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 is in extreme drought times, I thought it might be good to finally tell us a bit more about how our irrigation systems in forest garden, the associated nursery and cultivation conditions works. Briefly summarized, the system is based on: Seasonal storage of rainfall Simple solar technology to lift water by gravity to distribute water. We started installing the system early summer 2015 […]
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 […]
At the beginning of this long series of water in the forest garden I promised that there would be a post about the construction of dams forward end. Much of what I have written about in previous posts was about to give a basic understanding of hydrological, so that you can find the best location for your pond. […]
At least as common as it is a bit too dry forest garden (see previous post) it is that the water table is too high for trees and shrubs will thrive properly. But what is too loud really? The rule of thumb is that the bushes would like to have 60 cm down to the highest ground water and trees want most […]
In a previous post in this series on the water in the forest garden, I described a typical case, I called typical 1, where the water is spread on the slope and the concentration of water in the ground is relatively low. Typically correctly pronounced, but there are many milder variants of this with similar problems, which also includes light slopes. […]
In the previous post we looked at the movement of water from a bird's perspective, Now is the time to check out what is happening in cross. The two perspectives you can in your head put together a three-dimensional overall image that you can use to assess the presence of water in the landscape. Someone divining you do not need. I […]
In the last post, I mentioned that the topography, Thus the terrain physical form, have a decisive impact on whether your timber garden will suffer from lack of water or if it will thrive and grow as a jungle. But first, a little more basic hydrology: All the water on our sites we do not add artificial […]
In the last post, I noted that most of Sweden's water limited in terms of plant growth. Thus, it is generally neither nutrient levels or lack of heat, but primarily the lack of water that makes our woodland gardens do not look as lush as in the example of England. In order to answer the question of how we […]
Many think it's exciting that we have erected five ponds of Putt Myra woodland garden and I often get requests via e-mail about how we did to keep the water in the ponds. Therefore, I have long planned to write a post with dammgrävartips. Actually it is very easy to build functioning ponds, men […]
