The Tree of Happiness !!! That's another colloquial name for it because you can make a tea &/or tincture from the beautiful flowers which are used to quell depression. (Yes, it actually WORKS!) Any seedlings not wanted are easily removed or mowed, which makes it perfect for suburbia. The Tree of Happiness is quite beautiful too. Medicinal tree for the soil. Medicinal tree for the humans. Medicinal Art. Nice.
I was just going to comment about this too. There are many uses for this tree in Chinese Medicine that I have been learning about. I have loved this tree since childhood. You can't go wrong with pretty pink puffy flowers!
@Jesus-x3d At least 20 feet, minimum. But that's still a bit too close for my comfort. Not because of the limbs growing over top of my house, but because of the roots damaging things underneath the house. I prefer to have it a minimum of 40 feet away from my house, bcuz I take what the size of the tree 20 years (or more) from now will be into consideration. If the tree is 40 feet wide, the dripline is 20 feet away from the trunk, and the roots will be even further out. The tree can eventually grow quite tall & wide, I believe it gets about 40 feet wide. But in certain conditions it could probably get even larger. Which means the feeder roots, the ones looking for moisture (in pipes) will be even farther away from the trunk. Planning for that now, which is what you're doing, is the best preventative. If you have a cement foundation, you don't want the roots to grow under the house foundation. No matter what foundation you have, you really don't want the roots to find any water, or waste pipes under, or near the house. Make sure no water/waste pipes are buried in the path of the tree roots. Tree roots travel farther out than the tree's dripline, which is why you want it to be planted very far away from your foundation. Hopefully, you have plenty of room in the yard to have nice healthy home and trees even 30 years from now!
i have used mimosa leaves as mulch i didnt use them specifically in one spot or exclusively in a bed but i've used it. what i can attest to is this. when that tree is blooming if you take those pink blooms and put them in water and let them rot down the same way you would when making various fertilizing teas out of other plant materials.....it makes the best fertilizer i've ever made. i've never had plants grow the way they did with that really rank mimosa bloom water. now it smells worse than everything i've ever smelled but it fed my plants and they love it. so when the tree is in bloom i collect blooms as if they are going out of style. even if they have fallen off the tree onto the ground rake up the blooms and throw them in water to rot. water your plants with it. its gold literally.
The mimosa stamens are full of pollen which contain 22.7% of protein on average, including 10.4% of essential amino acids such as methionine, lysine, threonine, histidine, leucine, isoleucine, valine, phenylalanine, and tryptophan. These protein elements are life essential.
I planted a bunch of Mimosa trees expecting to be able to have all of the drinks I could ever want🥂. You know, for when I have people over for a Sunday brunch. I must be doing something wrong. They flower but all I get is seed pods. Do I need to feed them extra silica for them to form champagne glasses?
I paid 45 dollars for my mimosa tree when it was just a stick at the nursery. Planted it carefully in its own low raised bed and put metal netting around it to protect it from deer. It’s fun to watch how differently it is perceived in other places :)
I had one pop up and had no idea what it was until i saw it on davids vids Abt 3 houses down they have a mimosa tree looks like a bird pooed or dropped (i guess the only difference is the intention behind it ) a mimosa seed its right at the edge of our fence as if they had perched there Ill let it grow so i can get out my philippine machete and do some david the good stuff ✌🏻🙏🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Chickens love the mimosa leaves and they will fight for the flowers. Mimosa flowers are said to have a mood improving effect for humans also. I deffenately will be experimenting with the mimosa tree as I have oodles of them on my property.
When I was a child, in the coalfields of virginia, there was a giant mamosa about 20 foot from my bedroom window. I remember lazy summer days laying on the bed and watching the dozen or so humming birds fly from fluffy pink bloom to fluffly pink bloom. We didn't have air conditioning so th window would be up to catch any breeze. That tree sounded like a bee hive.
So, call me an oddball, but I've always LOVED mimosas. Sad my property doesn't have any. If you post some seeds in your store I would absolutely buy them!
They grow everywhere, especially along roads. In my area, I counted over a dozen growing along the south-bound lane of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway from 495 in Maryland to where it enters D.C. - maybe 4-5 miles of highway. Right now they are full of seed pods. I bet that you could go for a drive and find one right now. If they can grow in your area, they most likely do. I hope you do. You're not an oddball, btw. I've loved them my whole life since we had one in the front yard of my family's first home. Good luck!
Mimoas have driven me crazy in the flower bed in front of my house and thus year they've shown up in the back yard too. So thanks for turning my hate relationship with them into a potentially loving one! :) I'm going to start loading up my compost with them and see what happens! :)
I've read that chipped-up Mimosa wood is also suitable fodder for a certain percentage in drought conditions, I know that rabbits will eat the leaves and strip the bark, and I've seen chickens going for the chipped-up wood as well an interesting tree for sure
Thailand here. We have what I believe is Mimosa albizia julibrissin. It creates seed pods that some of the locals enjoy. It grows on the edge of my garden like a weed. I've been using the leaves for swamp water and the larger sticks for trellis. I will try this with my new bed in a few weeks. Worth a shot.
I am a big fan or the invasive silver wattle "acacia dealbata". It's beautiful, grows fast, regrows nicely after pruning and it is fun to chop up the butter soft younger branches with a machete. The mimosa like leafes compost very fast. Great chop and drop for warm temperate and subtropical climates.
Hello Mr. Goodman, Thank you for discussing Gliricidia. As a royal tree nerd, I have been amazed at Gliricidia for many years, and have started some from seed here in California. I hope the awareness of this tree continues to grow over time.
They are beasts in Chattanooga. I've let them grow to help feed my fruit trees. They're crazy easy to strip, they come in later in summer and give dappled light. That's great for young fruit trees.
I'm in a Central Idaho mountain canyon with a lovely large mimosa that is the focal point of our yard. Hummingbirds by day and hummingbird moths by night adore it. It's exotic here with it's cotton candy scent. I just learned that's it's invasive in different climates, who knew?
David I seen a person who trained one of these into a pretty specimen.. it's the most perfect form. I drive by it on my way to work. It seemed that the trees didn't put on a bloomin show this year compared to last here in North ga? Did you notice that down in southern Alabama?? I love how you always give surprises at the end of your videos. I always stay to the end 😂
In my next food forest, I plan to plant them in the same hole with every fruit tree as a nurse plant. I just grabbed a few seed pods from my parents' place and the germination rates are very high even with the pods not fully mature. I'll also grow vines up them, both annual and perennial (and likely prune them at the same time if it makes sense). I feel seen :D
Yeah, I caught a previous mention you made about mimosa and started dropping the chop since. I should say "pull". I grab a stem and pull leaves within fist then scatter in garden. Older trees, cut and cured or dead, makes decent firewood to mix with other type. It burns hot/fast so I use accordingly. Their blooms alongside honeysuckle's are a fave smell. I'm anxious to see your results!
I have used mimosa as an organic matter builder. It works. I have not done what you are doing, covering it with dirt in a "controlled" setting. However, I have done that with young Sweet Gum trees, and it seems to be working by providing "green" nitrogen-rich organic matter. Keep us posted on your experiment!
I have mimosa babies all over and around my garden. I knew they were good for something, just couldn't remember what. They are about 6" high and I plan on mowing them and putting them in the beds after awhile. They also keep the moisture in the soil along with all the other things I like to let grow. Glad I stumbled across this.
You may grow more Mimosa trees. 😂 i live close to you, Century FL. Moved from Wisconsin. Had to dig out 5 of those trees growing on top of my septic tank, when i first moved here. Very invasive in this area. The seed pods fly everywhere. Only have a few of those trees on my property now. With this drought the mimosas did not flourish as well as in other years. I will join in this composting experiment. Mimosas also do not make that good of fire wood.
Your words to the black panther at the end were perfect!!! I know of some states which now consider deer to be invasive...yet won't let up on poaching laws.
Hahahah I love my mimosas. I'm making several into bonsai but I have a giant rootstock in the back of my yard that grows fishing poles in weeks but I use the plumage for compost t
I am doing a similar experiment with kudzu and sweetgum leaves (both nitrogen fixers) as green layers in a variation of a lasagna garden of fall potatos and garlic. I got the idea from your videos, which I really enjoy. I am currently growing in super sandy soil in Central NC. Excited to see how it goes....
I have a big mimosa tree and have been observing a mimosa stump I cut down regrow for two years. Several branches off the old stump will regrow 20+ feet in one year here in Arkansas, its almost unbelievable. And they are popping up four feet from the stump. I have about 100 mimosa volunteers 4-6 ft tall all over. I'm about to move to 7 acres with an acre of just bulldozer bare dirt that I want to start turning into a food forest next spring after I keep my chickens in that area this winter. I really should dig up some mimosa volunteers and move them to the new property. Quick privacy and shade then future fertilizer, I like it. Luckily I have a friend with a backhoe for when I want to get rid of it for good, because those things really want to live.
YESSSS! My friend, neighbor, keeps asking me if I want a mimosa tree cuz they are all over her property…. Gonna get! Thanks David! ❤ all y’all, Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
For those interested in Bonsai, it’s actually a great bonsai tree. I am not into real bonsai myself but it’s a test hobby to help learn more about plants.
So happy to see this video. Am actually trying this on my land since I don't have access to animal manure. Just getting started, so I hope the results are good!
Coincidental to see this video. This summer I started alley cropping with Albizia in my polyculture orchard in south Mississippi. I've found it doesn't grow as well from hardwood or softwood cuttings as Glyricidia, but it transplants very well even in summer. I dig up little seedlings around my land and plant them in dense around young fruit trees for chop and drop. Looking forward to the results. Hope to see you at Scrubfest!
David I love this. Growing up in central Alabama this tree has always been thought of as horrible, weedy, etc. Using it to our advantage is awesome. Way to think outside the box man.
It feels so weird trying to propagate them on my property. As a child I had it DRILLED into me that it was a horrid weed that must be yanked up immediately. Now im digging them up carefully down the road and trying to transplant them. I thought i had a bunch volunteering early in the summer, but its the bush ones, annuals, that make the yellow flowers. I let them go as long as i could for the pollinators, and then composted them last week. Once the flowers were done.
Neighbor has one in her front yard which means my backyard garden sprouts them by the hundreds throughout the spring-fall. Cutting doesnt seem to kill them so they get pulled, all dirt knocked off roots, and tossed back where they were.
Dude Mimosa is one of my favorite trees that grow wild down here. I think they are much prettier than crate myrtles (sp) and in the Atchafalaya Basin, I've seen them over 40-50 feet tall.
We had a few mimosa trees in our hedgerows at the old place in MD, and it made good biochar feedstock, along with all the Japanese honeysuckle, English ivy, Rose of Sharon, and other invasives I was doing battle with. If it shows up here in NJ--it's in the area, but not on my property yet--, I will have to experiment.
I'm so glad to see this video. I have a volunteer in my garden and I've left it for now because I actually love the tree. It is currently a little close to my Bloodgood japanese maple, so I wondered if I should try to move it but worried about killing it. Most nitrogen fixers are somewhat large and not necessarily attractive. There are multiple large specimens of Mimosa I've seen in yards in my area that are so lovely.
Where I'm at in zone 6, they spread pretty well, but it gets to certain point and dies back. Much better behaved than locusts. Great for bees and hummingbirds,they leaf out late, with dappled shade, lose their leaves early in the fall plus the leaf litter breaks down easily. I encourage them in my beds and I'm trialing Prairie Mimosa , which is a northern species with edible seeds. If I were in Florida, I would plant pigeon peas everywhere and use the mimosa as well.
I'm outside of Chattanooga TN, working to build a homestead on some raw land. After seeing your swamp water video months ago, my first thought was using mimosa. Don't have any on the property, so I've got about 8 cuttings I'm attempting to root. They don't seem to be doing well, but I plan on trying again. Its practically free for cash strapped folks. I also want to establish some as fodder for rabbits. If no other reason, the flowers are so cool. Keep up the great work! Ian
Where I live in northern Arizona, we have an even crazier invasive tree than your mimosa tree called a paradise tree. Fairly poisonous and has similar yellow berries to our deadly nightshade plants. The paradise tree also springs up saplings from the roots in addition to the prolific berries it produces. I've found that the soil paradise resides in is always much loamier and healthier than the soil around it. The story goes: the Arizona copper mining depleted our once lush landscape and so somebody's bright idea was to plant a plethora of these extremely prolific poisonous plants everywhere to fix the original sin of poisoning and stripping our soil of fertility.
Where is the picture or video if you doing the broad forking? What a workout that is! We'll have to start looking around our place for Mimosa, not sure that I've noticed any. I'm not sure that the kitty is as interested in the Mimosa as you are.😂
I have some! I'm turning over my garden to fall which needs all the nitrogen to grow all the greens so this will be interesting to try! Thanks for explaining!
Here in Cambodia, there is a tree that reminds me of the mimosa tree that was in the front yard of my childhood home in Tennessee. The flowers on the tree here are red. The people here call it a peacock tree.
Chop and drop!! Compost you enemies! Lol
I know they’re invasive but Mimosa trees are beautiful and I love when they bloom in north central Florida.
The Tree of Happiness !!!
That's another colloquial name for it because you can make a tea
&/or tincture from the beautiful flowers which are used to quell depression.
(Yes, it actually WORKS!)
Any seedlings not wanted are easily removed or mowed, which makes it perfect for suburbia.
The Tree of Happiness is quite beautiful too.
Medicinal tree for the soil.
Medicinal tree for the humans.
Medicinal Art.
Nice.
Thanks for the tip!
They contain DMT, serotonin, nicotine, and other psychoactive alkaloids, so yeah.
I was just going to comment about this too. There are many uses for this tree in Chinese Medicine that I have been learning about. I have loved this tree since childhood. You can't go wrong with pretty pink puffy flowers!
Hi… how far away from my house should I plant mine when I get it? Thank you!
@Jesus-x3d
At least 20 feet, minimum.
But that's still a bit too close for my comfort.
Not because of the limbs growing over top of my house, but because of the roots damaging things underneath the house.
I prefer to have it a minimum of 40 feet away from my house, bcuz I take what the size of the tree 20 years (or more) from now will be into consideration.
If the tree is 40 feet wide, the dripline is 20 feet away from the trunk, and the roots will be even further out.
The tree can eventually grow quite tall & wide, I believe it gets about 40 feet wide.
But in certain conditions it could probably get even larger.
Which means the feeder roots, the ones looking for moisture (in pipes) will be even farther away from the trunk.
Planning for that now, which is what you're doing, is the best preventative.
If you have a cement foundation, you don't want the roots to grow under the house foundation.
No matter what foundation you have, you really don't want the roots to find any water, or waste pipes under, or near the house.
Make sure no water/waste pipes are buried in the path of the tree roots.
Tree roots travel farther out than the tree's dripline, which is why you want it to be planted very far away from your foundation.
Hopefully, you have plenty of room in the yard to have nice healthy home and trees even 30 years from now!
i have used mimosa leaves as mulch i didnt use them specifically in one spot or exclusively in a bed but i've used it. what i can attest to is this. when that tree is blooming if you take those pink blooms and put them in water and let them rot down the same way you would when making various fertilizing teas out of other plant materials.....it makes the best fertilizer i've ever made. i've never had plants grow the way they did with that really rank mimosa bloom water. now it smells worse than everything i've ever smelled but it fed my plants and they love it. so when the tree is in bloom i collect blooms as if they are going out of style. even if they have fallen off the tree onto the ground rake up the blooms and throw them in water to rot. water your plants with it. its gold literally.
I am going to try it!
I got a black pepper barrel and added a spigot onto it. I’ll start making it and call it the tea barrel.
The mimosa stamens are full of pollen which contain 22.7% of protein on average, including 10.4% of essential amino acids such as methionine, lysine, threonine, histidine, leucine, isoleucine, valine, phenylalanine, and tryptophan. These protein elements are life essential.
WOW! Thank you
The flowers make good human medicine too!
I planted a bunch of Mimosa trees expecting to be able to have all of the drinks I could ever want🥂. You know, for when I have people over for a Sunday brunch. I must be doing something wrong. They flower but all I get is seed pods. Do I need to feed them extra silica for them to form champagne glasses?
You have to intercrop them with oranges.
@@davidthegood Noted.
We love mimosa! I’m an herbalist and make medicine with this tree every year! In Chinese medicine it’s referred to the everyone happy tree 💚
I paid 45 dollars for my mimosa tree when it was just a stick at the nursery. Planted it carefully in its own low raised bed and put metal netting around it to protect it from deer. It’s fun to watch how differently it is perceived in other places :)
I had one pop up and had no idea what it was until i saw it on davids vids Abt 3 houses down they have a mimosa tree looks like a bird pooed or dropped (i guess the only difference is the intention behind it ) a mimosa seed its right at the edge of our fence as if they had perched there Ill let it grow so i can get out my philippine machete and do some david the good stuff ✌🏻🙏🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
@@utubeCENSORSaregai or the "intestine" behind it. Sorry, I couldn't resist. lol
Paid?wow. I can't see that.
You PAID for a mimosa tree??? LOL LOL LOL
What??! I LOVE Mimosa Trees! I really love them and now even more so.
Who doesn’t love a Mimosa?! They are in my top five favorite trees! Medicinal as well. ✨
All the Mexicans I know love mimosas, they plant them on their properties, love eating the seedpods, and love sharing saplings with each other.
really? super!
You are thinking of a Tamarind tree! Pls don't eat mimosa seed pods. They are poisonous.
@gyphinix1658 no I looked it up, we eat the mimosa seeds, I didn't get sick from them?
Everything I've read says the seeds/pods from this species of mimosa contain a neurotoxin. >-> Might be worth looking into!
@gyphinix1658 yeah might be, I wouldn't eat them in large amounts
Chickens love the mimosa leaves and they will fight for the flowers. Mimosa flowers are said to have a mood improving effect for humans also. I deffenately will be experimenting with the mimosa tree as I have oodles of them on my property.
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When I was a child, in the coalfields of virginia, there was a giant mamosa about 20 foot from my bedroom window. I remember lazy summer days laying on the bed and watching the dozen or so humming birds fly from fluffy pink bloom to fluffly pink bloom. We didn't have air conditioning so th window would be up to catch any breeze. That tree sounded like a bee hive.
So, call me an oddball, but I've always LOVED mimosas. Sad my property doesn't have any. If you post some seeds in your store I would absolutely buy them!
We all have a tree you really want but don’t have lol
Me too! The fragrance is delightful!😊
They grow everywhere, especially along roads. In my area, I counted over a dozen growing along the south-bound lane of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway from 495 in Maryland to where it enters D.C. - maybe 4-5 miles of highway. Right now they are full of seed pods. I bet that you could go for a drive and find one right now. If they can grow in your area, they most likely do. I hope you do. You're not an oddball, btw. I've loved them my whole life since we had one in the front yard of my family's first home. Good luck!
I have too. It's been my favorite tree since I was a child. I think it is so beautiful.
Back in the late 1970s there was a nematode that killed most of the mimosas in Tennessee. The seeds can survive up to fifty years.
Before I even watch this… YESSS!!!!!
Rockin’ it, David! Well done 👍🏻 (I prefer my mimosa as champagne & orange juice 🥂🍾🍊). Love it when you speak Latin !
That's my favorite mimosa too! 😂
I saw someone jelly from the mimosa flowers. It's pink. Maybe you can make a syrup and add it to your mimosa cocktail? 😁
Mimoas have driven me crazy in the flower bed in front of my house and thus year they've shown up in the back yard too. So thanks for turning my hate relationship with them into a potentially loving one! :) I'm going to start loading up my compost with them and see what happens! :)
Before you compost look up the medicinal properties and uses of the flowers and inner bark.
Mimosa also has medicinal qualities. In Asia it is referred to as the happiness tree because it helps with depression
I've read that chipped-up Mimosa wood is also suitable fodder for a certain percentage in drought conditions, I know that rabbits will eat the leaves and strip the bark, and I've seen chickens going for the chipped-up wood as well an interesting tree for sure
Thailand here. We have what I believe is Mimosa albizia julibrissin. It creates seed pods that some of the locals enjoy. It grows on the edge of my garden like a weed. I've been using the leaves for swamp water and the larger sticks for trellis. I will try this with my new bed in a few weeks. Worth a shot.
For each plant i planted last spring i grabbed a handful of grass/weeds and threw in each hole. Tons of tomatoes and peppers!
That is a great idea.
I am a big fan or the invasive silver wattle "acacia dealbata". It's beautiful, grows fast, regrows nicely after pruning and it is fun to chop up the butter soft younger branches with a machete.
The mimosa like leafes compost very fast. Great chop and drop for warm temperate and subtropical climates.
Hello Mr. Goodman,
Thank you for discussing Gliricidia. As a royal tree nerd, I have been amazed at Gliricidia for many years, and have started some from seed here in California.
I hope the awareness of this tree continues to grow over time.
It is astounding! Thank you
They are beasts in Chattanooga. I've let them grow to help feed my fruit trees. They're crazy easy to strip, they come in later in summer and give dappled light. That's great for young fruit trees.
Reeeeee! I love Mimosa! I worked so hard to get one to grow! They give lovely shade!
I'm in a Central Idaho mountain canyon with a lovely large mimosa that is the focal point of our yard. Hummingbirds by day and hummingbird moths by night adore it. It's exotic here with it's cotton candy scent. I just learned that's it's invasive in different climates, who knew?
Is it supposed to be fragrant? I've seen a similar looking tree here in the Philippines, I might have to reach up and smell it to check.
David I seen a person who trained one of these into a pretty specimen.. it's the most perfect form. I drive by it on my way to work. It seemed that the trees didn't put on a bloomin show this year compared to last here in North ga? Did you notice that down in southern Alabama?? I love how you always give surprises at the end of your videos. I always stay to the end 😂
Really love this idea! You are so out of the box creative. Thank you.
In my next food forest, I plan to plant them in the same hole with every fruit tree as a nurse plant. I just grabbed a few seed pods from my parents' place and the germination rates are very high even with the pods not fully mature. I'll also grow vines up them, both annual and perennial (and likely prune them at the same time if it makes sense). I feel seen :D
How are you germinating your mimosa seeds? Thanks!
Since it is a food forest you need to RUclips the medicinal properties and uses of the flowers and inner tree bark
Word bro!!!! There everywhere.. They made me mad, now they make me glad!!
Yeah, I caught a previous mention you made about mimosa and started dropping the chop since. I should say "pull". I grab a stem and pull leaves within fist then scatter in garden. Older trees, cut and cured or dead, makes decent firewood to mix with other type. It burns hot/fast so I use accordingly. Their blooms alongside honeysuckle's are a fave smell. I'm anxious to see your results!
I have used mimosa as an organic matter builder. It works. I have not done what you are doing, covering it with dirt in a "controlled" setting. However, I have done that with young Sweet Gum trees, and it seems to be working by providing "green" nitrogen-rich organic matter.
Keep us posted on your experiment!
Good luck on your Scrub Fest!
I've been using them in my swales.
O cool! I have these trees growing all around me.
they are quite happy here in Evansville, IN
Very beautiful ♥️♥️🌷🌷
Praying for your friend.
There are mimosa trees in southern Indiana too. I had one... makes a nice tea.
I have mimosa babies all over and around my garden. I knew they were good for something, just couldn't remember what. They are about 6" high and I plan on mowing them and putting them in the beds after awhile. They also keep the moisture in the soil along with all the other things I like to let grow. Glad I stumbled across this.
Good info to know. I think I have mimosa
The system is perfect.
Our observations are highly short sighted.
Great video Broseph
You may grow more Mimosa trees. 😂 i live close to you, Century FL. Moved from Wisconsin. Had to dig out 5 of those trees growing on top of my septic tank, when i first moved here. Very invasive in this area. The seed pods fly everywhere. Only have a few of those trees on my property now. With this drought the mimosas did not flourish as well as in other years. I will join in this composting experiment. Mimosas also do not make that good of fire wood.
I put mimosa flowers in my tea. I like the flavor and it makes me feel great.
Your words to the black panther at the end were perfect!!!
I know of some states which now consider deer to be invasive...yet won't let up on poaching laws.
Hahahah I love my mimosas. I'm making several into bonsai but I have a giant rootstock in the back of my yard that grows fishing poles in weeks but I use the plumage for compost t
Operation Nab The Neighbors Mimosa Leaves is a go go go go go!!! Lol no I couldn’t do that but I might ask for a few branches!!!
The hummingbirds and I both like our mimosa trees very much.
I am doing a similar experiment with kudzu and sweetgum leaves (both nitrogen fixers) as green layers in a variation of a lasagna garden of fall potatos and garlic. I got the idea from your videos, which I really enjoy. I am currently growing in super sandy soil in Central NC. Excited to see how it goes....
I have a big mimosa tree and have been observing a mimosa stump I cut down regrow for two years. Several branches off the old stump will regrow 20+ feet in one year here in Arkansas, its almost unbelievable. And they are popping up four feet from the stump. I have about 100 mimosa volunteers 4-6 ft tall all over. I'm about to move to 7 acres with an acre of just bulldozer bare dirt that I want to start turning into a food forest next spring after I keep my chickens in that area this winter. I really should dig up some mimosa volunteers and move them to the new property. Quick privacy and shade then future fertilizer, I like it. Luckily I have a friend with a backhoe for when I want to get rid of it for good, because those things really want to live.
P.S. Butterflies and hummingbirds are daily visitors to their peculiar blooms, so that's cool too.
Where are you? I live in Arkansas too, but not a single mimosa on the ole ranch.
Im using Leucaena leucocephala the same way, in compost and green manure, works great
YESSSS! My friend, neighbor, keeps asking me if I want a mimosa tree cuz they are all over her property…. Gonna get! Thanks David! ❤ all y’all, Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
For those interested in Bonsai, it’s actually a great bonsai tree. I am not into real bonsai myself but it’s a test hobby to help learn more about plants.
So happy to see this video. Am actually trying this on my land since I don't have access to animal manure. Just getting started, so I hope the results are good!
I've been using it as both a carbon source for biochar and as a nitrogen source for charging the char. Seems to be working well.
I wanna go to scrub fest so bad!!
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Coincidental to see this video. This summer I started alley cropping with Albizia in my polyculture orchard in south Mississippi. I've found it doesn't grow as well from hardwood or softwood cuttings as Glyricidia, but it transplants very well even in summer. I dig up little seedlings around my land and plant them in dense around young fruit trees for chop and drop. Looking forward to the results. Hope to see you at Scrubfest!
We use black locust in a similar fashion, except we have nasty thorns to contend with, so we chip it after we cut them.
We have a lot of albizia here in Hawaii. 150 ft tall
I used to be able to grow Albizia saman in the Caribbean. I miss that one.
David I love this. Growing up in central Alabama this tree has always been thought of as horrible, weedy, etc. Using it to our advantage is awesome. Way to think outside the box man.
It feels so weird trying to propagate them on my property. As a child I had it DRILLED into me that it was a horrid weed that must be yanked up immediately.
Now im digging them up carefully down the road and trying to transplant them. I thought i had a bunch volunteering early in the summer, but its the bush ones, annuals, that make the yellow flowers. I let them go as long as i could for the pollinators, and then composted them last week. Once the flowers were done.
Very invasive!!! It grows in clums like clover.. 100 little trees in clumps from seed Pods... Beautiful flowers and medical uses... TRY THE TEA...👍👍
I do this to all the invasive things in my yard . Tomatoes love the tree gives me tones
i recently began supplementing my chicken feed with mimosa and other tree leaves and the chickens seem to love it.
It's also a medicinal plant, David 😁
I made tincture and teas
Compost Your Enemies is a good tshirt idea
Neighbor has one in her front yard which means my backyard garden sprouts them by the hundreds throughout the spring-fall. Cutting doesnt seem to kill them so they get pulled, all dirt knocked off roots, and tossed back where they were.
Looking forward to updates on this new experiment!
Can’t wait for scrub fest!!!
I'm definitely going to give this a try as I prepare my fall garden beds. I've got mimosa on my property
Dude Mimosa is one of my favorite trees that grow wild down here. I think they are much prettier than crate myrtles (sp) and in the Atchafalaya Basin, I've seen them over 40-50 feet tall.
Love the tree. Now I can use it in different ways with the comfrey.
We had a few mimosa trees in our hedgerows at the old place in MD, and it made good biochar feedstock, along with all the Japanese honeysuckle, English ivy, Rose of Sharon, and other invasives I was doing battle with. If it shows up here in NJ--it's in the area, but not on my property yet--, I will have to experiment.
I cook the leaves / make tea from the blossoms. I use the bark for a calming tea for sleep and relaxation .
I'm so glad to see this video. I have a volunteer in my garden and I've left it for now because I actually love the tree. It is currently a little close to my Bloodgood japanese maple, so I wondered if I should try to move it but worried about killing it. Most nitrogen fixers are somewhat large and not necessarily attractive. There are multiple large specimens of Mimosa I've seen in yards in my area that are so lovely.
There will be 3rd edition of the book. I can't wait to buy and read it.
Going on a mimosa tree seed planting mission my friend. ❤
Where I'm at in zone 6, they spread pretty well, but it gets to certain point and dies back.
Much better behaved than locusts.
Great for bees and hummingbirds,they leaf out late, with dappled shade, lose their leaves early in the fall plus the leaf litter breaks down easily.
I encourage them in my beds and I'm trialing Prairie Mimosa , which is a northern species with edible seeds.
If I were in Florida, I would plant pigeon peas everywhere and use the mimosa as well.
Nice book concept!
I planted a couple of tiny seedling mimosas near a few fruit trees. They grow like weeds here. Plan to coppice it as it grows.
I'm outside of Chattanooga TN, working to build a homestead on some raw land. After seeing your swamp water video months ago, my first thought was using mimosa. Don't have any on the property, so I've got about 8 cuttings I'm attempting to root. They don't seem to be doing well, but I plan on trying again. Its practically free for cash strapped folks. I also want to establish some as fodder for rabbits. If no other reason, the flowers are so cool.
Keep up the great work!
Ian
Where I live in northern Arizona, we have an even crazier invasive tree than your mimosa tree called a paradise tree. Fairly poisonous and has similar yellow berries to our deadly nightshade plants. The paradise tree also springs up saplings from the roots in addition to the prolific berries it produces. I've found that the soil paradise resides in is always much loamier and healthier than the soil around it. The story goes: the Arizona copper mining depleted our once lush landscape and so somebody's bright idea was to plant a plethora of these extremely prolific poisonous plants everywhere to fix the original sin of poisoning and stripping our soil of fertility.
Oh yes. Ailanthus altissima. We saw some in Hannibal, Missouri.
@@davidthegood I love your stuff brother! Thanks for the reply and keep crushing!
I will try this too. I'm in North Central Arkansas ❤
awesome informational video David, good stuff
One of my favourite trees here in Portugal. The authorities just put it on the naughty list.
You need to come over to Michigan lol
It's one of my favorite trees!
Drop your soil on rocks and let the mycorrhizae (my·cor·rhi·za) do the work. Tried it with clumping bamboo and they loved it. Bio-char is next
Where is the picture or video if you doing the broad forking? What a workout that is! We'll have to start looking around our place for Mimosa, not sure that I've noticed any. I'm not sure that the kitty is as interested in the Mimosa as you are.😂
Very helpful! We’ll do it. Thanks
the lake had 5 old large fermoisas( that's hillbilly for momoisas) at the dam; in the 60's. we childern used to run the limbs.
Thanks! There are tons of mimosa trees growing around me, and I've been looking for a green manure to help with a new garden plot.
I have some! I'm turning over my garden to fall which needs all the nitrogen to grow all the greens so this will be interesting to try! Thanks for explaining!
Here in Cambodia, there is a tree that reminds me of the mimosa tree that was in the front yard of my childhood home in Tennessee. The flowers on the tree here are red. The people here call it a peacock tree.
DTG I love your experiments and can't wait to see how this turns out in the new garden. Your beautiful children are all getting so big !
I love you giving science facts! Keep science coming. Also, cant wait to see the experiment result
Fabaceae trees are pretty cool one came up on our property and its amazing seeing it grow