05/24/2026
Adding more critter-resistant perennials to the edge of the main path through the forest garden. Planted daffodils, anise hyssop and oregano last year and this year I added sweet william and creeping phlox (among other things).
Martin Crawford emphasizes the importance of maintaining edges in his book Creating a Forest Garden, and I'm seeing how true that is. In the places where I have neither mulched around this edge bed nor dug a trench or swale, the grass just invades the bed! Mulching and digging along this edge will be a main project this year, both to protect the edge bed and to define the line where the path ends and the forest garden begins.
