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Permaculture zones and the elements that are placed into them are chosen according to the amount of labor input those elements require for success.
The association of certain plants between them makes it possible to obtain beautiful harvests and to have a beautiful garden by excluding the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
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Ziegen halten für Anfänger: Welches Zubehör du brauchst und was du dir getrost sparen kannst. Außerdem: Ziegen melken, Klauenpflege und...
In dieser Anleitung für die Anzucht von Chilis erfahren Sie, wie einfach dies ist. Chilis, Peperoni und Habanero können sie selber aus Samen züchten. Für eine erfolgreiche Anzucht von Chilis ist ein beheizbares Zimmergewächshaus mit Beleuchtung empfehlenswert. Mehr Tipps erhalten Sie hier.
Learn about permaculture polyculture gardening. Here are some polyculture examples + polyculture pros and cons. Plants for polyculture beds
While every permaculture designer is unique and there are many different things that the designer will look into, here are the top five design features as they pertain to permaculture.
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You won’t spend too much time in the company of permaculturists before you hear the word ‘swale’ – a mainstay for some, and a point of contention for others.
Learn about what plants to grow in the Midwest and see beautiful Midwest gardens. Use our tips to choose flowers, create container gardens, design a garden and tackle easy garden projects.
When I turned the page to this picture in my January 1938 Woman's Home Companion magazine I was entranced but thought it was just a painting by a Mr. Harrie Wood and surely not a real garden. I was wrong. This is just half of the knotted herb garden that belonged to a Mrs. R. M. Littlejohn in Southhampton, Long Island, and it was designed by John Dukinfield. One Google search led to another and I discovered it was at what is now 107 Great Plains Road in Southhampton, now named Westlawn. The house was designed in the early 1890s by F. Burrall Hoffman for Charles and Lacie Lee. For an herb lover such as myself, the article written by Grace Tabor was fascinating. The 'knots' are formed by sheared hedges to which certain herbs lend themselves more readily than others and because they were first cut to strew on the floors as disinfecting and deoderizing mediums long ago, they are to this day called 'strewing herbs' as distinguished from culinary herbs and nosegays. These strewing herbs form the knots as you see them here--lavendar, germander, Roman wormwood, winter savory, hyssop and santolina. The knots are 'tied' or filled with untrimmed natural growth which includes some of the following and adds many others--lemon balm, pot marigold, sage, borage, pot marjoram, orris, artemesis, feverfew, southernwood, clove pink, sweet marjoram, balm, dittany of Crete, scented leaf geraniums. I wasn't familiar with "strewing herbs," are you? Tabor also says that the dittany of Crete or 'righte dittany,' origanum dictamnus was unknown then [in 1938] in America and growing rare even in native Crete, "probably because the goats love so to graze it." Supposedly Venus gathered dittany to heal the wounds of Aeneas. And Tabor cautioned herb gardeners not to confuse it with the species dictamnus, the gas plant of old gardens which is sometimes called dittany. [Please see Poppy's comment below where she writes about the dittany of Crete that she knows as 'erontas' on the island of Crete where she lives. Thanks, Poppy!] Another thing that fascinated me was that this knot garden above was only half of the actual garden, the other half mirroring what you see above. Can you imagine the gardening staff that would be required for such a garden today? Here is a plan detailing the plants used. Can you picture walking through this herb garden at its height of glory? And "outside the knots are rosa gallica and rosa damascena." How I would love to have seen that! A few other details: The groundcover was viola rosina. There was a smoke tree and pink dogwood. On one side there were mountain ash trees and an arbor covered with passion vine. One final touch as I leave you to dream along with me of strolling through this knotted herb garden. We would enter through a pleached alley of theifera flowering crab that divides the garden. And I would think I had died and gone to Heaven. How about you?
Supermarkt-Basilikum überlebt meist nicht lange - mit diesen Tricks kannst du ihn unendlich vermehren und eine einzige Pflanze quasi ewig weiter verwenden.
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Beatrix Potter exhibition. Mr McGreggor's Garden.
We're showing you a few simple techniques of saving rainwater in your permaculture garden, by following the 3 S-es: slow, sink and spread.
Diesen Sommer will ich unseren Garten mit einer schönen Kräuterspirale versehen. Das ist ganz schön viel Arbeit, aber ich freue mich scho...
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I started by reading the book The Permaculture Home Garden by Linda Woodrow from cover to cover after suggesting it was not strictly permac...
In 1985, documentary filmmaker Pamela Page and husband Igor Jozsa, an architect with more than 40 years experience in high-end residential projects, moved into a cottage on their eight-acre property in Bethel. The cottage was on the small side, and they decided that the barn on the property, built in 1890, would make an ideal living space.
The modern method of building is to wipe all the top soil away from a lot, build a house, and bring back 3 or 4 inches or soil or just sod and call it good. This, of course, is not good for gardening, and many people want to increase the depth of the top soil […]
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