Here is some info I found about my new pea shrub: Caragana arborescens, also known as the pea shrub, is a large nitrogen fixing shrub. The pea shrub is originally from siberia and so tolerates cold winters well. It handles conditions such as drought and poor soil quite well and …
There are flowers everywhere! I can’t wait for them to turn to fruit!This is the blackberry bush that we planted three years ago. It is finally getting big enough to produce a significant amount of blackberries. Only now it is taking over! There are about ten volunteer plants …
If you are going to start a permaculture garden you need to have something more permanent than annual vegetables. Permaculture is not planting vegetables every single year. It is setting up a bed one year and harvesting every year. This means that you need perennial vegetables. Vegetables that come back …