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I’ve known about permaculture for decades and read a couple of books on it, but I’m very much a beginner /novice – please be tolerant if i have got anything wrong.

I have a very small garden (yard) and there are loads of brilliant online and print resources for how to plan and maintain this according to permaculture principles (currently in a composting rabbithole, I am revamping our system of worm bin + cold composting to worm bin + hot composting…)

However, due to the realities of my home, my ‘zone 0’ – my house – is far bigger than my garden, and I think there is more scope for me to apply permaculture principles inside. It’s a big rambling old 1850s house with lots of twists and turns and a big cellar. However, I am struggling to find thoughtful resources on applying permaculture ideas to the home – they usually stop at, ‘grow some herbs and make sure you are energy efficient’. Or they focus on self build or designing a home from scratch.

Surely there are so many more ways permaculture principles could inform the way a house /home is organised and maintained, routines around cooking, cleaning, waste management…. there’s so much to say! Can anyone reccomend permaculture resources that focus on ‘zone 0’ and give it the same depth of thought as the outside?

Are there potato varieties where the tubers can be harvested IN the vegetative stage of the plant?

Of course there’s the practice of new potatoes. But those get harvested in the flowering stage of the potato lifecycle. As far as I know, the vegetative growth of the part of the plant above ground is arrested when flowering starts.

I have the idea for an infinite potato tower, where you have modular cylindrical sections that are stackable. When the potatoes are ready to harvest, you would remove the lowest section to harvest and in time stacke another section on top, which would fill with soil.

If there were potato cultivars where the plant doesn’t die off then that idea could be viable.

Hence the question.

Have a nice day, everybody!