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    Sheltered Scottish coastal kitchen garden with raised beds of kale and blackcurrants behind a mixed alder and sea buckthorn shelterbelt
    28 Aug
    Permaculture Around the World

    Permaculture in Scotland: Northern Maritime Design

    Peter Vogel
    Syntropic planting row on a dry Mediterranean hillside with olive and fig among tagasaste pioneers, deep mulch and a contour swale above
    27 Aug
    Syntropic Agriculture

    Syntropic Agriculture in the Mediterranean

    Peter Vogel
    Newly planted syntropic row in its first summer with sunflowers and sorghum over young fruit tree whips and squash and beans below
    27 Aug
    Syntropic Agriculture

    Syntropic Agriculture Year 1: What to Expect

    Peter Vogel
    Nepali middle-hill terraces stepping down a steep valley side with flooded rice benches, dry millet terraces and farmhouses among fodder trees
    27 Aug
    Permaculture Around the World

    Permaculture in Nepal: Mountain Terrace Farming

    Peter Vogel
    Adult Colorado potato beetle with ten black stripes on cream wing covers sitting on a chewed potato leaf above orange larvae
    27 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Colorado Potato Beetle: Timing, Hand-Picking and Trap Crops

    Peter Vogel
    Swiss chard leaf backlit by morning sun showing a pale winding serpentine leaf miner tunnel across the green blade
    27 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Leaf Miners: What Those Squiggly Trails Actually Mean

    Peter Vogel
    Cabbage worm feeding damage on a green cabbage head with a velvety green caterpillar visible among chewed outer leaves
    27 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Cabbage Worms: How to Identify, Stop and Prevent Them

    Peter Vogel
    Raised bed of young arugula and mustard greens with leaves peppered by tiny round flea beetle shot-holes in early summer light
    26 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Flea Beetle Control: Stopping the Shot-Hole Damage

    Peter Vogel
    Spring vegetable bed at dawn with young transplants standing and two seedlings toppled and severed at the soil line by cutworms
    26 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Cutworms: How to Spot the Damage and Stop It

    Peter Vogel
    Late summer backyard garden with cucumber and squash vines on a wooden trellis, leaves showing ragged cucumber beetle feeding holes and open yellow blossoms
    26 Aug
    Companion Planting

    Cucumber Beetles: Stop Them Before They Wreck Your Squash

    Peter Vogel