Companion Planting Table
Good Companions Bad Companions Apples Chives, Horsetail (Equisetum), Foxgloves, WallflowersNasturtiums, Garlic, Onions Grass, Potatoes Apricots Basil, Tansy, Southernwood Tomatoes, Sage Asparagus...
View ArticleHow to Make Compost in 18 Days Using the Berkeley Hot Composting Method
Regular composting, also known as cold composting, involves placing a variety of organic materials in a compost bin, enclosure, or even just in a large heap, and leaving it there until it breaks down...
View ArticleHow to Build a French Drain
Water management is an important aspect in the design of a sustainable garden, for without water nothing grows, as I’ve said before, it’s virtually the very essence of life itself! In Permaculture,...
View ArticleHow to Propagate Plants from Hardwood Cuttings
One of the easiest propagation techniques is propagating using hardwood cuttings. Since these cuttings don’t have leaves, there isn’t the initial requirement to provide a high humidity environment to...
View ArticleNo Dig Gardening, Sustainable Gardening With Less Effort
Everyone agrees that gardening would be way more fun, and many people would be more inclined to take up gardening if there wasn’t the need for all that back-breaking hard work such as digging… It may...
View ArticleWicking Bed Construction, How to Build a Self-Watering Wicking Bed
A wicking bed is a self-watering raised garden bed, and even though the design is a relatively new innovation that is catching the attention of many produce gardeners worldwide, it is essentially...
View ArticleHow to Compost Logs and Branches with a Hugelkultur Bed
Composting allows us to recycle plant materials so they can be re-used in the garden, but the materials need to be broken up into small pieces for the composting process to work efficiently....
View ArticleCrop Rotation Systems for Annual Vegetables
The great thing about gardening with annual vegetables is that it’s very cheap to get started and the plants grow very quickly, so gardeners get to see (and taste) the results of their efforts in a...
View ArticleBokashi Composting, How to Process Waste That Can’t Go in Your Compost or...
Are you into recycling but are still throwing away some food scraps because you can’t put them in your compost bin or worm farm? Large amounts of citrus and onions, or any food that contains fish and...
View ArticleThe Organic Gardener’s Guide to Fertilisers and How to Use Them
The plants in your garden need food just like you do! That might seem obvious but you’ll be surprised how many people never bother to feed their plants and then wonder why they aren’t flowering,...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Seedling, Grafted and Cutting Grown Fruit Trees
Fruit trees naturally reproduce themselves from seeds, but most fruit trees that you buy are not produced that way for very good reasons. There are many ways to propagate fruit trees, and each method...
View ArticleFree eBook Download – Bee Friendly: A planting guide for European honeybees...
Here’s a great free e-book produced by the Australian Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation – “Bee Friendly: A planting guide for European Honey Bees and Australian native...
View ArticleConverting Months to Seasons – Northern and Southern Hemisphere,...
Good gardeners understand the importance of timing their work to the seasons of the year, but to be able to do that, we must know when the actual seasons start and end! There are different ways to...
View ArticleCitrus Problems – How to Control Citrus Gall Wasp, Methods That Work
What are Citrus Galls? Citrus galls are unsightly swellings caused by a tiny female citrus gall wasp (Bruchophagus fellis) which lays her eggs in the soft new growth of citrus trees in spring. As the...
View ArticleWhat is Chop and Drop Gardening (Sheet Composting)?
Permaculture is all about working efficiently and in harmony with Nature. We can garden far more efficiently, with far less effort, and improve the soil at the same time by emulating Nature’s soil...
View ArticleHow To Plant a Fruit Tree, Step by Step
“He who plants a tree plants a hope.” -Lucy Larcom Planting a fruit tree is truly an investment in the future, it may take a year or three before a tree begins to bear fruit, but most fruit trees can...
View ArticleTree Pruning, How to Prune Tree Branches Correctly
The first step in pruning a tree, before making and cuts to change the shape or size of a tree, is to remove any dead, diseased or broken branches. If removing a branch completely, it’s important to...
View ArticleHow Far Do Large Tree Roots Extend?
Arboriculture is the cultivation, management, and study of trees and shrubs, and arborists use several formulas for calculating how far tree roots extend in order to protect the health of trees when...
View ArticleHow to Prune Grape Vines – Cane and Spur Pruning Explained
Grapes fruit on new season’s shoots which arise from one-year-old canes. Once these canes have produced their fruit for the season, they will not produce again. To keep grapes productive, they need to...
View ArticleHow to Prune a Fruit Tree, Step By Step
Fruit tree pruning is both an art and a science. The art to fruit tree pruning is not something that can be taught in a short article or video, but basic pruning technique is quite easy to understand,...
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