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 […]
With just one day left to Midsummer there is no doubt about the plants that have passed the winter and those that have not done so. Those who have not been knocked out yet, you do not wait for something more. Each year, emphasizes that with some plants and the one who has followed the blog for a while know […]
Just over a month ago I held an introductory course in permaculture and forest gardens in Näsåker, Ångermanland. Näsåker is located in the wine-growing VI and many of the participants came from even less favorable parts of the country. A given question I asked myself before the course was it even possible to create functional woodland gardens in the cultivation zone VI […]
Second half of March, When the plants' rest period draws to a close, is a good time to take stock of how the over-wintering of trees and bushes in the forest garden has passed. Then it is usually easy to see which branches which have passed the winter and those that have not done so. In the first post of this series […]
It's still a pretty good time of year to make offshoot, although early summer, after the initial strong growth of the plants is the absolute best time. It is an easy and fairly safe way to propagate their plants, but the hobby scale, there is no propagation method that provides many new plants, as […]
Every spring, I think I now have collected the most edible going to grow in our climate, and every autumn, When I start looking through nurseries catalogs or talking to other plant geeks will be the brand new plants on my wish list. This year, it added many strange plants get […]
