This is my first Loofa...As it's the last weekend of the month, I thought it was timely to do a garden update, which includes some of my pondering about gardening. I have a fabulous Permaculture calendar and diary this year. The Calendar has identified one of the permaculature principles to focus on each month -a meditation point or discussion starter.
My interactions in the garden recently have included capturing seed from lettuce, bok choy and parsley, allowing the spiders to take control of the insect issues - which means interacting from time to time with a web, and harvesting. January's best harvests included tomatoes, peaches, nectarines, beans, spinach, rhubarb, radishes and basil.
Gift Offer!!! - I have a free copy of the Permaculture Calendar to send to someone who would like it. Just let me know in the comments section. I'll send it to the first person who shows an interest. Enjoy!
- January - Observe & Interact
- February - Catch & store energy
- March - Obtain & yield
- April - Apply self regulation & accept feedback
- May - Use & value renewable resources & services
- June - Produce no waste
- July - Design from patterns to details
- August - Integrate rather than segregate
- September - Use small & slow solutions
- October - Use & value diversity
- November - Use edges & value the marginal
- December - Creatively use & response to change
My interactions in the garden recently have included capturing seed from lettuce, bok choy and parsley, allowing the spiders to take control of the insect issues - which means interacting from time to time with a web, and harvesting. January's best harvests included tomatoes, peaches, nectarines, beans, spinach, rhubarb, radishes and basil.
Gift Offer!!! - I have a free copy of the Permaculture Calendar to send to someone who would like it. Just let me know in the comments section. I'll send it to the first person who shows an interest. Enjoy!
Hi Tamara,
ReplyDeleteJust landed on your blog via the comments you left on mine - love your blog! Awesome to see another local into living lightly :-) I'd love to say give your Permaculture calender away tgo someone else... but really, I would love one! Ahem :-) Maybe we could organise a swap!
I don't think I had a clue that this was where loofas came from! Learn something new every day!
ReplyDeleteYour garden is beautiful -- I'm glad you aren't in the area of the floods.
Oh I want to plant loofa! Must tell husband, who is buying seeds. I wonder if growing them from seed is easy.
ReplyDeleteI love winter, but you are making me long for our summer garden.