When I travel around the country and is shorter inspirational lectures on forest gardening I tend to talk a lot of good reasons why I think we should build more timber gardens. For most, the main reason for growing the skogsträdgårdsvis to produce different food (who often can not buy anywhere) in a way […]
Nötviveln (weevils nuts) is generally considered to be the worst pest in commercial nötodlingar and is the main reason for the use of pesticides in nötodlingar worldwide. Also in southern Sweden seems to be a bit of a nuisance and many farmers I have been in contact with the south complain of major attacks on their bushes. To understand what […]
Using nätkorgar of the kind I described in my last post means that it takes much longer to get down the plants in the soil. Not only the production of nätkorgarna, but also planting takes longer and I would like to share with you a few tricks we use to planting will be as good as […]
In the last post, I described our establishment concept where planting of the vole desirable trees and shrubs occurs in nätkorgar galvanized putsnät. We've built well over 100 nätkorgar late last year and start getting into a good technique now. The network we use is that said mesh size 12,7 mm. Larger than that, […]
For me usually ympingssäsongen launch in early April and then it is high time now to order suitable rootstocks. The only question is how do you get hold of rootstocks in the best way? Since I grafts quite a few trees every year it pays for me to order directly from wholesalers. They usually require […]
Plums and its relatives apricot, peach and almond can be grafted and inoculated in a relatively wide range of rootstocks. Here I list the rootstocks as my knowledge is suitable for our climate. Please comment on the compilation, either by emailing me at skogstradgard@gmail.com or by leaving a comment in the field below. I will update the tables […]
2019 is a bankrupted we really look forward! We start the season with a one-day course on growing and cooking with perennial vegetables. The course will be led by Annevi Sjoberg and held on 19 May the critically acclaimed Solgård restaurant in Nittsjö outside Rättvik. The 25-26 May we will hold the course here in the home […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
