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Food Forest in Late Spring
TR It’s the last week of May here . Even though we’re having less and less rain each year in spring, the garden is full of life! The advantage of having mostly perennial…
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Time to Eat Shoots!
As the weather is getting warmer, the growth rate of the plants accelerate immensely! Shrubs and trees grow new shoots, annuals want to flower and go to seed as soon as they can!…
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Compost Bucket for Composting in Situ
Türkçe A simple basket I made using prunnings of english ivy and virginia creeper Another basket type for composting.I just stuck some grapevine prunnings in the ground and wove around it I tried…
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A beneficial wild plant : Purple Dead Nettle (Lamium purpureum)
With the coming of spring , purple dead nettle pops up all over garden!
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Garden in January
English Türkçe This winter is going quite warm.We had just one night of frost so far. The frequent southwest winds, called Lodos in Turkish, are warming up the weather. On the other hand…
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Polyculture Gardening // Part III
This is a spontaneous bed that we created over lawn. Some of the plants are perennials, some of them are annuals. Having perennials in a bed is both challenging and fun to play…
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Polyculture Gardening Part II
Here’s the Part II of our polyculture garden tour. Kale On the outer edge of the bed I planted kale as a living fence. It grows quite high and defines the borders…
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Polyculture Gardening-Part I
https://youtu.be/xH4gXYNKm24 I’ve been researching and experimenting on polyculture gardening for a couple of seasons and I can see that it works very well! There are more pollinators and beneficial insects as well as…
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Growing Plants from Cuttings
Whenever I see a plant I like I just take a little cutting about 10 cm long with at least 2 eyes on it and stick it in a pot filled with loose…
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Garden in February
Spinach plants that I sowed at the end of September are going strong. They endured snow and freezing weather! Broccoli is fruiting Swiss chard’s leaves are getting larger, Fennel is giving out new…
