How to Build a Garden Arbor. GardenNotes_96. Onions. Onion is a bulbous perennial or biennial herb believed to be native to western Asia.
Numerous varieties are cultivated worldwide. Onion bulb has been used as a food for thousands of years. It has also been used medicinally. Its actions were considered to be comparable to those of garlic, though milder. Onion is used for loss of appetite and prevention of atherosclerosis and age related change in blood vessels. Eartheasy Blog - StumbleUpon. It took over 20 years of gardening to realize that I didn’t have to work so hard to achieve a fruitful harvest.
As the limitless energy of my youth gradually gave way to the physical realities of mid-life, the slow accretion of experience eventually led to an awareness that less work can result in greater crop yields. Inspired in part by Masanobu Fukuoka’s book, One Straw Revolution, my family experimented with gardening methods which could increase yields with less effort. Fukuoka spent over three decades perfecting his so-called “do-nothing” technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort. Here are the strategies we used which enabled us to greatly increase our garden yield, while requiring less time and less work. 1. Companion Planting.