaced the dead olive in zone 2 and its perennial understory with annuals
• Replaced a large swath of the former driveway, including a sickly or dead pawpaw circle, with a strawberry mound
• Planted some new trees: figs on west side of house, pawpaw in back yard
• Removed the backyard chicken paddock fences
• Replaced the wood shed in the backyard with a second chicken coop (or run?) next to our original coop

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