Polyculture vegetable garden

Interplanting and underplanting increase yield in small spaces. Interplanting involves growing smaller crops around your larger crops before

When I wrote about this site on its home page "It's our virtual scrapbook, repository of working ideas (I can't lose them if I put them here!) ..." I was kind of half joking, but having just spent a good hour trying to find the piece of paper on

Fend off unwanted pests and diseases, and encourage great food crops and flowers.

Learn about permaculture polyculture gardening. Here are some polyculture examples + polyculture pros and cons. Plants for polyculture beds

Set up the garden for better diversity and resilience through polyculture practices and by planting different varieties and species of plants.

Learn about the concept of permaculture gardening and how it promotes sustainability and self-sufficiency in garden design.

For the last 9 years we have been experimenting with growing annual vegetables and herbs in polycultures. Over the years I have stuck with what works, discarded what has not, and now have what appears to me to be a good model of productive ecological design. Productive in that it provides us with a harvest from early spring until early winter, ecological in that it provides habitat and food for many other organisms too. Garden produce This post is an introduction and overview to our Annual…

If you're new to gardening then it is difficult to know how many vegetables to plant per person in your vegetable garden. Here's your answer!