The permaculture garden

The permaculture garden A practical approach to year-round harvests

Huw Richards, 1999-

Book - 2025

Explores regenerative methods to create a sustainable, productive kitchen garden year-round, with advice on growing diverse edible plants, incorporating perennials, optimizing garden design, and enhancing aesthetics and environmental benefits through seasonal planning and mixed planting techniques.

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Subjects
Permaculture.
Agricultural ecology.
Sustainability.
Sustainable living.
Gardening.
permaculture.
gardening.
Published
New York, NY : DK Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House LLC [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Huw Richards, 1999- (author)
Edition
First American edition
Physical Description
286 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780593961100
  • Introdcution
  • What is Permaculture?
  • Explaining permaculture
  • Why permaculture?
  • The 12 principles
  • Building on the principles
  • Goals
  • Patterns and design
  • Climate
  • Natural patterns
  • Ten geometric patterns for design
  • Scale of permanence
  • Zoning
  • Soil health and compost
  • Soil health explained
  • Testing your soil
  • Minimal disturbance
  • Compost
  • The problems with compost
  • Cold compost
  • Hot compost and hot beds
  • Mulch
  • Worm compost
  • Wood chips
  • Biochar
  • Trench and pocket composting
  • Liquid amendments
  • Green manure and cover crops
  • Chicken compost
  • Low-nutrient growing
  • Water
  • Water needs and drought
  • Rainwater as a resource
  • Watering tools
  • How to water
  • The hierarchy of growing space
  • Garden overview
  • Landshape
  • Undercover: large structures
  • Undercover: small structures
  • Vertical spaces
  • Raised beds
  • Non-sided beds
  • Soft boundaries
  • Pots and containers
  • Shade
  • Garden tools and storage
  • Bringing it all together
  • Perennials
  • Why grow perennials?
  • Maintaining perennials
  • Propagation simplified
  • Tubers
  • Perennial brassicas
  • Leafy and other perennial vegetables
  • Rhubarb and asparagus
  • Perennial herbs
  • Perennial flowers
  • Roses
  • Currants and gooseberries
  • Trailing berries and raspberries
  • Other berries
  • Tree fruit
  • Planting a fruit tree
  • Trees and shrubs for edible leaves
  • Apple and pear
  • Plum
  • Grape
  • Other fruit trees
  • Annuals
  • Growing annuals
  • Sowing in pots and modules
  • Sowing direct
  • Next steps
  • Alliums
  • Legumes
  • Leafy annuals
  • Brassicas
  • Root vegetables
  • Nightshade family
  • Cucurbits
  • Herbs
  • Flowers
  • Bonus harvests
  • Succession planting
  • Polytunnel timings
  • Hungry gap
  • Seed saving
  • Favorite varieties
  • Polyculture
  • Explaining polyculture
  • Fruit tree guild
  • The herb garden
  • The fruit garden
  • Edible perennial borders
  • Chicken food forest
  • Integrating ducks in the garden
  • The forager's garden
  • Linear food forest
  • Themed beds
  • Maximizing in-bed polyculture
  • Visual polyculture
  • Polyculture pots
  • A healthy garden
  • A strategy for health
  • Pest solutions
  • Disease solutions
  • Frost protection
  • Practical information
  • Recipes for amendments
  • How to make a hot bed with a cold frame
  • How to build a raised bed with hinged hoop
  • Resources
  • Suppliers
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments
  • About Theauthor

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