THE CIRCLE GARDEN

After the school holidays, Children`s Land is full power again.

Every week we receive visits from Apres School (Wednesdays) and New Creation School (Fridays).

Both groups are motivated to do things in the soil.

“Kaigani Totem”!!! In Tamil language this means Children’s Garden and now it is time to plant. But this time with a new technic that we learned from Bernard and Dipika, our neighbourds from Pebble Garden. Thanks to them, now we have a lot of seeds, thank you!!

We did the first Circle Garden with 15 kids from Apres School. It was very important for them to learn this design, because they have lots of land in their school and they want to use it properly. So we thought that there must be many places and people interested about this simple and efficient process. Here is the explanation about what we did in Children’s Land.

Circle Garden, step by step:

–         Find a nice place wich has access to water

–         Mark a circle 1 meter in diameter

–         Dig a hole in the middle, 30cm deep, and collect the soil at the edge of the circle

–         Collect materials: cow dung, dry leaves, human urine, water

–         Put two handfuls of cow dung in the midle of the hole.

–         Soak the leaves in water + human or cow urine for one day, then put them above the cow dung.

–         Put dry leaves on the top till the boundary height becomes the same level

–         Plant in a zigzag pattern on the soil bunds. The plant species that requires more water and nutrition should be placed more towards the centre.

–         It is possible to plant vegetables mixed with flowers, shrubs or ornamental plants.

In a circle garden, the plants benefit from the nutrients from the biomass in the midle of the circle. And you just need to water it 2 a 3 times per week, because the mulching (dry leaves) retains the water and prevents the soil drying easily.

Have a wonderful time making you circle garden!!

It is very easy and practical to do it at home or at the school with children!!