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 […]
When people learn that I'm about to build a woodland garden, I often hear, Well, and what you grow in your forest? Once, an elderly couple and even past here at home and told me that they had a forest plot where they wanted to start growing and they had come […]
