Permaculture
This is another word that means healthy long lasting agriculture system.
What is resilient/sustainable/environmentally conscious agriculture?
This is the best type of soil for drainage, holding nutrients, and root growth.
What is sandy loam?
This substance, when mixed with warm water and sprayed on an insect pest, coats the body and suffocates the insect.
What is neem oil?
This is a purpose of landscaping
What is ascetically pleasing, habitat creation, increased property value, Privacy/security, energy efficiency, erosion control or recreation?
These are the three most important factors for gardening success.
What are soil, sun and water?
I am using this principle when I plant rows of chives in the middle of my carrots, moving my chickens through the orchard, setting up a farm stand at the end of my driveway and planting trees in an A/B pattern
These are two examples of brown compost and two examples of green compost.
What are cardboard, dried leaves, paper, sticks, straw, pine needles?
What are grass clippings, egg shells, vegetable/fruit waste, manure, sea weed?
What is Integrated Pest Management and a way of controlling pests through the least environmentally damaging means?
These words refer to plants that die at the end of a growing season and plants that live year after year.
What are perennials and annuals?
When you put down wood chips, straw, chopped leaves, chopped tires around plants and in your landscape to prevent weed growth
What is mulch?
By following this principle I plan to plant herbaceous plants along my driveway, trees along my property line and shrubs next to the front side of my house.
What is use edges and value the marginal?
What is phosphorous?
A small harmful insect that lives in colonies, comes in multiple colors, is pear shaped and may have wings
What are aphids?
When you plant beneficial plants in purposeful groups together.
What is companion planting?
This is the most often you should be fertilizing house plants.
What is every two weeks?
Permaculture Principles help humans mimic this to promote a healthy landscape.
What is nature/natural world?
The amount of inches/hour of drainage when conducting a drainage test that shows proper drainage.
These tan to brown insects have an oval shape, are immobile once adults and feed on plant sap by sucking it through their mouth parts.
What is scale?
This is how far away from a driveway or path should you plant woody trees and shrubs in Minnesota
What is 6'-8'?
This wood-based material robs nitrogen from the soil and should never be used as mulch
What is saw dust?
This does not exist in a well-created permaculture system.
What is waste/garbage?
Five things healthy soil contains.
What are minerals, living organisms, water, air (gas) and organic plant matter?
This sticky substance is secreted by aphids and other insects. It can grow black mold on it which harms plants ability to photosynthesize.
What is honeydew?
Without this, it is not a map.
What is North arrow?
This is one reason fruit trees should be pruned in the winter.
What is the tree is dormant or less risk for insect/fungi/bacteria damage?