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Preview here;greengauge wrote:Patrick Whitefield's Book (How to make a forest garden) is really informative and well worth the read.
Preview here;greengauge wrote: Forest Gardening by Robert Hart is the original in this country.
We've had two spectacularly crappy summers in the intervening time (and it looks as if we're due another). Just wait for the end of this sunspot minimum and a spot of AGW and you'll be awayCatweazle wrote:Ben Laws book " A permaculture approach to woodland management" has helped me a lot. He manages Sweet Chestnut coppice and harvests other nuts and fruit from within his woods. The list I posted at the start of this thread came largely from his work plus a couple of suggestions from English Nature.
The Chestnut yield varies in the UK, some years a tree can apparently produce 200kg but I haven't seen anywhere near that much from a single tree since I bought the woods in 2006...
Our chestnut trees tend to produce one large nut and one or two small nuts per pod. We only use the large nut and they're very sweet and tasty.Catweazle wrote:............ Our "native" (read common) Sweet Chestnuts produce 2 or 3 smallish nuts per fruit but they're very tasty, just a bit more effort than the Marron type with one large nut.
Just forget the garden bit and it's THE one output.andrew-l wrote:Doesn't that just mean that you have venison as one of the outputs of your forest gardenkenneal wrote: Yes, but the deer trashed all our plantings. So now we've eaten some of the deer we're going to try again.
