Product Description

Working entirely in harmony with nature, The Permaculture Garden shows you how to turn a bare plot into a beautiful and productive garden. Learn how to plan your garden for easy access and minimum labour; save time and effort digging and weeding; recycle materials to save money; plan crop successions for year-round harvests; save energy and harvest water; and garden without chemicals by building up your soil and planting in beneficial communities. Full of practical ideas for structures, children's areas and garden designs, this perennial classic, first published in 1995, is guaranteed to inspire, inform and entertain.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #239210 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-04
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 174 pages

Review
A thought-provoking, informative, often entertaining book, filled with achievable ideas. I've used some of the techniques described with great success. This encourages you to see your garden as a whole and to mould its design around its unique features, and your own needs. Find out how to reduce your workload, save time and effort digging and weeding, site a greenhouse, harvest and use water well, build your soil, use space wisely, and grow food without using chemicals. --Kitchen Garden Magazine

The best book about all aspects of permaculture gardening in a cool climate. --Maddy Harland, Editor, Permaculture Magazine

The Permaculture Garden is an excellent book about actually putting it all into practice in your back garden. It contains excellent species lists for useful plants for a wide range of situations. The first chapter is a kind of philosophical treatise on why to garden, and is littered with beautiful quotes from literature about the joy of gardening. This book is crammed with useful ideas and is one of our best selling books. --Rob Hopkins

About the Author
Graham Bell is the former editor of Permaculture News. He worked for the Prince's Trust and is now a freelance environmental consultant. He lives and works in the Scottish Borders, and is married with two children.