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Creating a Forest Garden: Work ing with Nature to Grow Edible
ISBN: 9780857845535
Author : Martin Crawford
Published: 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Number of pages: 384
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Author : Martin Crawford
Published: 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Number of pages: 384
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Description
This book 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 explains how a forest garden is designed from the top down:
- the canopy layer first,
- then the shrub layer,
- the perennial ground-cover layer,
- the annuals & biennials
- next, the climbers and nitrogen fixers
- and finally the clearings, living spaces and paths.
Whether in a small back garden or in a larger plot, the environmental benefits of growing this way are great. Forest Gardens are a viable solution to the challenge of a changing climate: we can grow food sustainably in them without compromising soil health, food quality or biodiversity.
Creating a Forest Garden 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.
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