Another time lapse from the last week or so.






We’ve now produced a nice crop of hay to spread over our soil surface. That’ll come in handy as we move into the summer months to help conserve soil moisture and moderate soil temperatures. Eventually it'll become rich organic soil as the soil microbial community breaks it all down.

I’m letting the hay naturally fall down onto the surface in order to not smother out new summer plant growth that will soon emerge. If you had a drill this would be where you could press the hay mat down for a weed suppressant and drill into it. Actually, you could have done that any time after it started going to seed. I’m purposely growing natural vegetation in the summer months though so I want to let sunlight penetrate to the soil surface and stimulate growth. I’m hoping to see a nice stand of teaweed eventually show up.



Here come the deer to eat the seed heads and remove the old canopy…………Right on cue.