All Entries in the "Organic Gardening" Category
The No-Dig Garden
Why didn’t the 7 dwarves have any time for girlfriends? Because they spent all day digging!
And spending days digging a home garden can be just as detrimental to your social life!
And your back …
Vegetarian Recipes for Basil
Abundant Basil!
LTSH (Long Term Suffering Husband) rushed into my office the other day, eager with news.
“How long since you’ve checked your tomatoes?”
I stood up surprised – I didn’t even know LTSH …
Permaculture Focus on Saving Your Soil
When you’ve designed your permaculture garden, sustainable produce garden, vegetable patch – or whatever you want to call it – and rattled through your tool shed, digging out your …
Natural Insect Control of Aphids
Before I left for a week in Melbourne (Victoria, Australia), my Zucchini plants were sporting the new aphid look – the popular pest fashion of white film over most of the leaves.
I nibbled on my …
Mulch Types for an Organic Garden
Linda, one of the Sustainability Nuts who frequents the Sustainable Living Wise site wanted to know what mulch I would recommend. I was going to tell Linda that it depends on her environment …
Permaculture Pest Control with the Ultimate Flying Predator
We’ve been experiencing a run of awesome storms here in the South East of Queensland, Australia over the past week. The northern suburbs of Brisbane (Queensland) have had it hard – devastation …
Permaculture Zone 2
Zone 2 is the “Food Forest” or Orchard. Basically, it is a forest (as large or as small as you like) of permanent food and non-food trees and animals, that support each other. The goal is to have …
Genetically Modified Produce Research
Blearh… how is this for scarey?
Austrian Scientists at the Veterinary University Vienna were commissioned by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety to conduct research on …
Mulching with the Mulch-o Man
I’ve just returned from Melbourne, Victoria where I was for a week, leaving LTSH (Long Term Suffering Husband) in charge of the menagerie here at home… as well as my organic garden…
Natural Insect Repellent Snails and Slugs
I’m sure we have developed the largest population of snails per square centimeter within Australia over the past 18 months! They love our Passionfruit Vine, Mat Rush, and Aloe Vera …
