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 a few years, I have used wood chips in larger scale Putt Myra forest garden. At every appearance will then of course the question of whether the chips steals nitrogen and unless the soil acidification of the cover material. My standard response has been that we urinvattnar few times on the cover material at the beginning of the season, which should offset the losses and that […]
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 […]
In post any toxins in the newspapers, I looked primarily at the mineral oil-based solvent in the printing ink. But what of the pigments when? Many approached him and asked if there can be unpleasant substances such as lead and cadmium in printing ink. I have done some research and fortunately we need […]
Sometimes it happens that there are large areas of open land in a forest garden, For example, when lifting the ground fabric for a few seasons, if you have used pigs for soil preparation or the start of his forest garden plowed and harvad go. Right now we have fairly large areas of bare soil from the excavation of the […]
In the last post I wrote about the benefits of the cover of newspapers or cardboard to get rid of weeds and give the desired plants in forest garden to a good start. I have long assumed that the ink in the newspapers (and for corrugated board) is harmless and has been using newspapers as mulch for years, but I have […]
In the first part of this series of tilling the forest garden, I went through plastvävens for- and disadvantages. Christian Odberger pointed out in a comment to the post that it is virtually useless to fight against the grass as long as there's so plenty of light as it does in the young forest garden. The true good so […]
After countless hacks attempt to enter the Forest Garden The blog became myself eventually locked out of my own safety, and has put up some posts in a while. But now the problem is solved and in this post I start a small series of scarification techniques. Happy reading! One of the most important chores around […]
