Tag: fruit tree guilds
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25 Edible Landscaping Ideas to Grow More Food at Home
Are you ready to transform your outdoor space into an edible, diverse, and beautiful landscape? I’ve curated twenty-five edible landscaping ideas to get your creative juices flowing for your next garden project. First, a quick disclaimer to always use caution when using the plants you grow for food and medicine. Read my full disclaimer here.…
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5 More Fast Growing Plants to Quickly Establish Your Forest Garden
Welcome back. It’s time for part two of this fast growing plants series. If you haven’t already, check out part one, Five Fantastic Fast Growing Plants to Kickstart Your Food Forest. Today we’ll cover five more fast growing plants to help your perennial garden or food forest to fill in quickly. As with part one,…
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Five Fantastic Fast-Growing Plants to Kick-Start Your Food Forest
Are you looking to create a thriving food forest or edible perennial garden? Starting with fast growing plants will provide you with some quick successes to get your garden off to a strong start. These resilient plants will rapidly establish themselves and provide you with abundant foliage or harvests in the first or second year.…
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Saskatoon Berry: Beautiful and Useful Plant of Many Names
Serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.), commonly known as Juneberry or saskatoon berry, offers a highly nutritious berry, adaptability, and multi-season ornamental appeal. This large shrub or tree, native to North America, thrives in various sunlight, water, and soil conditions, making it a versatile addition to many gardens. The fruits, particularly the saskatoon berry (Amelanchier alnifolia), have gained…
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7 Edible Flower Seeds to Sow Now and Brighten Your Garden (& Salad Bowl) This Summer
These flowers are the best of both worlds. They’re great for your garden and your body. Below I’ll share seven edible flower seeds to sow this spring that will add a splash of color to your garden and your salad bowl this summer. Not only are they pretty, but they’ll also benefit your garden in…
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What an Urban Food Forest Looks Like After One Year
Last month, I posted an update on our property, showing how I’ve begun to implement a permaculture design and how the backyard has changed after moving in one year ago. Today, I want to give you a closer look at our baby urban food forest. I’ll talk about how we planned and started our backyard…
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10 Perfect Plants for Your Chicago Hardy Fig Tree Guild
One of the best ways to support your Chicago hardy fig tree is by planting companion plants around it to provide services such as building soil, attracting beneficial insects, mulching, and creating a microclimate to shelter it in winter. This community of plants growing together and supporting each other around a central fruit tree is…
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A Simple Apple Tree Guild Example (With lots of Edible Plants)
A fruit tree guild is an amazing thing. By including other plants under and around a single tree, wonderful things happen. What once was a lonely tree in a field of grass—grass competing with the tree for nutrients — becomes a nurturing ecosystem in itself. That means the apple tree will need fewer inputs from…
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An Edible Native Plant Guild for the Pacific Northwest
Hi Growers! Landscaping with native plants has many benefits, but sometimes a girl just wants her fruit trees and berry bushes. This collection of edible native plants for the Pacific Northwest is one answer for getting the best of both worlds. I designed this guild for my backyard in western Idaho, which is drier than…