Then it was time for that right now the last post in the plunge about kvävefixerare forest garden, which is about how we can practically choose the best plants. Before that, however, I would recommend anyone who has read this series to also take a look at the many comments that have come into […]
The previous posts have focused on the need to cater for a continuous supply of nitrogen from the atmosphere by nitrogen-fixing plants and how much nitrogen these plants can contribute under idealized conditions. In this post we'll get a little closer to reality and look at the factors that influence nitrogen fixation scope. The most important […]
In the previous post, I wrote to the need for continuous supply of nitrogen from the air - through the nitrogen-fixing organisms - to ensure forest garden's fertility. The question is how kvävefixerana share the nitrogen they catch up to other plants? The answer is that it takes place in two different ways. The majority are made available […]
About two years ago I wrote a post where I celebrated the nitrogen-fixing plants as one of the keys to getting a step closer to the forest horticulture high goals for the self-creating fertility. In the same post I presented as a table with quite a variety kvävefixerare, ranked by their ability to capture the nitrogen from the air […]
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 […]
The UN has decided to 2016 are legumes year and in honor of this, the edible perennial group appointed by the rather overlooked knölvialen (Lathyrus tuberosus) to this year's edible perennial. Lathyrus tuberosus is a climbing plant that makes beautiful pink flowers by summer. It works well to grow in the woodland garden context. Just like most other legumes bind nitrogen from knölvialen […]
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 […]
We have learned much more about nitrogen fixation since this was published 2014 – Read this first plunge! One of the key roles in the establishment of a forest garden is to provide the conditions for creating and maintaining their own fertility. In a previous post I wrote about the dynamic accumulators which take up […]
A sure sign of spring is usually the first deliveries of plants for the woodland garden. First up this year is four packages from the German nursery "Erzgebirgische Wildobstzucht Jörg Müller" (www.wildobstschnecke.de), who have an exciting range of mainly woody perennial edible plants. The table below shows the new additions to the growing collection in the forest garden that came with your order. In addition to the eight […]
