My wife and I are in the process of coverting our backyard into a food forest. We had picked up another book about the subject. And I was very disappointed on the lay of the book. Info was all over the place, it really did not have great structure on displaying the information. However, this book is great! The lay of the pages are very useful, full of pictures and graphs and my favorite the plant list that helps the reader choose the right plant for their forest situation. It also gives examples of small backyard to larger fields, which helps me now but also in the future. It is a very helpful book for pure beginners. A must read in the subject!
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Super useful, with one important caveat
Overall, I am loving this book. I’ve bought quite a few now by Martin Crawford (maybe all of the ones that he’s written…?) and always find them super useful and well written. My one critique (and the reason for the four stars instead of five) is that Crawford writes this book with the bias that the soil you’re working with is acidic. He doesn’t provide any cautionary tales about using wood ash (something that makes your soil more alkaline) but instead throughout all of Ch 6, keeps talking about using wood ash, as if it were just a given that you’d do so. He also talks about how you’ll need to lime your soil every year. 🤦🏻♀️ I live in Idaho and we have very alkaline soil here. (Potatoes love alkaline soil! If your area is well known for growing potatoes, you don’t even need to test it to know: Your soil is alkaline). I made the mistake of adding wood ash to my soil when I was first gardening bc of sources of information like this, that just blithely recommended it without any caveats. Our annual veggies were super stunted that year and we got almost no food from the garden. Books need to be careful about giving out this kind of advice, without some serious caveats to make it clear that some of these suggestions are only good for acidic soils. I learned this the hard way. 😞 Other than Crawford’s blind spot towards soil that isn’t exactly like his, this book was amazing. Learning lots, as I have with all of his books. Two huge thumbs up.
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2022Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
Overall, I am loving this book. I’ve bought quite a few now by Martin Crawford (maybe all of the ones that he’s written…?) and always find them super useful and well written.
My one critique (and the reason for the four stars instead of five) is that Crawford writes this book with the bias that the soil you’re working with is acidic. He doesn’t provide any cautionary tales about using wood ash (something that makes your soil more alkaline) but instead throughout all of Ch 6, keeps talking about using wood ash, as if it were just a given that you’d do so. He also talks about how you’ll need to lime your soil every year. 🤦🏻♀️
I live in Idaho and we have very alkaline soil here. (Potatoes love alkaline soil! If your area is well known for growing potatoes, you don’t even need to test it to know: Your soil is alkaline). I made the mistake of adding wood ash to my soil when I was first gardening bc of sources of information like this, that just blithely recommended it without any caveats. Our annual veggies were super stunted that year and we got almost no food from the garden.
Books need to be careful about giving out this kind of advice, without some serious caveats to make it clear that some of these suggestions are only good for acidic soils. I learned this the hard way. 😞
Other than Crawford’s blind spot towards soil that isn’t exactly like his, this book was amazing. Learning lots, as I have with all of his books. Two huge thumbs up.
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NordwindReviewed in Germany on August 15, 2020
Ich liebe dieses Buch!
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