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 […]
Cherries can be a little more difficult to graft than, for example, apples and pears. Many therefore choose instead to reproduce the cherry through inoculation. Here I have listed the rootstocks as my knowledge is suitable for use in our climate. Email me at skogstradgard@gmail.com or enter a comment in the comment box if you find errors or have […]
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 […]
Thanks for all the rush of apple rootstocks! Now, B118, and M111 inlaid table. In this post, I have compiled an overview of rootstock for pears (Pyrus communis) and they are still relatively rare sand pears (Pyrus pyrifolia). Again, I am quite sure I have missed interesting rootstocks or have done wrong in the tables, so […]
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 - […]
One of the fruits that I was most fascinated by is asimina (Asimina triloba), who often goes by his English name pawpaw. Of all the strange plants that I concerned myself with over the years I have been working on forest gardening, it is the one that felt the most difficult to grow, and that is perhaps why it has been so tempting. Its […]
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 […]
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 […]
After having planted hundreds of trees in the Putt Myra woodland garden, I have observed that small trees generally have better than larger trees that I bought especially during the first years of the establishment. The small trees survived drought, survived vole infestation when the big trees tvärdog and many have now grown on trees […]
In early August, I participated in the Nordic permakulturfestivalen in Finland and took the opportunity to visit the arboretum Mustila, that might have been one of Scandinavia's most interesting collections of trees. Arboretum located outside the small town of Elimäki and is on the border between the cultivation zone II and III according to the Finnish system, corresponding to zone IV-V of the […]
