The way to avoid planting your trees too close together is to fill the gaps between them with fast-growing nurse trees. They occupy space, feed the soil, give you a whole lot of biomass for mulch, shelter slower-growing trees from the wind, and when your slower-growing trees eventually need that space, you cut out the nurse tree for even more mulch and maybe a bit of firewood.
Thanks bought the book recently and getting started with my own Allotment. It has two fruit trees and I have felt that this is in the way of growing other food, I was delighted to understand you can garden with trees too! I'll be planting more soon x
Really enjoying this discussion. New Zealand’s version of Scotland is Southland and the Guyton food forest is inspiring: m.ua-cam.com/video/6GJFL0MD9fc/v-deo.html
Good info and good to understand that we may have to change our cooking, eating habits to accept the forest gardening.
The way to avoid planting your trees too close together is to fill the gaps between them with fast-growing nurse trees. They occupy space, feed the soil, give you a whole lot of biomass for mulch, shelter slower-growing trees from the wind, and when your slower-growing trees eventually need that space, you cut out the nurse tree for even more mulch and maybe a bit of firewood.
Thanks bought the book recently and getting started with my own Allotment. It has two fruit trees and I have felt that this is in the way of growing other food, I was delighted to understand you can garden with trees too! I'll be planting more soon x
Hope you have great success with Alan's approach
How can you plant too many fruit trees? :) If I had the room I would grow LOTS! :)
Really interesting and inspiring. Did everyone else just have so many adverts though?
Sorry but it contributes towards covering our costs for time, editing and uploading this content.
On the timestamps in the description, if you use : instead of . we'll be able to click on them and it skip to that point.
Great tip. Thanks.
Do you have any material on permaculture in hot and dry summers and winter rainfall?
Sound was sometimes sketchy, but very useful information.
Yes sorry. We recorded on Zoom and it wasn't great. I look forward to interviewing people for real!
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Your 'bee' on broccoli is a hoverfly
Very inspiring 🌱🌱👍
Thank you
Forest garden = A garden disguised as a forest! 😁
Nepalese pepper! Must research! See, that's why we watch each other.
One of our favourite trees of all time. So easy to grow and harvests consistently good.
What is the initial song played
It is @tygermylk but not on Spotify - it’s especially for us ❤️
Really enjoying this discussion. New Zealand’s version of Scotland is Southland and the Guyton food forest is inspiring: m.ua-cam.com/video/6GJFL0MD9fc/v-deo.html
Thank you!
Every year my plants are decimated by earwigs. There are too many to trap and spreading diatomaceous earth hasn't worked. I don't know what to do.