The post about the first plant delivery brought a lot of attention and it seems that there is a great need to know where you can get your hands on all the exciting plants for a woodland garden. Since there is only one place to order plants from here, I have made a compilation of the nurseries I […]
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 […]
Edible perennial group (http://åretsätligaperenn.se /), which is an interest group to spread knowledge of edible perennials, appointed last week ostrich fern (Mateuccia struthiopteris) to this year's edible perennial. I was very happy with the appointment as ostrich fern is one of my absolute favorites in the spring. The plant is the only edible fern in our climate that I know of. The harvests […]
In the first part of this post I wrote about the perennial plants have a much longer harvest season than annual plants, they require less work and are good for the earth. In this post we'll look at more good reasons to grow perennials. Perennial crops are good for the climate […]
Spring is like I mentioned before very early this year, although it seems that winter is on its way back to Dalarna. In a previous post I wrote about kökscomfrey 'Bocking 4' and garden sorrel (Rumex acetosa) who was first out after the thaw. Now there are more spring vegetables that are already moving out of the earth […]
As mentioned in a previous post try to use first perennials (perennials) in a forest garden. There are several good reasons for choosing perennials compared with annuals that the majority of our food supply is based on today. In nature, indeed most plants are perennial. Although many of the plants we […]
In the current situation, we grow about fifty species of woody plants and 70 cultivars in Putt Myra Forest Garden. Name Locations are named varieties of a given species, for example, 'Sävstaholm' a kind of Malus domestica, Thus apple. The first word of the plant's scientific name is the family name (t.ex. Malus), which always begins with a capital letter and the […]
Today, we grow about 90 species of herbaceous perennials and a dozen new is coming. Many of these are still living in our home garden where there are better conditions for its multiplication, but as soon as the establishment of örtskiktet in forest garden starts, we will move many plants there. All the plants on this list have demonstrated […]
The snow is melting at a furious pace for the past few days mild and windy weather. As each spring the damage shows up in the forest garden when the snow has disappeared. This year it is particularly low marktäckningsduk who was blown off and an apple tree has turned over. Upon closer inspection, it turns out that its root system was damaged by voles in […]
Putt Myra Forest Garden is located a few kilometers outside Stjärnsund in southern Dalarna. Mark snippet we Copt spring 2011 is 2,6 ha and the forest garden covers about 0,5 has, mostly in a light southwest slope of markskiftets northeastern part as you can see in the green area marked on the map below. The height difference between the land's highest point (A) and soil […]
