The essentials for living your best life.
The essentials for living your best life.
Grow a healthier, more productive spaghetti squash patch with the right companion plants. Discover how garlic, beets, parsley, nasturtiums, corn, and other garden-friendly partners can deter pests, attract pollinators, improve soil, and boost your harvest.
Discover the best companion plants for kabocha squash to deter pests, attract pollinators, improve soil health, and maximize your harvest. From garlic and dill to beans, corn, and sunflowers, these natural pairings help create a thriving, resilient garden.
Discover the best companion plants for Delicata squash, from beans and carrots to fragrant herbs and vibrant nasturtiums. These garden allies can enrich the soil, conserve moisture, deter pests, and support a healthier, more abundant harvest.
Grow healthier, more productive acorn squash with the right companion plants. From pest-repelling mint, marigolds, and nasturtiums to nitrogen-boosting beans and peas, discover the best garden partners for stronger vines and bigger harvests.
Discover five practical intercropping strategies to boost yields, improve soil health, manage pests naturally, and reduce input costs. From pairing complementary crops to optimizing seeding, fertilization, soil preparation, and harvest timing, these proven techniques can help farmers produce more from the same land.
Wondering if you can plant two daffodil bulbs together? In many gardens, daffodil bulbs planted in small clusters create a fuller, more natural spring display than single, widely spaced blooms.
Discover how mixed containers can turn even the smallest space into a productive, beautiful garden. With the right vegetable pairings, herbs, and pot spacing, you can enjoy steady small harvests all season long.
Essential Concepts: Best onion companions are shallow-rooted or quick crops like carrots, beets, lettuce, spinach, brassicas, strawberries, chamomile, and summer savory; avoid beans and peas. Keep spacing open, airflow strong, and watering suited to onions so bulbs size well without crowding or excess moisture.
Discover how annual vegetables can strengthen—not disrupt—your permaculture garden. This practical guide covers mixed planting, succession crops, soil care, and seasonal design to help you grow abundant harvests while perennial layers mature.
Give your young permaculture garden a stronger start with nurse plants that shelter seedlings, conserve moisture, build soil, and suppress weeds. Learn how to choose, place, and manage these helpful companions so your garden can grow into a resilient ecosystem.
Turn pest pressure into a manageable garden strategy with trap crops. Learn which plants lure flea beetles, squash bugs, aphids, and cabbage pests away from your vegetables—and how to place, monitor, and manage them for better results.
Living mulch can transform bare soil into a living layer that suppresses weeds, holds moisture, and supports healthier garden beds—but only when matched to the right crops and timing. Discover where it helps, where it competes, and how to manage it successfully.
Discover the best nitrogen-fixing plants for small permaculture gardens—from edible fava beans and goumi to low-growing clover and productive cover crops. These space-saving plants build healthier soil, support pollinators, and help your garden thrive with fewer outside inputs.
Turn one fruit tree into a thriving mini-ecosystem with the right companion plants. Learn how to design a productive, low-maintenance fruit tree guild that supports soil health, pollinators, pest control, and better harvests.
Sacrificial plantings are a simple companion strategy that can help protect vulnerable crops by luring pests toward a more tempting decoy. With smart placement and timing, this form of pest diversion can reduce damage and strengthen your garden defense.
Discover why yarrow, or Achillea millefolium, is a gardener’s dream: this drought-tolerant perennial brings vibrant blooms, attracts pollinators, repels pests, and thrives with minimal care. Add this beautiful, versatile herb to your garden for effortless color, natural benefits, and a touch of history.
Discover how to prevent pest outbreaks before they start by designing a resilient, balanced garden. With beneficial insects, diverse plantings, healthy soil, and thoughtful habitat, nature can do much of the pest-control work for you.
Essential Concepts
Roses can turn a plain fence into a living screen of color, fragrance, and privacy. Choose vigorous, disease-resistant varieties, give them sun and space, and train them with steady care for lasting results.
Essential Concepts: Plant close only when mature size, airflow, and root space still hold. Dense permaculture beds work best with mixed growth habits, staggered harvests, and room for pruning.
Grow more from the space you already have with intercropping—a smart way to combine compatible crops, reduce bare soil and weeds, and potentially cut garden costs. Learn how to pair plants effectively without creating competition, crowding, or extra work.
Discover how mint, lemon balm, chamomile, nasturtiums, borage, marigolds, and more can protect perennial tea herbs, attract beneficial pollinators, and boost your garden’s harvest. Learn simple companion-planting strategies for healthier plants and a vibrant, productive garden.
Create a thriving, low-maintenance tea herb garden with smart edging, strategic groundcovers, and natural mulch. Discover how the right companion plants can suppress weeds, conserve moisture, attract pollinators, and add beauty to every bed.
Create a thriving tea herb garden with chamomile, lemon balm, lavender, pineapple sage and more—fresh, fragrant plants that attract pollinators and make delicious teas. Discover easy growing tips, smart ways to contain spreading mint, and simple harvesting methods for enjoying herbs all year.
Discover how perennial polyculture garden beds can deliver abundant harvests with less work by combining vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruits, and helpful ground covers. Mimicking nature’s plant guilds, these diverse beds support pollinators, improve soil health, reduce weeds, and extend fresh harvests into spring and fall.
Grow a thriving, long-lived patch of Egyptian Walking Onions with the right balance of sun, soil, water, and organic care. Discover how these self-propagating perennials enrich your garden while producing abundant new plants with minimal effort.