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01 Feb 2013
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Tropical Tubers Bed
Sweet Potato Harvesting
This is where I stuffed in a few things that were anxious to be out of their pots. Now that the trees have been planted, most of the things in this bed can move on to be fillers between the trees. Early January I dug out most of the sweet potatoes because I didn’t have the energy to deal w...
27°C / 81°F
06 Sep 2012
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Pruning Banana Orchard, Harvesting Bayberry Sprigs
Backyard No-Dig Permaculture garden , Plantain trees -Frost Survivor , and Northern Bayberry Harvesting
Some of the older trees were weak from age and needed to be thinned out because they were a toppling hazard. So, we pulled them down to topple them safely, and will use a saw to chop them up and remove them later. Bayberry shrub is now quite huge, so I am harvesting some of the twigs for use in ...
14 May 2012
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Bloom Day May 2012
Aloe aristata Budding, Tradescantia zebrina Growing, Tradescantia fluminensis Growing, Tradescantia pallida...
Hello again Folia. I need to sit down and catch up on you. There are unresponded messages and so many journals to read. Why? Because there are so many interesting people worth following. My absence is nothing personal, events (usually relating to my job in some way) have conspired against me and...
Hail 13°C / 55°F
22 Apr 2012
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Permaculture Journal Entry 4

This entry is all about information gathering. Morrow (1993) teaches that it is part of the analysis process. She states that two types of information are required: Firstly, on-site: collecting samples, observations, experiences, taking measurements of your land. Secondly, off-site: data coll...
Sunny 30°C / 86°F
22 Apr 2012
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Permaculture Journal Entry 3
[14] Back Fenceline and Utilities Area garden , [12a] Vegie Patch garden , [27] Rainwater Tank Food and Her...
It’s been a while but I’ve finally caught up and got this entered in my Folia journal. I’ve had it written in my notebook for quite some time. Here we go … The next set of exercises from the Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture refer back to the ethics, principles and char...
Sunny 30°C / 86°F

tropical group conversations

0 Wanted: Kang Kong (Ipomoea aquatica) seeds in the Seed Saving, Swapping and Networking in Australia group Posted by Carol 7 months ago.
13 Ginger? Any tips? in the Kitchen Gardens group Posted by Tralamander 11 months ago. Last reply by Fhaith 11 months ago.
2 Cacao and coffea in the Southeast Florida Gardening Group group Posted by nfiori over 1 year ago. Last reply by nfiori over 1 year ago.
0 The challenges of gardening in the tropics in the Tropical gardening group Posted by Carol almost 2 years ago.
1 A few tropical vegetables in the Tropical Kitchen Gardens group Posted by Carol almost 2 years ago. Last reply by TangoFlowers almost 2 years ago.

tropical gardens

Tropical garden

Zone 5
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The Garden of Athena garden

Zone 5b Just getting into urban gardening, and i guess i have some pretty exotic taste ( took me quite a while to find my rutabaga seeds =) ) Looking to ta...
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Potted Herbs garden

Zone 6
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Raised Bed 1 aka Perennial Tubers Bed garden

Zone 9b The pictures tell it all. Raised bed filled with large woody bits, greenery, compost, dolomite, pelletised fertiliser and the topsoil rescued from...
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Side Tropical garden

Zone 8b Planted most of this two summers ago, with additions this summer (2012). I wanted this to be my tropical/sub tropical garden. I have trumpet plan...
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[Archived] Biodome garden

Zone 9a
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El Vesubio garden

Transplanted 10,000 hardwood tropical trees at El Vesubio farm in Nicaragua. All trees were also chosen for their flowers.
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Transect Map garden

Zone 11 To help understand the layout of the garden as a whole I have included here a transect map of the garden and the various areas within. Each area on...
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[20] Roadside North garden

Zone 11 This is the northern section of the garden occuping the site between the front fence line and the road. This sections extends from the red bougain...
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[19] Roadside Centre garden

Zone 11 This is the middle section of the garden occupying the site between the front fence line and the road. Its boundary is marked by the weeping tea tr...
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