Forest Garden Plants, River Irrigation, Paulownia Coppice & Garden Bees - Week 6 - The Polyculture Project

It's been a relaxed week here in Shipka. The main focus has stayed on the market garden where we are sowing and planting out the warm season annual crops. The weather has been warm with cloudy cool spells and the wild vegetation is really starting to take off. The fruits are forming on the trees and shrubs and the promise of summer, albeit 6 weeks away, is in the air.

So here's what we've been up to this week.

But first just to let you know we've revamped our Online Store where you can find Forest Garden/ Permaculture Plants, Seeds, Cuttings, Bulbs, Rhizomes and Polyculture Multi-packs along with digital goods and services such as Online Courses, Webinars, eBooks, and Online Consultancy and finally we've added a Bulk Fruit and Nut Tree order form for Farms, Orchards, Nurseries, and Large Regenerative Landscape Projects. If there is anything in the store you would like to see but is not there, please let us know. We hope you enjoy the store and find something you like :) It's your purchases that keep our Project going. Thank you. Enter Our Store Here

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Ronan Delente a chef who has been travelling the world cooking across the continents has joined as for the study this year. Ronan has been experimenting with various recipes using the wild plants and perennial vegetables from the gardens. He started a blog this week to share his recipes and love for cooking with perennials. Check out his Falafel recipe here - looks very tasty!

The Forest Garden - Aponia  

It's going to be a good year for plums it seems especially the wild Prunus cerasifera - Cherry Plum that grow in abundance in our area. These plums are great, each wild tree has unique tasting plums and I reckon about 1 in 10 have the perfect amount of juiciness, sweetness and acidity that I love in these fruits.

Mespilus germanica - Medlar  is flowering. This is seedless local cultivar and provides us with great fruit from late November into December. 

Looking forward to the fruits from this Rubus fruticosus cv. - Blackberry cultivar 'Reuben'. This cultivar is unusual for blackberry in that it produces fruit on new growth, known as a primocane. We get some great fruit from this plant in the summer and it continues to flower into late October and although the fruit does not ripen that late in the season the flowers do provide scarce forage for pollinators.

As the warmer season approaches we will be needing to irrigate the gardens. This week we went for a walk up the mountain to show the team the source of our irrigation, the river in the valley above us, and how the town diverts the river to supply water for gardens and farms in the area. 

Here's a map showing the channel we use to irrigate the market garden and home garden on the west side of town . The red markers are places where the stream can be diverted to irrigate the other gardens of the town. The end of the blue line in the bottom left hand corner is the market garden. The above photo was taken at the other end of the blue line on this map. 

For the East side gardens we use a different river .

  

I spotted the first flowering Chamomile of the season. This is one of our favourites to collect and dry for a supply of herbal teas. The first time I collected chamomile I was confused in trying to identify the plant . Browsing through herb books to look up the herb I found many names, both common and scientific. First of all the word chamomile is sometimes spelled camomile then there’s Roman (or English) chamo­mile, a perennial, and German (or Hungarian) chamomile, an annual. The German species might be listed as Matricaria chamomilla, Chamomilla recutita, or Matricaria recutita. Roman chamomile is referred to in some sources as Anthemis nobilis, in others as Chamaemelum ­nobile. I wrote a blog post years ago to help with identification. You can find it here if you are interested  

Paulownia Coppice Trials 

We've been experimenting with growing Paulownia tomentosa - Foxglove Tree in the garden. Our experiments include growing the plants in the center of our vegetable raised beds for shade and mulch, growing the plants for tipi poles, fence posts and stakes in the vegetable gardens and generally to see how much biomass these plants can produce in the polyculture garden.  

Here is a photo of Paulownia tomentosa - Foxglove Tree  used for shade support in our vegetable polycultures. This photo was taken in the summer of 2016 just 3 months after planting the 1 year old whips, already providing some nice shade that helps preventing the parsley from bolting to seed.  

This photo shows the trees after planting in 2016 and then in the summers of the following years. 

This spring about 3 weeks ago I cut down the trees and the largest tree (shown below) was approx 4 m tall and approx. 15 cm wide at the base. You can see 3 weeks after I cut the tree the new growth is already emerging. I expect these new shoots will reach at least 1 m tall by the end of the season. I'll post some photos in the future.

   

Here's a photo of some of the pole wood we harvested from the two beds.  We used this wood to stake the tomatoes and the thinner diameter wood for bean poles. The larger diameter wood is not shown here and will be used for fence posts at some point.  

Based on some trials with coppicing paulownia in the home garden, I expect much faster growth from the coppice stools than from the original whips we planted.  

Bees in the Gardens 

Xylocopa violacea, the violet carpenter bee is one of the largest bees in Europe. These solitary bees hibernate overwinter and emerge in the spring, usually around April or May. The female creates the nest alone. The eggs are laid within a series of small cells, each of which is supplied with a pollen ball for the larvae to feed upon. The adults emerge in late summer then hibernate until the following year They hibernate in dead wood boring tunnel in the material hence they are called "carpenter bee"  and they will use the same nest of abandoned nest if available, a good reason to leave some old logs around the garden. 

Honey bees are loving the Allium schoenoprasum - Chives in the nursery. These bees were moving very slowly over the flowers, almost as if they were drunk on the nectar.

Kale we sowed last year and harvested all of last summer and through the winter is flowering at the moment.  Not all of our kale survive the winters here (winters can be very harsh), but there is a patch in a protected spot that does well.  Kale is a biennial plant the life cycle of which span two years.  They flower and produce seeds in their second year after which they whither away. You can keep the plants alive for many years by cutting back the flowering growth but I like to let some plants go. As you can see below they are extremely attractive to a range of bees and other pollinators. For more info on plant life cycles see our previous post here 

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Phronêsis our new Forest Garden, Preparing Raised Beds, Launching a Patreon Page and Edible Perennials - Week 5 - The Polyculture Project

It's been an eventful week here at the project, planting out the market garden crops, digging wildlife ponds and launching a Patreon Page!! We also welcome Ben, a landscaper from the UK, that joined us for the course and is staying on for a few weeks for the polyculture study.

At the beginning of the week we said farewell to the participants of our Design and Build a Forest Garden course after a marvellous three days of design and build that resulted in the creation of a new forest - details of which will follow. 

So here's what we've been up to last week.

    

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The Design and Build a Forest Garden Course

Our Design and Build courses are exactly that. We start with the design and end with the build. For  this particular course the location for the new garden was just east of our perennial polyculture trial garden, Ataraxia, in a new area we are developing called Phronesis. The forest garden is named after and dedicated to  Joost W. van der Laan who made a generous donation to our Polyculture Project Crowdfunder last year. Thank you Joost :)  

It was an eclectic group of people that joined us for the course this spring including young farmers, fitness trainers, a landscape gardener, a journalist and a Hollywood actress -  coming together from all over the world to create a fledgling forest garden. This occurred at about the same time 10,000's of people were laying down on the floors of London to protest to government about biodiversity loss and environmental damage. I wonder whether if just 5% of them (of those that have not already) were to build a forest garden whether the result might be 50 x more effective than expecting the government to do something?  But hey - people love a "lay-in" it seems :)   

The primary purpose of this garden is to produce round wood for fence posts, light construction wood, and stakes and pole wood for the market garden crops. The secondary purpose is to provide fruits and nuts in the under story and a range of habitat to support wildlife.  Here's an illustration of the garden.

The goals of this design were to:

• encourage growth of existing biodiversity as much as possible and provide new habitat that enhances biodiversity
• utilise the slope of the land and existing water source to irrigate the garden

Here's a before and after shot 

 View of the planted out garden from the east 

View of the planted out garden from the west 

  This image provides a growth projection from initial plant out to year 3, year 8 and year 15-20 when the garden is mature.  

We did not have time to dig out the wildlife pond for the garden during the course but Dylan and his friends completed the dig the day after (and staged a little "lay in"). We'll be lining and planting this out in the coming weeks. 

Here are the marvellous participants of the course. For more photos of the course see here. 

The Market Garden - Aponia 

After the Design and Build a Forest Garden Course our attention shifted to the market garden where we are starting to plant out our annual herb and vegetable polyculture - Zeno.  We have been growing this polyculture for 7 years now and have for the last 4 years been comparing yields of the polyculture with the same crops planted in blocks nearby. You can find the previous 4 year's results of this trial here and more information and diagrams of the polyculture Zeno here. 

I actively encourage the growth of wild plants in our beds whenever we are not growing crops in them. From October through to April the beds are generally full of native plants that provide a winter cover, offer support to wildlife and provide a significant amount of biomass for the beds when we prepare them for planting in May. The first step is to spread approx 100 g of ash per m2  over the surface of the bed. Next we broadfork the beds and pull the native plants out of the clods removing plants with rhizomes such as nettles and mints (for the compost pile) and leaving all of the other plants on the surface to decompose in situ.   

Next we add approx 20 L of compost per m 2 to the surface 

and then we mulch the bed with 1 bale per m length of bed 

The compost is spread evenly over the surface and the straw mulch is applied 

We are growing 6 cultivars of tomatoes this year. Sophie started the tomatoes from seed in mid February and transplanted the seedlings into 10 L pots when they were approx 8 cm tall. You can comfortably fit 7 or 8 seedlings in each 10 L pot . We removed the plants from the pots and sat them in buckets of water prior to planting out.  The cultivars we are growing are Tigerella - Ukraine Purple - Chocolate Pear - Alicante - Yellow Pear  and Rozavo Magia  

Using pole wood harvested from the forest garden, from plants including Juglans regia - Persian Walnut - 

Paulownia tomentosa - Foxglove Tree - Alnus cordata  - Italian Alder - Corylus avellana - Hazelnut  and Prunus insititia - Damson we erected the stakes to support the tomatoes.

These stakes also serve well as bird perches which is great as the birds will often rest on the perches while hunting for larvae in the vegetable beds.  

The bed on the right will be planted with the Zeno Polyculture and the bed on the left will have the same crops planted in blocks.

You can find the results from the last 4 years of this study here. 

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The Forest Garden - Edible Perennials 

There is a brief window of opportunity to harvest Elm seeds in the Spring, when the seeds are green, leafy and coin sized. Just as the plant embryo is forming they have an oiliness and taste not too dissimilar to peanuts. According to Plants for a Future,  the seeds contain about 34.4% protein, 28.2% fat and 17% carbohydrate. Here are some photos by Ronan of the Ulmus sp. seeds ripe for eating. 

Chaenomeles speciosa - Jap. Quince and Aronia melanocarpa - Black Chokeberry  are dominant in the shrub layer of the forest garden. The fruits of these plants are not particularly suitable for eating freshly picked but both plants are great for juicing. With the quince juice being super rich in vitamin C. You can read more about Japanese Quince in our previous post here 

 Great to see a Mulberry tree we planted last year flowering this year, hopefully we will get some fruit in a few months. This is Morus kagayamae - 'Kinriu' a dioecious female plant that will produce fruit with a male pollinator mulberry nearby.  For more info on Mulberry check out our previous post dedicated solely to these marvellous plants here. 

Our  Elaeagnus umbellata - Autumn Olive shrubs are flowering  profusely this spring. The flowers are very attractive to a range of pollinators and pest predators, and come October will have transformed into  sweet little red balls of fruit.    

Forest Garden Maintenance - It's been about two weeks since I last cut the pathways in the forest garden and leaving it any longer this time of year makes the job twice as hard as the lush vegetation grows so tall it clogs up the lawn mower. It takes around 40 minutes to mow all of the pathways and this includes emptying the nutrient dense cuttings onto the surface of the raised beds where we grow our annual vegetables. I would estimate that we receive approx 60 kg of trimmings each time we cut in the spring which is a decent quantity of fertiliser. As long as you spread the trimmings thinly on the surface they will quickly decompose.  Here are some photos of the freshly cut pathways within our 8 year old forest garden in Aponia. We established most of these pathways with the lawn mower and some of them we dug out when we first developed the garden and sowed with Trifolium repens - White Clover.

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Foraging for Wild Garlic, Forest Garden Maintenance, Planting out Polycultures - Week 4 - The Polyculture Project

It's been a busy week here, getting the last of the trees and shrubs planted around the gardens and  preparing beds for the annuals. We also had an open day last weekend and was great to meet people from all over Bulgaria with shared interests in regenerative gardening. At the end of the week we started our Design and Build a Forest Garden Course and had a great time with an awesome group. I'll write a post on the course and the garden we created during the course in the coming weeks.

It's been sunny and warm for the first time this month and a good opportunity to get a team photo of the polyculture study crew. Misha, Philip, Eileen,  Ronan and Lia (left to right) have been doing an amazing job in the gardens this season.     

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Ataraxia

Forest Garden Maintenance - November last year we created a 150 m2 forest garden in Ataraxia during our Design and Build Course (you can read about how we created this garden in a previous post here).  The plants are establishing well although it seems the shrub layer has been under attack from rabbits during the winter with some browsing damage evident. Forest gardens require little maintenance when they are young, but do need close observation and some important tasks carried out from time to time. For example, last week we added some more mulch to the plants and removed some of the grasses that were starting to grow at the base of the plants and may likely compete with the establishing plants for mineral nutrients, light and water.   

Here is an illustration of how the mature Forest Garden should look. 

Forest Garden 

We've been planting out more perennial polycultures into the over flow swales in Ataraxia. The over flow swales (as the name suggests) catch the overflow from our reservoir in the garden. They consist of a 1 m wide basin and 1 m wide berm. The berm makes great raised beds where we plant out perennial polycultures, whereas we sow Trifolium repens - White Clover in the basins that can tolerate some foot traffic and can be mown periodically providing a nitrogen rich mulch for the crops planted on the berm.  Misha and Lia planted Vaccinium corymbosum cv. - Blueberry 'Sunshine Blue' to join some Vitis vinifera cv. - Grape, Hemerocallis fulva - Orange Daylily and Iris germanica - Bearded Iris plants already planted a few weeks ago.

Lia and Ronan planted out Asparagus officinalis - Asparagus  and Fragaria x ananassa - Strawberry for ground cover in a deep mulched raised bed we made last June. The soil is beautiful. You can read about how we created this raised bed last June in a previous post here.

The bed was full of what I think are Prunus cerasifera - Cherry Plum seedlings. The seeds most probably got there from the manure we applied to the bed last year. Cherry Plums are abundant in this area and grazing animals will gobble them up from under the trees. The seedlings should make great root stocks for grafting so I've potted them up.    

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Apatheia  - Home Garden 

 

Akebia quinata - Chocolate Vine, so impressive this time of year :) The beautiful flowers feed the bees for 3 - 4 weeks and transform into odd looking edible fruits by mid October. We grow this plant up an arbor to provide shade to the bio-nursery plants during high summer.

 A late ripening apple tree in our garden is always the last apple to blossom. I think it's a Granny Smith. Delicious, crunchy, sweet with a hint of acidity, one of my favourite apples.  

Local native Alliaria petiolata has spread nicely around the garden.  This biennial flowering plant is from the mustard family, Brassicaceae and when picked young makes a nice addition to the salad bowl. The flowers are also extremely attractive to a range of solitary bees.   

Ribes nigrum cv.- Blackcurrant blossoms are transforming into fruits, looks like it will be a good year for currants.

Philip with bags of goodies - edible greens from the Market Garden including Nettles- Urtica dioica - Chickweed - Stellaria media and Rumex spp. known locally as Лапад -(Lapad)

Mountain Hike  

We went for a hike up to the beech forests to pick some Wild Garlic - Allium ursinum (also known as buckrams, ramsons, wood garlic or bear's garlic). It was still quite damp in the forest from all the rain fall from the previous weeks, conditions that  Fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) feel comfortable moving around in. I spotted a few of them on the way up. 

About 1.5 km up the mountain the floor of a west facing slope is adorned with a carpet of Allium ursinum - Wild Garlic   under the Beech - Fagus sp. trees. We picked bags full for pesto and salads.

Among the wild garlic you can find small patches of this beautiful legume,  Spring Vetchling - Lathyrus verna. This nitrogen fixing herbaceous perennial is native to forests of Europe and Siberia. The flowers attract bumblebees among other pollinators.   

Wildlife in the Gardens 

We found this beautiful European rhinoceros beetle - Oryctes nasicornis in the Nursery compost pile that includes branches and stumps which makes sense as the larvae grow in decaying plants feeding on woody debris. The development period of the larvae can lasts 2 - 4 years with the adult beetle emerging at the end of March, April or May. Adult beetles as shown below only live several months and do not feed relying on reserves accumulated during the larval stages. They will mate and lay eggs before the Autumn. 

Me and Dylan came across this Toad - Bufo bufo crossing the field where our new forest garden will be created. It's unusual to see toads out in the open especially around midday. Close inspection of the toad revealed some damage to the animals head. Dylan suggested it may have been caught by a Stork and dropped when the bird was in flight. We moved the toad into some damp shade.  

Always a pleasure to see what is in my opinion the most princely of amphibians in our gardens. This Agile Frog - Rana dalmatina leapt across my view and landed in perfect pose on a  Symphytum x uplandicum - Comfrey plant.  

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You can find out all about the course here and right now we have a 20% discount on the full enrollment fees. Just use the promo code RLD2023 in the section of the registration form to receive your discount. 

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