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Peter Vogel

Peter Vogel is the founder of GrowPerma, bringing together evidence-based gardening advice with permaculture principles. When he's not writing about companion planting or soil health, he's ...

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    A backyard cutting garden in high summer with dense rows of zinnias, cosmos, sunflowers, dahlias and celosia and a basket of freshly cut stems
    25 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Cut Flower Garden: Layout, Companions and What to Grow

    Peter Vogel
    A garden bed freshly mulched with reddish-brown pine bark around hostas, hydrangeas and a young Japanese maple, with a wheelbarrow of nuggets nearby
    25 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Pine Bark Mulch: Nuggets, Fines, and Which One You Need

    Peter Vogel
    A potting bench with a compressed coco coir brick, an expanded bucket of coir fiber and an open bale of dark sphagnum peat moss
    25 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Coco Coir vs Peat Moss: What Should Be in Your Potting Mix

    Peter Vogel
    Two honeyberry bushes laden with elongated dark blue haskap berries in a northern garden with birch trees behind
    25 Aug
    Permaculture Around the World

    Honeyberry (Haskap): How to Grow the First Berry of Summer

    Peter Vogel
    A backyard salsa garden bed with two tomatillo plants in husk, chili peppers, cilantro, onions and a staked tomato in late summer sun
    25 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting Tomatillos: A Salsa Garden That Works

    Peter Vogel
    Two open sacks on a potting bench, one of white perlite granules and one of golden vermiculite flakes, beside a tray of seedlings
    25 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Perlite vs Vermiculite: Which One Your Soil Actually Needs

    Peter Vogel
    Wooden cold frame in a winter garden with the lid propped open showing spinach, mache and kale growing inside
    24 Aug
    Permaculture Foundations

    Cold Frames: How to Build One and Keep Growing Through Winter

    Peter Vogel
    Vole runways in a lawn after snowmelt beside a young apple tree with bark gnawed away at the base
    24 Aug
    Permaculture Foundations

    Vole Control: How to Stop Vole Damage Without Poison

    Peter Vogel
    Summer patio with terracotta pots of lemongrass, catnip and basil, a hand crushing a leaf and a small fan on the table
    24 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Plants That Repel Mosquitoes: What Works and What Does Not

    Peter Vogel
    Managed hardwood woodlot with shiitake logs on a rack, a patch of ramps and ginseng plants growing in dappled shade
    24 Aug
    Syntropic Agriculture

    Forest Farming: Growing Crops Under a Standing Canopy

    Peter Vogel