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10%OFFMartin Crawford - Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops - 9781900322621 - V9781900322621
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Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops

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Description for Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops Hardcover. Tells the reader everything they need to know to create a forest garden. Num Pages: 384 pages, full colour illus. BIC Classification: WMPF; WMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 282 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1824.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Publisher
Green Books Devon
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781900322621
SKU
V9781900322621
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5

About Martin Crawford
Martin Crawford has spent over 20 years in organic agriculture and horticulture, and is director of the Agroforestry Research Trust, a non-profit-making charity that researches into temperate agroforestry and all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops. The Trust produces several publications and a quarterly journal, and sells plants and seeds. See ... Read more

Reviews for Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops
“The ultimate book on the subject… extremely thorough and beautifully illustrated”
Let's Talk (East Anglia)
"This book is a magnificiently produced and massive tome that is sure to become every forest gardener's horticultural toolkit and bible."
Grow It
"Marting has produced a book that is not only visually beautiful but very practical, offering advice on planning, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops


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