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.
Last year I wrote a few posts that are part of a longer series on grafting, where the various stages of the technology include and variations of grafting included. The series so far consists of posts about grafting indoor, grafting outdoors during the spring and early summer and inoculation. For the first two, it is important to have the scions of good quality […]
There has been a more than eventful year for us. It started with a long and arduous, snowy winter, which meant major losses of trees and shrubs for us. The whole thing gave way to high summer on record, who went to the worst drought we have experienced since we began growing more than 11 years ago. Mitt […]
A few years ago I wrote an enthusiastic article about the different mountain ash hybrids and sötrönnarna I knew then. On paper, they are of course very exciting. Rowan hybrids with its diverse genetics, some of which are triple junctions between rowan, apples and pears, as well as the fact that most of those said to be designed by the legendary Russian plant parents successor […]
Despite the prolonged drought this bad growing years in an unprecedented abundance of perennial crops and I have spent many hours to preserve the amazing flavors for the long and dark winter. A conservation method that I'm particularly fond of is to make fruit leather. Fruit leather is nothing more than dried fruit puree and may contain […]
One of the fruits that I was most fascinated by is asimina (Asimina triloba), who often goes by his English name pawpaw. Of all the strange plants that I concerned myself with over the years I have been working on forest gardening, it is the one that felt the most difficult to grow, and that is perhaps why it has been so tempting. Its […]
What you will be told now I have known for almost a month and it was challenging to say the least not at once tell the whole world that "Forest Garden: Growing edibles everywhere "has been named the year's garden book 2018. "This is the book we have been waiting for," said Mariana Vodovosoff at Stockholm Gartner Society […]
After last winter's huge losses, it was extra plantings this year. Too many plants came down to earth in May when we still believed that the drought could turn at any time. The result was of course a constant watering to keep alive in the 50s seedlings we had sat down. Now we have […]
After the post about our irrigation systems, many wondered how it's been for us the extreme hurricane and the unusual warmth. Thanks to winter's abundant snowfall, which in itself posed with some problems, were all dams filled to the brim at the beginning of the growing season and also the ground water supply was well-stocked. In May, however, we […]
This article was published in the newspaper Again 3/18. Would you rather read the article in PDF format in their original form with many pictures, you can find it here. What exactly is the secret behind the forest's ability to produce an abundance of greenery from early spring to late autumn, completely on their own? Should we humans be […]
A smooth and efficient breeding technique I started to experiment with as late as last year's inoculation. The technique is particularly useful if you plan to breed stone fruits like cherries or plums (Prunus spp.) which is difficult to achieve with the usual ympningsteknikerna. When inoculation is transferred from the variety rootstock one so […]
