Perennial vegetables are a joy to grow. Almost no digging and with a long harvesting season, they are the lazy but clever way to garden and take care of the soil at the same time.
Perennial vegetables are a joy to grow. Almost no digging and with a long harvesting season, they are the lazy but clever way to garden and take care of the soil at the same time.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Martin Crawford has had broad and varied horticultural/agricultural experience over the years - experience that led him to the concept of forest gardening as a sustainable system that can flourish in our changing climate conditions. This led to the founding of the Agroforestry Research Trust, a non-profit-making charity that researches temperate agroforestry and all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops. At his forest garden in Dartington, Devon, Martin systematically researches plant interactions and unusual crops. He also runs a commercial tree nursery specialising in unusual trees and shrubs, and has a large trial site, researching fruit and nut trees.
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Foreword by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Introduction Part 1 - An introduction to perennial vegetables Why grow perennial vegetables? - What is a perennial vegetable? - The case for growing perennials Growing perennial vegetables - Types of perennial plant - Soils - Perennial beds - Planting patterns - Perennial polycultures - Perennial grains - Perennial tuber and root crops - Perennial vegetables and ground-cover plants - Forest gardens - Growing perennial vegetables under existing trees - Growing aquatic perennial vegetables - Native and non-native plants Maintenance of perennial vegetables - Feeding - Soil pH - Disease management - Pest management - Harvesting and yields - Propagation - Maintenance Part 2 - Perennial vegetables A-Z Appendix: Common and Latin names Resources
