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The art of designing garden areas that are modeled on the relationships found in natural ecologies. Permanent is from the Latin "permanens" - to remain to the end, to persist throughout. Culture is from the Latin "cultura" - meaning the cultivation of land, or the intellect. It is a philosophy, an ethic of caring for the earth and working with, not against nature with an attitude of thoughtful observation, an action-meditation - rather than undirected and thoughtless labor. Permaculture is sustainable land use design. Planting a Permaculture Garden 1. 2. 3. 4. Avant-Gardening: Creative Organic Gardening - All About Organic Gardening.
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Biocontrol Network - Bio-Rational Alternatives for agriculture, horticulture, commercial and residential use. Natural Insect Control. Clicking on ants will take you to another page. {*style:<b>Aphids: </b>*}For aphid control we carry: 1600 X-Clude , Diatomaceous Earth , Garden Dust Insecticide/Fungicide , Ants "farm" aphids often keeping them in their nest during winter, then bringing them out in spring and placing them on the host plant. The ants eat the honeydew the aphids produce and move them from plant to plant spreading any diseases that are present.
The honeydew favors formation of a black fungus known as "sooty mold. " Control of the ants may often solve the aphid problem. Aphids abound in warm moist environments and will attack almost anything, favoring succulent new growth. Green lacewings, ladybugs and their respective larvae have a voracious appetite for aphids. Anise, chives, coriander (cilantro), garlic, onions, petunias and radish. Squashing a few aphids around the infested plants releases a chemical signal that makes the other aphids drop from the plants and leave.
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Seed and Pland Sources. Growing Amaranth and Quinoa. Recipes There are so many similarities between quinoa (keen' wah) and amaranth that it seems appropriate to describe them together. Quinoa, however, is a cool weather crop and amaranth is a warm weather one. Quinoa and amaranth are two very old, high-protein plants that hail from South America. They were held sacred in ancient Inca and Aztec cultures. Both now hold great potential for self-sustaining gardens in the northern hemisphere. They grow as easily as their weedy relatives (pigweed or lamb's-quarters) and the quality of food they offer far surpasses that of our common grains. Quinoa and amaranth are treated as grains although they have broad leaves, unlike the true grains and corn, which are grasses.
Both quinoa and amaranth are quite adaptable, disease-free and drought-tolerant plants. The wild relatives of both amaranth and quinoa have long been familiar to North American gardeners and are often called by the same name of pigweed. Soil Preference Varieties Planting Times Sowing. Greenhouse in a Swimming Pool - Winter Harvest. Salad greens, chives and braising greens thrive in this winter growing space, a greenhouse converted from an old swimming pool. Outside temperatures dipped down as low as 3F (-17C); yet this space remains productive without any additional heat. It is heated by the sun during the day, and stays relatively warm (around 32F (0C)) on coldest of nights.
Plants are happy and harvest is in full swing. This unheated growing space was created in an old swimming pool that has fallen into disrepair. Old swimming pools are hard fix; this one was built in the 1950-s and doubled up as water cistern for irrigating fields and pastures. It is made with poured-in-place cement and a 4'5" (1.3 meter) earth embankment on three sides - and making anything functional out of it was really an interesting project. Photo above is taken around 5pm in January - with low winter sun shining from the west (left side on the photo). This particular greenhouse is a part of an active poultry/goat yard.