Vegetables to grow in winter: a how-to guide. Heirloom Cold-Weather Salad Greens - Organic Gardening. These heirloom cold-weather salad greens are easy to grow and can be used in a variety of ways.
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To locate mail order companies that carry these heirloom cold-weather salad greens, use our Custom Seed and Plant Finder. 'Buckshorn Plantain' Plantago cornopus I collect corn salad. Ecologisch tuinieren. Ecotuin. Wild food available in March – Early Spring Foraging – Andy Hamilton. I love this season as its a time when gardening, nature spotting, foraging and home brewing can all start in earnest.
Its a time when food starts to appear, everywhere. Here are my favorite wild plants to expect in March almost anywhere in the UK and across much of North America. These foods were all found in Bristol, UK during March. Birch Sap The sap of the Birch rises throughout March in the UK, this is just before the tree is about to bud. To tap simply drill a few cm inside the bark of the tree and push a drinking straw or a length of tubing into the hole. Habitat: Woodland, parks, peoples gardensUses: As a refreshing cleansing drink. Japanese Knotweed Yes, Japanese Knotweed can be eaten as a food; it makes for a delicious substitute for Rhubarb. If picking do not leave any of the plant on the floor or waste a single morsel.
The urban guide to becoming self sufficient 'ish' The following article first appeared in ‘Grow your own’ magazine back in February as part of my ‘Theory Behind…’ series.
In traditional gardening and farming, land is weeded and/or cleared of crops before a soil improver such as compost and/or manure is dug or ploughed into the soil to improve the soil structure, aerate the soil and add nutrition. With ‘no-dig’ or minimum tillage the soil is disturbed as little as possible. Instead a thick mulch, usually in the form of compost or manure (or sometimes leaf mould, straw or mushroom compost), is left on the surface of the soil for worms and other soil fauna to work in. The action of the soil life brings down the mulch, whilst naturally aerating the soil and improving its texture and fertility.
51 organic ways to get rid of slugs – By the ishers and Andy Hamilton. Slug in a strawberry Every year many of us face the same struggle with our organic principles and slugs.
Slug pellets start to look more and more attractive, they sit there on the shelf at the garden centre and their price seems to lower year on year. They start to talk to you, “if you buy me then your courgette plants and lettuces will survive they won’t all be eaten as soon as your back is turned”. If we manage to resist for another year we begin to wonder what would have been, we think of all the produce that has been eaten; how nice those sunflowers would have looked, the smell of the chamomile lawn.
Never fear self sufficientish is here to save the day. 1. If you have any words of wisdom to add to our war on slugs then please visit our forum. Ruth Stout's Garden; Part 1 of 3. Voorbeelden Permablitz » Eetbaar Nijmegen. Permablitz acties TT Nijmegen - eetbaretuin. PC in Nederland. Vegetable garden. Gratis cursus Permacultuur. De Groene Vinger. VergetenGroenten.be - uw online moestuingids - groenten - fruit - kruiden - gezondheid - tuinder en hobbykok! Permaculture. Building a Vegetable Garden - No Dig Natural Gardening - Preparing an organic Garden.
Your Complete Instructions for Natural Gardening Success Behind every vegetable plant is a person with gardening desires — you!
And behind you there are bees, worms... and millions of other live inhabitants of your garden soil. To keep them happy, here's how to build your vegetable plot. There is no need to wreak havoc and madly dig. Truly, madly, digging messes up the natural layers of earth that nature has set down. Let the microbes and worms etc do what they do best in their own good way and time. CombinatieTeelt. Vruchtwisseling.
Wie zelf groenten en kruiden wil verbouwen moet weten dat het succes hiervan voor het overgrote deel wordt bepaald door de bodem. De meeste groenten eisen een bodem die op de juiste manier is bemest en die niet te nat en goed doorlatend is maar ook niet uitdroogt. Permaculture basics - sustainability in action. This is about 3/4 of my Jerusalem artichoke harvest.
It may not be the world's largest harvest, but I'm proud of it because a) we always end up eating the artichokes and b) it didn't cost me a penny. I first planted Jerusalem artichokes back in 2006. The artichokes themselves came from my weekly veg box. I potted them up into home-made compost, in large pots that had been liberated from a building site that was having some landscaping done (the pots would have been thrown away otherwise). Transitions Towns permaculture demonstration garden – Wageningen, NL. Spullendelen.nl. Permacultuur actieforum. Permacultuur Nederland. Vegetables to grow in winter: a how-to guide.