That coconut leaf hat, the colors of the landscape, and the plants, seeing all those things just reminds me of the farming area in my motherland of Bali.
You could also grow varieties of melons in between your dense planting of fruit trees to maximize productivity. Melons and other starter fruit trees just sprang up from regularily burying kitcen waste between plantings for me.
Difficulty with melons here is most of the year is too dry. We're just finishing up now getting a good crop of tropical pumpkins, but otherwise I'm trying to fill in with small bushes and shrubs that are taller than the grasses and drought tolerant
Hey buddy, I'm so glad that I found your video coz that's what I have been doing on my will against the people in my native who suggest to leave a min distance of 10 ft between tress and saps. I belong to a place called Kanniyakumari where we own a certain piece of land which I have planted densely with around 36 varieties of plants and more than 100 of em in yotal. I would like to inform you that you could really learn and use the symbiotic relationship even among plants to increase your yield. Lemme give you an example: For every couple of coconut trees planted adjacently you can plant a banana tree in between them (no need for any particular spacing just plant em in between) as banana's have a bulb like tuber that contains a good amount of water it helps the coconut tree to get a good amount of water supply and growth simultaneously. You can do some research with the types of plants you have and the support plants you can have for them. This way I have shut the month of 100s of people who have said that I'll never take a good yield 😂
Hey thanks for the tip! I'll be sure to buy some plantains and put them between my coconuts around the circles! Keep planting and growing good food my friend!
This is my thinking too! Since I'm growing trees from seeds and cuttings anyway, why do I care if some of them end up as mulch, with more food in the meantime?
Wouldn't it be better to space out the fruit trees more and then densely interplant the forest with very fast growing nitrogen fixing trees? That way you get shade and protection really fast. You've done a little with the short-lived pigeon peas but some of the those fruit trees seem too close to each other. And fruit trees tend to be slow growing comparing to really fast growing nitrogen fixing trees e.g. ice cream bean, albizia, tipuana tipu etc
To a point. This performs the benefits of shading and establishing rapid canopy for sure, and is one of the most prevalent models. However many fruit trees yield their first fruits in 3-5 years, so having them planted spaced accordingly works well. What fruits in less than 3-5 years? Many bushes and shrubs and perennial flower crops. So planting densely with these can also perform the function in between the fruit/food trees. Now on our site, the only nitrogen fixing tree that is available and grows with our aridity is leucaena, and even that grows slowly and stunted compared to other areas. We're too dry for things like ice cream bean, though I keep trying. Pigeon pea really is the only thing that will grow so fast here and provide shade faster than the food trees, so we're using them. I'm also using tithonia diversifolia where I've got gaps to help build soil too. On other, wetter areas, fast growing nitrogen fixers can be used for sure, but you'll be competing with the food trees for less output. I'd still plant the food trees close and use N+ shrubs and beans to close the gaps if needed. Often times in those areas though there's so much biomass that nitrogen needs can be met just by chop and drop. That's how we fixed our phosphorus deficiency.
That coconut leaf hat, the colors of the landscape, and the plants, seeing all those things just reminds me of the farming area in my motherland of Bali.
You could also grow varieties of melons in between your dense planting of fruit trees to maximize productivity. Melons and other starter fruit trees just sprang up from regularily burying kitcen waste between plantings for me.
Difficulty with melons here is most of the year is too dry. We're just finishing up now getting a good crop of tropical pumpkins, but otherwise I'm trying to fill in with small bushes and shrubs that are taller than the grasses and drought tolerant
this is actually a great idea, thank you, I'm personally planning on planting date palm trees.
What a wonderful idea! Where abouts do you live?
Hey buddy, I'm so glad that I found your video coz that's what I have been doing on my will against the people in my native who suggest to leave a min distance of 10 ft between tress and saps. I belong to a place called Kanniyakumari where we own a certain piece of land which I have planted densely with around 36 varieties of plants and more than 100 of em in yotal. I would like to inform you that you could really learn and use the symbiotic relationship even among plants to increase your yield. Lemme give you an example: For every couple of coconut trees planted adjacently you can plant a banana tree in between them (no need for any particular spacing just plant em in between) as banana's have a bulb like tuber that contains a good amount of water it helps the coconut tree to get a good amount of water supply and growth simultaneously. You can do some research with the types of plants you have and the support plants you can have for them. This way I have shut the month of 100s of people who have said that I'll never take a good yield 😂
Hey thanks for the tip! I'll be sure to buy some plantains and put them between my coconuts around the circles! Keep planting and growing good food my friend!
This is my thinking too! Since I'm growing trees from seeds and cuttings anyway, why do I care if some of them end up as mulch, with more food in the meantime?
Wouldn't it be better to space out the fruit trees more and then densely interplant the forest with very fast growing nitrogen fixing trees? That way you get shade and protection really fast. You've done a little with the short-lived pigeon peas but some of the those fruit trees seem too close to each other. And fruit trees tend to be slow growing comparing to really fast growing nitrogen fixing trees e.g. ice cream bean, albizia, tipuana tipu etc
To a point. This performs the benefits of shading and establishing rapid canopy for sure, and is one of the most prevalent models. However many fruit trees yield their first fruits in 3-5 years, so having them planted spaced accordingly works well. What fruits in less than 3-5 years? Many bushes and shrubs and perennial flower crops. So planting densely with these can also perform the function in between the fruit/food trees.
Now on our site, the only nitrogen fixing tree that is available and grows with our aridity is leucaena, and even that grows slowly and stunted compared to other areas. We're too dry for things like ice cream bean, though I keep trying. Pigeon pea really is the only thing that will grow so fast here and provide shade faster than the food trees, so we're using them. I'm also using tithonia diversifolia where I've got gaps to help build soil too.
On other, wetter areas, fast growing nitrogen fixers can be used for sure, but you'll be competing with the food trees for less output. I'd still plant the food trees close and use N+ shrubs and beans to close the gaps if needed. Often times in those areas though there's so much biomass that nitrogen needs can be met just by chop and drop. That's how we fixed our phosphorus deficiency.