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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 compost pile in a wooden bin cut open to show layers of coarse brush, dry leaves and green kitchen scraps with a garden fork
    21 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Compost Pile Layers: What Actually Matters

    Peter Vogel
    A row of pollarded willow trees in late winter, each with a knobbly trunk topped by a knuckle sending up dozens of slender new shoots
    21 Aug
    Food Forest

    Pollarding: How to Cut a Tree and Keep It Coming Back

    Peter Vogel
    A suburban front yard planted as a white clover lawn, dense green trifoliate foliage dotted with white blossoms and visiting bees
    21 Aug
    Permaculture Foundations

    Clover Lawn: How to Plant One and Live With It

    Peter Vogel
    Newly built cedar raised garden bed with thick boards and visible grain, part filled with dark soil and young vegetable seedlings
    20 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Best Wood for Raised Garden Beds (And When to Skip Wood)

    Peter Vogel
    Thriving backyard permaculture garden built around several raised beds of different heights, densely planted with vegetables and herbs
    20 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Raised Bed Gardening the Permaculture Way

    Peter Vogel
    Several styles of raised garden bed in a backyard garden: tall oval galvanised metal, low rectangular metal and cedar timber, all planted
    20 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Best Raised Garden Beds: A Permaculture Buyer's Guide

    Peter Vogel
    Galvanised raised garden bed part filled in layers, showing logs at the base, rough compost above and finished growing soil on top
    20 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    How to Fill a Raised Garden Bed (Without Buying 40 Bags)

    Peter Vogel
    Open backyard compost bin showing kitchen scraps with pale larvae among them and a gardener holding a fork ready to turn the pile
    20 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Maggots in Your Compost Pile: What They Are and What to Do

    Peter Vogel
    Backyard vegetable garden with black drip tubing running along beds of tomatoes and lettuce, with a filter and pressure regulator at the hose bib
    20 Aug
    Permaculture Foundations

    Drip Irrigation for a Vegetable Garden: Setup, Spacing and Run Times

    Peter Vogel
    Wooden raised garden bed planted with tomatoes and lettuce under an even layer of golden straw mulch pulled back from each stem
    20 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Mulch for Raised Garden Beds: What to Use and How Deep

    Peter Vogel