name latin name Quantity Price function nursery Maintenance notesTREES

1 $29 One Green World

Juneberry 1 $29

3 $8

SHRUBS2 $15 Food Forest Farm

1 $15 Food Forest Farm

Beach Plum 4 $15 Food Forest Farm pick fruit in September

Black Eyed Susan 13 $10 can be divided after year three

Turkish Rocket 6 $10 Food Forest Farm

Welsh Onion 12 $10 Food Forest Farm can be divided after year two

8 $10 Food Forest Farm can be divided after year two replant crown after lifting to collect roots

Ramps 38 $10 Food Forest Farm

Asian Pear (with multiple grafts)

Pyrus pyrifolia edible fruits, insectary, attractive

water 3x week after planting frst year (or 1 inch rain/week)

hardy; fowers in spring; fruits in Fall; multi- grafted tree is self-pollinating

Amelanchier canadensis

edible fruits, insectary, attractive

fowers

Hadley Garden Center

water 3x week after planting frst year (or 1 inch rain/week)

hardy; early fowers in Spring; fruits in June; self-pollinating

Hazelbert Corylus spp. edible nuts, wind break, wood

products

St. Lawrence Nurseries

water 3x week after planting frst year (or 1 inch rain/week)

hardy; nuts late Summer; can be coppiced; must compete with squirrels

Pink Champagne Current

Ribes rubrum edible fruits, nursery propagules

prune out old stalks once established every 3 years

var. pink champagne is the best eating quality red current

Goumi Elaeagnus multifora edible fruits, nitrogen fxing

prune out old stalks once established every 3 years

pick fruit in June; does have sharp branches

Prunus maritima edible fruits, spring fowers

prune to provide air fow and to be able to harvest fruit

HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL

Rudbeckia fulgida insectory, beauty, native, bird seed

Hadley Garden Center

consider dwarf var. speciosa 'Little Suzy'

Bunias orientalis edible fower shoot, soil nutrient

accumulator

collect seed late summer; breaking roots will spread plant

good cooked perennial vegetable; high in protein; nutty mustard favor

Allium fstulosum edible scallions, pest confuser

perennial clumping scallion; use green tops or dig for white bulb

Skirret Sium sisarum edible root, nectary specialist

Allium tricoccum edible leaf and bulb

harvest in moderation due to slow growth

spring ephemeral onion; spreads very slowly; speed up by spreading seed

Plant Palette & Maintenance Schedule for Edible Forest Garden @ Wendell Town Offices Wendell, MA September 2011

prepared by Jonathan Bates of Food Forest Farm & Feeding Landscapes

19 $10 can be divided after year three this is a dwarf variety of New England aster

Russian Comfrey 1 $10 Food Forest Farm

Ostrich Fern 10 $10 collect Spring fddle heads will slowly spread by rhizomes

GROUNDCOVERGreen and Gold 50 $9 Food Forest Farm no maintenance

Alpine Strawberry 50 $10 Food Forest Farm grows well if mulched around with leaves

Birds Food Trefoil infnite

50 $9 Food Forest Farm

infnite

Red Clover infnite

Purple Dome Aster

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae

insectory fower, beauty

Hadley Garden Center

Symphytum × uplandicum

mulch plant, soil mineral

accumulator

can be divided after year two, cut down leaves twice a year to

collect as mulch

good fodder for chickens and pigs; breaking roots will spread the plant; leaves

accumulate Ca and KMatteuccia

struthiopteriseat Spring fddle

headsNasami Farm

Chrysogonum virginianum

nectary specialist, groundcover,

attractive

will spread over time; keep area mulched with leaves, straw etc until green and gold

spreadsFragaria vesca fruit; clumping

ground coverdivide clumps every few years to keep plants producing fruit

Lotus corniculatus $14.99 per 5 pound bag

seed

nitrogen fxer, clumping

groundcover

outsidepride.com establish by broadcasting seed; water 3x week until

established

pretty yellow fowers; helps build soil and suppress weeds

Common Blue Violet

Viola sororia running ground cover; edible

leaves and fowers

water at establishment; thin and eat if spreading to much

will do well in shade; easy to propagate from root division

Sheeps Fescue Festuca ovina $79.99 per 25 pound bag

seed

low mow steppable grass

outsidepride.com establish by broadcasting seed; water 3x week until

established

perennial clumping grass; mow 2 times a year; used in the 3 foot paths and

surrounding the deer fenceTrifolium pratense $14.99 per 5

pound bag seed

nitrogen fxer, insectary,

medicinal fowers, clumping

groundcover

outsidepride.com establish by broadcasting seed, or transplant from other gardens; water 3x week until

established

red fowers used in salad; helps build soil; good for covering the ground

Town of Wendell Edible Forest Garden Design Suggestions

Detailed site preparation

Phase 1, year 1: Can be completed in all patches or a single patch.

! -mow area! -lay down black plastic for 6 months to 1 year! -after weeds have been killed back, dig out any persistent weeds! -till and cover crop remaining site, or keep in black plastic! -gain access to more effective watering system before planting! -use broad fork or deep tillage to loosen soil in areas to be planted! -use organic amendments based on soil test! -when planting trees follow guidelines for planting from the book “Edible Forest ! Gardens”, by Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier! -sheet mulch all trees 4 feet out from trunk! -protect base of trees from herbivores with hardware cloth and tree tubes

Phase 2, years 1-3, as herbs and shrubs are installed:

! -install lowest cost deer fencing (whatever works in your area) at perimeter of ! forest garden ! -as best that can be done, dig a 6 inch by 6 inch perimeter trench on the outside ! edge of the deer fence! -lay hardware cloth down horizontally in bottom of trench pointing out away from ! garden and bend at a 90 degree angle up two feet out of trench and above the ! soil meeting with the deer fence (see cross section drawing, reference also ! “Perennial Vegetables” page 59, by Eric Toensmeier)! -in same trench, in line with vertical portion of hardware cloth, install rhizome ! barrier up to the soil line! -sheet mulch flatter areas and plant shrubs and herbs! -build hugelkultur raised beds on slope and plant into these beds (see cross ! section drawing, reference also “Sepp Holzer's Permaculture, A Practical Guide ! to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening”).

Phase 3, installed at any point during or after site is completely sheet mulched:

! -install ground cover plants into sheet mulch and raised beds! -four feet out from fencing, till the ground and broadcast seed of “low mow” ! sheeps fescue (this outside the fence strip of lawn sheeps fescue replaces high ! maintenance grasses and weedy meadow plants, which use more fossil fuels ! and human labor to control)! -establish 4 foot garden paths, interior to the fence, seed with sheep fescue! -establish smaller garden paths with wood chips.

Guidelines for maintenance

-Establishing a good irrigation plan (equivalent to 1 inch of rain per week) reduces the amount of hours and labor that will be required during the first year of establishing the plants.

-Installing a fence to keep out deer, voles, ground hogs, rabbits and rhizome rooted plants will significantly reduce maintenance and future losses.

-Eradicating the weeds that are already on the site will also be a huge help. Some of the more tenacious weeds on the site include: bindweed, goldenrod, horse nettle, and quackgrass.

-When installing the sheet mulch and hugelkultur raised beds, use as much compost, wood material and other organic material as possible. The more nitrogen and carbon brought in to smother the ground and build soil, the lower your maintenance will be and the more soil diversity you will have.

-Notice how the design is broken into three patches. Patch plantings can be installed slowly and expanded as needed.

-Planting the sheeps fescue is not a necessary part of the design, but I believe it should help compete with weeds, greatly reduce the need to mow, and reduce the need to maintain paths with wood chips that add more labor and material cost to the project.

-Non-fescued paths, and beds lacking ground cover plants, need to be maintained by adding non-weedy mulch material. In this case I recommend adding wood chips, saw dust, leaves or oat straw (whatever carbon based material you can get) to pathways every other year after the first year.

-Hand weed when necessary. Trees, shrubs and herbs may need to be pruned once a year if they grow over paths, or reach a hight or width that you prefer to maintain them.

-All plantings can be used as nursery stock after 3 to 5 years. Perennial herbs and ground covers would be divided then. Shrubs can have cuttings taken. Fruit and nut seeds !can be propagated and shared.

-Many of these plants will produce edible parts in year two. Try not to over !harvest in the first three years. Wait until there is abundance. It will come. Forest garden time by year is said to, “Sleep, Creep, Leap, Reap”.

-Food Forest Farm has grown all of the plants in the design. The plant hardiness, placement, spacing and maintenance recommendations are based on Jonathanʼs experience over 10 years. It is entirely possible that the Wendell Edible Forest Garden will grow and behave differently then what is represented in this design. The designers have taken this into consideration, we hope you do too. Enjoy the garden!