Tag Archives: climate-sensitive design

Microplot garden design – 1

Posted on February 27, 2015 by tikiwanderer

One of the things I’m experimenting with is dense microplots for urban gardens. Take three, maybe four species of food or useful plant, and grow them together in a complementary fashion so that they each help each other thrive and … Continue reading →

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Standing in the rain with a hose, watering the plants

Posted on January 28, 2014 by tikiwanderer

I don’t know if my neighbours look out their windows late at night. But if they had the other night, they’d have seen me standing in the rain with a garden hose, watering the front garden. They, you and the … Continue reading →

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Friday photo – Christmas colour, Adenanthos cuneatus

Posted on December 13, 2013 by tikiwanderer
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Tatooine on Earth – about fog, dew and moisture harvesting (part 1)

Posted on December 1, 2013 by tikiwanderer

Tatooine. An archetypal image for sandy, dry, desert. Like ours, but alien, with strange technology and strange industries. Like moisture farming. Almost the same as here, farming’s easy to imagine happening anywhere, but farming *moisture* is just different enough for … Continue reading →

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Choosing our primary tree

Posted on November 13, 2013 by tikiwanderer

My drylands food forest – and all four zones out behind the house – are planned around a primary tree. In the very centre or near enough to, tall, shady, able to protect the space from the ravages of daily … Continue reading →

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