by Daisy | Apr 3, 2017 | Beginner Gardens, Garden, Intermediate Gardening, Permaculture
Remember from Psych 101 the study about babies and Object Permanence? How before a certain age infants can’t grasp the concept that once something disappears it isn’t necessarily gone forever? I have a form of that when it comes to gardening: After a...
by Daisy | Jun 24, 2015 | Garden, Permaculture, Plants & Uses
Yesterday this popped up in my BBC World Latest Headlines feed: Mushroom Used in Chinese Medicine “slows weight gain.” Yep. It was reishi. Reishi is about to get a lot more press than usual. Anything having to do with weight loss is a sure thing to get...
by Daisy | Mar 28, 2015 | Garden, Permaculture
The first time I tried trench composting, I couldn’t dig down very deep because of the hugelkulture logs I buried. All was well for a couple of days, then I woke to find the buried compost in the trench had been discovered by some critters. They dug around and...
by Daisy | Mar 21, 2015 | Garden, Permaculture
With the encouragement of commenters, I decided to go ahead and use the trench composting method for the latest delivery of restaurant compost. Trench composting is a way to compost in which the compost is buried directly into the garden beds. First, I dug a trench....
by Daisy | Feb 9, 2015 | Garden, Permaculture
I’ve been reading Art Ludwig’s book Create an Oasis with Greywater and decided to use his “mulch basin” technique to plant a trio of blueberry bushes. The concept is to make a basin around a plant such as a tree or a shrub to catch and hold...
by Daisy | Jan 7, 2015 | Garden, Permaculture
Sometimes when bloggers don’t post it’s because they haven’t been doing anything worth blogging about. Sometimes it’s because they’ve been doing so much they don’t have time to blog about it; things happen faster than they can...
