In the first part of this post, I noted that most plants use chemicals to influence their environment to their own advantage. Best known in this context, as I said walnut plants producing the substance juglone. Juglone is a basically harmless substance found in all plants in the family […]
Many are reluctant to plant walnuts in their (forest)gardens because they have heard that walnuts can poison or even kill their neighbors with the help of a substance called juglone. I think I have contributed to the walnut terror by claiming that apples are very sensitive to juglone and by posting a […]
When I travel around the country and is shorter inspirational lectures on forest gardening I tend to talk a lot of good reasons why I think we should build more timber gardens. For most, the main reason for growing the skogsträdgårdsvis to produce different food (who often can not buy anywhere) in a way […]
Nötviveln (weevils nuts) is generally considered to be the worst pest in commercial nötodlingar and is the main reason for the use of pesticides in nötodlingar worldwide. Also in southern Sweden seems to be a bit of a nuisance and many farmers I have been in contact with the south complain of major attacks on their bushes. To understand what […]
A long wait is over. Seven years after we planted the first hazelnut bushes in our garden planted with trees, we were now the first real harvest. As it was previously at best a handful of nuts this year we have been able to rake in more than 2000 nuts. Although I hazelnuts harvested in the wild often felt […]
Using nätkorgar of the kind I described in my last post means that it takes much longer to get down the plants in the soil. Not only the production of nätkorgarna, but also planting takes longer and I would like to share with you a few tricks we use to planting will be as good as […]
In the last post, I described our establishment concept where planting of the vole desirable trees and shrubs occurs in nätkorgar galvanized putsnät. We've built well over 100 nätkorgar late last year and start getting into a good technique now. The network we use is that said mesh size 12,7 mm. Larger than that, […]
How do you turn an existing piece of land into a forest garden in the best way? This issue is still one of the biggest we are grappling with in the forestry horticulture. Of course, there is not a single answer to the question, but every place has their circumstances and their clients to create solutions that can look completely different. nonetheless, the […]
For me usually ympingssäsongen launch in early April and then it is high time now to order suitable rootstocks. The only question is how do you get hold of rootstocks in the best way? Since I grafts quite a few trees every year it pays for me to order directly from wholesalers. They usually require […]
Cherries can be a little more difficult to graft than, for example, apples and pears. Many therefore choose instead to reproduce the cherry through inoculation. Here I have listed the rootstocks as my knowledge is suitable for use in our climate. Email me at skogstradgard@gmail.com or enter a comment in the comment box if you find errors or have […]
