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Permaculture Tips

1 Early autumn is a great time to plant garlic. Choose a sunny spot with well-drained soil, and prepare the soil well. Add 25 millimetres of well-rotted manure and 50 millimetres of mature compost over the surface of the soil as well as a light sprinkle of blood and bone per square metre, and dig all of this through well. Plant individual cloves, about 15 centimetres apart, with their dry outer skin intact and their pointy side up. Plant each clove twice as deep as its

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