permaculture, chooks & stuff in the Samford Valley (Queensland)
Posted in permaculture plants on Nov 19th, 2009
They may not be as sexy as some annuals, however perennial food plants make a whole lot of sense & they really help with putting the ‘perma’ in permaculture.
I’ve started assembling good information resources on these plants and hope to gradually accumulate perennials and incorporate them in the permaculture landscape that I am hoping to [...]
Posted in chickens, permaculture plants on Sep 11th, 2009
Vetiver haircut
Last Saturday it was time to give my vetiver a trim – to be frank, it ended up being a bit of a mum cut….. straight fringe, no layering, you know what I mean.
I was rather amazed to discover that the taller stems were nearly 3 metres long.
Well not any more….now they are all [...]
Posted in permaculture plants on Aug 11th, 2009
You can read all about the uses and benefits of growing tagasaste at other more serious permaculture websites….windbreak, pioneering nitrogen fixer, mulch provider, goat feeder etc.
I only have 3 plants planted along one of the swales, survivors which I grew from seed a few years ago.
Not really enough to form a windbreak and I don’t [...]
Posted in permaculture plants on Aug 9th, 2009
Today, it was time to plant out the vetiver slips that I had potted up in June. I had been waiting for the arrival of Spring, however Winter lingers on here in Brisbane in name only, so why hold on for another few weeks?
As you may know, vetiver is a great plant for erosion control [...]
Posted in chickens, permaculture plants on Jul 28th, 2009
This here’s the wattle, the emblem of our land.
You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand.
(’The Bruces’ – Monty Python)
The wattle blossom is starting to go ballistic here at my place. I have put in three or four hundred plants over the past few years, so I suppose [...]
Posted in permaculture plants, vegetables on Jul 22nd, 2009
I’m sure we must have some cool windy days ahead of us here in Brisbane this Winter, but you wouldn’t know it today…Spring is almost in the air.
So it was fortuitous that a special parcel arrived today from Green Harvest.
After discussion with my wife the other day, I ordered a large selection of seeds and [...]
Posted in chickens, permaculture plants, weeds on Jul 5th, 2009
I created quite a stir in the chicken run today – it was time to build the residents a herbatorium.
This is an idea that I must have read about somewhere in the permaculture literature, I just can’t remember where, so I don’t know who to credit.
As most of you would know, chickens left to their [...]
Posted in permaculture plants, vegetables on Jun 25th, 2009
….and not because I nuked them all.
I am beginning to discover the joys of vegetable gardening in the Brisbane winter – warm midday sun (21 Celsius yesterday) and no little critters around wanting to munch into a nearly ripe tomato….that is if I had a nearly ripe tomato…anyway, you get the idea.
Today’s post is a [...]
Posted in permaculture plants on Jun 12th, 2009
Firstly I should declare that I am a total convert to vetiver, the wonder grass. I won’t waste time trying to explain all its virtues, just go to http://www.vetiver.org/ and let the experts tell all.
Having planted out about 25 baby vetiver plants late last September, it was time to turn my hand to propagating from [...]
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