Forest garden seeds 2018
It’s that time of year again, when every time I go down to the garden I come back with a pocket full of seeds. I’m going to take a slightly different approach this year to what I usually do. I normally...
View ArticleLate autumn harvests 2018
The leaves are all off the trees now and autumn is shading gently but firmly into winter, but there is still plenty happening in the forest garden. Low light and wet plants make photography difficult,...
View ArticleForest garden courses 2019
I have set dates for a couple of Introduction to Forest Gardening courses in the next few months. These are the only courses that I’ll have time to do this year. Day courses The one-day course will...
View ArticleSeed list 2019/20
That’s pretty much all the seeds I have added to my online seed list now. This is a good time for sowing seeds that need stratification (winter cold) before germination, which in the forest garden is a...
View ArticlePerennial kale breeding
Some time ago, I wrote a post about the principles of perennial kale breeding. Since then, I’ve been aiming to produce a population of kales that are mid way between the near-sterile Daubenton’s...
View ArticleForest garden seed list 2020-21
It’s taken a while, but my complete list of seeds (plus a few tubers, bulbils, etc) collected in 2020 is now ready. It’s longer than ever, with over 70 species listed. As usual, I don’t charge for...
View ArticleMoving site
Scottish Forest Garden has moved! Not the garden itself, which will be staying firmly in Aberdeen, but the website. After ten years of blogging on a shoestring with a wordpress.com site, I have finally...
View ArticleI’ve written a book!
foodforest.garden/product/book Since I started blogging about forest gardening in a cool climate, lots of people have asked me – some joking, some seriously – when is the book coming out? Lots of them...
View ArticleSeed list for 2022
With the addition of these Chinese quince seeds, that’s the list of the seeds that I have available for sowing in 2022 pretty much complete. Many forest garden seeds need stratification (winter cold)....
View ArticleForest garden seeds 2022/23
Finally, all the seeds I collected in 2022 have been cleaned up and put on my seed list, ready for sowing in 2023. There are all the old favourites, plus a few new things like perennial leek seed, hog...
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