Before thinking of what veggies to plant, think of how to create a balanced ecology to support healthy plant growth and the thriving of the whole system – planting for bees, lizards, insectiverous birds, soil organisms etc.
In this little film, I introduce how and why I create a hedge of sacred perennial basil along the edge of my new vegetable garden before I plant out the garden itself.
The hedge has many other purposes too: – food – flavour – edible flowers – tea – medicine – insectiverous bird hangout – weed barrier.
Here is a link to a post I wrote earlier this year about Tulsi:
And here’s a post I wrote in 2016 about bees and suggestions of what to plant in your garden to attract them:
http://our-permaculture-life.blogspot.com.au/2016/05/how-to-create-bee-friendly-garden.html What plants do you plant in your garden for bees?
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Hi Morag. Honeybees and solitary native bees visit our garden and we have a hive of little native bees too. I make sure there's always flowers growing here. I plant things like allysium and lobelia (blue) and cornflowers in with the vegies. I also let things like fragrant basil and rocket flower because the native bees go crazy for that! Meg:)
Thanks for letting me know – fixed now.
I love those little flowers tucked amongst the veggies – they look so wonderful.
Thank you. I've fixed it now.
Appreciate you letting me know.
Hi Morag, not able to see the video, it says it's unavailable.
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