Permaculture Growing Guide: The Blog

This "Permaculture Growing Guide Blog" page shows you the latest additions and updates I made to the Tropical Permaculture Growing Guide:

  • Any new pages that have been added to the Tropical Permaculture Growing Guide,
  • any pages that have been substantially updated,
  • and sometimes I highlight important older pages that you might otherwise miss.



Growing Borage With Two Different Methods

How to grow borage in two different ways. One involves a lot of work, the other no work at all. Which do you prefer?

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Growing Comfrey To Make Your Garden Even Better

How to grow comfrey and its many uses and benefits in the home garden. Growing comfrey is easy. Maybe too easy. Rather than asking how to grow comfrey, the better question may be how to stop comfrey from taking over your garden!

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Growing Watermelons - How To Grow Watermelon Plants From Seed

Growing watermelons requires lots of space, lots of sun, lots of water and lots of nutrients. They are greedy, rambling vines. Watermelons are not particularly difficult to grow, but because they are so demanding...

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How To Grow Papaya: Growing Papaya From Seeds

Growing papaya from seed - the easiest way to ensure a year round supply of papaya from your garden. Papayas are fast growing shade trees and they look really good, too.

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How To Grow Passion Fruit? By Growing Passionfruit Seeds...

Growing passion fruit is quite easy. You can grow passionfruit from seed. However, in cooler climates you should...

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How To Grow Ginger? Growing Ginger Root Is Not That Hard...

How to grow ginger? Growing ginger requires little space, little resources and little knowledge. All you need is a piece of ginger...

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Growing Mangoes And How To Grow Mango Trees From Seed

Learn how to grow mangoes, whether they come from a nursery or your own seed. Yes, growing mango trees from seed is easier than you may think.

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How To Grow Pineapples? Growing Pineapple Is Ridiculously Easy.

You will be surprised: Growing pineapple plants is a lot easier than you think and possible anywhere in the world. To grow pineapples all you need is...

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Growing Bananas - How To Grow Banana Plants And Keep Them Happy

Learn how to grow bananas. Growing bananas does not take much effort, but it does require that you get a few things right when you first get started.

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Growing Cashews, How To Grow Cashew Trees, Nuts And Apples

Growing cashews is the easy part. Cashew trees grow like weeds. Roasting cashew nuts to make them edible however, now there's a challenge...

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Growing Chillies - How To Grow Chili Peppers From Seed

Chillies or chilis? Nevermind the different spellings, there are even more shapes, sizes and colours! Learn about growing chillis at home.

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How To Grow Sweet Potatoes? Growing Sweet Potatoes The Easy Way

How to grow sweet potato vines? As you will see, growing sweet potatoes is very easy and they are very nutritious. The question is not how to grow them but how to stop sweet potatoes from taking over the whole garden!

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Growing Coriander: How To Grow Coriander From Seed, To Harvest Seeds

Growing coriander is just as easy as growing cilantro. Learn how to grow coriander leaf (= cilantro) and coriander seeds.

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Permaculture Zones - Growing Zones In A Permaculture Design

Permaculture zones are the different growing zones in a permaculture design. These zones have nothing to do with your usual growing zones. A permaculture garden is divided into growing zones according to...

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Growing Fruits and Fruit Trees

How to grow fruits and fruit trees: easy to grow fruit, unusual and exotic fruit, A-Z list, planting and caring for trees...

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Permaculture Principles 4: Turn Problems into Solutions

This permaculture principle is summed up in one of Bill Mollison's most popular quotes: You don't have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency!

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