In the last post I wrote among other things, the strategies that the plants have been chosen to survive the cold winter. For all this to work well, however, requires successful invintringsprocess. Invintringen will start when the days get shorter. Many have probably heard that a sunny and dry autumn is good for invintringen and […]
"I'm not working with nature, I'm working against nature. ", says Ove me after breakfast. It is roughly the opposite of what we forest horticulturists believe about ourselves, so I ask him develop and he explains: "Nature strives course in a different direction than I. I would not have removed all trees and many birch trees […]
Here in Southern Dalarna, we have had the worst hazel year long. Not even in the great old stocks, there were more than a handful of nuts to find. And so we go to Medelpad and find hundreds of hazel bushes, Most dotted with nuts. How can it be that? Of course, it does already mentioned microclimate large […]
Expectations were from the beginning quite high when I and three other plants interested Stjärnsundsbor would go to Medelpad in search of the elusive Loiko-walnut. We would visit Ove Johansson, who in the early 2000s somehow managed to get 100 hardy walnut seedlings from Belarus to Sweden. We knew that he was also interested in […]
One of the more common questions I get is how to do if you want to build a woodland garden with an existing forest as a starting point. Unfortunately, I do not know so many references for this procedure in our climate. Therefore, the most theoretical reasoning in this post and I am as usual grateful if readers want […]
Now that summer has finally arrived, it is good location to raise a warning finger of black plastic pots. I have long wondered if they really are as good for the plants. They are undeniably convenient and cheap, but they can be red hot when they are in full sun, and what are the consequences for […]
Seeds of all pines (Pinus spp.) are edible, but in many species, they are so small that it is not worth the trouble. The pine trees that are worthy of cultivation in Sweden is cembratallen (P. cembra and P. cembra var. sibirica) and Korean pine (P. koraiensis). Cembratallen produces seeds in size 10×8 mm and koreatallens seeds can grow […]
In the last post was found that air movement is an important factor that affect the microclimate in the forest garden and that now we will investigate Air mixing a little closer. In many ways it is desirable to have so still air as possible. A small gust of wind can blow away the warm air and destroy the effect of both reflective surfaces and […]
Both the supra-regional and regional climate, we need to relate to when we design our forest gardens. Still, microclimate differ much from the general conditions. Through active observation, we can learn much about the local microclimate. The knowledge we thus get up can help us create site-specific solutions, beware […]
Working with the microclimate, ie. climate on a scale from a few inches to one hectare, belongs to one of the more important tasks in the creation of a forest garden. We have great potential to influence climate on the scale, but how much our effort, so determined the basic conditions of the microclimate in large part by the regional and […]
