Category: Gardens

Episode-264- Backyard From Vision To Reality

Tony Teolis February 9, 2015 0 Comments
If I started over I would begin with a read of Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway. I would then map my property on a topographic map to verify surveyed contour and the overlay my garden plans on that. The design would be a south facing U-shaped sun trap with swales on contours. I did not start that way but I am moving towards that design. Geoff Lawton of Australia has some of the best video examples...

Episode-263- Parsley Starts Now February 7, 2015

Tony Teolis February 8, 2015 0 Comments
It's time to starting sowing the spring greens and that begins with parsley. Petroselinum crispum. What I have posted before about this lovely plant  has not changed. So here it is again. Episode-233- Get Started With Indoor Seed Starts - Parsley February 8, 2014        Today's video depicts the start of the growing season for 2014. Although it is still icy and cold outside and spring seems...

Free Mason Bees

Tony Teolis February 1, 2015 0 Comments
   This video show the Blue Orchard Mason Bee Osmia Lignaria cocoons that are hibernating in my fridge. The camera then trail to the garage where I am building the new mason bee homes. I have homes and nesting reeds available for purchase. The bees are free and will be ready to work in the spring. They spend their days pollinating your spring and summer fruit, vegetable and flower plants....

Episode-261 – What A Wonderful Matt’s Wild Cherry Tomato

Tony Teolis January 31, 2015 1 Comment
This amazing tomato video is of just one plant! Matt's Wild Cherry Tomato Seeds from SouthernExposure.com Get some today. Support these folks on a Virginia farm. The Cherry Tomato plant Solanum lycopersicum is one of my most prolofic crops. The cherry tomatoes will produce from mid July through September and never fail in allowing at least one salad's worth of tomatoes per day per plant! A few...

Episode-258 – From Microsystems to Macrosystems Permaculture Practice In Suburb

Tony Teolis January 25, 2015 0 Comments
This one microsystem amongst the many that make up our food forest is representation of how to incorporate several permaculture principles into one functioning system. See how many principles are applied in just this one small system. Send answer via contact page. Permaculture Principles