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Save your time and money by applying permaculture principles

If you apply permaculture practices on your yard and garden then this will help you in saving your time and money. Let nature work for you and you enjoy its benefits. Before you start it is important that you give a thought at permaculture gardening. The very initial step is to know what you understand by permaculture garden and what all expectation you have from it. You should be clear with what you want to create, at least you should have some basic idea.

If a permaculture garden is properly designed then this will help you in saving your time and money. These are the two big reasons that most of the people take interest in starting the new project. It is important that you take sufficient time in planning.

Learn from nature through permaculture practices

The very first aspect of the planning stage is that you have to decide how your yard fits into the existing environment around it. Once you have known this thing let nature work for you. Any garden that is designed with permaculture principles follow patterns that take place naturally in nature. The thing you need to do is to decide that what all principles you require to include into your garden design.

Your selection of garden size is going to tell you the scale of the project and the best thing regarding this is that it can be anything from a balcony garden to a full landscaped yard. Permaculture principles can be a piece of a traditional garden with few features in it. If you are applying any new method of gardening then it would be better to start with the small one and once you get comfortable with the gardening experience then expand it.

Once you have determined the size of your new garden after that go for deciding what all principles and the degree of those principles you wish to include in it. All the principles follow the nature. Soil preservation, rebuilding soil, companion planting, plant stacking, succession planting, edge effect, micro-climate, vertical gardening, water gardens, mono-cultures, and poly-cultures can all be included in a permaculture garden.

Nature is all about biodiversity and it is highly essential that diversity should be included while designing permaculture garden in your yard. The proper range of plants are mixed together in a proper manner that can help each other in the growth as well as increase the productivity then it will create a successful garden. 

Permaculture gardening is considered to be quite enjoyable, rewarding experience as well as a learning experience at the same time. By watching you can learn from the nature in the existing environment around your yard and avail benefits from it.