To cultivate forest garden plants from seed is a science in itself, with as many rules as exceptions. A good technique I figured tell about in this post is to use the autumn sowing. Unlike annuals, where many are adapted to warmer climates, forest garden plants usually permanent and well-adapted to our cold […]
One reason that it has been pretty sparse between the posts on the blog is that I've spent a lot of time preparing the presentation of my diploma work in permakulturdesign. I presented the work of the 31 October in Ås outside Oslo, and now belongs to the small group certified permakulturdesigners found in Sweden. In my case focused […]
"I'm not working with nature, I'm working against nature. ", says Ove me after breakfast. It is roughly the opposite of what we forest horticulturists believe about ourselves, so I ask him develop and he explains: "Nature strives course in a different direction than I. I would not have removed all trees and many birch trees […]
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Here in Southern Dalarna, we have had the worst hazel year long. Not even in the great old stocks, there were more than a handful of nuts to find. And so we go to Medelpad and find hundreds of hazel bushes, Most dotted with nuts. How can it be that? Of course, it does already mentioned microclimate large […]
Expectations were from the beginning quite high when I and three other plants interested Stjärnsundsbor would go to Medelpad in search of the elusive Loiko-walnut. We would visit Ove Johansson, who in the early 2000s somehow managed to get 100 hardy walnut seedlings from Belarus to Sweden. We knew that he was also interested in […]
This year's plant list, I once worked with half a year from and to, and I begin to realize that it will never be completely finished, so it's better to let the current version. The document is available to download here I have compiled a list of the plants we grow in Putt Myra […]
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 […]
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 […]
In early July, I wrote a post about summer cuttings I took then. When I wrote that it will take between four and twelve weeks for the cuttings take root, So now about six weeks later it is time for a little follow-up. This is what the cuttings out today: It went well was Goji berries, […]
