eight Home Gardening Tips & Ideas to Grow More & Reduce Waste
When planning a vegetable garden ask yourself how much time you want to spend in it. Unlike perennial gardens, vegetable gardens require constant attention; they need to be weeded, watered, possibly fertilized and certainly harvested. You could have to handle pests and process the harvest as well. The size of the backyard and the number of crops in it dictates how much time you’ll must spend tending it.
Hugelkultur—a type of composting and gardening that seeks to mimic the pure decomposition and soil formation processes found in forests—is an efficient example of this. North Berkeley resident Genie Scott retains a large garden with vegetables, fruit trees and bee hives. She saves seeds from previous years and uses them to sow her plants.
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Hugelkultur is practiced by Sepp Holzer as a technique of forest gardening and … Read More