Permaculture

There is so much wisdom in “Gaia’s Garden'” (Chelsea Green Publishing) that I would need a dozen columns to do it justice. Subtitled “A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture,”...

Plant Food: the basics

No area of horticulture is wrapped in a greater mystery or filled with more confusion and misinformation than fertilization. Some people are fairly obsessed with the idea of “feeding their plan...

A New Kind of Potato

The consequences Adam and Eve faced after tasting forbidden fruit were severe. Eden had been the original low-maintenance – actually no-maintenance – garden. Without any work on the part ...