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Category: ‘Permaculture’
Loofahs & Madagascar Beans
I’ve been wanting to grow loofahs ever since my aunt gave me one as a christmas present, for use as a washing up sponge/scourer. I’d only ever thought of them as being used to scrub your back in the bath before! I’d been looking for an alternative to the horrible sponge/scourers we use (I HATE [...]
The Power of Community
How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
We’ve been watching quite a few DVDs lately, mostly in the hot afternoons whilst stoning our huge cherry harvest ready for sun-drying and jam-making. “Blue Gold: World Water Wars” is fantastic and should be compulsory viewing – so buy, beg, borrow, or steal it!
Another DVD that everyone should watch is “Establishing a Food Forest [...]
My Permaculture Garden / Meu Jardim da Permacultura
The garden is so green in May, and every year looks more like a jungle!
O jardim é tão verde em maio, e cada ano mais parece uma selva!
I have not planted a lot of summer crops out yet. Some of the raised beds are still full of broad beans, lupins, poppies and other plants that [...]
Water Barriers for Trees
Here’s a video from theproducegarden – it’s pretty much what we do when we plant trees to reduce the amount of watering we’d have to do while the tree gets established.
And here’s some photos of young trees planted here. The ridge of earth is very clear, and on sloping ground that ridge is higher on [...]
Fruity Promises
It looks like we are going to have a lot of fruit this year, probably because of the dry spring – the flowers didn’t get washed off the trees by the rain this year.
The plum trees are laden with tiny plums, including the row of plum suckers that we put in a few years ago [...]
Heirloom Tomatoes and Tea
The first tomato seedlings have germinated, and are doing nicely. This is the time when wet weather would bring out the snails and slugs and wipe out all the baby tomatoes. Although we could really do with some rain right now, the dryness is happily keeping all the seedling munching monsters at bay.
These two trays [...]
New Birds On the Block
A week before xmas a fox managed to get into our chicken pen, after I accidentally cut the fence while strimming and didn’t notice, and killed 5 chickens and our xmas turkey.
Then last week a fox found another tiny hole (again from strimming) and killed 3 of the replacement chickens which we had only [...]
