Tag: permaculture
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Winter garden walkthrough August 2019
It’s been nearly a whole season since our last walkthrough. That was early Autumn, 2019 and now, here it is, the end of August and nearly Spring if such a season still exists. There’s been a lot of planting going on, but we’re letting everything go to seed so there’ll be less to do next…
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The Lab Lab beans are reaching new heights!
They’re strong growers but we’ve never seen them reach this high before – 4 metres plus and still going! They’ll be a bugger to harvest but… https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwnu5InF3z7/
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All during this hot weather we’ve had fungi in the garden
Lots of visible mushrooms, even though they are inedible, means good news. They pop up all over the place and that’s great! It means that we have a decent web of mycelia hroughout the soul and mulch. Mycelia are the nervous system of a garden and if they’re intact and fruiting, it means the garden…
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The Money Tree…a plant with many names
Portulacaria afra is a plant found in many gardens. It’s hard to kill and asks so little that we take it for granted as an ornamental. It goes by many names in many places, often named the same as other plants, so it gets a bit mixed. I’ve heard it called ‘Money tree’, ‘Fortune plant’…
