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: #68768 in Books
• Published on: 1992-06-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 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.