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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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    Kitchen table seed stratification setup with labelled bags of damp sand, tree and wildflower seed, and a refrigerator behind
    24 Aug
    Food Forest

    Seed Stratification: How to Cold-Treat Seeds That Refuse to Sprout

    Peter Vogel
    Mixed native hedgerow in late spring along a property boundary with flowering elderberry and serviceberry, bees and a songbird
    24 Aug
    Food Forest

    How to Plant a Hedgerow: A Living Boundary for Food and Wildlife

    Peter Vogel
    Backyard garden showing timber raised beds planted with salad near the house alongside open in-ground rows of potatoes and sweetcorn
    21 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Raised Bed vs In-Ground: Which and When

    Peter Vogel
    Cutaway of a raised bed showing lettuce, carrot and asparagus roots reaching progressively deeper, with the deepest roots passing through the base into the ground below
    21 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    How Deep Should a Raised Bed Be? Depth by Crop

    Peter Vogel
    Cutaway of a timber raised bed sitting directly on open garden soil, with roots and worms crossing freely between the bed and the ground below
    21 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Raised Bed Drainage: Do You Actually Need It?

    Peter Vogel
    Top-down view of a 4 by 8 foot raised garden bed with companion planting layout featuring tall tomatoes on the north edge, basil and parsley clustered around them, gridded carrot and lettuce blocks, and marigolds and nasturtiums at the corners
    21 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Raised Bed Garden Layouts: 6 Plans That Actually Work

    Peter Vogel
    A gardener filling a wooden raised garden bed with rich dark soil mix from a wheelbarrow with compost and vermiculite nearby, a pencil-crayon illustration
    21 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Best Soil for Raised Garden Beds: 4 Options Compared

    Peter Vogel
    A living willow fence along a garden boundary, freshly planted rods woven into a diagonal lattice and tied at the crossings with new leaves breaking
    21 Aug
    Food Forest

    Living Fence: How to Grow a Boundary That Grows Back

    Peter Vogel
    A vegetable garden bed edged with a flowering insectary strip of sweet alyssum, yarrow and phacelia with hoverflies and a ladybug among the blooms
    21 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Insectary Plants: What to Grow to Bring In the Predators

    Peter Vogel
    A midwestern farm field in alley cropping, with widely spaced rows of young walnut trees and broad alleys of golden wheat between them
    21 Aug
    Syntropic Agriculture

    Alley Cropping: Growing Crops Between Rows of Trees

    Peter Vogel