Mulching techniques for permaculture, which is best?
For permaculture, a major source of inspiration is old growth forests. Have you ever seen a forest with bare soil?
Dead leaves
Dead leaf mulch is the absolute best mulch for your garden beds. Micro-organisms already accustomed to the soil break leaves down into the perfect nutrient balance.
Use dead leaves to fertilize and protect plants
In fall, when trees and shrubs lose their foliage, a thick blanket of useful dead leaves forms in the garden. It is the season to unclog gutters and pick up leaves, and use them for gardens and vegetable plots
Make soil mix from household items
Convert ordinary stuff into perfectly good soil mix! Especially useful to recycle things into useful potting mix for beautiful plants.
6 tips to make soil richer – completely naturally
Chemical fertilizers that some gardeners use sure can feed those vegetables in the patch, but not the soil itself!
Fall, Autumn, the ideal season to prepare your garden
Fall has come, time to unsheathe your weapons to have an astounding garden come spring.
Permaculture fertilizers and compost
Underlying the success of every garden is the health of its soil – this is particularly true in permaculture. Fertilize it with fresh nutrients like compost, maintain it, disturb it only when absolutely necessary. Your soil will stay healthy and fertile, and its quality will increase
Mulch, a layer to protect and feed plants
Mulch is anything purposefully layered on soil to protect plants, nourish them, and decorate your garden.
Different species of thrips – Tube-tip or Cone-tip?
There are nearly 6,500 identified species of thrips, but many more have yet to be discovered and named!
Work to do in the garden in fall
Harvesting, cleaning up, sowing, planting… A summary of all the work to get done in the garden in Fall before winter sets in.
Protect your garden from the cold
Early fall, protect soil and plants from winter frost spells.
Care-free rose trees
It isn’t always easy to choose the right rose trees. They all seem so healthy and magnificent at the nursery store! It helps to have a few guidelines to understand the “who’s who” of roses, especially when you try to consider their resistance to disease.
Kill off diseases on fruit trees over winter with these treatments
Fall and Winter are the time to apply various treatments that will help eliminate parasites and fungus from fruit trees. This will reduce risk of disease in Spring.
Winter, time to clean and organize your garden
Fall was particularly enjoyable, with maximum sun, mild temperatures and no strong winds: ideal to set the stage for our winter garden tasks.
Recycle in the garden
To plant, sow, propagate, fertilize at the cheapest possible price, think “recycle”!
Ground beetle, its favorite food is slugs!
One of the most important beneficial insects in the garden is the ground beetle family. This fearsome predators have a voracious appetite which will certainly serve you well to control pests in your garden. Slugs and snails beware!
Fall garden checklist
Days grow shorter and frost spells are just around the corner… Here’s a checklist of what needs to be accomplished in fall before it starts getting cold.
Garden without any garden chores: make it a reality!
Savoring the garden without spending hours mowing or weeding it is the unfulfilled Quest of all gardeners. Though we dream about it all the time, reality must be acknowledged: the perfect zero-maintenance garden doesn’t exist.
