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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 kitchen garden in autumn with raised beds covered in a thick green stand of crimson clover and cereal rye, contrasting with bare-soil beds of harvested vegetables nearby
    30 Apr
    Soil & Composting

    Cover Crops for Home Gardens: The Complete Guide

    Peter Vogel
    A research-minded vegetable gardener crouched in a productive raised bed examining a tomato plant intercropped with sweet alyssum and basil, treating the bed like a small experiment
    30 Apr
    Companion Planting

    The Science of Companion Planting: What Actually Works

    Peter Vogel
    A traditional dry-stone permaculture herb spiral with rosemary, thyme, basil, mint, and watercress thriving across multiple microclimate zones from sunny apex to shaded pond base
    30 Apr
    Permaculture Foundations

    Herb Spiral: A Permaculture Micro-Habitat for Your Kitchen Garden

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-illustrated overhead view of a vegetable garden bed with nasturtiums in vibrant orange and yellow bloom sprawling at the edges and along the perimeter, surrounding a centre cluster of healthy bushy cabbage, kale, broccoli, and a young tomato plant.
    29 Apr
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting Nasturtiums: Trap Crops That Work

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-illustrated overhead view of a productive cool-season raised bed in spring with lettuce as the centrepiece — rows of frilly green and red leaf lettuce, alongside carrots with feathery tops, scattered chives in purple bloom, radishes, and strawberry plants with white flowers and red fruits at the edges.
    29 Apr
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting Lettuce and Greens: Cool-Season Combos

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-illustrated overhead view of a backyard garden showing four seasons in quadrants of the same plot — winter cover crops, spring peas and lettuce, summer tomatoes and squash, fall brassicas and dill — with a 12-month calendar grid in the centre.
    29 Apr
    Companion Planting

    Monthly Companion Planting Calendar: What to Plant When

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-illustrated abundant late-summer backyard food forest packed with edible perennials in distinct layers: a dwarf apple tree, elderberry, asparagus ferns, rhubarb, sunchoke flowers, blueberry and currant bushes, strawberries, chives and oregano in flower, and a tall Jerusalem artichoke at the back.
    29 Apr
    Food Forest

    Edible Perennials for Food Forests: Plants That Return Every Year

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-illustrated overhead view of a mature backyard apple tree in late-spring bloom with a permaculture guild of comfrey, daffodils, white clover, yarrow, and dill planted in concentric rings around the trunk.
    28 Apr
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting Fruit Trees: Building Productive Guilds

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-illustrated overhead view of a 4 by 8 foot wooden raised garden bed in late spring with a companion planting layout: tomatoes and marigolds at the back, peppers and basil in the middle, lettuce and carrots in the front, and pole beans on a back trellis.
    28 Apr
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting for Raised Beds: Maximise Every Square Foot

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of a freshly built sheet mulched garden bed with layers of cardboard, compost, and wood chips visible at the edge, ready for spring planting.
    28 Apr
    Soil & Composting

    Sheet Mulching: Build New Garden Beds Without Digging

    Peter Vogel