I’ve gotten to my favorite part of my garden project. Putting in the plants. So far I have harvested a few wild sedums and plan to add more as I find them. To harvest sedums for a project like this you have to first find them. I look near rocky areas. The cliffs along beaches tend to be a good place to look as the plants are far enough away from the water to become damaged and the soil is too light for other plants that may otherwise be competition. Ensure that their are many sedums growing around the area before you harvest. There is no reason to harvest more then 2 from a patch. The rule of thumb when harvesting is to take less then 5% and only from areas that have not been harvested before. Read this before harvesting any plants. The sedums that I have harvested for this garden project reproduce using their roots. This means that I can harvest them by taking a small piece of the plant off with a part of the root attached. Since I only take from healthy plants, the rest of the plant is not negatively effected by this. These plants will also bloom in my garden making it a friendly place for the local pollinators.
This is my project as it stands today. I added some garden knick knacks that i had laying around. One of the beautiful things about garden projects is that they are never quite completed. The plants in here will grow, I’ll add new ones, they will die and decompose, one plant might start to take over, bugs will come and eat things, it will change, it will adapt, it will be an active part of the ecosystem. The joy of gardening comes from connecting with the ecosystem in this meaningful way. It comes from close observation and interaction with the plants, animals, and abiotic features that we share this world with.
Thanks for joining me on this project.
