Good seed site!

[pskipper]

Hi all,

I was searching for suppliers of Sea Buckthorn and came across this site...


http://www.agroforestry.co.uk/

They do tonnes of stuff, perrenial herbs, trees and shrubs, almost all of them edible or useful in one way or another.

Philip

[Shirley]

Oh noooooooooo... not another really good site :D

Thanks Philip - as you say, there is loads of info on there.

[hedgewizard]

Cracking! I'd lost that link and wondered what "ag" meant on my scribbled "wants" list... they sell an apple "Tommy Knight" that stores right through to June! I'm too late for this year though...

[Cheezy]

OMG,


Noooo now I really need some land to plant all those trees!.

[pskipper]

Bwah ha ha ha ha (evil laughter) I have to admit that if I had the land to plant them on I'd probably bankrupt myself buying trees from the site

[Welsh Girls Allotment]

Nooooooooo I need I need I need....... all of it

[caithnesscrofter]

oh yes.. this place is great. an ethnobotanists experimental heaven. we are just starting to dig out and fence our nursery. we ordered the following from there..

Alnus rubra
Berberis vulgaris
Betula pubescens
Crataegus arnoldiana
Elaeagnus multiflora
Hamamelis virginiana
Hippophae rhamnoides
Morus alba
Rosa rugosa
Sorbus aucuparia
Thuja occidentalis
Tilia cordata

Buying cuttings & trees is getting expensive so we are keen to get the nursery going strong.. starting with our shelterbelt trees and shrubs. We've planted 101 trees last week. 100 osier (salix viminalis) for a start on the coppice plot and my dwarf cherry tree the following day. Only 9,899 to go! That is the plan. 10,000 trees, shrubs, & perenials. Going for planting up a woodland at least half the croft including 1-2 acres as a forest garden. anybody interested in fg or designing or planting one currently?

[hedgewizard]

I'm designing an edible hedge at the moment for ordering at the weekend, and looking to underplant some young fruit trees as well. It's not a big area - say 20m square - but I'm hoping it could be quite productive. Oh yeah, and the chooks are under half of it some of the time, so that part will want to be productive as forage for them, but able to survive their predations. Wish me luck...!

[the.fee.fairy]

ooh, and edible hedge - sounds good!

[hedgewizard]

Yeah, you don't have to clip it, just browse your way along it ;-)

Like the new avatar - I see the Jerusalem Artichoke Eating festival was a big success!

[caithnesscrofter]

So, how you are getting along with you Sea Buckthorn? I cold stratified mine for only 2 weeks and they sprouted already so have planted out in newspaper pots. Just wondering how you got on with yours!