For busy gardeners, the idea of having a garden pre-planted with perennials that thrive with minimal attention is very appealing. Let’s explore some fantastic everlasting perennial plants that keep giving and require minimum maintenance.
If you want to grow food, then it may be interesting to examine agricultural methods worldwide to help you decide the best way for you. From straight rows to raised beds to Square Foot Gardening, you can look at Permaculture, Lunar gardening, and Hügel beds. It is important not to grow the same vegetable on the same plot of the ground every day to avoid pests and soil depletion. If this sounds like gobbledegook, keep reading for five popular methods of growing vegetables in the 21st century.
A wide range of fruit and vegetable crops are grown in New Zealand. They include oranges, lemons, avocados and persimmons, which grow in the warm north. Berries, olives and nuts grow in cooler areas.
Australia is huge and has a very diverse set of climates. In the US growing zone terms, climates range from USDA zones 7-12 across the continent. But Australia has its own hardiness zone rating system that differs from the US. The Australian system uses the lowest temperature for an area to create zones from 1 to 7.
Square Foot Gardening has been around since 1981. It was created as an approach to grow more vegetables per square foot of ground.
In summary, Square Foot Gardening is the approach of separating vegetable beds into 1-foot square sections. Plants are added to each section rather than sown in rows as they were traditionally grown.
