Filled with helpful tips and beautiful photographs, this guide contains everything you need to create your own forest garden. Forest Gardening, or agroforestry, is a way of growing edible crops while allowing nature to do most of the work. Species are chosen for their beneficial effects on each other, creating a healthy system that maintains its own fertility, with little need for digging, weeding or pest control. The result of this largely perennial planting is a tranquil, beautiful and productive space, where you can ...
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Filled with helpful tips and beautiful photographs, this guide contains everything you need to create your own forest garden. Forest Gardening, or agroforestry, is a way of growing edible crops while allowing nature to do most of the work. Species are chosen for their beneficial effects on each other, creating a healthy system that maintains its own fertility, with little need for digging, weeding or pest control. The result of this largely perennial planting is a tranquil, beautiful and productive space, where you can cultivate your own fruits, nuts, vegetables, herbs, mushrooms and even forage firewood and honey. Whether in a small back garden or in a larger plot, forest gardens really benefit the environment and are also a viable solution to the challenge of a changing climate. The soil thrives from being covered with plants all year round and is also able to store more water after heavy rains, minimising flooding and erosion and helping plants to survive through drought. Forest gardens also store carbon dioxide in the soil and in the woody biomass of the trees and shrubs. The mixed variety of plants further boosts the health of the ecosystem by ensuring a balance of predators and beneficial insects. Creating a Forest Garden is a bible for permaculture and forest gardening, with practical advice on how to create a forest garden, from planning and design to planting and maintenance. It includes a detailed directory of over 500 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, annuals, root crops and climbers. As well as more familiar plants such as fig and apple trees, blackcurrants and rosemary shrubs, you can grow your own chokeberries, goji berries, yams, heartnuts, bamboo shoots and buffalo currants. Grow a forest garden with this handy guide and become more self-sufficient while also enjoying the natural beauty and environmental benefits of these wonderful green spaces.
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I find this subject fascinating but incredibly daunting as I've never maintained a garden of my own.
I own both volumes of Edible Forest Gardens and have taken a weekend course on the subject.
The information is this book is well presented and well edited. It's much easier to read then the EFG volumes. It covers everything without overloading you with information. No small feat.
I found the chapter on Ground Preparation lacking though and if I could would have knocked a half star off the rating. (I have a 2 acre area which is overgrown with scrub trees that I would like to develop.) Seems to me that you want to be as close as 100% certain that the area you envision your garden in will support your design. If getting close to 100% is too difficult I would have liked to read about why you just move forward and react to whatever is dealt to you.
If this subject interests you and you're good at asking questions then the best use of your money is to find an example nearby to take in. If an example nearby doesn't exist then I'd recommend picking up this book. It probably answers 90% of your questions and for such a complicated subject that's pretty amazing.
