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Information from 2011
In 2012 there Natalia Borissova was a (non-green) gardener in residence, building upon work developing the Time's Up Augmented Garden. She was practically exploring fungi as a decomposing, transforming and connecting tissue at the challenging urban playground.
This page attempts to summarise some of the experiences in a wiki format, to allow easy editing and access by interested people as well as those involved. Some details of the experiences are collected here: questions, ideas and further experiences are accumulating. Slowly but surely.
Image. Description of the planting situation with notes from the 2011 growing season: http://timesup.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/image_big/Garden_11.jpg
Some of the mechanical devices Harvest quantities 2011 Ideas: ongoing supply seems to work and offer immediate feedback: salads, tomatoes, capsicums Experiences:
- Pumpkins: the plants grow well but the pumpkins do not
- Potatoes: deep system sort of worked (link to blog)
- Beetroot: okay
- carrots: good flavour, not very big.
- Tomatoes: grow well, rain protection and sunshine / warmth help
- Capsicum and chillis: grew well. The existing plots can be re-used, which is meant to be great for chilli.
- Making the high hanging gardens self-seeding would be good, new plant colony is possible.
- The 2011 harvest is listed here: http://timesup.org/content/harvest-2011
Watering:
- the main windmill is operating, but is suffering from age.
- The backup pump system works well and was probably necessary.
- The Ram was effective. Has been dismantled for now.
- The tipping pipes tipple along nicely
- The high hanging gardens are surviving.