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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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    Pencil-crayon scene of a Mediterranean herb garden bed with mature rosemary at centre surrounded by lavender sage thyme and oregano with a bumblebee visiting the rosemary flowers
    8 May
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting Rosemary: Mediterranean Pest Control

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon scene of a hillside permaculture homestead with two parallel swales running on contour each with planted earth berms supporting young fruit trees and ground cover with light rain falling and water pooling in the swales
    7 May
    Permaculture Foundations

    Swales and Berms: Harvest Rainwater With Earthworks

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon scene representing the three permaculture ethics with Earth Care as a thriving garden, People Care as hands sharing harvested vegetables across a gate, and Fair Share as saved seeds in a jar and a child planting a sapling
    7 May
    Permaculture Foundations

    Permaculture Ethics: Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of a thriving home vegetable garden with integrated pest management elements including row covers, yellow sticky trap, ladybug, soap-spray bottle, and flowering marigolds and dill
    7 May
    Permaculture Foundations

    Integrated Pest Management for Home Gardens

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of a thriving home vegetable garden bed with companion-planted onions interlaced with carrots, lettuce, beets, brassicas, and a flowering chive in the corner
    7 May
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting Onions: Pest-Repelling Powerhouses

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of a temperate-climate syntropic agriculture row system with parallel rows of mixed apple, plum, mulberry, elderberry, currant, gooseberry, and ground-level herbs in late spring sunlight
    7 May
    Syntropic Agriculture

    Syntropic Row Design: Spacing and Species Selection

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of a mature blossoming apple tree at the centre of a permaculture food forest guild with comfrey, yarrow, chives, white clover, daffodils, and a flowering goumi shrub at the drip line
    6 May
    Food Forest

    Apple Tree Guild: The Classic Food Forest Pattern

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of an early autumn companion-planted vegetable garden with kale, broccoli, carrots, beets, dill, and nasturtium flowers in late afternoon light
    6 May
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting for Fall Harvest: September Planting Guide

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of a home worm composting setup in a clean garage with a stacked tray Worm Factory 360 alongside a DIY Rubbermaid tote worm bin, hands lifting a tray to reveal red wigglers in dark castings with shredded cardboard bedding, and a small bucket of kitchen scraps
    6 May
    Soil & Composting

    Best Worm Bin Setup: DIY and Store-Bought Options

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of a vibrant pollinator garden in late spring with tomatoes and squash interplanted with purple coneflower, bee balm, lavender, borage, marigolds, and zinnias, with a honey bee on bee balm and a monarch butterfly on milkweed
    6 May
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting for Pollinators: Attract Bees and Butterflies

    Peter Vogel