Tropical Homescale Permaculture

An edible wild fern called “Paco” for food, ground cover, and heat coolant.

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 01:44:08 +0000

After years of setting up our Perma garden, I've finally found an edible wild fern called "Paco" for food, ground cover, and heat coolant. Edible "Paco" wild fern is such a great add-on food plant beneficial to your home-scale garden.

It brings a lot of functions and provides a great deal to your surroundings and the environment.

This food plant provides health benefits to our body contributing a lot of nutrients, minerals, vitamins, and anti-oxidants per 100-gram dose per day to sustain daily food intake through raw salat diet.

Harvesting abundant guava fruits from our shrub guava fruit tree

admin — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 16:53:52 +0000

Harvesting abundant guava fruits right from our very own guava fruit trees in our zen permaculture-based garden is such a blessing for our family.

The aromatic fruit smell of ripe guava is so tempting for a bite every time you pick the fruit from the tree (though I eat a handful of it right after I pick from the tree hahah).

A basin harvest of ripe guava fruit every week is a satisfying abundant supply for our body with anti-oxidant and vitamin C.

And you have so much easy prep you can make out of it that provides ample taste, texture, and flavor for the snack .

So yummy … perfect!

JC-Bela pet time with Latte, Hunter, Melon and Leonard

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 22:12:03 +0000

Having so much tight school time schedule and work-from-home workload is a bit stressful even for our pet livestock especially the guard dogs as they always long for our tender loving care. Finding time to have fun and play with them provide magic to both of us leaving you with a nice satisfying feeling that will make your day jolly and happy. So find ways to relax and mingle right from your very own home.

Watching our kids having fun with our pet guard dogs is so much joy feeling every day. Finding time with your loved pet dogs is like stress therapy for us from the daily workload.

Give love to your pets as they will love you back more…

Our Pet Guard Dogs having fun with our kiddos after their class.

The Alpha Dog named Leonard is a very kind dog but so perfect as a day-night watch guard dog as he certainly barks anyone outside the perimeter.

Adding flood control drainage outlet in our permagarden frontyard

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:29:14 +0000

Our front yard Perma garden has been tested by Typhon Paeng’s continuous rainfall resulting flood that nearly reaches our main door.

Our water run-off harvester-composting drainage system wasn’t able to release the volume of water coming from the back of our house and from the rain collected from the roof.

I was forced to make an additional overflow outlet from the garden to the garage ground water harvester storage in the middle of the typhon. … such an epic as I have to manually make a 2-inch diameter hole by hand from the 8 inches thick cement wall as it is impossible for me to use the electric drill.

Solution: Add-on flood control drainage outlet

Using the companion planting-growing system provides great advantages and benefits.

Companion panting-growing provides such beauty to your garden or indoor application leaving you with a cozy zen and stress-free environment.

Growing microgreens on our vertical pot garden with an existing plants

admin — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:31:43 +0000

Welcome to the other wing side of our Home’s Fence Integrated Vertical Pot Garden.

The wing side fence is an interlink-based fence to keep the wind from passing through to keep the side much cooler than from the usual cement fence.

With the setup in mind, the vertical pot garden was so easy to install and very much cost-effective.

The vertical port garden is an integrated and on a companion planting growing system set-up. It consist of the following category according to their functions in order to remove the maintenance of insecticide, pesticide, and fertilizers.

Air Filter Sunshade Plants
Natural Pesticide-Insecticide Plants
Pollinator Plants
Food Plants

Under the food plants that we always harvest from time to time are the nutrient-dense food plants from microgreens growing.

Growing microgreens is as easy as 1-2-3. Strategically, we grow microgreens with the existing plants that way the microgreens will be protected from the birds and the microgreens will provide soil nutrients once harvested.

Simple solution for a drainage filter to prevent debris from clogging.

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 22:21:01 +0000

got a little flood issue in our drainage lately due to falling debris from the back of our house. so lucky to have an extra aluminum screen feeder for our rabbits that I was able to use as a drainage filter. It really works well and effectively.

Outdoor shoe rack turns into a multi-functional deck dogs shelter

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:26:23 +0000

Our outdoor shoe rack turns into a multi-functional piece as it became a favorite spot of our pet guard askal dogs. So happy though as our dogs are enjoying their place so much that I have to permanently remove all the shoes in it.

Pot Dense Companion planting-growing with Dry Plants

admin — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 23:05:12 +0000

Pot Dense companion plantin-growing method with dry plants family is a very beneficial technique as it serve as it purpose adding art and beauty in a single growing medium with less maintenance.

It save a lot of effort, water consumption, fertilizer as they support each other and above all space in the garden.

Pot Companion planting-growing with philodendron, talinum and InchPlant

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 07:48:29 +0000

companion planting-growing is a technique designed specifically for plants resiliency and sustainability.

Pot Companion planting-growing with Philodendron, Talinum and Inchplant is a great art and science of plant growing for such a nice plants when combine.

Using the companion planting-growing system provides great advantages and benefits.

It saves space
It saves water consumption
Provide healthy plants
Provides low-effort maintenance
Provides great value

Companion planting-growing provides fresh healthy vibrant colors as it supports each other’s needs to survive.

In support of climate change issues, using the companion planting-growing technique method contribute a big percentage of the total solution considering that residential areas are one of the dense heat index contributing factor.

Companion panting-growing provides such beauty to your garden or indoor application leaving you with a cozy zen and stress-free environment.

Asparagus Fern

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 20:59:36 +0000

I’m fascinated with the different types of Fern (Foxtail, Plumosa, Sprenger) for its amazing contribution to the environment as a natural pest control, natural fertilizer and as a natural ground air filter with less-low cost maintenance… And so easy to find and very resilient to any type of weather condition.

Compact Sprenger Asparagus Fern (Asparagus densiflorus ‘Sprengeri Compacta’) are commonly found in every corner of the tropical country Philippines, especially, in the Visayas and Mindanao regions.

This ornamental plant is perfect for both indoor and outdoor accent display for the goal purpose of relieving stress.

NOTE: Detail information about the species will be posted soon along with Permaculture Design Application.