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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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    Wooden raised garden bed in early spring with settled soil below the top boards and a wheelbarrow of dark compost alongside
    10 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Raised Bed Soil Refresh: What to Amend Each Year

    Peter Vogel
    Wooden window box below a sunny apartment window planted with trailing thyme, basil, parsley and a compact cherry tomato
    10 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Best Plants for Window Boxes: What Actually Grows Together

    Peter Vogel
    Backyard cherry tree underplanted with a guild of comfrey, white clover and daffodils inside a wood chip mulch ring
    10 Aug
    Food Forest

    Cherry Tree Guild: What to Plant Under a Cherry Tree

    Peter Vogel
    Native pollinator border of coneflower, black-eyed Susan and goldenrod blooming beside a raised vegetable bed with bees and a monarch butterfly
    10 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Native Plants for a Pollinator Garden: Regional Guide

    Peter Vogel
    Interior of a traditional root cellar with slatted shelves of apples, crates of potatoes, hanging onions and garlic and winter squash on a bench
    7 Aug
    Permaculture Foundations

    Root Cellar Basics: Storing Your Harvest Without Electricity

    Peter Vogel
    Gardener planting a young bare-root fruit tree in a wide shallow autumn planting hole with mulch and a watering bucket nearby
    7 Aug
    Permaculture Foundations

    Fall Tree Planting: Why Autumn Beats Spring (and When It Doesn't)

    Peter Vogel
    Gardener kneeling in a vegetable bed reading a printed soil test report beside a soil probe, trowel and bag of compost
    7 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Cation Exchange Capacity: Why It Matters for Your Garden

    Peter Vogel
    Frost-touched Lacinato kale in a raised bed interplanted with onions, white clover and nasturtiums on a homestead in late autumn
    7 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting Kale: The Cold-Season Workhorse

    Peter Vogel
    Gardener scattering fine basalt rock dust over a dark garden bed of seedlings, with a sack of rock powder and a wheelbarrow of compost nearby
    7 Aug
    Soil & Composting

    Rock Dust for Gardens: Remineralizing Your Soil

    Peter Vogel
    American elderberry shrub in full white bloom at the edge of a backyard food forest with songbirds perched among the branches
    7 Aug
    Food Forest

    Elderberry in Food Forests: Medicine and Wildlife Habitat

    Peter Vogel