A forest garden is a culture that tries to mimic natural ecosystems, such as a timber, a grove or a forest edge. Forest garden dominated by perennial (perenna) plants and is characterized by a structure in different layers, both above and below ground…continue reading.
It still feels very unreal, but yesterday we held for the first time our new book in hand. The first 400 books are now on the way to all who attended our Crowdfunding Campaign, but now the book is also available from Adlibris and Bokus for those who missed the campaign. Now we of course have a party! With […]
The latest 12 months have been really disaster from forest gardening point of view. After a mild winter 2016/2017 began rearing year 2017 with prolonged drought and icy conditions until late May, with the result that the fruit set on most things, more or less failed to materialize. A cool and dry summer was followed by a much too wet autumn, which is really bad for invintringen […]
One of the activities I look forward to most on spring seeding. Nine years ago I attended a ympningskurs and since then there will be more new trees every year. So far this year I have grafted almost 200 trees and is still not finished. Good thing there was so much room for new plants […]
It's quite far apart the posts on this blog right now, the reason being that we are about to finish writing the last pages in our forthcoming book on timber gardening and do not have time for much else writing at the moment. At the same time, however, move a little on the frontier of forest gardening and here […]
I wish all readers a happy new rearing! For my part, this year's major forest garden event will be the publication of our book which we hope will come out in May. Besides that, we simply have a number of courses planned. In addition, we will open once again the nursery of perennial vegetables which we filled in with a number of […]
Last post on source criticism made some pretty big ripples and aroused a lot of debate, especially in social media. whether Caragana arborescens (Caragana arborescens) is edible or not, we still do not, but I can tell you that our Russian-speaking friend search in Russian publications do not give any answer to the question. In the Russian-speaking […]
We are in the process of printing plant portrait of the upcoming book on forest gardening and it's set position with a small post about source criticism. At the beginning of work on the book we used much of the extensive database Plants for a Future (PFAF). It is very good in many ways but we realized […]
Interest in forest horticulture in Sweden sprout, the term appears in the media more often, Facebook Group Forest Garden Growers hive of activity, and not least by the amount of emails in my inbox, I notice that there are infinitely many questions about this exciting growing technology among the growing interest in the country. Although many answers will remain unanswered for many years to come […]
As you know, I have a fondness for the many interesting hybrids as rowan and its relatives can form with other genera within the family Rosaceae. A favorite among these is the plant called Shipova and that is a hybrid between whitebeam (Sorbus aria) and pears (Pyrus communis) or snöpäron (Pyrus nivalis) with the botanical name x […]
When our hazel bushes bloomed in the spring, I thought it would be a great harvest, the first true after four years of waiting. I ordered through a hand-cranked nutcracker to be prepared for the huge nötmängderna I saw before me. After an unusually cold and dry April and an even more unusually cold May […]
