Extending the forest garden
I know it looks a mess, but it will settle in quickly I hope, there are layers of old mulch as we fight the battle with the grass, most of current bushes and trees have to compete with the grass for nutrients, so excluding it with a blanket of mulch is the permaculture way to do go. Its a constant battle though, but i feel like we are making progress right now. I have added a Hovinia Dulcis, or Japanese raisin tree, it has edible flowers and is an attractive ornamental. a red mulberry - as an edible largish shrub/ small tree, an Aronia - the red chockeberry, with its sharp but nutritiious fruit. Also in the foreground here a Chilean Myrtle, which i have written about before, one of the tastiest fruit shrubs.
posted by Mister_Jones @ 2:30 PM
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Hi to those who pointed out how messy it looks with all that cardboard and stuff, so I thought I would add that I am struggling to get back on top of this bit of land after a period of neglect. A group of volunteers who have gone down in chickenshack history as the Tingle posse, started the fight back when they hacked their way into here a few years back as it had become the lost garden of Brynllwyn. I have thrown all sorts of stuff there since to keep the brambles from coming back. I am slowly removing the worst of old layers of untidy mulch, but as they say desperate times called for desparate measures!
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