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When doing no till gardening, is it a bad idea to leave grass to act as a cover crop?
In my sunchoke patch, I'm using grass as a cover crop for no till purposes. Is this a bad idea?
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How effective is boiling water at sterilizing pot soil?
Aspiring to do sustainable* container gardening, I'd like to reuse the soil in my balcony pots each year instead of throwing it away. A fascinating idea is that watering a balcony pot with boiling water kills the evil things in it. Certainly, it…
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How to fix a dry stacked stone retaining wall on a ash hill?
I have a stocked rock wall that helps to keep my hill from falling. I also should mention that I live on a hill made of ash as well. Over the years of my nanny living here and now me the rocks have falling out in some places and in one part of the…
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For 7 layer food forest what should be the sequence of plantation?
Location: Eastern India, West Bengal (Tropical Climate)
For the following layer, is there any prescribed sequence of plantation?
Canopy
Understory
Shrub
Herb
Ground cover
Climber
Root
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Can Canopy, Understory, Shrub, Herb be planted at…
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How many vertical containers to grow food for one person?
The diet would only be plant based, by vertical garden I mean something like this:
But with vegetables instead of flowers and a tower that's 3-5 levels
How many of these "towers" would be enough for one person?
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Permaculture and World Food Needs
Can permaculture techniques feed the world's nutrition requirements? Are we stuck with GM crops to feed the worlds burgeoning population?
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How much harvesting of Fomes Fomentarius is sustainable?
I'm fairly new at harvesting mushrooms, and was wondering how much Fomes Fomentarius I can harvest sustainable from a fungal garden.
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