All Entries in the "Permaculture" 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 …

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 …

Permaculture Zone 3

Zone 3 in Permaculture is to do with ‘Farming’.

Zone 3 is usually about commercial produce which is grown, maintained, and harvested in such a way as to reduce impact on the environment, maintain …

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 …

Permaculture Zone 1

The next Permaculture Zone to discuss is Zone 1. This is the Vegetable Garden and close plantings to the house or dwelling.

The characteristics of Zone 1 are …

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…

Permaculture Zones

The term ‘Zones’ in Permaculture are simply labels for areas that are grouped together reflecting specific activities and characteristics.

The zones are used to make sustainable design …