Fascinating catalogue of edibles from Agroforesty Research Trust

[hellohelenhere]

I was up late last night reading the amazing catalogue from the Agroforestry Research Trust.
http://www.agroforestry.co.uk/
They specialise in perennial food-producing plants, with a huge range of fruit and nut trees, including apples, pears, cherries, plums etc - and all sorts of unusual things, such as:
medlar, juneberry, edible honeysuckle, honeyberry, loquat, physalis, mulberry, sea buckthorn, jostaberry, worcesterberry, lingonberry, bush quince, bayberry, jujube, goji... and much more.
Also, see 'Unusual edibles and useful plants' (e.g. chocolate vine, honey locust) and 'Vegetable & salad plants' (e.g. sorrel tree, siberian pea shrub, ostrich fern)

Plus, good prices for blackcurrants, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries etc. Free postage for large orders (over £100), so I may try to get some other local gardeners to do a mass order at some point.

They have a web problem at the moment, which means that all their secure links are broken, and lots of the links on their homepage are still being fixed; you can download the pdf catalogue though. Fascinating reading! Have fun!

[hellohelenhere]

[thifasmom]

for goodness sakes i do wish some of you will keep somethings to yourselves ;). all this helpfull info doesnot help me when i haven't got the cash to spend on these good ideas. there is just no consideration shown sometimes, arrgh >:(  ;D ;D ;D

I'm really into this sort of thing ie growing things that are not just pretty but useful whether it be herbs for eating/ medicine/ dyeing, etc or edibles in the vege garden/ pond, etc. so thanks for the link would definitely look into it for future purchases one day.

[hellohelenhere]

Hehe, sorry TM! :d

[thifasmom]

No problem ;D ;D

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We have used the Agroforestry Research Trust to order our fruit, nut and native trees for our sustainable living project (the link is in my signature)

They are wonderful, all the trees we have had were very healthy and are growing very well. The only thing we didnt understand........on receiving the order was, not to mulch around the base of any plant. We did anyway as young newly planted trees cannot cope with competition at the roots.

Apart from that this site is excellent :D

[hellohelenhere]

Would love to serve up steamed fern-heads and jujube pie, but I guess I should focus first of all on essentials such as spinach and beans, haha! I can fascinate everybody with rare fruits later... :)
I do like the idea of perennials over annuals, though - it's nice to see a plant grow and establish. When I was a kid in Mid Wales, we had an orchard - lots of old apple trees and plum trees. I really took it for granted then, of course! Now I can only dream of such a thing...
I'm going to plant some blackcurrant/raspberry/gooseberry bushes, but my new garden is too narrow really for me to be sticking trees in it - only about ten feet wide. Borders and bushes it is. There's one mystery tree at the end of the garden, but I don't know what it is yet! Ooh exciting!