Zone 9

Garden Chart -- Zone 9 (2009)

As promised, I’m starting to post my co-creative soil garden planning charts (only the square-foot, raised bed charts). Here’s Zone 9 (click on the image above to see a larger version, where you can actually read the names of the plants!). The planning process has been a wild ride. In the past, I’ve connected only with the Deva of the garden when working on what to plant and where. Suddenly, this year I read in the Garden Workbook that I’m supposed to connect with the Deva of each plant when selecting plant varieties. Talk about an increase in connecting-and-muscle-testing workload! After a while, I started to think of the connections as making phone calls to the Devas — open a connection; hi, how are you?; ask for information; thanks!; close the connection. Sometimes, if I forgot to ask something, I’d “call right back,” and say, “Oops! I forgot something!” I imagined the Deva was smiling, patient with my absent-mindedness. The fascinating thing is how I started to feel the connections opening and closing in a way I hadn’t before — right in the center mass of my body, somewhere between my gut and my heart. This is an amazing development in my bodily connection with nature. Thank you, nature, for lining up all those phone calls for me!

Anyway, I’ve ordered about $200 worth of seeds. The cost is far less that buying seedlings for this many plants, and my intention for the garden states that it will provide produce to feed my family (at least supplementally), and I expect we will save far more than this intial $200 investment over the course of the growing season.

I’ll post the remaining three charts in the next couple of days…