Planting plans are a great idea, but in reality much harder to implement for a small garden or intensive planting than they might initially seem. I love the idea of a no rules garden, and adopted that philosophy when I first started my garden, relying on common sense and permaculture …

You can grow pretty much anything in a hugel that you can grow in a conventional garden bed, but you need plan ahead. Hugel characteristics Although a tradtional or hybrid hugel increases the growing area of your garden, different sections of a hugel are not identical. I divide each of …