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Posts from Forest Garden Wales Blog for 10/23/2019
By [email protected] (Jake Rayson) on Oct 22, 2019 09:04 pm
A bird’s eye view of my approach to designing a forest garden, in the form a slideshow and screencast
I’ve been asking friends and colleagues for feedback about what would make a good online course for forest gardening. Not only has this been an excellent excuse to catch up via a video call with some lovely people, it has also been really educational.
What is striking is the desire for the process to be simplified, clearing a path so that people can feel comfortable learning to get started. This doesn’t mean simplifying gardening, rather it means making it more accessible.
So, I made a 10 page slideshow to help my friends out called Forest Garden Overview, think of it as an aerial view!
If that’s TL;DR, then here’s the content summarised even more:
Useful - plants that are useful to humans and other life forms!
Native - native plants are generally better for native wildlife
Aspect - figure out the orientation of your garden
Soil - find out your soil type
Structure - think in layers when designing your garden
Choosing plants - two great websites for helping you choose plants PFAF and RHS
If the slideshow’s not enough for you, I made my first ever screencast, 20 minutes long, explaining the presentation (please note, unshaved & unedited, with lots of “ums” in!)
As you can probably gather by now, I’m as interested by wildlife gardening as by forest gardening, indeed, I believe they are mutually compatible. By gardening with someone else in mind, we start gardening for everyone 🙂
