Green Magazine

Permaculture Tips

By now, your vegetable garden should be in full swing, growing the ultimate summer harvests: luscious sun-ripened tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, flavoursome beans and endless zucchinis. Fill any gaps in your garden now, to avoid later disappointment, but remember to consider how long your plants will take to get to harvest stage if you’re still planting at this late stage of the growing season. If you’re planting tomatoes, buy well-developed plants as it’s too late in the season to grow your own from seed. Look for those with a short time to harvest, such as Stupice. If you’re planting beans,

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Green Magazine

Green Magazine1 min read
Landfill Diverted
Japanese designer and architect Daisuke Yamamoto challenges the construction industry's throwaway culture with his FLOW product series, featuring a collection of chairs made from Lightweight Gauge Steel (LGS), a common construction material. Designed
Green Magazine1 min read
Editorial
The makeup of housing is changing in our cities, we are seeing a gradual progression towards medium density. We are also seeing alternative approaches to the traditional home. In this issue we look at five different types of architecture that aren't
Green Magazine3 min read
Brotherly Love
• Set back only 30 metres or so from a busy arterial route on Auckland's North Shore, this garden that hunkers up to an interior design studio flows out into a reserve where birdsong rises into a kahikatea forest. On approach, the building, by Keshaw

Related Books & Audiobooks