Forest Gardening or Agroforestry is a way of growing edible crops with nature doing most of the work. Modelled on young woodland, a wide range of crops is grown in vertical layers. 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. Whether a small area in your back garden or a larger plot, here is advice on how to create a beautiful space with great environmental benefits from planning and design ...
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Forest Gardening or Agroforestry is a way of growing edible crops with nature doing most of the work. Modelled on young woodland, a wide range of crops is grown in vertical layers. 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. Whether a small area in your back garden or a larger plot, here is advice on how to create a beautiful space with great environmental benefits from planning and design (using permaculture principles) to planting and maintenance. With a changing climate, we must grow food sustainably, without compromising soil health, food quality or biodiversity and Forest Gardening offers an exciting solution to the challenge. Creating a Forest Garden also includes a detailed directory of over 500 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, annuals, root crops and climbers - almost all of them edible and many very unusual. As well as more familiar plants you can grow your own chokeberries, goji berries, yams, heartnuts, bamboo shoots and buffalo currants.
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Fine. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 384 p. Contains: Illustrations, color, Halftones, color, Line drawings, Frontispiece. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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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.
