Comments on: Sustainable garden spirals to life

By: Gidds

Gidds — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:15:39 +0000

I want to make one of these for my new house. However, I live INSIDE one of the state parks so fermented cabbage may be out of the question. I’d like more information on where I could scavenge bricks and acquire other materials, if at all possible.

By: Valerie Warshaw

Valerie Warshaw — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:18:46 +0000

Great. Thanks for taking the time to document your process.

Rock on! Or, should I say, Brick on!

Best to you,
Valerie

By: krishna paul

krishna paul — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:07:33 +0000

also another interesting direction to be aware of are the very beginnings of the findhorn experiments in Scotland back in the late 60’s where an important aspect was to work intimately with the elemental community in conjunction with sound organic and now what is called permaculture principles.
listen and watch nature …..
YOU WILL BE AMAZED AT WHAT YOU LEARN … TRULY AMAZED.

By: krishna paul

krishna paul — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:58:28 +0000

ENJOYED YOUR SITE AND WOULD LOVE TO SHARE SOME INFO.
HAVE BEEN INVOLVED SINCE EARLY SEVENTIES ,STUDYING HORICULTURE,PROPAGATION AND ABHOROCOLOGY (THE WHOLE STUDY OF TREES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS AND WENT ONTO BECOMING INVOLVED WITH ORGANICS AND BIO-DYNAMICS.
BEING PART OF A COMMUNITY GARDEN IN THE MID NINETIES WE EXPERIMENTED WITH BRINGING ALL FACETS TOGETHER OF GROWING PLANTS AND AN INTERGRAL PART OF DESIGN LAYOUR WAS TO CREATE SPIRAL GARDENS,FLAT ON THE SOIL SURFACE AND CREATE GARDENS THAT SPIRALED OUT FROM A NUCLEUS CENTRE.
WE ALSO ERECTED ON THE SMALLER GARDENS USING BAMBOO STICKS,PYRAMID SHAPES,WITH THE APEX OF THE PYRAMID BEING DIRECTLY ABOVE THE NUCLEUR CENTRE,SOME 3 METRES IN HEIGHT ABOVE THE GROUND,WHERE WE HUNG CLEAR QUARTZE CRYSTALS.
WE USED THE COMPANION PLANTING SYSTEM,WHICH INCLUDED ALL TYPES OF PLANTS,EDIBLE PLANTS,HERBAL AND FLORAL.
THE RESULTS WERE OUTSTANDING WITH SIZE AND QUALITY AND CONTINUED PLANT GROWETH SUPERSEDING ANYTHING THAT I HAD PREVIOUSLY BEING INVOLVED WITH.
THESE DAYS WE ARE INVOLVED WITH WORKING WITH PARTICULAR SPIRAL SHAPES WITHIN A STABLE STILL MATERIAL – CERAMICS,CLAY AND WOOD( CLEAN,NOT CONTAMINATED )
AND ALLOWING ELEMENTS ( WATER,WIND,SUNLIGHT,SOUND ETC.) TO PASS THROUGH THESE SHAPES WITH SOME INTERESTING RESULTS.
WE ARE ALSO DESIGNING SPIRAL SHAPED DWELLINGS AND COMMUNITIES – WE SIMPLY CALL IT VORTEXUAL HARMONICS AND THE UNIVERSAL ARCHETYPAL PATTERN IS A VORTEX – THE SPIRAL.
HAPPY SPIRALLING … KRISHNA paul

By: Susan Horn

Susan Horn — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:43:10 +0000

Monica, I bet you will find some way gorgeous old bricks in NOLA. Happy gardening!

Bill (Bamboo Bill presume?), I just received an order of biochar and plan to start using it in our garden, and with the chickens. Hoping to learn how to make our own, probably a winter activity!

Will also incorporate biochar into any future herb spirals we build — currently, we have two community education/service projects tentatively scheduled for the fall, where we’ll be teaching/building herb spirals here in the Panhandle. Time permitting, we’ll cover terra preta/biochar for its soil-improving and carbon-sequestering benefits. Are you selling bamboo charcoal?

By: Bill Howes

Bill Howes — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:08:17 +0000

Way to go folks! Your efforts are appreciated and positive.While others are fighting over lawn grass, etc. you are working towards the future of our planet and our race.One other ingredient you might consider adding to your gardens would be charcoal.(of course I think bamboo charcoal is superior) Thank you for communicating with us, and good,great luck in the future.
Peace,bill

By: Monica Spain

Monica Spain — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:05:00 +0000

What’s not to LOVE about this?

We are going to get bricks from a salvage yard
here in New Orleans and start our own spiral garden! Kudos to the Horn’s! Thanks for the inspiration and keepin’ it GREEN! We will pass this on to our local forum!
Thank YOU Walton Outdoors for keepin’ it REAL!

By: Teresa Henehan Trujillo

Teresa Henehan Trujillo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:34:47 +0000

This is so cool. A recent episode of “The Bioneers” on public radio talked about the universal place of the spiral shape. I would need more info on working with clay/river bottom soil being so close to the Rio Grande.