In the previous post, I wrote to the need for continuous supply of nitrogen from the air - through the nitrogen-fixing organisms - to ensure forest garden's fertility. The question is how kvävefixerana share the nitrogen they catch up to other plants? The answer is that it takes place in two different ways. The majority are made available […]
About two years ago I wrote a post where I celebrated the nitrogen-fixing plants as one of the keys to getting a step closer to the forest horticulture high goals for the self-creating fertility. In the same post I presented as a table with quite a variety kvävefixerare, ranked by their ability to capture the nitrogen from the air […]
A forest garden is a culture that tries to mimic natural ecosystems, such as a timber, a grove or a forest edge. Forest garden dominated by perennial (perenna) plants and is characterized by a structure in different layers, both above and below ground…continue reading.
I have long been fascinated by the variety of rowan hybrids that sometimes you can encounter in both literature and reality. Sorbus (Sorbus) comprises many very resistant members that are easily hybridize with other species in the family Amygdaloideae which is part of the family Rosaceae (Rosaceae). Especially in the former Soviet Union, it has […]
Havtorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) is one of my absolute favorite crops in forest garden. It fits perfectly in the still relatively young forest garden, because the love lots of sun, fix nitrogen from the air and thus improves soil productivity. In addition, it produces the fantastic fruit, which is the exception rather than the rule for kvävefixerare in our climate. In the Swedish countryside […]
It is a great honor for us that our book “Perennial vegetables: discover, grow, enjoy” was nominated for the year's garden book. The award went though today at the Book Fair opening to another publication, who deserves it more than. When I saw the mammoth work “Trees in urban landscapes” with related “City Trees dictionary” Henrik Sailor and Johan […]
After having planted hundreds of trees in the Putt Myra woodland garden, I have observed that small trees generally have better than larger trees that I bought especially during the first years of the establishment. The small trees survived drought, survived vole infestation when the big trees tvärdog and many have now grown on trees […]
In early August, I participated in the Nordic permakulturfestivalen in Finland and took the opportunity to visit the arboretum Mustila, that might have been one of Scandinavia's most interesting collections of trees. Arboretum located outside the small town of Elimäki and is on the border between the cultivation zone II and III according to the Finnish system, corresponding to zone IV-V of the […]
In the last post I noted that many of the most famous combat methods against voles do not work in the long run. But little hope is there anyway by combining different methods that I have not yet mentioned together. It is namely to penalize vole by affecting its habitat, protect individual trees, using traps and […]
Vole has been the worst pest in Putt Myra woodland garden and judging by the many questions I have received from other forest horticulturists seems to be similar across the country. In Sweden there are two types of voles, water vole (Arvicola amphibius) and vole (Microtus agrestis). They are found throughout the country except in Gotland, which is entirely spared […]
