what part of Florida are you in? I am in Live Oak and would like some Malabar spinach, Okinawa spinach and cranberry hibiscus, do you know where I could get some? Your garden is fantastic, great job, thanks for sharing!
hey, Live Oak neighbor! 6 years ago, wondering if you're still here? I'm over by Dowling Park, with Live Oak address. New to north FL, learning how to garden up here, and create food forest on my tiny property by the Suwannee River State Park.
@@dorie991 look up Hoss Tools channel they are in the same growing zone as you are 8b they’re out of South Georgia they put out videos all the time as well as sell all kinds of gardening supplies including seeds
One of the ways to plant yuca, is to make cuttings 10 to 12 inches long, make a shallow dich, seat the sticks flant in the ditch, cover the sticks with one inch of soil...
You are awesome. Hope you live in the Pcola area. Need your advice. Am a Swede, have lived all over the world, but love the tropical plants. Am hoping you can help me esp with my ailing papaya. AND: hope to get a gazillion wild strawberry plants down here from our former home in WA state.
You can eat the yucca leaves too, but you have to cook them a lot to get the poisons neutralized. That peach tree will be great until you get those insects that bore into the trunk of it. They killed all my peach and nectarine trees in central Florida.
+BL Holland Thank you. I'm actually uploading in new video right now. I'm looking to do more soon. I highly recommend contacting Josh at H.E.A.R.T in Lake Whales (facebook.com/heartvillage?ref=ts&fref=ts). He has everything I have and more and they just started a nursery. Also ECHO (echonet.org/) has a lot of great plants and seeds. Best of luck. Also check out facebook.com/groups/wegrowfromhere/?ref=browser for classes, events, and other people over near your area.
This garden is really great! Do you happen to know if any of those crops are also nitrogen fixers, or if you do anything else to fixate nitrogen into the soil? I'm from Miami, so these are basically the types of crops I wanna try using : )
Where in Florida are you? I ask because your soil looks rich and brown in color...unlike the gray sand you find here in zone 9, Tampa area. Was it just a good sheet mulch or do you actually have brown soil where you are? Details please!!
Yeah, you're right, def not the native soil, though I wish it was. I talked about it in the video. The landfill here in Orlando gives away soil to residents (up to a truckload a day). The soil is made from composted yard waste that the city picks up. I intend to do some installations using the native soil, but with such a great resource it hard for me to not take advantage of it. I would like to have more experience with improving native, sandy soil to share with people who don't have that great resource, but that will have to come after more of my food production goals are met :)
Monterey Mushrooms in Zellwood Florida sells/sold the spent compost used to grow mushrooms. I'm not sure if they do anymore. I haven't had access to a pick up truck in a number of years. At one time it was free, then it was $15 for a truck load. It's been steamed to kill weed seeds and they use a load to fill the back of your truck or trailer. It was only available on certain days of the week, so inquire before you go. I got some nasty weed seeds from the landfill before I knew about Monterey Mushroom Farm.
Nothing personal, and it's wonderful to try new things. But, why do so many food forest garden vids grow unheard of vegetable/fruiting plants? What ever happened to tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, carrots, watermelon, potatoes...? Is it because they can't be food forest grown?
Mostly perennial (live for 3 or more years) plants are used in this type of growing. All the plants you mentioned are annuals (grow and die in one season, requiring re-planting)
Great start! It's wonderful seeing other food forests in Florida.
You've got some great stuff! I just moved and am trying to rebuild my garden around the yard (and around HOA rules)
I'm very impressed with the tomatoes
Good food forest is growing so well 🌱
You know you can eat the sweet potato leaves too. Slice them up and sauté them with oil and garlic. They are delicious!
thanks man im starting a garden in Seminole county, wild blueberries are a sweet idea, nice video dude
wow so nice
what part of Florida are you in? I am in Live Oak and would like some Malabar spinach, Okinawa spinach and cranberry hibiscus, do you know where I could get some?
Your garden is fantastic, great job, thanks for sharing!
hey, Live Oak neighbor! 6 years ago, wondering if you're still here? I'm over by Dowling Park, with Live Oak address. New to north FL, learning how to garden up here, and create food forest on my tiny property by the Suwannee River State Park.
@@dorie991 look up Hoss Tools channel they are in the same growing zone as you are 8b they’re out of South Georgia they put out videos all the time as well as sell all kinds of gardening supplies including seeds
@@jiggjohns1028 yup, I'm a Hoss Tools subscriber already, Thanks!
One of the ways to plant yuca, is to make cuttings 10 to 12 inches long, make a shallow dich, seat the sticks flant in the ditch, cover the sticks with one inch of soil...
I have used that method, works great. Thanks for the input
You are awesome. Hope you live in the Pcola area. Need your advice. Am a Swede, have lived all over the world, but love the tropical plants. Am hoping you can help me esp with my ailing papaya. AND: hope to get a gazillion wild strawberry plants down here from our former home in WA state.
You can eat the yucca leaves too, but you have to cook them a lot to get the poisons neutralized. That peach tree will be great until you get those insects that bore into the trunk of it. They killed all my peach and nectarine trees in central Florida.
Hey its permaculture Chris...great video brother.
What is the BEST source tropical plants except for the grocery store helpings? Are any of your followers interested in sharing plants?
Where do you find all the different types of plants?. Building a food forest In Plant City Fl.. Hope you make more video's
+BL Holland Thank you. I'm actually uploading in new video right now. I'm looking to do more soon. I highly recommend contacting Josh at H.E.A.R.T in Lake Whales (facebook.com/heartvillage?ref=ts&fref=ts). He has everything I have and more and they just started a nursery. Also ECHO (echonet.org/) has a lot of great plants and seeds. Best of luck. Also check out facebook.com/groups/wegrowfromhere/?ref=browser for classes, events, and other people over near your area.
+WanderingUpward Thank you, will check it all out..:)
This garden is really great! Do you happen to know if any of those crops are also nitrogen fixers, or if you do anything else to fixate nitrogen into the soil? I'm from Miami, so these are basically the types of crops I wanna try using : )
so mint grows by rhizomes. interesting. No one has mentioned that before other than it takes over. Thanks you.
Also the Mexican sunflower!
Email me at wanderingupward@gmail.com, I think I can help you out.
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did you stop making videos??
Where in Florida are you? I ask because your soil looks rich and brown in color...unlike the gray sand you find here in zone 9, Tampa area. Was it just a good sheet mulch or do you actually have brown soil where you are? Details please!!
Yeah, you're right, def not the native soil, though I wish it was. I talked about it in the video. The landfill here in Orlando gives away soil to residents (up to a truckload a day). The soil is made from composted yard waste that the city picks up. I intend to do some installations using the native soil, but with such a great resource it hard for me to not take advantage of it. I would like to have more experience with improving native, sandy soil to share with people who don't have that great resource, but that will have to come after more of my food production goals are met :)
WanderingUpward What's the name of the landfill? Address? Contact info? That would be great.
SirGarny Orange County Landfill
5901 Young Pine Rd, Orlando, FL 32829
(407) 836-6600
WanderingUpward
Thanks.....will give them a call
Monterey Mushrooms in Zellwood Florida sells/sold the spent compost used to grow mushrooms. I'm not sure if they do anymore. I haven't had access to a pick up truck in a number of years. At one time it was free, then it was $15 for a truck load. It's been steamed to kill weed seeds and they use a load to fill the back of your truck or trailer. It was only available on certain days of the week, so inquire before you go. I got some nasty weed seeds from the landfill before I knew about Monterey Mushroom Farm.
U didn’t plant them???????? Wth? Most of the vegi came from the sky?????
Nothing personal, and it's wonderful to try new things. But, why do so many food forest garden vids grow unheard of vegetable/fruiting plants? What ever happened to tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, carrots, watermelon, potatoes...? Is it because they can't be food forest grown?
The stuff in this video grow very easily in Florida. It is more work to grow the standard stuff here.
What Melissa said is correct. These plants are more suitable for a minimal input system.
Mostly perennial (live for 3 or more years) plants are used in this type of growing. All the plants you mentioned are annuals (grow and die in one season, requiring re-planting)
Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers etc. are annuals, most of the food forest plants are perennials with the goal of less work