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Starting a vege garden (with one square metre of land)
Growing and maintaining a vege garden always seemed beyond me until recently — thanks to a book called One Magic Square by Lolo Houbein. Houbein, who witnessed the devastation of famine in Holland...
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My vegetable garden by the seaside (3 months later)
The courtyard vegetable garden is blossoming in every way! I’m happy with the final layout (we dropped the circles) — hard to believe that all these plants fit into such a small space: Fruits: Passion...
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How to create a compost or trench bed for vegetables
A trench bed is like a compost bin, dug into the ground and consisting of alternate layers of fresh green ‘live’ organic material, brown ‘dead’ organic material, fresh manure and soil. Note that each...
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How to grow kale & other plants from a cutting in 5 steps (illustrations &...
I popped into Soil for Life again this weekend and was shown how to grow kale from cuttings. Hopefully my rough illustrations and the attached photographs explain how easy it is to grow these and other...
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