The Incredible, Edible, Pigeon Pea.
Pigeon pea is a very versatile plant in a sustainable garden because of it’s many uses as food, mulch, green manure, shelter, windbreaks, living trellises, and even firewood. Read on to learn how you can grow it in your garden and benefit from it’s many uses.
Make Your Own Plant Based Potting Soil
A quality potting soil is essential for successful container gardening, but if you’ve ever tried to find a commercial mix that doesn’t contain animal products such as manure, blood, and bone, you know it can be a real challenge. The solution is to make your own so you control what goes into the mix, and if you need a lot of it, you might just save some money too.
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.
How to Choose the Right Mulch for your Garden
Mulch can offer many benefits for your garden, but if you don’t know how to choose the right type for your needs, you might be doing more harm than good.
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.
Grow More Food in Less Space with Biointensive Gardening
Create a sustainable mini-farm capable of producing a complete diet using organic gardening principles based on millennia-old traditional farming systems, or just maximise your harvest in small spaces with Biointensive growing.