Soft Fruit Abundance in Four Year-old Food Forest (July 2020)
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- Soft Fruit Abundance in Four Year-old Food Forest. Advantages of growing soft fruit and how they grow in a young, temperate climate food forest.
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Byther Farm is a small organic homestead, designed and managed using permaculture practices. We aim for self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables for increased self reliance and better resilience to the modern world. I recognise that we are unlikely to be truly self sufficient, but do the best we can. I share our home with my loving partner, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
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We keep chickens and Aylesbury ducks.
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Hi liz I love all your video's I have learnt so much from you Erica and Huw thank you all
the duck interlude completely slayed me. thanks for sharing
So glad that you enjoyed them! They are fabulous creatures and it just wouldn't be the same without them.
Sthe transformation of ur property is so amazing and inspiring!! 😃🌿🌼😊🦋🐞🐝
Haha I love the ducks showering!! 6:03 😀
On a totally different topic I am loving the C19 hairdo 🇨🇦🥕🙏🌶😷👌🥬🌱🌻🐌
Love the duck shower!!
I have been interested in having a food forest but found the prospect intimidating, but you describe it so simply and straightforwardly that I suddenly realised my Aunty in the Isle of Man had one which she called her fruit garden and it was one of my favourite places to be when I was growing up!
The transformation is incredible. You're such an inspiration!
This was wonderful. Thank you for sharing your fruit forest with us
So nice of you, thank you for watching!
Love this channel, I think you and Huw and others can combine and for a fee give us a really good gardening show to beat the BBC.We should pay for it to get high quality information.Maybe Charles Downing can join in too.
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Wonderful
I love your garden so much more than all the neat and tidy ones. I love how wild and natural it feels. I planted 2 black currants this year. Here in the US in Colorado I paid $29 for each. Currants aren't popular here but I love them for jam. The red grow wild and I forage for them in the fall.
Number One!
I loved this so much!
Love your garden and all on your farm.
I cant wait to get my ducks so I can do that lol
Wow the food forest is amazing. I wish the council would hurry up and give us an allotment. I have already started to plan in my head what we would be growing depending on the rules. Soft fruit being one of types
Hi Angela, oh the wait for an allotment can be agonising!
@@LizZorab I put in for one about 18 months ago. The two sites are really popular the first has a waiting list of 75 people the second 68. They are about a 10 minute drive from here and about the same from my daughter's school. I am currently sitting 16 and 22 respectively but they haven't started showing plots yet due to restrictions. Each plot is approximately 125metres square unless you get one of the big ones. So appropriately 33 x 40 ft. Not huge but manageable. Need to find out what I am allowed to grow ie trees etc and if I can have a mini food forest but doing Heather's Permaculture course is helping at least put together a list of things to look at even if I cant do the base maps yet.
Hello Liz, what a wonderful food forest. Super harvest. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Kate! I feel as though I've been neglecting friends for the last few months. It won't be long before I've finished writing the book and I will have time to catch up with you then.😃
@@LizZorab no worries Liz Dear. I'll be here when you get back.
Awesome update Liz
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Liz Smart move spraying the ducks I like that a lot
My red currants and black currants where got by the Black bird family two or three weeks ago, they nested at the bottom of my garden so I don't really mind, I had a few !
I love your ducks, haha! :D
I grow a variety of soft fruit (red and black currants, gooseberries, Japanese wineberries, raspberry-strawberries, paw-paw, figs, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, loganberries, boysenberries, mulberries, aronia berries, honeyberries, blackberries, elderberries and goji berries). The birds never go for any of the fruit in my garden either. I provide water for them and feed them year-round, and since I let my garden grow a little "wild", there are always plenty of insects too. What they do go for are cabbage butterfly caterpillars on my plants. I haven't had to use bacillus thuringiensis to fight them in years because the birds work so hard to get rid of them.
The only problem with having a community allotment is that we are really discouraged from allowing an ‘untidy’ space so all those wonderful wild grasses etc that keep the birds fed have to be cut down. I have noticed that since I removed my bird feeder a month ago a pair of blackbirds are very busy around my blueberry cage removing all manner of creatures to feed their young. It’s the only cage I’ve erected, my other soft fruits are running free like Liz’s. I’ll only put the feeder back in the winter from now on . Great video,
My raspberries have been rubbish this year but my blackcurrents tremendous, It was the other way round last year and they grow next to each other and were planted at the same time the year before first fruiting!
Looks lovely cheers 🍻
Thanks for the visit and I'm glad you like it!
Loving the drone shots, you're getting good at it😊. The ducks sure loved the cool shower and Monty looks like he was sacked out with the heat lol. I'm growing a tropical apple tree and have 2 blueberry bushes, one mulberry in a pot and also a cumquat. Wish i could grow raspberries though, very jealous😣
Cherry trees nice,redcurrants ,black currants and strawberries too
I propagated my red raspberries from suckers yesterday. Working on a bramble hedge in my front yard. Living in a desert raspberries take a bit of extra care and water but its worth the extra work!
What a nice garden~
We're ramping up our perennials and so looking forward to enjoying more of what you're describing and living. Great stuff! 👍
Great video liz
My blackcurrants were massive this year! And very yummy!
Nice watching and listening too
Ive only just started my veg plot, & lucky enough to have lots of space for more. Would LOVE a fruit garden but have no idea where to start 🙈 thanks for the inspiration Liz......think I should tackle the millions of Dock weeds first 😩
Oh Liz i'm SO GLAD i finally found you again! It has been a long long time between views. I had subbed to you on an old channel of mine. You look amazing and so does your food forest. We are finally getting started on our urban backyard farm. I have 3 day old chicks in my brooder (i can only have 5 chooks in my council), which husband has relocated TO OUR BEDROOM this evening! He was popping out to check on them constantly, so I gave in, and moved the brooder. It is extremely cold in Melbourne at the moment, and the downstairs laundry was too cool. I'm going to binge your back catalogue of videos over the next few days. My next project (apart from building the coop) is a straw bale garden. I'm hoping it will help convert some clay to usable soil over time. 💕 Karyn
Welcome back!
Lovely drone footage
Thank you for your Chanel, I’ve just started growing on my balcony, and it’s been so relaxing and lovely learning from you! I have a Red Currant that isn’t happy...so I’m going to try to re-pot (eventually) using this method. :)
Lovely video ... mmm cant wait to make raspberry jam!
lovely video its been a good year for soft fruit dont you think liz
Hi Steven, it's been an amazing year for them, I guess they have liked all the rain that we've had.
Tree crops are awesome
Hi Liz. What plants were the small brown birds perched on and eating seeds from?
Hi David, those are common dock plants that have gone to seed.
Hi Liz
Have you ever left your autumn fruiting canes in place until summer? I did, by accident one year, and was amazed by the second crop I got from the canes. I’ve got Zeva canes in one bed. They fruit very late on, but I leave the canes and in July they have a good second crop of rasps, then I cut out the old canes to get the fruit from the canes that have grown this year.
Cheers. Glynis
Glynis Reynolds
Yes, I do the same, as my parents did before me, and have indeed two good crops in the year this way.
Here's my video about this ruclips.net/video/Fy4pXxdmPHY/видео.html
I bought a red currant bush today from a table in a garden, my new way of garden shopping. No nonsense and only £2 for a bush that would be more like £6 in a garden centre. I will do cuttings as well, but it's nice to have some established bushes as well
That pheasant berry is gorgeous! I've never seen such a thing before!😍
(I'm going to have plums and sour cherries this year... I'm pretty excited about that!) It never occurred to me to plant shrubbery fruits under the trees, that's a fantastic idea... And I love how you've gotten it to all come together and create a very natural and diversely nourishing habitat for the birds and other garden creatures. 🙌💚
Everything is looking great, Liz but how come your Californian poppies are still flowering but mine are been and gone?
Do you water them? #Whaaa #PoppyEnvy
You could be on the television with your you tube channels
Aw thank you Caroline!
Bravissima!!!! Number u
I have black,red and white currant bushes which this year I put up a cage and netted to stop the birds from eating them. But something else has eaten the white currants and is now onto the red! Could this be mice? Or is there some other critter partial to them. Help please.
HI Liz
Can I ask about your white currants ,I have just started to home brew, and i have a jostaberry and black currant wine on the go, but I have picked masses of white currants to make a white wine, I thought they might make a lovely white wine but can find anywhere on line where anyone uses them for home made wine, and you mentioned that you use them for wine and wondered how it turns out, is it a good one and do you have any tips before I start please.
thanks, Jo
Hi Jo, I make all my country wines in the same way, the basic recipe is here ruclips.net/video/ZWM7zAH93fI/видео.html The only ones that haven't turned out nice are ones where I've squeezed the pulp and ended up with too many 'bits' in the wine or where it's had to much pectin in it and gets a pectin cloud. I'm also not very good at flower wines, but when I work out how to make them nicely, I will post a video. Good luck with the currant wine!
Lovely video. I can't wait for the live stream. :) Do you mind telling me the name of this song at 7:22?
It's called The Kingdom of Nature by Grant Newman and is available via Epidemic Sound.
@@LizZorab Thank you kindly. That song really captured the whimsy of your farm and is such a mood boost. Cheers from across the pond.
Hi Liz. Love watching your videos. I've got heavy clay soil but would love soft fruit. How deep would raised beds needs to be or are there any varieties that will tolerate wet roots over winter? Struggling to find info. Thanks
Raspberries are shallow rooted, so as long as you don't have standing water across the whole area that they'd be growing for long periods, they should be fine. Our strawberries are in shallow raised beds and also there are some that grow direct in our heavy clay field soil. It's worth giving them a go!
Thanks so much I'd thought I'd have no chance with raspberries so that's given me hope. Want to try gooseberries, blackberries and blackcurrants
Hi Liz, great info thanks. A quick question, I have a pheasant berry plant which is laden in fruit and only just realised they’re edible. Have you tried them and if so do you have any suggestions on use.... can you eat them raw?
I don't think you can eat them raw. I think you need to cook them and just have a few to start with and allow your body to get used to them.
Thanks, Liz, had a sneaky taste of a very ripe berry.....strangely nice before the tart, bitterness kicks in 🥴think I’ll stick to the tried and tested berries 😃
Even at Asda's value prices I've had over £120 worth of raspberries - checking them against organic raspberries (I haven't sprayed owt on my fruits) makes that rocket. Chilling out from picking raspberries at the moment till the Autumn crop comes in.
My strawberries have been in since 2015 and still producing but I think I need to replace them with known varieties ( I started them off in my previous allotment from the few plants that were there). I've space for about 30 plants. Would you go for ever bearers that produce over a long period or split it into 10 each of an early, mid and late season. Looking at the early/mid/late varieties It doesn't look as there is much time difference between them, a few weeks possibly (they all seem to say June to July).
Pheasant Berry - for me, it's a race with the birds for who can get them first - usually the birds win. They don't seem to have touched the choke berries though - in truth neither have I.
It's amazing how many of my family say they don't like (insert soft fruit here) but cant get enough of them when they've been grown on the allotment.
no need to change the variety if you are happy with em, but try to plant them a new place (use the runners) every 3 years, or take the runners yearly and move 1/3 of the plants every year and they will keep producing
@@LiLBitsDK They perform well but everything comes in such a short space of time. I'm thinking of some of the day neutral types to spread the harvest out a bit longer but less each week. I don't eat jams, jellies or conserves so thats one of the biggest uses of a glut out of the window.
And the idea of fresh, homegrown strawberries straight off the plant in September on my birthday appeals to me.
@@jasons-jungle well you can of course try to get some "early/late" variants to add as well, as long as you know which variant yours are, or try to guess compared to when other private people have their strawberries :D can never get too many
Do you find many snakes in your food forest?
Hi, here in the UK there really aren't very many snakes. I would have loved the food forest to be visited by some snakes, but it was not snake-friendly land around our home.
@@LizZorab Oh how I wish I could export some of ours. They’re mostly the benign rat eating variety, but there’s also the occasional venomous Copperhead. I understand that Water Moccasins are also in the area, though praise God, I’ve not seen any in the 3 yrs since we bought this farm. I’m in the second year of a permaculture project, so I need to be mindful of ATTRACTING snakes too close to the house.