Category: Gardens

Episode-76- Get More Water With Catch, Store And Use Systems

Tony Teolis April 13, 2012 0 Comments
       As you may or not have guessed by the pictures in the show notes or from experience a rainwater tank, rain barrel, rain catcher, whatever is simply that. A large barrel designed to catch and hold the rain water runoff from your roof. Why would you want to do this you may be asking yourself. Well I know it’s now April and it’s hard to imagine what a long hot dry summer may portend...

Episode-69- Start Seeds With Soil Blocks For Easy Planting

Tony Teolis March 30, 2012 0 Comments
Less than 3 weeks until the last spring frost. Feels like it may have already passed but I'm not taking any chances. Still using April 20 for northern Virginia. What's been sowed in soil blocks so far: green onions (lots of them), parsley, chives, tomatoes, hot peppers, asters, four o'clocks, marigold, thyme, oregano, okra, chamomile, spider flower, Swiss chard, endive, and basil. What's...

Episode-66- Spring Into Action With Honeybees, Gardening And Cherry Blossoms

Tony Teolis March 24, 2012 0 Comments
This is one of the 61% of the years that Punxsutawney Phil is WRONG! And I'm loving it. Busy as all get out with the honeybees and trying to keep them at home to make a honey harvest. Not sure what will happen but if I did read Mother Nature's early signs of spring correctly then all this work will be worth. Well actually it will be worth it regardless what happens. Spring is here and it's...

Episode-62- How To Design Gardens From Patterns For Beauty And Production

Tony Teolis March 16, 2012 0 Comments
 Permaculture is a theory of ecological design which seeks to develop sustainable human settlements and agricultural systems, by attempting to model them on natural ecosystems. Permaculture principle #7 Design from patterns to details: By stepping back, we can observe patterns in nature and society. These can form the backbone of our designs, with the details filled in as we go.  My yard's...

Episode-61- Build A Dream With Gaia’s Garden

Tony Teolis March 14, 2012 0 Comments
What I learned from Gaias Garden A better understanding of how permaculture locates forces such as sun, wind and water each in its own sector How to incorporate the 5 zones system for implementing permaculture onto my small property Methods of contouring to catch water rather than continue to endure the slow erosion of my side and backyard What’s really good about this book The various food...

Episode-60- Best Tree And Landscape Service. Call RS Tree In Fairfax VA

Tony Teolis March 12, 2012 0 Comments
Episode-55- Do The Right Thing Catch And Store Energy But Not In The Front Yard My neighbor Roberto Solorzano Owns RS Tree & Landscaping Service Looked at the tree in question with me and we realized how dangerously close it was to falling over due to No root system and limbs only on the side facing my house Made me an offer I couldn't refuse Showed up right on time and the video in...

Episode-55- Grow Food Not Lawns But Not In The Front Yard

Tony Teolis March 2, 2012 2 Comments
      Show highlights I hate cutting grass and seeing energy go to waste Originally planned to explain how the front yard will become a food forest How I have been planning to increase gardening activities to the front yard Read and watched too much information motivating me to turn the front lawn into a garden Even Martha Stewart agrees it's the right thing to do But then I had...

Episode-47- Food Not Lawns – A Call To Action

Tony Teolis February 15, 2012 0 Comments
Show notes Subscribe Music - Blue Devil Plain Videos Food Not Lawns - Book FoodNotLawns.net Heather C. Flores Gardening - We are taking Action for life and  permaculture in northern Virginia. Turning the home into a homestead and business. Wikipedia: Topsoil Better Soil USDA: Soil Erosion 12 Principles of Permaculture American lawns use 270 billion gallons of water per week! What I learned from...