Planning a Permaculture Garden

Planning a permaculture garden is important; although much learning comes from experimenting with ideas. For instance, I tried planting potatoes in a “hugelkultur,” a pile of small sticks with a lot of compost over them (probably not enough in my case), and the yields were definitely smaller than planting them in the ground. On the other hand, a “lasagna” pile of roots, vegetation, minerals, manure, newspaper, compost, straw, compost, straw, and compost straw is my preferred way of making new garden beds. Even though the beds are supposed to be put in in the fall, I always end up putting them in in the spring and they still do fine growing vegetables. You can probably find good plans for bed-building in most of the books recommended below.)