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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/The-brendo on 2024-08-08 12:50:00+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/fight-me-grrm on 2024-08-08 01:28:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/star_tyger on 2024-08-07 22:28:04+00:00.

I live in Southern Vermont. We get plenty of rain. Is there any reason why I shouldn't add a layer of logs and branches in the bottom of my raised beds? I don't need the water conservation properties. At least not now.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/sourk1 on 2024-08-07 14:40:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/mihaiemanrus on 2024-08-07 09:09:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/lobo2r2dtu on 2024-08-06 22:09:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/Scag48 on 2024-08-06 14:58:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/Fine_Bluebird_5928 on 2024-08-06 00:14:51+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/Smart-File1450 on 2024-08-05 13:45:22+00:00.

A family member was watching our house while we were away, and let us know they watered our square foot garden veggie beds (full of seedlings just planted two weeks ago) with water from a 55 gallon barrel that we do not use. They did about 3 or 4 days worth of watering with this.

A few days before we left I threw about 8 tabs of pool bleach cubes into the water to prevent and kill any mosquitos. The rain barrel is 100% full of runoff from our asphalt roof, and has not been tapped in over two years. Ive been meaning to repurpose this into a compost bin but dont have the time until next month, regretfully. Also, if it is worth adding, there was no first flush before they watered.

Do you recommend we scrap the garden and start over or would that be overly cautious?

I meant to write trichlor/chlorine in case it makes a difference. The label is clorox brand but the ingredient is not bleach, my mistake.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/DeliberateJalapeno on 2024-08-04 14:31:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/Instigated- on 2024-08-05 07:31:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/BlossomingTree on 2024-08-04 15:34:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/DeepRadish3559 on 2024-08-04 13:31:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/goth-jane-austen on 2024-08-04 00:06:19+00:00.

my property has been in my family for four generations. my grandpa was an avid gardener though not very aware of sustainable gardening practices at all. he left a beautiful bank of established perennials left behind him. my dad has a bizarre gardening style. he’s planted tons of big beautiful trees and shrubs because he has the money to, but he also sprays to kill all the weeds, has his landscaping guy pull up every wild plant that escapes the spray, and leaves these big bare patches of soil around his plants that are now dry fine dust or hard packed and eroded where heavy rainfalls have washed over them.

today i covered a big patch of that bare depleted soil under a maple tree with a nice thick layer of mulch. it felt like such a sigh of relief. like that earth can begin to heal. idk, i’m sentimental but it feels like such a privilege to have learned about permaculture and to be able to take care of this soil that’s taken care of my family for so many years…

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/nanogear on 2024-08-03 20:25:00+00:00.

Me and my boyfriend have talked about what our “perfect” house would be and be and it’s essentially a miniature farm within a forest.

My boyfriend really wants a house that’s in the forest(he grew up in Kentucky and loved the Mountain View’s) so that he can go on trails and walks while I just want a place that while surrounded by trees is amazing, I also want it to have fertile land, like next or near a river/creek as I read those are amazing for gardening.

We’re poor but poor with spirit, so it can be the crappiest place and we’ll find a way to like it lol

Any tips or resources I would like

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/NotAtAllEverSure on 2024-08-03 18:38:24+00:00.

I have a neighbor with those Blink cameras installed over every door on every shed and their house and they cover quite a bit of my property. I live in a Zone 7/8 with clay soil and good drainage, but the weather ranges from hurricanes to near drought from May-October and our winters are typically mild with freezing only in February. The location gets full sun all day. I am interested in growing an ~8ft tall edible hedge 60-80 feet long. The hedge would be in a straight line North to South. I have free range chickens and rabbits so I know I will need to put in a poultry wire tunnel for the first few years as the plants establish themselves. I was thinking blackberry, elderberry, or maybe quince. Does anyone here have experience with such a project and desire to offer helpful suggestions? My livestock will be the primary benefactors of the hedge fruits.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/2bebigger on 2024-08-03 17:06:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/cummerou on 2024-08-03 16:01:13+00:00.

I've been observing and planning my site this year, one of the things i'm not sure about is if I should use proven rootstock for my fruit trees, or rootstock grown from seed.

Growing rootstock from seed is really appealing to me, I've got very clay-heavy soils, so using seeds will allow me to select for the genetics that grow the best in that environment. On the other hand, size is really important to me, I don't want trees that are larger than 4-5 meters/13-17 feet, which using proven rootstock could obviously ensure.

The videoes I can find online are usually people who have dwarf fruit trees and prune them to be even smaller than what the rootstock wants, rather than people with full-size rootstock pruning to keep them medium size.

Does anyone have experience with/success doing this?

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/dhoepp on 2024-08-02 17:36:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/solxyz on 2024-08-01 17:41:20+00:00.

And let's get specific.

Until now, my focus on my land has been establishing a food forest in which everything below the tree layer has been planted in a hyper-diverse chaos gardening style, watching to see what does well. Now I'm getting ready to plant some more orderly vegetable beds and realizing that I don't have a lot of good models on how to design the plant communities in these beds.

On the one hand, most discussion of guilds in permaculture contexts tends to focus on the general theory and general categories (deep roots and shallow roots, ground cover, N-fixer, etc), with a few specific patterns thrown in here and there as illustration of the principle. On the other hand, a lot of discussion of companion planting in other contexts is said to be pretty unreliable. I thought it might be helpful for us to start compiling and discussing particular garden guilds that we have found to be real winners.

I'm especially interested in perennial crops, but interested in applying these principles to annuals as well.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/KeezWolfblood on 2024-07-31 21:40:03+00:00.

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“Asparagus gets along with many other plants, but tomatoes are notorious for being excellent asparagus plant companions. Tomatoes emit solanine, a chemical that repels asparagus beetles.” - GardeningKnowHow (emphasis mine)

Aside from the hilarious mental image thanks to the writers of GardeningKnowHow, has anyone tried this or have you read a reputable source about this solanine + asparagus = asparagus beetle protection?

I am trying to plan out an asparagus bed (I’ve never grown asparagus before and am eager to start a patch). I don’t like the idea of monoculture for really anything, if it’s avoidable. I looked through the history on this sub and I see that a few of you have tried (successfully?) the strawberry/asparagus.

Has anyone tried tomatoes with asparagus?

The theory on several websites is asparagus + tomatoes + basil + parsley (contained?) = a happy quartet. 

But I would consider adding borage for a nitrogen-fixer.

The other option I am considering is asparagus + strawberries + borage + sage (contained?).

But you wouldn’t want strawberries and tomatoes together (to my understanding) so probably one or the other.

What seems strange to me is it seems like the tomatoes and asparagus would compete for light no matter how you placed them. And it makes rotating the tomatoes difficult. I was thinking tomatoes might go “behind” the asparagus on the north side for me, or on the east or west side (or all three if I rotate year-to-year). But it seems like that would potentially disturb the asparagus too much when planting tomato starts (in my region, I would likely need to grow myself starts yearly even if I grew from seeds).

These companion planting articles always seem to echo each other and almost never have a first hand or second hand account of any of these combinations actually working.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/woodss on 2024-08-01 13:40:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/bluepainters on 2024-07-30 14:12:18+00:00.

My 19-year-old son is moving to the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico to help his aunt start a permaculture garden on her land. He'll have about a 1/4 acre to work with.

I want to send him with books* and resources. However, most I've found are for temperate climates.

*Books would be nice because they have solar power and it only provides power part of the time, so internet won't always be available there, though helpful websites, blogs, vlogs, etc would be good, too!

Background:

My sister-in-law is building a school for at-risk teens and wants a garden on the campus. My son has always been fascinated by gardening but we have a tiny backyard and has never had the opportunity to grow more than a couple pepper plants. She is busy with building the school and is taking all the help she can get. So, she told him he could be in charge of the garden – he was excited and decided to take the offer! He is kind of floundering here (PA, USA) at the moment and has been making poor decisions, so I think it'd be a good growing experience for him to go down there for a while. The town they live in is very safe and rural, and he'd be with his cousins, who are all good influences.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/CharlesV_ on 2024-08-01 01:32:38+00:00.

I’d like to learn more about the farming practices like the Eastern agricultural complex and maize-based farming that developed later on.

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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/GoldenTrafficCone on 2024-07-31 23:29:45+00:00.