About 15-20 people have been marching in and out of my yard today. Things are winding down so I thought I'd post some pictures of the guild [1] planting and sheet mulching techniques that they're using in the yard.

First they put down cardboard:

You can see in this picture that some of the plants (the big ones) have been planted in holes cut in the cardboard. Some smaller, shallow-rooted ones are being planted right on top of it.

Then they put down a bunch of rabbit litter--straw and rabbit droppings--donated by a gal associated with City Repair who has a whole lotta bunnies:

Another view:

Then in some of the guilds [2] (like the one directly above) topsoil is put on top of that; in all of them, mulch--in this garden's case, shredded tree--is the top layer.

So that's what's going on right now. It pretty much looks like piles of mulch surrounded some little trees; if you didn't know better you'd think we'd just hauled in some piles of wood chips. I have to be careful about letting people step on them, because some of the plants are small.

The thing I really want to show you is the trellis Spencer is building along the side of the house, out of bamboo and pieces of the deceased apple tree. SO cool.

I leave you with one last thing--the garden plan, which I meant to post yesterday. Click on it to get a bigger view:

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