" In this comprehensive, practical gardening guide, we'll show you the easiest ways to produce brilliant, bountiful harvests with less effort and cost, by working cleverly with nature. New to gardening? Start the right way, learn how to select the best sites for garden beds, prepare the soil, sow the seeds, plant seedlings, rotate crops, grow vegetables and herbs in pots, and make the most of small spaces. Want to garden more productively, without harmful chemicals? Looking for the next step in organic gardening? <em><strong>What's inside?</strong></em> Fundamentals of organic gardening: Selecting locations, setting up new garden beds, how to plant seedlings Ecological design principles: Backyard permaculture, resilient gardens, zone planning, biodiversity Attitudinal design principles: Putting the design principles into practice Summer protection, water-saving, garden harmony This bookazine is published by Universal Media Co - The Bookazine Specialist. Printed on high-quality paper, and featuring a beautiful design with accompanying imagery, bookazines are an informative and entertaining deep-dive into a complete topic. Universal Media Co's 53 magazine brands include leaders in Home, Craft, Bike, and some Lifestyle categories. The company owns the Australian Publishing Company and Universal Online Media. Universal Media Co is an independently owned private company. Additional Information Year Published: 2021 Size: 220mm x 300mm Pages: 146 Material: Made from premium quality paper "
foreword
working with nature • Using permaculture principles to increase your harvest
selecting a location for a food garden • If we’re learning how to garden from scratch, we need to begin with the gardening fundamentals, the basic knowledge, skills, and techniques that everything else is built upon. Since gardening is all about caring for plants, it’s best that we become familiarised with their needs, first and foremost.
setting up new garden beds
preparing the soil for growing food
sowing seeds and planting seedlings at the right time of the year
how to plant seedlings, step-by-step
sowing seeds directly into the ground or into seedling trays
crop rotation of vegetables in garden beds
growing vegetables in pots and containers
how to grow herbs in any location
backyard permaculture
what is permaculture? • Working with nature has finally become a science, and it works so well it’s spreading worldwide as a grassroots movement!
get the soil to do the work • Soil is a complex living ecosystem that keeps plants alive, healthy and productive. Work with it for amazing results
designing nature • In permaculture, to maximise the efficiency of a garden, every plant added is selected and located with the intention that it serves as many functions as possible
nature knows • Increase garden diversity and productivity by emulating the ecological phenomenon known as the “edge effect” and the patterns found in nature
Stack it • Intensive gardening systems that utilise permaculture succession planting minimise unproductive growing time and maximise productivity from smaller spaces
year-round cropping • By identifying the critical functions of a productive garden design, and ensuring they are supported in two or more ways, we can build resilient systems that reduce the risk of failure due to weather, climate change and other unforeseen circumstances.
getting in the zone • The elements in a garden design can be located according to how often we need to use or service them, which makes for efficient use of energy
the forces be with you • In efficient energy planning design, the elements of nature that are external to a garden site and pass through it can be strategically...