Creating a Forest Garden: Working With Nature to Grow Edible Crops

Forest gardening is a novel way of growing edible crops - with nature doing most of the work for you. A forest garden is modelled on young natural woodland, with a wide range of crops growing in different vertical layers. Unlike in a conventional garden, there is little need for digging, weeding or pest control. Species are carefully chosen for their beneficial effects on each other, creating a healthy system that maintains its own fertility. Creating a Forest Garden tells you everything you need to know - whether you want to plant a small area in your back garden, or have a larger plot. It includes advice on planning, design (using permaculture principles), planting and maintenance and a detailed directory of over 500 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, annuals root crops and climbers, almot 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 - while creating a beautiful space that has great environmental benefits. In the light of our changing climate it is important that we find new ways of growing food sustainably, without compromising soil health, food quality of biodiversity. Forest gardening offers an exciting solution to the challenge.

Détails sur le produit

• Relié: 384 pages
• Editeur : Green Books; Édition : First (13 avril 2010)
• Langue : Anglais
• ISBN-10: 1900322625
• ISBN-13: 978-1900322621
• Dimensions du produit: 21,6 x 3 x 27,9 cm
• Moyenne des commentaires client : 4.0 étoiles sur 5 

Super, mais alors même en maitrisant l'anglais c'est du sport.
Il nous apprend la patience et la persévérance au jardin c'est l'essentiel. N'allons pas trop vite.