Mound Gardens - Use Common Yard Waste to Grow Food, Easy

Use all your tree trimings, rotten wood, cut brush, palm fronds, grass clippings and leaves to grow your own food. If you have a wood stove or outdoor fire pit, add the wood ash to your mounds.

 Locate mound gardens close to your water source. Use last year's above ground pool to grow duckweed and fish. The pool serves as a large rain catcher. The duckweed feeds the fish. The fish fertilize the water and we eat the fish. We do not use pumps or electricity in the fish pools. We siphon the water out onto the mounds with a plain garden hose. The fish water fertilizes our mounds as well as providing free water for the garden. An added benefit is mosquito control. Insect larvae are eaten by the fish.

To build a mound garden:
Start with a layer of logs/limbs/brush, wood chips, or palm fronds
Dump layers of grass clippings or old straw
Dump wood ash if you have it
Dump a layer of manure if you have it
Top with one to two foot deep leaves
Dump potting soil, sand or dirt on top, water it down into the leaves and start planting.

Tuck potted plants into the mound.

 Each growing season you can dump more yard-waste (grass clippings/leaves) and add more manure. We grow year round in our mounds.

Small mounds can be used to grow around existing trees and poles.

Amazing results!