PermacultureA presentation of

European Urban Garden Oteshaand Inwole e.V. Potsdam

What is Permaculture ? - the permaculture-design was marked in australia in the 1980s by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren.

- basic principle: ecological, economic and sustainable management of all resources.

- self-sufficiency with a low supply of raw materials, space and time. - rediscovery and use of 'traditional knowledge' of all cultures and linking the two treasures to experience new strategies.

- natural waste prevention, at which the output of a system as Input for the other is used.

Principles of Permaculture

- long-term instead of short-term

- diversity instead of simplicity

- optimize instead of maximize

- cooperation instead of rivalry

Pre-Season

Mini Greenhouse Low-Budget Greenhouse

In the pre-season, the plants may be preferred, for powerfully to thrive in the permaculturebed, later. Also a plan of the bed is useful.

Plan

Paper Pots

The Permaculturebed

- two spades deep and arbitrarily wide pits dig

- wood and branches into, mount up to 1 to 1.5 m high

- about the wood is the excavating, so that the complete

wood under this disappears - about this one comes

Humus layer ca. 10 cm high - the humus or the layers of the earth not condensing over the

wood - seed on the humus saw

Permaculturebed-Making of

The Planting

The Mulches - about the humus and about the seed a thick layer of mulch comes (Sheets from the woods, straw, bark shred, plant remains)

- the floor must always be covered well to the protection from out drying and erosion.

- the Floor quality is by mulches improved TIP ! The mulch

must have a layer thickness of approx 5-7 cm to develop his advantages

straw

barc shreds

plant remains

promote: - the floor life - the reservoir ability of the floor

- the humus content in the ground - the nutrient content in the ground

The Compost

Suitable for the biological degradation:Vegetable waste of every kind from the garden (Planting, leaves, lawn cut, hedge waste and tree cut)

Organic waste of every kind from the household (Flowers, fruit, vegetables, potatoes, bad, coffee-/ tea sentence, eggshells, wood-ashes, paper)

Other organic waste One straw and dung from the small keeping of animals (straw, wood shavings)

- Property/ bed is subdivided into different zones or using areas

- Zones disassociate themselves by the degree of the activity and use

- frequently visited areas in the center, frequented areas more seldom shift, to the outside

- Zones are, however, by interactions in connection so that energy as little as possible must be invested for the preservation, management, care and to reap the fruits of the system

Edge zones at the way: center: out of center: cress carrots pole beans salad dwarf beans potatoes zucchini leek raspberries radish Red cabbage gooseberries onions tomatoes fruit hedge strawberries fennel sunflowers spinach Rhubarb parsley marigolds peppers

The Zones-Concept

The Plants Neighborhoods Why ?

- usage of the beds by high and deep plants

- prevent illnesses and pests- more diversity, plants can

strengthen each other - healthy plants, harvest

suffices- between this, fruit-trees

TIP ! Never reaping everything in the Perma-garden. Always leaving sufficient plants, then they saw off by itself.

pea carrot, radish, dill calendula officinalis tagetes

calendula and tagetes mixing pea calendula, tagetes

List of referencesBooks:

Bell Graham, Der Permakultur-Garten, Anbau in Harmonie mit der Natur, PALA VERLAG , 2003

Holzer Sepp, Permakultur: Praktische Anwendung für Garten, Obst- und Landwirtschaft, Leopold Stocker Verlag, 2004

Onlinesources:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permakultur, letzter Zugriff 13.07.2013

http://www.holzl.de/Biogarten/Mischkultur.htm, letzter Zugriff 15.07.2013

http://www.permakultur.de, letzter Zugriff 15.07.2013

http://permakultur-akademie.net/front_content.php?idcat=126, letzter Zugriff 13.07.20013

http://permakultur.wordpress.com/permakultur/gestaltungs-prinzipien/, letzter Zugriff 14.07.2013

Pictures:

All pictures are from Inwole e.V. Potsdam- Babelsberg, Germany

Music: Evenings - North Dorm Ep- Babe

Learn more about Permaculture and other gardening activities on www.otesha-gardens.eu

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.