Prestwich Clough forest garden May 2025 update
Drought, what draught? We're in our 13th year at the forest garden and anyone who doesn't live in a cupboard will have noticed that it's hardly rained since February. Gardeners and veg growers are watering daily to keep their plants alive. So what do we do with a half acre forest garden with no water supply? The short answer is nothing. A properly planned and planted forest garden, like any other woodland largely looks after itself. The ground is never left bare which retains moisture. We've suspended any planting until it's a bit wetter as newly planted plants would struggle but other than that the garden is thriving. Meadowsweet Plums I'm predicting a record year for fruit and the wildflowers are doing well. The garden can now be regarded as mature as strictly speaking a forest garden is a young woodland and should be kept that way in order to let enough light in for the understory plants. We're now at the s...