In the last post in the series of different grafting techniques I described what happens when you take scions. At least as important as having scions of good quality is to have a rootstock that is adapted to the desired object. Rootstock provides the budding tree - which of course consists of two different plant individuals - […]
Last year I wrote a few posts that are part of a longer series on grafting, where the various stages of the technology include and variations of grafting included. The series so far consists of posts about grafting indoor, grafting outdoors during the spring and early summer and inoculation. For the first two, it is important to have the scions of good quality […]
A smooth and efficient breeding technique I started to experiment with as late as last year's inoculation. The technique is particularly useful if you plan to breed stone fruits like cherries or plums (Prunus spp.) which is difficult to achieve with the usual ympningsteknikerna. When inoculation is transferred from the variety rootstock one so […]
For a little while ago skewed a post about grafting indoor, also called bänkympning, the glorious task which for me marks the breaking point between winter and spring. At least as much fun is it to graft in the open on the existing trees. This form of grafting is sometimes called försommarympning or koympning, because one can attach ympriset […]
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 […]
Now it's almost exactly five weeks since I took the first set of summer cuttings and it's time for a little summary. I tried to say to put them directly in pure perlite. One half of the cuttings I put in my incubator, the other half of the pots that I pulled plastic bags over. Like me […]
Now that the memory of the miserable cold and dry spring begins to fade and the plants have finally taken off, it is a good time to take the first summer cuttings. I wrote about this topic already for a couple of years ago (where you can also find a list of plants that are suitable to take summer cuttings […]
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. […]
I have long been fascinated by the variety of rowan hybrids that sometimes you can encounter in both literature and reality. Sorbus (Sorbus) comprises many very resistant members that are easily hybridize with other species in the family Amygdaloideae which is part of the family Rosaceae (Rosaceae). Especially in the former Soviet Union, it has […]
Havtorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) is one of my absolute favorite crops in forest garden. It fits perfectly in the still relatively young forest garden, because the love lots of sun, fix nitrogen from the air and thus improves soil productivity. In addition, it produces the fantastic fruit, which is the exception rather than the rule for kvävefixerare in our climate. In the Swedish countryside […]
