A Journey of Growth

The journey of growth starts with a seed - a seed can be for a plant or for an idea or inspiration.  Each and every one of us holds the power to make something grow for the good; be it through green plants, music, crafts or love.

I was recently inspired by this video that someone shared with me to just begin planting.  Plant those seeds, plant those trees, teach others how to do it as well!

 http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/planting-trees-india

We have been gardening now at Houston High school for about 3 years and we have developed some really great systems for growing and expanding what we have with very little, using innovative growing techniques.  For example we have taken our strawberry patch to new heights - actually we are in the process of taking it to new heights - by using a transplanting/runner growth technique that I got from my dad at Snowfire Gardens.

Our strawberry Hugelkulture produces a ton of berries, and it also makes plant runners that try to go all over the place!  So we started with a 3" deep flat that we filled with good growing medium.  We set them at the bottom of the hills of the hugelkulture bed and we trained the berry runners into the soil.

The runners take root in the flats and then you just snip them off and you can transplant them safely to the spot you want them!  It works slick as a whistle!

 In the above photo you can see we have two flats and you can see where the strawberry plants are growing well already - in the right side of the photo you can see the empty row that we need to fill with berry plants.  The flats will go right into the end of the row.  Next year when this row is full we can start a new row or have some plants to sell!  Win-Win!

This is a super simple way to plant that seed and begin a journey - even if the destination is just to have a full strawberry row!