I stopped by my garden at lunch today. It’s really awesome having it close to work. I’m really glad I did because things are starting to sprout and it was a really beautiful day after this week of rain.
I’m a member of instructables.com and a little while ago, I found this ible which I loved. Turns out the people who made the instructable have a blog here which has some awesome articles on growing in the desert, cooking and my favorite is this one on a zucchini which cross pollinated with a pumpkin making a massive zucchini!
Give them a read.
Caleb
I’ve made a free companion planting chart based on one I found on the Permaculture Research Institute’s website. The reason I made this one is I couldn’t find one that I could edit.
Please take this and edit it with your own observations and share it back. I would love to see your comments and changes.
I was at my community garden last week and I made some massive changes to the soil. I have a couple challenges at my garden plot.
One is water – as in too much of it. I know this is a great problem to have, but apparently the nice people who have been gardening there for the last 3 years say it can make things a challenge. What happens is, there is an alleyway that runs behind the garden property, and then passes Continue reading
Tinyplots.com is a local Calgary gardening website which is offering an instructional set of videos and exercises on gardening in the zone 3 climate. The thing to understand about this is for many, Calgary is a difficult place to grow in. We have short summers, and frosty springs and falls. If you can grow successfully in Calgary, you can grow pretty much anywhere else considering most of the world has longer summers Continue reading
My wife and I recently finished a 2 day introduction to permaculture course last weekend that we took with Kym from Giggling Chi Tree and a bunch of other great people.
While we were there we went over many more philosophical ideas than practical. I’m not saying this is a bad thing. I think it’s a great thing because this is what gives us critical thinking ability and the desire to experiment.
We spoke in great detail about Continue reading
Here’s a great video that Paul Wheaton just added. If you haven’t checked out his channel yet, do it.
He has what I believe is easily the largest site dedicated to permaculture at http://www.permies.com
Hey everyone. I wanted to share a video I posted on YouTube showing a great permaculture urban garden.
Check it out and let me know what you think!
How frustrating is it when you put so much work and effort into a garden, and then like out of nowhere, your plants are nearly ruined from insects munching on them? I’m going to explain how you can control the insects that feed on your precious crops.
blossom!
