Using the characteristics of plants in ways that are symbiotic with other plants and that help the gardener and the garden is one of the foundations of permaculture. I learned this trick from some other people at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage who have been applying comfrey in this way in their gardens.
This is a later season tour of my vineyard, when many of the grapes are getting very close to harvest. It’s been a good season, without much rain, which, though bad for almost everything else on the farm, is good for the grapes.
I’ve been growing a strange fruit for the last few years in my flower garden, but it also produces a fairly tasty and nutritious fruit. Got any guesses as to what it might be? This video is a little tour of a few unusual fruits perfect for a temperate zone permaculture planting.
This is a little tour of my garden later in the summer. I started some tropical plants to grow for the midsummer heat and they are thriving. But I’ve also been having some problems with critters eating my regular temperate crops, such as corn. My ideal would be to grow enough corn to provide for my needs, even while I phase out rice in favor of the crop that I can actually easily grow in my part of the country. But if I lose most of the crop to the critters, then maybe it isn’t such a good crop to grow. What will I have to do to be able to get a good crop?
This is a little tour of my vineyard from earlier in the year. I plan to post another video of later in the year and the harvest soon. This was a really good season for growing grapes (though it was pretty bad for a lot of other things). The dry weather made perfect, sweet clusters of delicious grapes that will make some good wine.
