Witchcliffe Permaculture & Design

Witchcliffe Permaculture & Design Permaculture Consult & Design, spaces up to 2000m2, PDC + Hort lll Qualified. Cowaramup to Augusta.

Polyculture - like a party in the garden. Lots of things planted together to support each other and fulfill multiple fun...
06/01/2026

Polyculture - like a party in the garden. Lots of things planted together to support each other and fulfill multiple functions 🌿💚

IPM - Integrated/Intelligent Pest Management. Some of my citrus and avocado trees are struggling against the challenge o...
25/11/2024

IPM - Integrated/Intelligent Pest Management. Some of my citrus and avocado trees are struggling against the challenge of these guys - tiny cone snails. The weevils have joined in the assault but it’s the cone snails doing the most damage. An example of a barrier method for prevention is copper tape. Snails don’t like touching copper, so it’s great around the top of raised garden beds or around the legs of propagation tables. I’ve used fabric on the trees so as not to stick directly to the plant. Results will be monitored. I can also report that cutting fabric to wrap around fiddly little trees on a super windy day with lots of flies is a stupid idea 😵‍💫💨🍃🪰 I need ducks.

09/11/2024

Meet Gill! Gill is a qualified horticulturist and permaculture educator with heaps of experience in the area. Gill is a font of knowledge in all things indigenous plants, fruit and veg growing, permaculture design, seed raising, composting and much more. A familiar face around town, you might find Gill at the Witchcliffe and Margs permaculture group sessions or helping teach the PDC at Fair Harvest.
Gill is pictured with a fresh batch of beautiful Leucadendron, Proteas and Leuocospremum recently arrived from Yallingup.
Come in and have a chat with the team about your garden and where we can help!

Thinking I had to buy in garden soil for my new (and still empty) veg bed, I had a moment of brilliance in deciding to d...
01/11/2024

Thinking I had to buy in garden soil for my new (and still empty) veg bed, I had a moment of brilliance in deciding to dig out the lower tunnel of the chook yard instead. This patch of the chook yard is where they huddle in the warmer parts of the day, everyday. All that poo, coupled with the four lots of deep litter hay and woodchip chucked in over two & a half years that has broken down, made epic soil that I was able to utilise. “Use what you have!” The bed was weeded, a frog disturbed (sorry mate 🐸), a small hugelkultur made with chopped broad bean plants and fruit tree prunings, then chook yard soil, soil wetter and Popul8 for a microbe boost, then mulch. Will let it rest for a week, then add compost and start planting more veg and flowers 🌸🌻🌼🍓🥒🌽🍅

Garlic Harvest! 80 heads hanging to dry, plus ten fresh heads inside to use in the next few days 🤗🥰😋
27/10/2024

Garlic Harvest! 80 heads hanging to dry, plus ten fresh heads inside to use in the next few days 🤗🥰😋

Spring might be my new favourite season… although Autumn is still more of a relief after Summer. But the colours 🥰🌸🌻🌼🌷. ...
29/09/2024

Spring might be my new favourite season… although Autumn is still more of a relief after Summer. But the colours 🥰🌸🌻🌼🌷. Margs Permaculture Group were here today. We talked about how my garden is planned in Permaculture Zones. They had a good walk around, chat and a delicious afternoon tea. It was delightful talking to a group of experienced gardeners, then hearing some very encouraging feedback on what we’ve achieved here. I am proud of our patch 💚. Off the back of teaching at my first PDC at Fair Harvest Permaculture Farm, which was a whirlwind of joy and positivity, this was the next best day since then to engage in the sense of community that gardens create.

Hello, dinner! 😍
25/08/2024

Hello, dinner! 😍

How are good are flowering winter natives?
21/08/2024

How are good are flowering winter natives?

Orchard Posts are a GO!!! We’ve been waiting what seems like ages to to make a start on the enclosed orchard. As with li...
21/08/2024

Orchard Posts are a GO!!! We’ve been waiting what seems like ages to to make a start on the enclosed orchard. As with life in general it was a case of time, money, physical ability, weather, sick kids, and so on. But today was the most beautiful gardening day here in Witchy, so we spent the entire day outside (except for maybe one episode of Ally McBeal in bed because it was hard to wake up … 🤷🏼‍♀️). So the back section is 2 thirds done, grasses slashed and the bases of the fruit trees had a little love with serious weeding and prepped for manure and mulch. The full structure will be 8.5m x 14.8m with 3 doors/gates, poly flex line on star pickets which will be attached to the perimeter posts, with bird net over the top. Not only will this protect the fruit trees, but future crops of berry bushes & canes and fruiting summer veg. Have to take 3 more acacia saligna trees down to allow for the netting but will be replacing with more long lived flowering natives on the fence lines for wind protection, privacy and pollinator food 🐝

Almond blossoms on a rainy day 💚
17/08/2024

Almond blossoms on a rainy day 💚

A beautiful illustration of the world beneath our feet 💚
07/07/2024

A beautiful illustration of the world beneath our feet 💚

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