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Permaculture for Sanity Retention (and Landscape Management)

Michael Hoag

Kneeling on the lawn, dirty gloves to your face, you see the writing on the garden wall: you now understand the “gardener’s trap” you find yourself in – and you find yourself praying to that great tiller in the sky, to just come end it all. Now. Your garden (literally) looks like the heat death of the universe. A manifestation of pure chaos. The apocalypse, but with weeds.  And grass.  EVERYWHERE. I know this is a very geeky metaphor for a gardening blog, but it might seem clever in a moment if you bare with me. Two years ago, you … Continue reading Permaculture for Sanity Retention (and Landscape Management)

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This Hack Get’s Mother Nature to Fight Weeds for You: Fortress Plants

Michael Hoag

  Look: this is a picture of a vegetable at war with the lawn.  Given all the attention around the “food not lawns” movement, you might think I’m being metaphorical. But an experienced gardener will understand that the veggie patch is ALWAYS fighting a war for survival against lawn and “quack grass” greedily trying to take over any bit of land it can get access to.  “I’ve lost my garden completely to quack grass!!!”is one of the most common tales of garden woe, and usually the only recourse is to completely start over.  But LOOK AGAIN: Here, it is the … Continue reading This Hack Get’s Mother Nature to Fight Weeds for You: Fortress Plants