Planting Scheme
Below you will find details of what is in each bed at plot 163b, LAND learner project. Each uses the food forest technique in different ways. Not all of the layers of the food forest have been used. Also included is some information on what the plant can be used for. These will be the reasons these plants have been introduced in this way.
On the allotment, in the corner of each bed, you find small wooden posts with numbers on which reference the information below.
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image by Graham Burnettt
Bed 1
Medlar - Sub canopy
Sedum - Herbaceous groundcover
Strawberry - Ground cover
Lemon balm - ground cover. Mineral accumulator
Purple Loosestrife - Herbaceous
Bed 2
Cytisus/Broom - Shrub layer/nitrogen fixing
Lemon balm - Herbaceous ground cover
Fennel - Herb
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Bed 3
Autumn Olive - Shrub layer
Amelanchier alnifolia/saskatoon - Shrub layer
Perennial wildflower- Herbaceous ground cover
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Bed 4
Siberian current - Shrub layer
Pear - Sub canopy
Asparagus - Herbaceous ground cover
Bulb - Babington's leek
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Bed 5
Ginkgo - Sub canopy
Marsh mallow - Herbaceous groundcover
Prunella Vulgaris - Ground cover
Strawberry - Ground cover
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Bed 7
Lemon balm - Herbaceous/Mineral accumulator/Tea/Food
Blackmint - Herbaceous/insect plant/Tea
Saponaria officinalis (soapwort) - Herbaceous ground cover/soap
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Bed 6
Lavender - Shrub layer
Soloman seal - Herbaceous layer
Alpine Strawberry - ground cover
Day lilly - Herbaceous
Sedum - Herbaceous
Blackcurrant - Shrub
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Bed 8
Apple tree - Sub canopy layer
Vinca Major (periwinkle) - Groundcover/rope
Dandelion - Herbaceous/Food/Medicinal/Bees
Gooseberry - Shrub layer/fruit
Cytisus (broom) - Shrub layer/edible flowers/nitrogen fixer (fertiliser)
Rhubard - Herbaceous/fruit/dye plant/mulching
Marshmallow - Herbaceous/edible flowers and root
Aquliegia - Herbaceous/edible flowers
Saponaria officinalis (soapwort) - Herbaceous/soap
Artemisia absinthium (wormwood) - Herbaceous groundcover
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