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read somewhere today that a veggie garden is a monoculture
perhaps a single lettuce is a monoculture!!
what will we eat

 
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A typical veggie garden aspires to be a patchwork quilt of monocultures.

I think the idea with Permaculture is to have something that more strongly resembles tie dye.
 
                            
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joel that is such a good answer it should be moved to the poetry in permaculture thread!! 
 
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the whole idea of food forests..to not have the monoculture..but more of a tapestry..
 
                            
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tapestry is apt brenda!
got some lettuce seeds from my recently deceased uncle and aunt
should I plant them together ?
 
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