Melbourne garden with a gravel base that helps manage water.
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Dealing with too much water?

There's a natural way to deal with excess water in the landscape, and it can be mimicked in our gardens using soaks and swales.

Simon Websters shows us how to maintain a permaculture swale
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Swale maintenance

SIMON WEBSTER gives the fruit trees in his permaculture food forest some much-needed tender loving care.

Peas and harmony
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Peas and harmony

A cover crop has provided an unexpected bounty, SIMON WEBSTER reports.

Swale
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Swale of a time

A new swale covered in fruit trees has got Simon Webster excited.