Forest Gardening

Ground covers shrubs and trees.
Forest gardening. Forest gardening is about creating a garden based on the same principles as a woodland often a young open woodland but with species that are productive for us. Rather a forest garden is a planting method that takes advantage of beneficial relationships between plants much like a woodland ecosystem. History of forest gardening.
A forest garden is a designed agronomic system based on trees shrubs and perennial plants. Picture what we want in a forest garden and most of us immediately start thinking about fruit and maybe nut trees which is a good start. Martin crawford has written a comprehensive design manual for creating a forest garden.
Early autumn tasks for your garden 4th september 2020. These are mixed in such a way as to mimic the structure of a natural forest the most stable and sustainable type of ecosystem in this climate. But this lets the creativity of nature unfold for our benefit.
By contrast a forest garden mimics a natural ecosystem and uses perennial plants and trees which either live for a long time and or reseed themselves. If you re planning jobs in the garden check out the weather for the days ahead. The result is a beautiful highly productive garden that doesn t require a lot of space.
The garden consists of various vertical levels of growth from canopy trees to shorter trees to shrubs and bushes vines herbaceous ground cover and roots. These are mixed in such a way as to mimic the structure of a natural forest the most stable and sustainable type of ecosystem in this climate. Forest gardening is a low maintenance sustainable plant based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems incorporating fruit and nut trees shrubs herbs vines and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans.
For us it means letting go of control in some ways as we can t foresee every possible interaction. A forest garden is a designed agronomic system based on trees shrubs and perennial plants. People the world over have harvested food from the forest reaping where they did not sow.