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A simple way to water sprawling cucurbits

10 September 20205 July 2020

Once your cucurbits (pumpkins/squash/courgettes) get growing, they can sprawl all over the place. When it comes to watering them though, you only need to water near the root of the plant. Watering along the sprawled stems and fruit won’t actually …

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Categories DIY, Permaculture, Solarpunk, Upcycling

Crop rotations: the basics for urban growers

10 September 202012 March 2020

My kitchen garden and forest garden border now. The raised beds currently have garlic, broad beans and corn salad. Now it’s warming up, I can start more seed sowing and really get the season going.   When I published my …

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Categories crop rotation, Forest Garden, Kitchen garden, Solarpunk

Plants for pollinators in late Winter

5 February 202119 February 2019

Having visited Hodsock Priory on the weekend (mid February), where they not only have a woodland carpeted with snowdrops, but also an ornamental garden, it reminded me of just how many plants are flowering in late winter. So I thought …

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Categories Bees, Garden visit, Pollinators, Solarpunk, winter

Small greywater system: a step-by-step guide of how to set up a small greywater system.

4 August 202013 January 2019

At the moment I have two blogs. This is my 10+ year gardening blog but I’ve also set up a permaculture/solarpunk blog on the new blogging site, Plume. Hopefully once Plume develops more features I’ll be able to move off …

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Categories Greywater, Permaculture, Solarpunk, Water

Describing solarpunk: for those new to solarpunk, or looking for ways to describe it

4 August 20208 January 2019

Bosco Verticale, Milan. Credit Ale Desiderio. This has been cross-posted from my Plume Solarpunk blog. If you are new to solarpunk as I am, it might help to have some descriptions of what solarpunk means. So here are a few …

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Categories Climate Change, Solarpunk

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