PERMACULTURE: THE GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED

Permaculture, its principles and its step-by-step application with Julie Bernier, author of the best-selling Zero Waste manual! It's time to change our gardening habits! Fertilizers, pesticides, digging, pest control... are indeed impoverishing the soil in our gardens and reducing biodiversity, creating vegetable gardens that only produce on life support. These are expensive gardens (in time, money, water, and products) that depend on our presence (watering, weeding). What if, on the contrary, we trusted the genius of nature that creates almost self-sufficient vegetable gardens? Julie has tested permaculture for you, this philosophy of life that allows us to collaborate with nature instead of fighting against it, and has drawn from her adventures this extremely comprehensive manual, peppered with practical examples and richly illustrated, which will allow you to adopt new, effective, and healthy methods for a nourishing and sustainable garden. Summary Introduction: What is permaculture? Its 7 pillars, its advantages compared to conventional agriculture1) Cultivate a living soil: understand the life of the soil, know the state of your own, regenerate it, enrich it sustainably2) Set up your vegetable garden: choose your space, zoning, design (with practical cases), tools, different techniques to get started3) Become people who sow: everything you need to know about seeds and seedlings, transplanting, plant multiplication4) Maintain your vegetable garden: treat the most widespread diseases, know the pests, multiply your seeds, preserve your productionAt the end of each part, permaculture action tables allow you to follow the progress of your project.In the appendix: the calendar for sowing, planting, and harvesting; planting sheets for fruits and vegetables.The essential manual for all those who want to engage day by day in gardening that respects resources and biodiversity!