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spanish trace gardens

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Commenced:	01/01/2013
Submitted:	16/05/2014
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	indialantic, Florida, US
Climate zone:	Sub tropical

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spanish trace gardens

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Residential, Community, Demonstration

Project Summary

This is a project to transform the barren grounds of a 24 unit apartment building in Indialantic, Florida into a productive permaculture landscape. Currently, only a small portion of the grounds have been converted to garden space but a fair amount of interest has been shown by the neighbors already. I'm looking forward to building a swale that will run North to South and support several fruit trees. For this project I will be focusing heavily on coconut palms, bananas and sugar cane as well as salt tolerant fruit trees including soursop, sweetsop, mango and sapodilla. Ultimately, this project will enable all of the residents to learn about permaculture and will also make an excellent demonstration site.

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This permaculture project site is an apartment building that sits about 50 yards from the beach in Indialantic, Florida. The building is two stories tall and U shaped so it provides nice windbreaks on the North, East and South sides of the garden. However, despite the walls there are occasional very windy and turbulent conditions accompanied by a thick salt spray coming off of the Atlantic. The current garden is a small food forest nestled against the South side of the North wall of the building, an ideal winter microclimate. Some of the plants currently in this garden include red and green sweetsop seedlings, soursop, dwarf everbearing mulberry, papaya, coconut palm, mysore raspberry, tomatoes, kale, strawberries, pineapples, pigeon peas, dwarf red and dwarf cavendesh bananas, sugar cane, dragon fruit, kiwano melon and more. This garden site was very coarse sand to start with but is now becoming rich soil through the use of many mulches and manures as well as support species like pigeon peas and comfrey. For now the rest of the apartment grounds are covered mostly with patchy grass, with a couple of cabbage palms and shrubs spread throughout.

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spring 2013 garden pictures

A few pictures from the garden in it's younger stage, when it was less than 6 months old.

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