Forest Gardening and Edible Gardens - Weekend reading material

I have these lovely books to start reading at the weekend.


Firstly, Creating a Forest Garden by Martin Crawford. A new book recently won in a competition, it looks lovely at first sight and comes recommended by many wonderful people in the world of gardening, permaculture and forest gardening.



And secondly, The Edible Garden by Alys Fowler, accompanying the series on BBC2 currently. This is from the library and again looks very nice.

Will let you know what I think of them.

In the garden ...

Magnolia Stellata

An update on things growing in the garden now. Mostly pictures, a record of how things are this month. Starting with an ornamental above, Magnolia Stellata - I've always loved this one, I do have some ornamental flowering plants and this is one of my favourites. What nicer a place to spend some time in this lovely warm sunny weather too. Bliss.

Mostly I grow things that are edible though, so here goes

Lovely Blueberries
2 varieties

The Kiwi vigorous climber!
Some of the greenhouse plants - many more too (you get the picture)

Lemon Balm - I love it's fragrance and taste
Perennial and vigorous so needs some taming

Spinach in the garden

Chard in the garden

Lettuce and salad leaves

Red ribbed Dandelion leaves,
and Red ribbed Sorrel (perennial salad leaves)

Strawberries ... so English!

The Pear trees in blossom,
a little ahead of the older, more established pear tree at the allotment.

The blossom of the Almond tree

Potatoes

Spider hanging mid-air in my greenhouse!

Many salads and meals with Spinach and Chard at the moment which is lovely. Our lettuces and other salad leaves are just lovely at the moment - picking little (or not so little) and often.

The Edible Garden begins

Looking forward to this series starting tonight at 8pm on BBC2. Also pleased to see Alys Fowler on Gardeners World last week starting a small scale Forest Garden that we can watch develop and grow.

The Edible Garden

Hope you enjoy it too.