After reading all of this, I guess if you have to do anything to your garden (water, feed, weed, etc) then you are not practicing good permaculture. Well, I will do the best I can. Already think I have an answer for some weeds, and I am planting vegies among my flowers which are mostly perennials. I will try to see where I can dig up more lawn and maybe make an herb spiral like Dave, and maybe a raised bed in another spot. I have a 3000 gallon pond with some short flat falls that I think I can introduce some bog to by encroaching with stones, filling with pea gravel, and the planting water loving plants. And of course since I have let my ground become depleted, I bought bags of a mix of Salmon and whitefish, peat, ummm, and some other stuff that should perk up the ground. Will ask the neighbors for their leaves and trimmings. Guess that is a start.
