I'm going to make one for my swamp! How thick is the mat? I have some old yoga mats, but I don't know if they're rigid enough. And how did you punch the holes? I was going to try cookie cutters.
I used 1/2" thick puzzle mat, which was plenty to keep things floating. I used a 3" hole saw, but only cause I had it already (ran it backwards so the teeth wouldn't grab and tear the mat.)
A yoga mat would probably do ok, but I had to add a little bit of weight to the corners to stop the mat from flipping up in the wind (see previous post) so the yoga mat might not be able to support that extra weight.
If you didn't need the cookie cutters anymore, you could probably put a board on top of one and smack it with a hammer to cut circles in the yoga mat, but it also may not work. You'd have to experiment a bit.
This was my first. I'd read about them in various gardening and permaculture posts, had the materials, and the result for essentially digging a ditch and filling it with yard waste was well worth it. It should help nourish the paper bark birch, dwarf arbor vitae, and crepe myrtle we have nearby for years to come.
So it looks like I'm right. Most from US. Its not a problem, I think its interesting to see what grows at your place, and when . right now I can harvest Strawberry's ,peas (?) And soon some Kale. Imworkinhg om a ecological garden. Where no poison is used, and allwhats the garden produces stays in thecircle of the garden. 🙂
I usually do stuff like marigolds and coneflower among stuff to keep them out, but I got lazy this year and they've been pretty merciful until the night before last
Basically a drought-tolerant garden that needs very little to 0 irrigation. Lots of gravel, no lawns (fuck lawns entirely), native plants to the area you live, etc etc.
It's super interesting, I definitely recommend looking into it.
Thank you. Didnt know that, but somehow almost the same as my garden. Just not like Gravel and so. My is made for insects so it looks wild for some, but for me it måles sence 😃
Logs and filler were from a pine we cut down, pampas grass and various fallen branches, and lots of trimmed wisteria. There's a paper bark birch just off camera on the right along with a crepe myrtle.
The flowers are from on of those seed blankets. I didn't have time this year to cultivate perrenials so went with an easy colorful first year.
Eventually expanding this little garden to turn that side yard into a miniature native plant meadow.
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