Product Description

How To Make A Forest Garden is a step-by-step, DIY guide to creating a maximum output food producing garden for minimum labour.
This highly practical, yet inspiring book gives you everything you need to know in order to create a beautiful and productive forest garden, including:
Basic principles • Layout • How to choose plants
• Details of over one hundred plants, from apples to mushrooms
• A comprehensive account of perennial and self-seeding vegetables
• A step-by-step guide to creating your garden
• Full details of an example garden, and pictures of many more

Forest gardening is an important element of permaculture. This book explains in detail permaculture design for temperate climates and contains much of interest for anybody wanting to introduce sustainable practices into their garden.

“Patrick Whitefield's excellent book gives numerous practical details of the steps that many of us can take to realise this alluring vision.”
Robert Hart

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15211 in Books
• Published on: 1996-01-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

Clean Slate, No21, 1996
With Patrick's enthusiasm for the subject and beautiful photographs....the book is an inspiration, as well as a practical guide.

Allotment and Leisure Gardener, No3, 1996
This highly inspirational book gives everything you need to know in order to create a beautiful and productive forest garden.

Benign Design, No8, 1996
....order this book NOW if you want to create a productive mini-forest in some available corner of your garden.

Customer Reviews

The most inspiring gardening book I have read in a long time
and an excellent source of information, even if you are not particularly interested in planting a full scale forest garden. The sections on trees, bushes and perennial vegetables in particular in a mine of practical advice on how to grow these, and would be of interetest to anyone comtemplating growing anything from rohan or whitebeam to Good king henry, through a variety of fruit bushes.
Buy it for your nearest and dearest gardener at the first occasion :)

Medium Term Self Sufficiency Beckons . . .
For those with any amount of land who want it to be productive and efficient, here is a book that:

1. Addresses low energy living holistically (from houses to heating to food production)
2. Recommends approaches to growing food all year without overuse of machinery
3. Chooses crops and approaches that fit with human-powered activity
4. Sets you on the right path on nearly any issue of sustainable living

Excellent reading for those who wish to prepare for the day when the world will not be so comfortable.

Permaculture comes to town!
BUY THIS BOOK, Its full of details about plants we dont eat but should, its full of details you need to know about creating a garden of eden!