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Creating a Forest Garden

Martin Crawford

  • Bindwijze: Paperback
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Wetenschap & Natuur
  • ISBN: 9781900322621
Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:13 april 2010
Aantal pagina's:384
Illustraties:Met illustraties
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Martin Crawford
Tweede Auteur:Joanna Brown
Tweede Auteur:Joanna Brown
Overige kenmerken
Editie:1st
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:228 mm
Product hoogte:29 mm
Product lengte:285 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:224 mm
Verpakking hoogte:29 mm
Verpakking lengte:279 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:1509 g
Overige kenmerken
Editie:1st
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:228 mm
Product hoogte:29 mm
Product lengte:285 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:224 mm
Verpakking hoogte:29 mm
Verpakking lengte:279 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:1509 g

Samenvatting

Forest Gardening or Agroforestry is a way of growing edible crops with nature doing most of the work. Modelled on young woodland, a wide range of crops is grown in vertical layers. Species are chosen for their beneficial effects on each other, creating a healthy system that maintains its own fertility, with little need for digging, weeding or pest control. Whether a small area in your back garden or a larger plot, here is advice on how to create a beautiful space with great environmental benefits from planning and design (using permaculture principles) to planting and maintenance. With a changing climate, we must grow food sustainably, without compromising soil health, food quality or biodiversity and Forest Gardening offers an exciting solution to the challenge. Creating a Forest Garden also includes a detailed directory of over 500 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, annuals, root crops and climbers - almost 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.