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Posts from Forest Garden Wales Blog for 11/10/2020
By [email protected] (Jake Rayson) on Nov 09, 2020 12:37 pm
Wed 11 Nov 10am GMT, out in the forest garden this week, planting up some ground cover. I’ll show you the steps 🙂
Wednesday 11th November, 10am GMT
On this Wednesday’s livestream, I’ll be out in the forest garden in the new perennial veg area, planting out some ground cover plants. I’ll show you how to use bark mulch and sow a temporary green manure ground cover of White Mustard. Afterwards, there’ll be an informal Zoom Q&A.
Livestream
Date: Wednesday 11th November
Time: 10—10.30am
Livestream: twitch.tv/forestgardenwales
Zoom Q&A
Time: 10.30—11:00am
Zoom password: mustard
Spreadsheets, gallery & CAD files
Following on from last week’s livestream, I’m still working with other forest garden folk to create a spreadsheet of all forest garden plants mentioned in Martin Crawford’s book Creating a Forest Garden. Until that’s ready, here are some other links:
First up, I made some spreadsheets using tables from Plants For A Future, for hedging and ground cover plants, which you may find useful.
There is a Forest Garden Gallery forestgardengallery.uk created by members of the Forest Garden WhatsApp group — it’s early days but slowly evolving in exciting ways.
And for those people using CAD, I’ve started creating a set of different CAD symbols that can be copied and pasted into your drawing. The GitHub repository is here, though very much a work in progress github.com/growdigital/forest-garden-cad
On my favourite gardening podcast, Graham is a prominent vegan permaculture practitioner and advocate. I remember a rather vitriolic reaction to his using the term vegan permaculture on that there Facebook. What a surprise, vitriol on Facebook 🙄 Note: you can have animals in an ecosystem without eating them.
I have a rather splendid online course, 3.5 hours of concentrated forest garden knowledge. It’s organised around my practical experience of creating a forest garden, to save you time and energy in the creation of your own green space. Only £99 on Udemy (although probably less if you time it right).
The slides are freely available online at alpha.backyardforest.uk
Intro Why growing edible crops with nature is so important
Plan Observations to make, wishes to list & mapping your patch
Design How to put things in the right place
Protect Windbreaks & other tricks to protect your precious plants
Perennial Veg Resilient & low maintenance veg are on the menu
Canopy Plant the big trees, the canopy layer
Ground Prep Ways to clear the ground, so as to plant your plants
Shrubs & Cover Shrubs away & keep the ground covered
