Outdoor garden landscaping: try permaculture!

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To optimize your outdoor garden layout, we offer you a small foray into the fascinating world of permaculture. The word permaculture is a portmanteau, a neologism derived from the fusion of the two English words permanent agriculture.

Its precepts are a set of practices and principles aimed at taking into consideration the biodiversity of ecosystems to make the land fertile, while exercising an economy of human and material resources. That is to say, constantly analyze an environment and then apply a suitable spatial planning, which will allow optimal results in terms of harvest, ecological and social impact, and saving a maximum of energy. This management reduces the means deployed both financially and physically for the inhabitants, mechanical machines, with the fuel consumption that implies, or the expense of water.

Reasonable use of water

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landscaping outdoor garden permacole optimizing space

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A permacultural outdoor garden layout, in addition to giving you the satisfaction of seeing nature work for you (unlike the classic industrial model where the farmer “fights” against it to dominate it in a relationship of opposing forces, we speak of farmers agricultural) will give you more free time to design the ideal landscaping of your garden, with landscape design being a pillar of permaculture.

landscape design is a pillar of permaculture

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work in collaboration with nature

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By considering the interactions that occur in the ecosystem, we apply ideas learned from systems that work ideally in nature, without human intervention. For example, by observing the flow of water on the ground during a downpour, it can facilitate this flow or channel it to direct it to a rainwater recovery basin, or to make a small body of water to make up reserves for watering the garden.

rainwater recovery basin

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optimize water in arid places

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the creation of a body of water below to recover soil nutrients

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Aquaculture can grow edible seaweed or used to amend the soil

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A permacultural outdoor garden layout will subdivide the land into different areas. This design is transposable to environments of different sizes, which interests us here is the zoning to be done around a house of individuals, yours for example. Permaculture zones are a way of organizing space concentrically around the center, which will be Zone 1, your home in this case. Based on the frequency of use, the frequency of travel required to access it and the time spent in each zone, we can determine which types of elements will be more or less close to the center. Six zones are generally defined, depending on their proximity.

zones are defined by their frequency of use and their interest

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divide the surface into different areas that leave the dwelling

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these areas are a function of the distance from the house

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in each plot, vegetables are grouped by affinity

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Area 1 will understand the part of the garden where we go daily. For example, it will include a spiral of herbs, which we use at each meal or to prepare an herbal tea. In summer, tomatoes and zucchini are also to be watched every day; if you compost, you will want the compost is not found at the other end of the garden, to be able to empty regularly, same thing for a dry toilet.

have access to aromatic herbs without getting dirty

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tomatoes are the most accessible because you have to control them every day

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same thing for peppers, aubergines, zucchini, …

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ease of access for these spirals of herbs, very decorative too

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Of course, you have to manage the disturbing aspects and find a compromise of reasonable distance, according to the frequency of use and your observation of the places: where do the prevailing winds come from, is there a vegetal barrier between the house and the compost, … That’s permaculture: observe, understand the local relief, list the means you have to deal with a situation, and from there, identify what you want, design the layout to achieve, then implement it, and finally adjust over time what has been implemented to keep it in line with your projects.

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