>>1352916Have you tested your soil? Blueberries need quite acidic PH levels to crop well. Looks quite poor soil in that location anyhow. Would maybe suggest you look into soil improving techniques and plant cover crops for a year or 2 with Dynamic Accumulators and Nitrogen Fixers (red & white clover/legumes are good for this). You might also want to look into mulching. Bare soil is bad soil.
There seems to be a fair amount of grass as well. When you come to plant your forest you're probably going to want to sheet mulch the ground first to kill off the grass and then plant into the mulch. Grass creates a bacteria dominant soil whereas a lot of the species you'll want to plant prefer a fungi dominant soil. When planting, you can inoculate your holes with Mycorrhizal fungi and they'll form a beneficial symbiotic relationship with the root nodules.
I'm this anon, btw:
>>1352888I've been doing a lot of reading about this exact topic the last few months because I've got my own plans for similar (although on a much smaller scale). All of what I've just said above, I've learned from the Edbile Forest Garden's book, it truly is a great resource. Cover's a shit ton from Soil Food Webs, how forests grow; succession, gap dynamics etc. patterns in nature, polyculture guilds, right the way through to assessing your current site, then designing and implementing a plan for establishing a forest garden.
Want me to post the contents page of that book and the Martin Crawford one? Then anything that peaks your interest I can scan and post here if you didn't intend on buying them. Can't scan it all though because it's over 900 pages for fucks sake!
