Char Pots 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Pictured here is my second attempt at Char Pots, a new method to the previous successful trial of Char Pots. Read on for more.
Read morePaddy Wall Update
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An update to the hedge featured in the Planting Guide and following on from this previous update.
Read moreMixed Cropping
Pictured here are hedges that I have used across our house site to reduce grass-mowing maintenance and to grow trees usually a year or two later. Using the biomass production of the Vetiver to mulch out and shade the surrounding pasture grasses, as a pioneer, creates an ideal spot for tree planting. Visible are Citrus, Eucalypt pollards (for short pole production/mulch), and Persimmon. Other fruit trees further back behind Olive with Vetiver hedges in the same pattern.
Read moreBefore and After of a Roadside Hedge
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A standard hedge that delineates road edge and revegetation area. Hedged occasionally with no special care.
Read moreFloodplain Dynamics or the Four Horseman of Soil Regeneration
Parts of Australia are now breaking records for excessive rainfall and with this comes erosion on levels not heard of since the last damaging floods of 2011-2013 (2022 is possibly worse). As this is just a mere time ago in a horticultural sense, the young vegetation that had been replaced since the events has again been removed from the sensitive riparian zones and are possibly doomed to repeat the cycle going forward.
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