Congratulations, such a great achievement with all your trees. The place is looking fabulous, lush and green plenty of shade. I look forward to your next videos 😊
What amazing canopies! you've created a wonderland. I love the close density of your planting, its so lush. I think its great you planted some olives in the wetter areas, and to see the result. Its always interesting to see the same plant in different soil types around the property. Thanks for another wonderful video!
It’s been such a nice surprise, I had no idea which trees would do well when I planted them. These Albizia have been such a treat! And I agree, always good to compare. I’ve definitely learned the most by doing and then observing. You’ve reminded me too, I’ve got a rocky area that gets really dry, no topsoil and it’s on a steep slope - might just be the perfect spot for olives! 💚💚💚
lovely tour through your garden again, Alex, tnx. especially with all those plants, with some completely new to me, because they can't grow in North-West Europe. I follow several homesteaders that have moved to the south of Europe, like in Portugal and Spain. Many have olive trees, and learn how to deal with them to get a rich olive (oil) harvest. Regular (heavy) pruning is essential, especially to keep the trees relatively low, so one can easily harvest the olives. Another thing that might be interesting for you, is the ability of olive trees of be moved. So if you're not happy with the location you have initially planted them, you can move them in (your) winter time. Commercial companies do that with even 100+ old trees, no problem at all. But you can also use cuttings to propagate simply to put them in the ground in your North side hill (or in your nursery).
Oh thank you so much for this great information about the olives! I was going to wait until they fruited so I knew which varieties did well but I’ve seen which ones flowered and so yes, I can take some cuttings and get them started. And there were so many trees I had never heard of when we moved here because we moved from a different climate, so it was a steep learning curve for sure! Anyway thanks again, can’t wait to get some olives going in the nursery! Alex 🪴💚🪴
Wow! That’s fantastic news, nice Bernie! Hope those silky oaks are thriving! I think we had about 60mm.. I saw all the rain out your way on the radar, hope you didn’t get any storm damage 💚🌿
Wonderful! Congrats on the papaya and thanks for the hint about protecting the plants. On feijoas, they are often used successfully as windbreaks here in New Zealand. But they seem to thrive when they get some water early on. The pruning rule I use for them is make sure the birds that pollinate the flowers can get access - so a relatively open plant can be an advantage for fruiting.
This is really great advice on the feijoas, thanks so much. Great to know they’re used as windbreaks in NZ too. We’re lucky we’ve had well above average Spring rains and it’s definitely made a difference to the vigour. Looking forward to tasting the fruit! Alex 💚🌿
Thanks so much, but what you’ve done to your property is absolutely incredible too! And bananas are next in the food forest thanks to you! The soil’s nice and wet, and lovely mild weather and more rain next week. Perfect for more digging. 💚☺️🌿
@@dreamsofgreen been so dry here. But a massive storm just woke me up, must of had at least 25mm of rain in 30 minutes. So will do a good amount of planting today as supposed to stay cloudy with some downpours. Did you buy your Feijoas originally?
@ you are to kind, we actually got 50mm in under 1 hour. Certainly needed it as all our grass was pretty much dead, so hopefully some new growth now. Plus of course our food forest will thrive on that much water.
Oh I’m so happy you got some rain! My original feijoas along the fence line were tiny tubestock from the diggers club and the others in the food forest were ones I propagated from seed.
Wow! That’s a lot in one hour! I hope you got some planting done. And with all that water and heat I’d say everything will come to life almost overnight. Food forest will be loving it! 😄🌿
I’m hoping they get so dense, we won’t need to mow at all soon! 😉 It’s nice the setaria grass will get shaded out.. it’s already thinning out dramatically in the first food forest I planted which now has full canopy so this is definitely a plus. 💚🌾
I always get fruit envy watching your videos I tried to grow feijoas, but they where killed by the German winter... But the climate is warming, so maybe I'll try again. But I really really want is a frost hardy avocado. Plant breeders: get on it! Thankssssssssssssssss
Oh what a shame Martina, I was wondering about your feijoas. You’ll have to get yourself a heated greenhouse!!! You might be able to keep a couple in pots and bring them inside for the winter perhaps? 🤞🪴💚
Really great content and friendly tone! I like it. I am binge-watching all of your videos and was asking myself why don't you plant even more support species and dynamic accumulators, like comfrey, tithonia and so on in the shrub and herb layer? So you would have more plants to prune and mulch? It seems just like one nitrogen fixer every 4-5 fruit trees - kind of pattern. Or you just use the grass? It might help with the overall resilience, diversity, immunity, nutrient accumulation & balance, water retention, pollination, ecological succession and catching all of the light in the different strata. Although it gets more complex to manage like that, I think it's worth it. Otherwise you just have what looks like a convetional orchard.
Thanks so much and love the detailed input! This food forest is definitely still a work in progress and in the initial stages so you’re correct - it was all about planting things that could compete with the very densely clumping setaria grass which resembles vetiver grass. So everything in the food forest has been planted a metre apart so it could be found in the 2m tall grass. We’ve only just done the first big mow in the tree rows a few weeks ago. There are many nitrogen fixers and chop n drop species in this system but some have just been planted and so could not be seen on camera. I’ve helped others maintain full syntropic systems that were much smaller than this (not even the size of a suburban block) with all the layers such as comfrey, cassava, emergent timber trees, sweet potato, herbs, veggies, etc and whilst I’m a fan if you’ve got the time, even a small plot was simply too overwhelming for them to maintain alone. So because we’ve got 10acres I’m reforesting along with thousands of trees in the nursery and it’s just me doing the planting, (my partner does an amazing job of the mowing, brush cutting,and maintenance etc) sometimes you just gotta start somewhere and do the best you can with the resources you have, time being one of those resources 😉!! I think all up there’s several km of tree rows if I include the native forest I’ve planted so it had to be a system we could actually maintain. Don’t get me wrong, Ernst Gotsch is a hero of mine and has been a big inspiration. In terms of succession I’ve observed what naturally pops up in the paddock such as eucalyptus, silky oaks, sandpaper fig and these were a great starting point. Hope this explains the thought processes behind my decisions.. but I’m definitely excited to be adding more and more over time such as coffee, ginger, turmeric etc. Thanks again for watching! Alex 💚🌿
Yes I have heard this! I think because it’s the first time they had flowered I was too scared to jeopardise the fruit set haha! But I look forward to trying them next season for sure 😊💚
Hey, I watched your popcorn senna tutorial which was super helpful. Would you consider doing a Tipu growing tutorial? I have had absolutely zero success germinating them😅
Oh I’m glad to know you found it helpful! And I’ll keep it in mind thanks for the suggestion! Just the wrong time of year at the moment… perhaps you can try seed from different trees 💚🌿
@@aidandavies7232 I’ve just searched for the best nitrogen fixers in South Africa and came up with this: “Erythrina abyssinica, an indigenous nitrogen-fixing tree, grows all over Africa in the savannah, and has many uses on the farm: fodder (leaves), good flowers for bees, fuelwood, carvings, drums, fishing float (bark), jewellery (from poisonous seed!), medicines, insecticides and poison”. Have you heard of it or tried it before? Sounds even better than tipu! Seems to be an amazing multi-purpose tree and it’s indigenous to your area. Some things I’ve really wanted to grow here but they just didn’t take so I tried other things.. anyway just an idea for you, love to know how you go. Best of luck! Alex 💚🌿
I live in toowoomba on the outskirts and we are exposed to winds and mixed heavy clay soil/black soils….I am trying to plant trees for shade and create a micro climate to plant other plants…what do you suggest I could plant? I have tried quite a few trees but they die 😒
I’ve actually got a food forest course coming up where I help you to come up with a full planting plan suited to your microclimate, we go through how to propagate everything and then it includes a complete food forest plant pack of 50 trees as well as seed packets and cuttings so you’re all ready to plant. I think it could be really helpful for you! It’s over 6 weeks but all the modules are online and so you would just need to be able to come to Kyogle for the one day to pick up your plant pack. I’m happy to offer a free 15min consultation if you wanted to have a chat, you can send me an email at alex@dreamsofgreen.com.au 💚🌿
Wow, 15years! Any of mine exposed to frost would die back and then reshoot in the Spring.. not sure if you could grow a heap of acacias or she-oaks around it? Amazing it’s hung in there for that long!! 🌿
What sort of albizia is that? Very lovely! Do you direct sow, or grow in pots? Albizia julibrissin does well here and I have access to many seeds, and want to propagate it all over.
Isn’t it lovely? I believe it’s the chinensis variety. I didn’t direct sow because we have the thick clumping grass to contend with so I potted mine up in the nursery first. And after I posted the video I found my first Albizia julibrissin flower too!! So pretty. I’m sure your place will look lovely with these dotted everywhere. Happy propagating! Alex 😊🌸🌿
@Bernie5172 I'm working on having something similar but on a bit smaller scale. I have a few acres but not so much water/ rainfall. It makes it a bit hard at times to keep things alive. I'm figuring out what grows here and what doesn't. I suppose that's all part of the journey in the garden.
The leaf is very similar in appearance but isn’t part of the same family. The botanical name is tipuana tipu, part of the fabaceae family. It’s great fodder for cows and goats and I’ve observed the horses eating it too and the bees absolutely love it. Amazing chop n drop. Just shouldn’t be planted near rainforest areas. Here we are surrounded by cleared paddocks and cattle and they constantly graze the trees.
Feel free to send me an email: alex@dreamsofgreen.com.au and I’m happy to jump on a call and make some recommendations. Not sure where you’re based but I’ll be at the Kyogle show giving away a free mini consult and a free tree so if you’re around, come say hi and I’d love to chat. Alex 💚🌿
You're really hitting it out of the park, Alex!
Thanks so much! Super grateful for all this Spring rain which has really helped things along! 💚🌿
The magic created by Alex. Applause!
Thank you Martin, I have to give most of the credit to all this beautiful rain we’ve had! 💚🌿
Absolutely beautiful property and tree growth. Great work 🤗
Thank you! It’s been a really rewarding year! 🌸🌿
Congratulations, such a great achievement with all your trees. The place is looking fabulous, lush and green plenty of shade. I look forward to your next videos 😊
Thanks for watching, it’s definitely been a labour of love! Just grateful for the rain which is making it look so beautiful and green at the moment 💚🌿
Amazing transformation! You are very talented and have done a great job!
Thank you for your lovely comment, loving that it’s really starting to take off now 😄🌿
Looks fantastic. Well done 😊😊😊
Thanks very much. So rewarding to see it all coming together! 💚🌿
What amazing canopies! you've created a wonderland. I love the close density of your planting, its so lush. I think its great you planted some olives in the wetter areas, and to see the result. Its always interesting to see the same plant in different soil types around the property. Thanks for another wonderful video!
It’s been such a nice surprise, I had no idea which trees would do well when I planted them. These Albizia have been such a treat! And I agree, always good to compare. I’ve definitely learned the most by doing and then observing. You’ve reminded me too, I’ve got a rocky area that gets really dry, no topsoil and it’s on a steep slope - might just be the perfect spot for olives! 💚💚💚
amazing work
Thank you! 💚
lovely tour through your garden again, Alex, tnx.
especially with all those plants, with some completely new to me, because they can't grow in North-West Europe.
I follow several homesteaders that have moved to the south of Europe, like in Portugal and Spain. Many have olive trees, and learn how to deal with them to get a rich olive (oil) harvest. Regular (heavy) pruning is essential, especially to keep the trees relatively low, so one can easily harvest the olives.
Another thing that might be interesting for you, is the ability of olive trees of be moved.
So if you're not happy with the location you have initially planted them, you can move them in (your) winter time.
Commercial companies do that with even 100+ old trees, no problem at all.
But you can also use cuttings to propagate simply to put them in the ground in your North side hill (or in your nursery).
Oh thank you so much for this great information about the olives! I was going to wait until they fruited so I knew which varieties did well but I’ve seen which ones flowered and so yes, I can take some cuttings and get them started. And there were so many trees I had never heard of when we moved here because we moved from a different climate, so it was a steep learning curve for sure! Anyway thanks again, can’t wait to get some olives going in the nursery! Alex 🪴💚🪴
Looking good.
We had over 100 ml this week. watered in the 20 silky oaks that we planted last Sunday
Wow! That’s fantastic news, nice Bernie! Hope those silky oaks are thriving! I think we had about 60mm.. I saw all the rain out your way on the radar, hope you didn’t get any storm damage 💚🌿
I recommend trying raw fejoa petals, you won't be disappointed! 😊
Thanks for the tip! ! I’ve never tried them so I’m really hoping there’s still some left after the storms we’ve had 🌸🌿
Agreed, they are delicious and you’ll still get fruit
Wonderful! Congrats on the papaya and thanks for the hint about protecting the plants. On feijoas, they are often used successfully as windbreaks here in New Zealand. But they seem to thrive when they get some water early on. The pruning rule I use for them is make sure the birds that pollinate the flowers can get access - so a relatively open plant can be an advantage for fruiting.
This is really great advice on the feijoas, thanks so much. Great to know they’re used as windbreaks in NZ too. We’re lucky we’ve had well above average Spring rains and it’s definitely made a difference to the vigour. Looking forward to tasting the fruit! Alex 💚🌿
Fabulous progress 🥰
Thank you! So rewarding 💚🌿
😀🙂Beautiful work 👏👏
Thank you! It’s been such a rewarding Spring to watch it all grow. 🙏🌱💚
Well done you are an inspiration.
Thanks so much, but what you’ve done to your property is absolutely incredible too! And bananas are next in the food forest thanks to you! The soil’s nice and wet, and lovely mild weather and more rain next week. Perfect for more digging. 💚☺️🌿
@@dreamsofgreen been so dry here. But a massive storm just woke me up, must of had at least 25mm of rain in 30 minutes.
So will do a good amount of planting today as supposed to stay cloudy with some downpours. Did you buy your Feijoas originally?
@ you are to kind, we actually got 50mm in under 1 hour. Certainly needed it as all our grass was pretty much dead, so hopefully some new growth now. Plus of course our food forest will thrive on that much water.
Oh I’m so happy you got some rain! My original feijoas along the fence line were tiny tubestock from the diggers club and the others in the food forest were ones I propagated from seed.
Wow! That’s a lot in one hour! I hope you got some planting done. And with all that water and heat I’d say everything will come to life almost overnight. Food forest will be loving it! 😄🌿
Love that she is propagate from assx and notifrigati
Irrigating
Thank you! 🙏 🪴
Looking good, the growing tree canopies will start to reduce the amount of brushcutting and mowing maintenance.
I’m hoping they get so dense, we won’t need to mow at all soon! 😉 It’s nice the setaria grass will get shaded out.. it’s already thinning out dramatically in the first food forest I planted which now has full canopy so this is definitely a plus. 💚🌾
I always get fruit envy watching your videos
I tried to grow feijoas, but they where killed by the German winter... But the climate is warming, so maybe I'll try again. But I really really want is a frost hardy avocado. Plant breeders: get on it! Thankssssssssssssssss
Oh what a shame Martina, I was wondering about your feijoas. You’ll have to get yourself a heated greenhouse!!! You might be able to keep a couple in pots and bring them inside for the winter perhaps? 🤞🪴💚
Love to stay if paying guests facilities .
Oh thank you! And I’m sorry we don’t have any guest facilities to stay at this stage 💚
Really great content and friendly tone! I like it. I am binge-watching all of your videos and was asking myself why don't you plant even more support species and dynamic accumulators, like comfrey, tithonia and so on in the shrub and herb layer? So you would have more plants to prune and mulch? It seems just like one nitrogen fixer every 4-5 fruit trees - kind of pattern. Or you just use the grass? It might help with the overall resilience, diversity, immunity, nutrient accumulation & balance, water retention, pollination, ecological succession and catching all of the light in the different strata. Although it gets more complex to manage like that, I think it's worth it. Otherwise you just have what looks like a convetional orchard.
Thanks so much and love the detailed input! This food forest is definitely still a work in progress and in the initial stages so you’re correct - it was all about planting things that could compete with the very densely clumping setaria grass which resembles vetiver grass. So everything in the food forest has been planted a metre apart so it could be found in the 2m tall grass. We’ve only just done the first big mow in the tree rows a few weeks ago. There are many nitrogen fixers and chop n drop species in this system but some have just been planted and so could not be seen on camera. I’ve helped others maintain full syntropic systems that were much smaller than this (not even the size of a suburban block) with all the layers such as comfrey, cassava, emergent timber trees, sweet potato, herbs, veggies, etc and whilst I’m a fan if you’ve got the time, even a small plot was simply too overwhelming for them to maintain alone. So because we’ve got 10acres I’m reforesting along with thousands of trees in the nursery and it’s just me doing the planting, (my partner does an amazing job of the mowing, brush cutting,and maintenance etc) sometimes you just gotta start somewhere and do the best you can with the resources you have, time being one of those resources 😉!! I think all up there’s several km of tree rows if I include the native forest I’ve planted so it had to be a system we could actually maintain. Don’t get me wrong, Ernst Gotsch is a hero of mine and has been a big inspiration. In terms of succession I’ve observed what naturally pops up in the paddock such as eucalyptus, silky oaks, sandpaper fig and these were a great starting point. Hope this explains the thought processes behind my decisions.. but I’m definitely excited to be adding more and more over time such as coffee, ginger, turmeric etc. Thanks again for watching! Alex 💚🌿
Wonderful! Did you know you can eat Feijoa petals? Give them a try.
Cool, I have one to plant in the new mixed orchard row. I'll definitely try the flowers when they grow.
Yes I have heard this! I think because it’s the first time they had flowered I was too scared to jeopardise the fruit set haha! But I look forward to trying them next season for sure 😊💚
Hey, I watched your popcorn senna tutorial which was super helpful. Would you consider doing a Tipu growing tutorial? I have had absolutely zero success germinating them😅
Oh I’m glad to know you found it helpful! And I’ll keep it in mind thanks for the suggestion! Just the wrong time of year at the moment… perhaps you can try seed from different trees 💚🌿
@dreamsofgreen thanks! I'm in South Africa, but we're both southern hemisphere. I've found limited information on tipus.
@@aidandavies7232 I’ve just searched for the best nitrogen fixers in South Africa and came up with this: “Erythrina abyssinica, an indigenous nitrogen-fixing tree, grows all over Africa in the savannah, and has many uses on the farm: fodder (leaves), good flowers for bees, fuelwood, carvings, drums, fishing float (bark), jewellery (from poisonous seed!), medicines, insecticides and poison”.
Have you heard of it or tried it before? Sounds even better than tipu! Seems to be an amazing multi-purpose tree and it’s indigenous to your area. Some things I’ve really wanted to grow here but they just didn’t take so I tried other things.. anyway just an idea for you, love to know how you go. Best of luck! Alex 💚🌿
Lovely to see. Do you plan to continue planting down the slope and join up with the other forest?
Thanks Lynne 💚 At this stage I’m happy to leave the flat areas just with grass and have some open areas too.. but time will tell! 🌳🌳🌳
I live in toowoomba on the outskirts and we are exposed to winds and mixed heavy clay soil/black soils….I am trying to plant trees for shade and create a micro climate to plant other plants…what do you suggest I could plant? I have tried quite a few trees but they die 😒
I’ve actually got a food forest course coming up where I help you to come up with a full planting plan suited to your microclimate, we go through how to propagate everything and then it includes a complete food forest plant pack of 50 trees as well as seed packets and cuttings so you’re all ready to plant. I think it could be really helpful for you! It’s over 6 weeks but all the modules are online and so you would just need to be able to come to Kyogle for the one day to pick up your plant pack. I’m happy to offer a free 15min consultation if you wanted to have a chat, you can send me an email at alex@dreamsofgreen.com.au 💚🌿
Ice-cream bean nevr grew at Tabulam after 15 years its still a foot high
Wow, 15years! Any of mine exposed to frost would die back and then reshoot in the Spring.. not sure if you could grow a heap of acacias or she-oaks around it? Amazing it’s hung in there for that long!! 🌿
What sort of albizia is that? Very lovely! Do you direct sow, or grow in pots? Albizia julibrissin does well here and I have access to many seeds, and want to propagate it all over.
Isn’t it lovely? I believe it’s the chinensis variety. I didn’t direct sow because we have the thick clumping grass to contend with so I potted mine up in the nursery first. And after I posted the video I found my first Albizia julibrissin flower too!! So pretty. I’m sure your place will look lovely with these dotted everywhere. Happy propagating! Alex 😊🌸🌿
@ makes sense, thanks. Starting to realize the propagation area is a heartbeat of this whole thing, rather than an afterthought.
@@joekunin so true
Is the tipu tree a type of cassia ?
Tipuanna I think it is ?
@Bernie5172 I'm working on having something similar but on a bit smaller scale. I have a few acres but not so much water/ rainfall. It makes it a bit hard at times to keep things alive. I'm figuring out what grows here and what doesn't. I suppose that's all part of the journey in the garden.
The leaf is very similar in appearance but isn’t part of the same family. The botanical name is tipuana tipu, part of the fabaceae family. It’s great fodder for cows and goats and I’ve observed the horses eating it too and the bees absolutely love it. Amazing chop n drop. Just shouldn’t be planted near rainforest areas. Here we are surrounded by cleared paddocks and cattle and they constantly graze the trees.
Feel free to send me an email: alex@dreamsofgreen.com.au and I’m happy to jump on a call and make some recommendations. Not sure where you’re based but I’ll be at the Kyogle show giving away a free mini consult and a free tree so if you’re around, come say hi and I’d love to chat. Alex 💚🌿
indeed Tipuana (Rosids, Fabales, Fabaceae)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipuana
Idea Clean Air Waters foods ?Where you are?
We are in Kyogle, northern NSW Australia