How to make a Temperate Forest Garden - Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- How a bare and barren field quickly became a productive and beautiful diverse food forest.
Maddy and Tim Harland, founders of Permaculture magazine, share the successes and failures of their 20 year old temperate forest garden which is full of fruits, nuts and berries, as well as a wildflower meadow abundant in beneficial insects and a productive vegetable patch. They explain why it is a biodiverse system that is 'beyond organic'.
In this second part, Maddy and Tim explain how they have planted for light, microclimates, the seven layers, for beneficial insects and for a healthy diversity of trees.
They grow over 20 varieties of apples, along with pears, medlar, walnut, cobnuts, mulberries, Nepalese and Szechuan peppers, figs, soft fruit including clove currants and Nepalese raspberry, and medicinal and herbal plants.
Their aim is to create a feel of subtropical abundance in a cool climate by clever design and the careful selection of trees and plants that will thrive in their alkaline conditions. Their philosophy is that if it thrives on chalk it will probably thrive elsewhere and they are not afraid to trial species and varieties and remove them if they don't succeed.
Filmed by Trilight Entertainment
Edited by Rozie Apps at Permaculture Magazine (www.permacultur...)
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What a beautifully sweet smile she gives at the end :-)! Thanks very much for this. Off to have a look at your books.
Thank you! It is quite a thing to present at an International Permaculture Convergence. Smile of relief and gratitude!
Quince doesn't grow for you in chalk - you could make a big hole and fill it in with good soil and whatnot, that should be enough for the quince tree to grow enough to be able to deal with the chalk later on.
Great work, thanks for sharing :) Can you recommend any more early flowers for the January bees?
Snowdrops, Aconite and February you start to get pollen from Hazels and Willow.
Hi there, I found the idea of separating the two rows of trees with a wildflower meadow area fascinating. One thing I can't work out though, you said that the rows are oriented for the sun to penetrate as much of the canopy as possible. Which way exactly does the sun go across your garden? Does it go across in a line in the direction of the rows of trees and the meadow, or does it cross the rows in the parallel? Cant quite make sense of which would provide better sunlight penetrance into the forest but it seems to me that the sun crossing the rows at a parallel would be best. Am I wrong on this?
The sun passes east to west and the trees are planted almost east to west in lines with the smallest root stocks in the front and the tallest at the back. That way the layers allow sunlight to all the trees so the fruit ripens well. I hope that helps, Maddy
Brilliant. Thank you for sharing it. I was really interested in your comment about growing quince on chalk. Is it that they don't fruit well or don't grow well? I've got a variety growing on chalk that is supposedly self-fertile (Agvambari) and has masses of flowers but I've only had about two fruit in seven years. I think I remember Martin Crawford saying that he grafted all his quince over to pears in his garden in Totnes on different soil so I had assumed it was the weather until I saw your video.
Having tried ordinary quince and then Siberian and Chinese, all failed. We have recently discovered that Japanese quince grows well and our local nursery in Hampshire has a variety that likes chalk. I must visit and find out what it is.
That is our experience. Flowers but no fruit because Quince likes water. There is apparently a local variety to us that likes chalk so I would check with a local nursery to you to see if they have a well adapted tree. We also planted Siberian Quince from Martin's nursery. Again it hated our soil so it is now in a pot and happy. Japanese Quince which is more a thug-like shrub likes chalk too.
Did nobody at the class pull her up on her mistake, saying that all Phyllostachys are edible and poisonous in the same breath???? Very confusing and needs clarifying!
Anna Bieniek What she actually says is 'all phyllostachys aren't poisonous, they're edible.' Possibly not the best grammar, but that sometimes happens to the best of us when talking.
@@sukumvit It is tough speaking live for over an hour without notes! But yes they are all edible - but some taste bitter.
If Tim is going to speak, please put a microphone on him.
There wasn't a spare available, sorry.
ok, a few sec. into the video and I see I need to look elsewhere. She just said something was poisonous and edible .
Her accent is sometimes hard to understand. What she actually said was, "All phyllostachys aren't poisonous; they're edible." Kind of a different sentence organization, too.
I looked into the other comments below and although I believe you , I still can't bring myself to struggle through this video.
Even if they were poisonous they could still be edible. Let me take Rhubarb as an example. Many people love Rhubarb and totally think it's edible, right? It contains Oxalic acid which is poisonous, therefor rhubarb is actually poisonous. As with all things: the dose makes the poison.
This specific variety of Phyllostachys is edible. I know, I have eaten it! Maddy