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 […]
Spring 2014 we traveled a 130 sqm greenhouse in Putt Forest Garden Ant. With so much space at our disposal, I could not help to build a small woodland garden of just under 40 square meters of greenhouse southern part. The greenhouse is a so-called polytunnel, with a single layer of greenhouse plastic, something that I think has been quite […]
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 […]
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 […]
