I just found your account; I’m only about 4 months into my permaculture journey, helping my mother set up a food forest in Pennsylvania. Thank you for the glimpse into your garden and mind. Looking forward to the next video if there is one. Much love, Dan
Can you do one for 2023 this year? I've been looking for good sources on gardening in CT and yours is probably the best I've found in terms of presenting good cultivars for zone 6. Plus you rep Patrick from One Yard Revolution so I know you're in the know.
Thank you for the kind words. I plan to do a garden tour this year. I put some new trees in the ground, and I'm planning to diversify my vegetable garden. OYR is a great channel!
@@Viva_la_natura Subbed! You're cool man, love the cats. I planted some berries bushes and an allium patch (with Egyptian Walking Onions as per OYR's recommendation) this year after a few years of messing around. Much more interested in perennial bushes and trees now that I've realized replanting everything every year is not really my style. Any recommendations on really easy fruit trees? I am really digging the mulberry's vibes, I just want something that won't fuss about a CT winter.
@@FindTheFun contrary to the opinion of others in the area who complain of fire blight, I've had a lot of luck with Asian pears which are delicious fruit! So many varieties. Apples... I'm cursed with the exception of Pristine. I would almost recommend common macintosh varieties (get disease resistant like Liberty). When it comes to stone fruit, same, I'm cursed with pests. I've had luck with common varieties, Red Haven peach etc, but at the time, I didn't know to prune them down to 18" to keep the scaffolding low because harvesting peaches from high up is a nightmare. I'm new to persimmon, but they also seem like winners, some cold tolerant Asian varieties and American hybrids. Let me know if I can advise anything else you have questions about. It's no trouble, youtube isn't my primary gig..
@@Viva_la_natura I planted a northern highbush blueberry, a red currant, and two raspberries (caroline and red ruby I believe). Really I'm just looking for reliable and easy perennials two grow my garden with bit by bit every year. If you have any advice for those bushes I mentioned or any good perennials I'd love to hear it. Like I said I'm starting a patch of Walking Onions as well as a few large pots for Sunchokes.
Beautiful job. Lovely refuge. Its wonderful working in a garden. Every day, there are changes. Exciting and fascinating. Look what you created! Superb.❤
Hey I’m in Windsor Locks Connecticut my name is also Paul D and I was wondering what kind of things that you recommend I’m currently running the brown turkey and little Ruby as well as the Chicago hearty any other recommendations
Hey Paul D! I definitely have some recommendations for you. All are early or mid season and tolerate our humid summers 1) Florea 2) RDB 3) Blue and Black Celeste 4) LSU Improved Celeste ( most LSU figs) 5) Peter's honey or Izbat An Naj and 6) Smith. I'll have plenty of cuttings in autumn.
Nice garden man. Just a little good news for you….there are a lot of us with permaculture gardens who are just getting on RUclips. Imagine if we got our own neighborhoods to do this. You’d get fascinating honey from the bees. You’d get beautiful fruits from pollination. You’d get interaction with people on the basis of sharing and trade. People would be able to grocery shop in their own yard. That means no petrol burned or no plastic waste. Billionaires are buying up farmland. Their approach to food is purely mathematical. Mathematics don’t include chaos. So it will never work long term
I'm very sorry for my delay to your insightful post; For some reason I don't always get notifications. It seems that RUclips is the neighborhood we're relegated to due to our cultural obsession with lawns as status symbols which I believe dates back to the English and French aristocracies. My belief is that most people are tribalistic and don't want to challenge the lawn status quo because they fear being different. If the gov says "grow a victory garden" during a horrendous war, they're all for it, but otherwise.. don't stick out. Suburbia could be a utopia, filled with gardens, bakeries etc, but people are wedded to the industrial paradigm.. that's why I chose "metabolic rift" as the name for my channel. We have greenhouses in the burbs filled with mums, baby pine trees, when this wasted land could easily feed everyone for cheap, and provide jobs tp the community while enhancing beauty everywhere. Its really all about profits for corporations. We need more conscious Davids to take on Goliath.
I agree with what your saying. Currently using the garden to recover from big pharma stress relievers lol ,poisoning. Horrible experience evil things but I'm starting with the beautiful garden for stress relief and to regain my health from their disabling effects. Natural plant based diet is what I'm aiming for as plants are natural medicinal healers. Vile what corporate psychopaths are getting away with. Subscribed, cats and hedgehogs are my only visitors right now, for the moment.
I agree with you. Whole foods and staying away from highly packaged processed food also. In my fall garden tour 2021 I show my pantry if you're interested in how I do it. I bulk order organic legumes and beans and healthy flours. And then whatever is growing in the garden I incorporate into those dishes.
I am on central ct. my app says NY ironweed. I looked out up and looks like in spring trim back and can do different heights. This would look great edge of my yard bc woist due to wetlands. Exact verbiage “ prune it back in spring to about 2 feet. It is attractive if blooming occurs at different heights, so prune to different heights for this effect. This plant was selected as the 2004 NC Wildflower of the Year, a program managed by the North Carolina Botanical Garden”
Wow! that's awesome info Tammy. I didn't know it could be pruned back to different heights. I had a small concern about it growing too tall and shading out other plants. thank you!
What were those seed catalogs you mentioned? And the little tree company? I'm up in the Windsor area on about half acre with pretty heavy clay soil so lots in raised beds here
Love watching your tours. Also, I agree, we need to do something I stumble when I get past what I'm doing on my channel. Keep in touch and maybe we can brainstorm a little. 🖖
You have many options in 8b because you have a longer season. I would recommend French figs such as Colle de dame blanc, RDB or Bourjassotte Gris. Others would be Smith, Strawberry Verte, or Italian 258 (I-258) . These are all very high quality figs and don't require pollination. I don't grow many of these varieties with the exception of a few because we have such a short season and they wouldn't ripen in time.
I don't know of anyone doing a food forest specifically, but there are Permaculture Meet Up groups on Meet Up engaged in green advocacy around climate change.
In California, it's a different ball game because you have the wasp to pollinate the figs, and a long dry growing season. so you're in fig paradise. I noticed figs like Desert King (2 crops), Strawberry Verte, yellow long neck, Panache (tiger striped fig), Pastiliere Unknown, and Italian 258 are all popular.
We purchased our first brown turkey from a box store. We are intrigued by the wide variety and fig community out there. We really want to invest in rare types. PaulD thanks for taking the time to send some suggestions. Looking forward to adding these types to our garden. May peace be with you.
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I just found your account; I’m only about 4 months into my permaculture journey, helping my mother set up a food forest in Pennsylvania. Thank you for the glimpse into your garden and mind. Looking forward to the next video if there is one. Much love, Dan
Can you do one for 2023 this year? I've been looking for good sources on gardening in CT and yours is probably the best I've found in terms of presenting good cultivars for zone 6. Plus you rep Patrick from One Yard Revolution so I know you're in the know.
Thank you for the kind words. I plan to do a garden tour this year. I put some new trees in the ground, and I'm planning to diversify my vegetable garden. OYR is a great channel!
@@Viva_la_natura Subbed! You're cool man, love the cats. I planted some berries bushes and an allium patch (with Egyptian Walking Onions as per OYR's recommendation) this year after a few years of messing around. Much more interested in perennial bushes and trees now that I've realized replanting everything every year is not really my style. Any recommendations on really easy fruit trees? I am really digging the mulberry's vibes, I just want something that won't fuss about a CT winter.
@@FindTheFun contrary to the opinion of others in the area who complain of fire blight, I've had a lot of luck with Asian pears which are delicious fruit! So many varieties. Apples... I'm cursed with the exception of Pristine. I would almost recommend common macintosh varieties (get disease resistant like Liberty). When it comes to stone fruit, same, I'm cursed with pests. I've had luck with common varieties, Red Haven peach etc, but at the time, I didn't know to prune them down to 18" to keep the scaffolding low because harvesting peaches from high up is a nightmare. I'm new to persimmon, but they also seem like winners, some cold tolerant Asian varieties and American hybrids. Let me know if I can advise anything else you have questions about. It's no trouble, youtube isn't my primary gig..
@@Viva_la_natura I planted a northern highbush blueberry, a red currant, and two raspberries (caroline and red ruby I believe). Really I'm just looking for reliable and easy perennials two grow my garden with bit by bit every year. If you have any advice for those bushes I mentioned or any good perennials I'd love to hear it. Like I said I'm starting a patch of Walking Onions as well as a few large pots for Sunchokes.
@@Viva_la_natura Forgot to mention, I just started some rhubarb seeds I got from my cousin as well, but it will be a while for them to mature.
Beautiful job. Lovely refuge. Its wonderful working in a garden. Every day, there are changes. Exciting and fascinating. Look what you created! Superb.❤
Thank you!!
I love your garden. Thank you for sharing!
Love the garden! You are really fortunate to be able to grow your own.
Yes, thank you
Nice permaculture tour! I think your purple mystery flowers might be New York ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis).
You got it! That's it. Now I remember the tag. Thank you!
Beautiful
Nice video...
Lovely,, 💕💕💕
At 7:40--looks like New York ironweed. In wet soil, can easily grow to 6-8' height.
Your interesting, I’m
Going to get that book. 🌿
Wonderful!
Hey I’m in Windsor Locks Connecticut my name is also Paul D and I was wondering what kind of things that you recommend I’m currently running the brown turkey and little Ruby as well as the Chicago hearty any other recommendations
Hey Paul D! I definitely have some recommendations for you. All are early or mid season and tolerate our humid summers 1) Florea 2) RDB 3) Blue and Black Celeste 4) LSU Improved Celeste ( most LSU figs) 5) Peter's honey or Izbat An Naj and 6) Smith. I'll have plenty of cuttings in autumn.
Nice garden man. Just a little good news for you….there are a lot of us with permaculture gardens who are just getting on RUclips.
Imagine if we got our own neighborhoods to do this. You’d get fascinating honey from the bees. You’d get beautiful fruits from pollination. You’d get interaction with people on the basis of sharing and trade. People would be able to grocery shop in their own yard.
That means no petrol burned or no plastic waste.
Billionaires are buying up farmland. Their approach to food is purely mathematical.
Mathematics don’t include chaos. So it will never work long term
I'm very sorry for my delay to your insightful post; For some reason I don't always get notifications.
It seems that RUclips is the neighborhood we're relegated to due to our cultural obsession with lawns as status symbols which I believe dates back to the English and French aristocracies. My belief is that most people are tribalistic and don't want to challenge the lawn status quo because they fear being different. If the gov says "grow a victory garden" during a horrendous war, they're all for it, but otherwise.. don't stick out.
Suburbia could be a utopia, filled with gardens, bakeries etc, but people are wedded to the industrial paradigm.. that's why I chose "metabolic rift" as the name for my channel. We have greenhouses in the burbs filled with mums, baby pine trees, when this wasted land could easily feed everyone for cheap, and provide jobs tp the community while enhancing beauty everywhere. Its really all about profits for corporations. We need more conscious Davids to take on Goliath.
I agree with what your saying. Currently using the garden to recover from big pharma stress relievers lol ,poisoning. Horrible experience evil things but I'm starting with the beautiful garden for stress relief and to regain my health from their disabling effects. Natural plant based diet is what I'm aiming for as plants are natural medicinal healers. Vile what corporate psychopaths are getting away with. Subscribed, cats and hedgehogs are my only visitors right now, for the moment.
I agree with you. Whole foods and staying away from highly packaged processed food also. In my fall garden tour 2021 I show my pantry if you're interested in how I do it. I bulk order organic legumes and beans and healthy flours. And then whatever is growing in the garden I incorporate into those dishes.
I am on central ct. my app says NY ironweed. I looked out up and looks like in spring trim back and can do different heights.
This would look great edge of my yard bc woist due to wetlands.
Exact verbiage “ prune it back in spring to about 2 feet. It is attractive if blooming occurs at different heights, so prune to different heights for this effect.
This plant was selected as the 2004 NC Wildflower of the Year, a program managed by the North Carolina Botanical Garden”
Wow! that's awesome info Tammy. I didn't know it could be pruned back to different heights. I had a small concern about it growing too tall and shading out other plants. thank you!
What were those seed catalogs you mentioned? And the little tree company? I'm up in the Windsor area on about half acre with pretty heavy clay soil so lots in raised beds here
That's awesome! I order from growitalian.com ( which is seeds of italy or franchi), raintree nursery, peaceful valley organics, and baker creek
Love watching your tours. Also, I agree, we need to do something I stumble when I get past what I'm doing on my channel. Keep in touch and maybe we can brainstorm a little. 🖖
I'll definitely check your channel out. I enjoy the gardening community on RUclips very much. Thank you for your kind words also!
And those dragonflies are really Owlflies I think! They are related to Antlions.
I live in zone 8b which fig variety shows i have:)? And that doesn't need the wasps:)?
You have many options in 8b because you have a longer season. I would recommend French figs such as Colle de dame blanc, RDB or Bourjassotte Gris. Others would be Smith, Strawberry Verte, or Italian 258 (I-258) . These are all very high quality figs and don't require pollination. I don't grow many of these varieties with the exception of a few because we have such a short season and they wouldn't ripen in time.
I’m in Niantic. Do you know any group doing food forest in the area?
I don't know of anyone doing a food forest specifically, but there are Permaculture Meet Up groups on Meet Up engaged in green advocacy around climate change.
Hello,from Pomona California zone 9b. What fig tree do you recommend?
In California, it's a different ball game because you have the wasp to pollinate the figs, and a long dry growing season. so you're in fig paradise. I noticed figs like Desert King (2 crops), Strawberry Verte, yellow long neck, Panache (tiger striped fig), Pastiliere Unknown, and Italian 258 are all popular.
We purchased our first brown turkey from a box store. We are intrigued by the wide variety and fig community out there. We really want to invest in rare types. PaulD thanks for taking the time to send some suggestions. Looking forward to adding these types to our garden. May peace be with you.