The Incredibly Versatile Comfrey Plant
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The Incredibly Versatile Comfrey Plant

Comfrey is a perennial herb that has many uses in the garden. It has a well-deserved reputation as a super plant amongst organic growers and permaculture practitioners. It’s a nutrient rich ‘chop and drop’ mulch and compost activator, helps to break up compacted soils with its’ thick tuberous roots, can serve as a barrier to spreading grasses and weeds, and the leaves make a potent plant based liquid fertiliser.

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The Joys & Benefits of Seed Saving
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The Joys & Benefits of Seed Saving

Saving your own seeds can save you money, create plants better adapted to your local growing conditions and personal tastes, help preserve genetic diversity, and create satisfaction through self-reliance and a closer connection to your food.

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Grow Your Own Fertiliser with Green Manures
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Grow Your Own Fertiliser with Green Manures

Why buy fertiliser when you can grow it yourself at low cost? The best manure for your garden isn’t manure at all. You can feed your annual and perennial plants and improve the soil in your garden by growing green manures.

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Harvest & Store Rainwater with Contour Swales
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Harvest & Store Rainwater with Contour Swales

You already know rainwater is good for your garden and may have noticed how green your plants look after a good rainfall. That’s because rainwater contains nitrogen which “washes out” of the atmosphere, providing your plants with a nutrient boost, giving them their green colour. So it makes sense to catch and store this free resource to irrigate and feed your garden, and one of the best ways to do that is a low-tech do-it-yourself method known as a contour swale.

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Create Low Maintenance Garden Beds with Hugelkultur
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Create Low Maintenance Garden Beds with Hugelkultur

If you have woody garden waste like fallen trees, branches and shrubs, instead of burning or throwing it out, put it to good use by creating raised garden beds that retain moisture, build soil fertility, and increase drainage. This easy to build garden bed method, used in Eastern Europe for centuries, turns a waste product into delicious fruit and vegetables.

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Dry Creek Bed Design & Installation
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Dry Creek Bed Design & Installation

When our client contacted us to design and install two dry creek beds in the garden we previously created for them, we couldn't wait to get started because we knew it would be such a fun project. So what is a dry creek bed?

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Food Forest Gardening
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Food Forest Gardening

Food forest gardening offers an innovative, ecologically beneficial model for growing edible crops, timber, fibre, and fuel. By allowing nature to do most of the work, there’s little need for weeding, digging, or controlling insect ‘pests’ in the garden. A healthy system of self-supporting plant communities maintains soil fertility. They don’t have to be huge either, because the ‘forest’ refers to how they are designed, not their size. Their natural appearance is both beautiful and pleasant to be in. With so many benefits, it seems silly not to plant one!

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No-Dig Vegetable Gardening
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No-Dig Vegetable Gardening

To build and maintain a no-dig garden, just layer organic materials on top of the ground and let nature do the work for you by creating beautiful fertile soil as the material breaks down, a lot like composting. It’s a great option if you want a garden but don’t have a lot of time to devote to its care and maintenance, and because you don’t have to dig the soil, it’s kind to the life in your garden too.

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Improve Your Garden with Plant Communities
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Improve Your Garden with Plant Communities

Creating plant communities naturally increases yields, reduces pests, and protects the soil. It’s a sustainable, ecological method of gardening that imitates the diversity of natural ecosystems.

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Growing Bananas Naturally - After Harvest Maintenance
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Growing Bananas Naturally - After Harvest Maintenance

Bananas are actually a very large herbaceous plant that grow from an underground tuber. In this video I cover a few methods of maintaining the finished banana plant to optimise the health of the tuber and other plants growing from it.

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Food Forest Support Species - Pigeon Pea
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Food Forest Support Species - Pigeon Pea

Pigeon pea is a drought-tolerant perennial legume with multiple purposes in a regenerative or permaculture garden. In this video demonstrate how versatile and useful pigeon pea can be in a subtropical food forest or forest garden.

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