🌱 My Garden — Gaeiras (MOE)

🧭 Purpose

The garden at Gaeiras is a permanent living system — productive, resilient, and integrated with the property’s energy and water resources. Permaculture principles guide decisions. Linked to 🥗 Food Independence (MOE).

🚦 Dashboard

• Current focus: Spring planting season
• Health: good
• Last reviewed: 2026-04-22
• Key metric: Seasonal tasks on schedule, water use minimised

📐 Standards

What does “good enough” look like?

• Seasonal tasks done on time (planting, pruning, harvest)
• Water use minimised — rain and greywater preferred over mains
• Soil health improving year on year
• Orchard producing fruit
• No chemical inputs

🗓 Seasonal Calendar

Season	Months	Key Tasks
Spring	Mar–May	Plant tomatoes, peppers, courgettes; prune after frost risk; sow beans
Summer	Jun–Aug	Irrigation management; harvest; mulch to retain moisture; sow autumn crops
Autumn	Sep–Nov	Plant garlic, broad beans, winter brassicas; compost; soil prep
Winter	Dec–Feb	Pruning; cover crops; soil amendments; plan next year

🌳 Orchard

Tree	Variety	Location	Year planted	Notes

🌱 Vegetable Beds

Bed	Current crop	Planted	Expected harvest	Notes

🌿 Perennials and Herbs

Plant	Location	Notes

💧 Water and Energy Integration

• Solar surplus >4kW + battery >80% → run irrigation pump (free energy window — flagged automatically)
• Rain >10mm → skip irrigation (flagged automatically from weather data)
• Rain >15mm → check drainage
• Greywater from house → add routing details here
• Compost from kitchen waste → closed loop nutrition

🔗 Energy Flags (automatic)

These come from generate_flags.py and appear on the Dashboard:

• Rain >10mm → skip irrigation today
• Rain =0 + temp >28°C → water garden today
• Wind >40km/h → secure garden structures
• Temp >35°C → heat stress risk, mulch and shade
• Solar surplus >4kW + battery >80% → free irrigation window open

📊 Metrics

Indicator	Target	How tracked	Review
Seasonal tasks	On schedule	This note	Weekly
Orchard yield	Increasing	Harvest log below	Annual
Water use	Decreasing	Manual estimate	Monthly
Soil health	Improving	Observation	Annual
New plantings	Per season plan	This note	Seasonal

📚 Key Resources

• Comprehensive Permaculture Orchard Design
• Intro to Permaculture mindmap
• cover crops
• 🥗 Food Independence (MOE)
• weather-summary — rain and temperature data
• energy-summary — solar surplus for irrigation planning
• Year-Round Planting Calendar for Six Market Garden Beds in Gaeiras

🔗 Related Efforts

• 🥗 Food Independence (MOE)

📓 Garden Log

Weekly: what was done, what was observed, what is next

2026-04-22

• Garden area note created in Knowlden vault
• Add current state of plantings above