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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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    Tall mammoth sunflowers acting as living trellises with pole beans winding up their stems, with bees pollinating the heads and squash vines covering the ground at the base
    12 May
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting Sunflowers: Living Trellises and Pollinator Magnets

    Peter Vogel
    A lush tropical food forest with coconut palm canopy, mango and banana sub-canopy, papaya and pineapple, taro and sweet potato vines at ground level
    11 May
    Food Forest

    Tropical Food Forest: Design for Warm Climates

    Peter Vogel
    A multi-layered indigenous food forest with canopy trees, berry shrubs, herbaceous ground covers, and an elder gardener tending plants with traditional tools
    11 May

    Indigenous Food Forests: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Gardens

    Peter Vogel
    A gardener sprinkling white bone meal fertilizer into a tomato planting hole next to a healthy young tomato seedling in a backyard garden
    11 May
    Soil & Composting

    Bone Meal Fertiliser: When and How to Use It

    Peter Vogel
    A large pile of fresh arborist wood chips on a driveway with a wheelbarrow and shovel, and a gardener spreading wood chip mulch around an apple tree in the background
    11 May
    Soil & Composting

    Wood Chip Mulch: The Best Free Garden Amendment

    Peter Vogel
    Lush food forest floor with dense ground cover of white clover, alpine strawberries, creeping thyme, comfrey, and yarrow under dappled sunlight
    11 May
    Food Forest

    Ground Cover Plants for Food Forests: The Living Mulch Layer

    Peter Vogel
    Split-frame comparison of an organic vegetable garden with neat rows on the left and a flourishing permaculture food forest with layered fruit trees on the right
    8 May
    Permaculture Foundations

    Permaculture vs Organic Gardening: What's the Difference?

    Peter Vogel
    Crumbly black biochar mixed into rich compost in a wooden raised bed with healthy young tomato and kale seedlings
    8 May
    Soil & Composting

    Biochar for Gardens: Benefits, How to Make, and How to Use

    Peter Vogel
    Side-by-side comparison of worm tea brewing in a 5-gallon bucket and finished compost tea in a watering can, garden setting
    8 May
    Soil & Composting

    Worm Tea vs Compost Tea: Differences and How to Make Both

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon scene of a temperate New England syntropic farm with rolling hills parallel planting rows on contour with apple plum mulberry currant and a red barn in the background
    8 May
    Syntropic Agriculture

    Syntropic Agriculture in the USA: Farms Leading the Way

    Peter Vogel