Tag: hugelkultur

Episode-190- Reap What I Sow – Peas And Turnips

Tony Teolis June 9, 2013 0 Comments
This is a follow up to Episode-158- where I showed how I was getting my spring plantings under way. I sowed turnip and snap pea seeds on March 30 and I started picking some of the rewards of my labor for two weeks. Today's pickings were the best so and it is nice to see 10 weeks of waiting patiently for these "early" vegetables come to a nice bounty. The turnips were sowed too close together and...

Episode-129- Gaia’s Garden Book Review

Tony Teolis October 8, 2012 0 Comments
Gaia’s Garden is a guide to home scale permaculture by Toby Hemenway. To the ancient Greeks Gaia was Mother Nature. All of the other gods descended from her and her union with Uranus the god of the sky. So it’s only fitting that as we refer to nature we still do so in a way that shows respect for something greater than humans. What I learned from Gaias Garden A better understanding of how...

Episode-117- Harvest Garden Vegetables For The Dinner Table

Tony Teolis August 4, 2012 0 Comments
Come and see what is beng harvested for the dinner table.  A wonderful display of delicious food that you can learn to grow on your own too. To Do ListHome.com It started as a way to keep track of things I do around the home to make life better. That includes permaculture and gardening and today I present you with some of the bounty of our various harvests... We decided to grow our own food...

Episode-109- Grow More Tomatoes With Trellis

Tony Teolis July 4, 2012 0 Comments
           Tomatoes are America's favorite vegetable or fruit to grow at home. The first time I grew tomatoes I didn't know what I was doing. I had successfully sprouted my first plants from seed but they soon turned spindly with just a long stem and a little leaf but they soon died. I was gardening in a very reactive manner without knowledge or experience. I used to think all that was...

Episode-107- Make Your Own Food And Flowers – Part 1

Tony Teolis July 1, 2012 0 Comments
Tour our gardens with today’s video and see for yourself what is possible with planning, hard work, hugelkultur, seeds from SouthernExposure.com and plants from NourseFarms.com. Of course special credit goes to the gardens hardest workers. The Russian honey bees from Kellysbees.com enjoy and come back for more. Grow Gardens AT Home And Make Your Own Food And Flowers. Watch and...

Episode-95- Bring Dead Lawn Back To Life

Tony Teolis May 24, 2012 0 Comments
How To Green A Dead Patch Of Lawn  Integrate Rather Than Segregate – “Many hands make light work” By putting the right things in the right place, relationships develop between those things and they work together to support each other. Every time I attempted to repair the dead patch ended in failure as there was never enough soil or lawn started to hold back the water. As I have been...

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-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...