Permaculture New Year’s Resolutions for the Year Ahead
Serial resolution maker and breaker, Maude Farrugia shows you how committing to permaculture New Year’s resolutions can help to create beautiful and sustainable habits.
Introducing children to permaculture
With school holidays fast approaching, we’re sharing a sneak peak of this beautiful article from Lauren Carter from Spiral Garden that looks at introducing children to permaculture concepts.
August Gardening Guide – Tropical Climate
August Gardening Guide – Tropical Climate What to Plant in August? Still time to plant the last crop of lettuce, endive, Chinese cabbage and other fast growing greens. Radishes and carrots still have time to crop before the weather heats up. Check your seed supplies and order what is needed. Now is the time to order… View more
July Gardening Guide – Tropical Climate
July Gardening Guide – Tropical Climate What to Plant in July? Check the seeds in storage, the crisper is a safe place, and see what is needed for the upcoming summer. The Mediterranean herbs love this weather so plant in full sun. Plant Surinam spinach and Okinawa spinach in the shade of a north side fence…. View more
June Gardening Guide – Tropical Climate
June Gardening Guide – Tropical Climate (Image credit: Steele Plant Company) What to Plant in June? • There is still time to plant the European style vegetables and be able to harvest them, before the fierce heat and heavy rain of the wet season. • Peruse seed catalogues and plan for next wet season. Maintenance… View more
May Gardening Guide – Mediterranean Climate
May Garden Guide Mediterranean Climate (Cover image credit: Travel Diary – Alex L.) We must have had proper rain in Adelaide at last – the soursobs are up! So are the sweet peas (and all the others, tall and short: snowpeas, telephone peas, dwarf peas and sugarsnap peas). Mushrooms and toadstools are appearing, as the multitude of… View more
May Gardening Guide – Tropical Climate
May Garden Guide Tropical Climate (Cover image credit: The Raw Food World) What to Plant in May? There is still time to plant all the Asian greens including the mustard leaves like komatsuna, , Chinese cabbage, basil, beans of all sorts except those that require really cold weather like broad beans, beetroot, broccoli, cabbage, capsicum and chilli,… View more
May Gardening Guide – Cold Climate
May Garden Guide Cool Climate (Cover image credit: Uplift Farm Blog) What to Plant in May? All the things we talked about last month are good to go again this month. Garlic, brassicas such as broccoli and cauliflower, broad beans, peas (sugar snaps, snow peas or podding peas, either climbing or bush varieties), silver beet, English… View more
International Permaculture Day 2015
Permaculture Respects The Soil: Let’s Celebrate Both Not only is this Sunday International Permaculture Day 2015 (#IPD2015), it’s an opportunity to celebrate the soil in this, the International Year of Soils (#IYS2015). From the organisers of #IPD2015: The first Sunday in May is a day of celebration and action for permaculture around the world. Open homes, gardens… View more
April Gardening Guide – Tropical Climate
April Garden Guide Tropical Climate What To Plant in April? • What to plant is determined by the weather. My notes are relevant to the areas where you plant the tomatoes in the dry season. This is my test of whether it is a sub-tropical or tropical climate. Tomatoes planted for the wet season will grow long… View more
March Gardening Guide – Cool Temperate Climate
March Garden Guide Cool Temperate Climate What To Plant in March? Cooling weather (perhaps . . . if you had a decent summer), shorter days, the Autumn equinox: March is something of a transition month in the productive garden. Many summer vegies are starting to look pretty tatty, even though still churning out their bounty. Its still… View more
March Gardening Guide – Tropical Climate
March Garden Guide Tropical Climate What To Plant in March? • Now may be the end of the wet season or it may not be. The turmeric (Curcuma domestica) and krachai (Boesenbergia rotunda) have flowered, which may indicate confused plants or the end of the wet season. I sometimes act on the assumption that the dry is… View more