Landscape fields

Tampere has ten landscape fields, where different landscape plants and pollinator-friendly plants are grown.

Sunflower, blue tansy and crimson clover have been sown this year in the landscape fields of Seimenniitty in Vehmainen, Varsanpuisto in Takahuhti and Ryydynpuisto in Ryydynpohja. Sunflowers, blue tansy and buckwheat grow in Pohtolanpuisto. Several species of flowers, including cornflower, mallow-wort, common poppy and common marigold, have been sown in the landscape fields of Sahanvainio in Niemenranta and Vihiojanpuisto in Muotiala. All the flowering landscape fields have been sown with a clover grass mixture as a groundcover.

The landscape fields of Lystinhuoneenpuisto in Lukonmäki, Turtosenrinne in Turtola, Sahanvainionpuisto in Niemenranta and part of the fields of Varsanpuisto in Takahuhti, are in the green manure rotation, i.e. clover-rich grassland.

Management of landscape fields

Landscape fields are managed organically using traditional agricultural methods such as ploughing, harrowing, sowing and mowing. Landscape fields are cultivated with a variety of cereals, useful plants, grasses, flowering landscape plants or mixtures of these. Landscape fields are cultivated in a rotation pattern typical of organic farming. The choice of crop species and crop rotation is planned for a period of five years.

As no pesticides are used, the fields have crops grown from the soil seed bank in addition to the crops themselves. Crop rotation limits the incidence of weeds and plant diseases and promotes the diversity of arable land. The diverse vegetation in landscape fields provides food for the areas' insect and butterfly species. Landscape fields provide a more diverse urban environment and allow the landscape to remain open.