Permaculture Blog
A space where I share general organic garden advice, plant information, permaculture DIY tips & tricks
Growing fruit and veggies in the tropics
Living in the tropics is great, I love it. Hot wet summers and cool dry winters. The summer brings an explosion of growth, in the heat and the wet, plants grow like mad. Well, tropical plants do. But what about all the vegetables we love to eat and are...
Tropical annual vegetable planting guide
What vegetables do I plant and when? After years of research, trial and error of my own, I have created a go to list of the vegetable crops that thrive in the tropics, including when and how. Its a general guide for the humid tropics. I live in Kuranda, so it would...
Banana Circle
Making a Banana circle mulch pit compost garden In the tropics, this is an ideal element to use and there should be one in every garden. Banana circles or ‘mulch pit gardens’ help create humus, provide water retention and build fertility on sandy or heavy clay soils....