Idk if you can help or if you even know what I’m talking about, but sometime awhile ago, somewhere, I saw an article about these gardens where they’d stack chopped wood into pyramids, fill them with dirt, and then plant in between the logs, and it was supposed to help save space. Have you seen anything like that before?

solarpunk-aesthetic:

It sounds like you might be talking about pyramid garden towers?

These look like a pretty handy way to grow smaller edible plants. Things like herbs, leafy greens, or strawberries might do very well in these, and you’d definitely need less garden area to have one. They might go nicely in a greenhouse too.

I found a DIY guide for these too.

magiclunarpunk:

Things I Learned Today #1

Let Thyme and Tarragon grow freely underneath your vegetables and in your gardens.

Tarragon improves the quality of a vegetables flavor and growth, and thyme keeps away cabbage moths.

Both are delicious herbs for cooking, and thyme comes in many different varieties.

radicalgardener:

vol 2. of the radical gardener: you CAN do it

wirewindow:

Domestic aquaculture and water use in rural Japan

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Speaking about alternative ways of growing things, have you seen the bottle tower gardens invented by Willem Van Cotthem? His youtube videos are a bit amateurish but the plant results look amazing. I prefer straight up recycling plastic bottles but that IS a neat upcycling idea and it’s a water-efficient and space-efficent way of gardening 8D

solarpunk-aesthetic:

Oh nice, I hadn’t seen these before, but they look ingenious!

A great way to repurpose waste plastic too, especially as not everywhere has plastic recycling facilities. The water efficient part is appealing too. Solutions like this would be helpful for people living in more arid climates!

Here’s a quick DIY guide for anyone who’s interested.