Blogspot - Interia Dezain

After a long cold winter it's great to get started on the third year of our polyculture study and to welcome this year's team to the project. Gabriele and Fergus are the first to join us, along with old friends Ute, Simon, Kartini, Marlene and Karl, who have purchased some land within an area we are working towards protecting . We've been pretty busy developing the new perennial polyculture garden , preparing the beds in the market garden and clearing plots for some new tree plantings. Here's a review of what we've been up to in the market garden so far and in a future post I'll write about developments in the new trial gardens. The Market Garden  This year we'll be running three annual polycultures trials in the market garden, the usual  Zeno , some changes to last year's  Epictetus  polyculture, and a variation on that theme called   Aurelius . Produce from the gardens will be offered in veggie boxes from mid June - late November and we still have room...

If I were to tell you of an apocalypse proof asset that is 100% guaranteed to increase in value, both in the short (3 yrs) and long term (300 yrs), will contribute to your good health, provides aesthetic pleasure to your surroundings, has the potential to replicate itself exponentially and has parts that can be dipped into smooth melted dark chocolate, covered in cocoa powder and eaten, surely you'll be chuffed to learn that I'm referring to none other than Juglans regia - The Walnut tree. The essential guide to everything you need to know to grow walnuts      At the moment I'm struggling to think of a better thing to do than to plant a walnut tree, other than to plant more than one walnut tree:) So here I present the Essential Guide to Everything you Need to Know about Walnuts. During this article we'll be focusing on the Persian Walnut  - Juglans regia  first providing an overview of the plant followed by advice on where to plant, how to care for, uses of...