The Permaculture Garden

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Chelsea Green Publishing, 21 mar. 2005 - 170 pagini

Working entirely in harmony with nature, The Permaculture Garden shows you how to turn a bare plot into a beautiful and productive garden. Learn how to plan your garden for easy access and minimum labor; save time and effort digging and weeding; recycle materials to save money; plan crop successions for year-round harvests; save energy and harvest water; and garden without chemicals by building up your soil and planting in beneficial communities. Full of practical ideas, this perennial classic, first published in 1995, is guaranteed to inspire, inform, and entertain.

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Counting the harvest
1
CHAPTER
5
Helpful Techniques
63
Rotations and successions
69
Plants that work for
76
Earth Shaping
83
Swales
89
Greenhouses
98
CHAPTER
124
The architecture of trees
131
Trees as interceptors
137
Water integration
145
CHAPTER
151
Amending the soil
160
Further Contacts
167
The Tree Garden
168

paths and roads
104

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Despre autor (2005)

Graham Bell is the former editor of Permaculture News. He worked for the Prince's Trust and is now a freelance environmental consultant. He lives and works in the Scottish Borders, and is married with two children.

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