The zoning in the garden according to
permaculture
The SOPI food forest is divided into several
mini-polyculture orchards. The traffic routes lead the
customers passing through and between these these
orchards. The first part of the food forest is a two
hectare U-Pick blueberry plaster [web02].
Tricks in the fruit forest garden (orchard
garden, food forest, forest garden)
If the beds in the fruit forest garden are arranged along
the circulation paths, the vegetables grow better [web02].
12) try out how ducks are working: We love chickens and
enjoy their eggs for our use and sale on our farm stall,
but ducks have some advantages over chickens. First, ducks
don't dig as much as chickens do. Ducks will scout under
your mulch sheet with their beaks, but they won't dig up
the whole place. Try to install a pond for that. My friend
Cynthia Care suggests using a 200 gallon storage tank as a
raised duck pond that can be easily drained with gravity
for irrigating the orchard beds or for normal gardens.
Arranging a fruit forest garden (orchard
garden, forest garden) - the factors
From the book by Martin Crawford: Creating a Forest
Garden:
Chapter 6 (Fertility in forest gardens):
Nutrients: Nitrogen and potassium from animal excrement,
soil bacteria, trees, shrubs, and atmosphere
Nutrients come from animal excrement, from soil bacteria
that absorb nitrogen, from plants that absorb nitrogen and
release it into the soil (trees and bushes), and also from
the atmosphere comes nitrogen when there is much air
pollution by combustion. Some plants can receive an extra
portion of nutrients, especially the annual vegetables
need a very fertile soil with nitrogen and potassium.
Nitrogen comes from certain plants that absorb nitrogen
[web02].
Chapter 8 (Growing your own plants): Tree plantations
(tree nursery) and success rates
Growing trees is not easy. Apple trees need 1000s of
seedlings to create a strong apple tree. In contrast, with
the Japanese walnut, around half of the seedlings grow
into nut-bearing trees. Grafted trees do not have as tasty
fruits as original trees which are not manipulated
[web02].
The arrangement of trees in the orchard garden
Chapter 5 (Emulating forest conditions): The trees
must not be too close, otherwise there is hardly anything
growing underneath in the shade in summer [web02].
Chapter 12 (Designing the canopy layer): The
arrangement of the trees (the top layer)
Trees should not be planted too close to each other, as
diseases can be transmitted if the branches rub against
each other. The trees can be arranged in such a way that
the large trees do not overshadow the small trees, but
protect them from the wind, i.e. place the small trees in
front of the large trees with a view of the sunny side
(view to the south on the northern hemisphere, view to the
north on the southern hemisphere). In addition, the big
tree (e.g. an alder) binds more nitrogen, which gets into
the soil through the roots, and the smaller fruit tree
benefits from it [web02].
Chapter 13 (Shrub species): Shrubs and dwarf trees
Shrubs can be small or up to 3m high with a volume of up
to 10m3. Big bushes are like little trees, small trees
like bushes, like coppice, this also depends on the
pruning, whether you prune a lot or a little. Dwarf trees
in an orchard (forest garden) are actually shrubs, and
they tend to suffer from diseases and often die [web02].
Build the forest garden around a center
One of the many approaches is to first lay out the largest
trees, then install the irrigation, then install the low
trees around the large trees, bushes as well and along the
waterways. Ground covering plants are planted last
[web26]. [Those who don't know about permaculture need
irrigation and install the planting beds along the
waterways].
