The last post was about what Swales is and what role they could play in a woodland garden design. In this post I thought, describe how to proceed when you want to dimension and construct a swale. Design The design of swales are primarily dependent on the slope of the landscape, soil infiltration capacity and […]
There are some techniques that are strongly associated with Permaculture. Swales, as the Swedish possibly called for severing ditches, is one of these. One of Europe's most renowned permakulturlärare and writers, Patrick Whitefield, recently published a post on his blog, in which he argued that swales are overestimated in a climate that Britain. His point was […]
Blåbärstry (Lonicera caerulea var. kamtschatica) hailed as Superbar in the last issue of the magazine Time and I can only agree. It is easy to grow and extremely hardy, although it would like to have a little more acidic soil for good fruit set. The flowers tolerate whole 8 Below Freezing, so that they can bloom very early. It also means that the […]
This weekend we had the second meeting at our 72-hour forest garden course here in Stjärnsund. On the schedule this time we had grown knowledge of mainly perennial vegetables and a lot about how we can move from observation to design and what we can learn from nature's patterns for the design of our woodland gardens. We also talked about […]
Yesterday I attended a mushroom growing course here in Stjärnsund. The reason I wanted to learn more about how to cultivate edible mushrooms is that they are a very good complement to the other crops in the forest garden. All products that I receive from so far Putt Myra Forest Garden is produced by plants. In the forest garden contains a number […]
In the last post of this series on forest garden design, I wrote about how to formulate a vision and goals, and why you do it. In addition, I described the criteria that one can use to find the right place for his forest garden. This second part of the series is about the continued mapping step and the analysis of both the survey […]
To a forest garden to work, we need to create a dynamic similar to the one we can find in natural ecosystems. It is primarily about creating healthy soil, a good pest balance, good conditions for pollination and especially self-generated fertility, ie. a system covering its own needs for nutrients so […]
Most hasslarna I got from Germany earlier this spring was bare rooted when they came. This means that they have no root balls around the roots. Ordering bare rooted plants are more economical, since you do not need to pay for the land that would otherwise accompany the pot and usually is the actual plants cheaper too. It is […]
There are many ways to go from the dream of a forest garden into reality. I use a fairly structured process in designing my forest garden. The process is inspired by the design process used in permaculture (se t.ex. [1] and [2]) and has been a great help to maintain focus and avoid unnecessary mistakes […]
The weekend started Sweden's first 72-hour course on forest gardens here in Stjärnsund with 20 enthusiastic participants. This meeting, we reviewed the ecosystem dynamics and strategies that are useful in the creation of a working forest garden. We also talked about the design process in forest garden. This time we had with us Bosse Blomqvist from Gothenburg, one of the pioneers […]
