Such a spectacular looking property Gareth! Your wife & kids would be over the moon. Don't think you'll need any new mango trees. My first choices to begin with would be jackfruit, cempedak, star apple, abiu, sapodilla, all the sapotes, lychee, longan, brazilian cherries and custard apple. Creepy crawlies are mostly geckos & harmless lizards. Fraser Coast is beautiful, drove up with the caravan in 2004. Enjoy your new garden life mate!
Thanks mate, I love you starting list. I've already got some more and the jackfruit is one. And I have a delivery from Daley's coming in. January. But the nursery down the road has some fantastic prices. Thanks again mate.
Living the dream, Beautiful property man. Keep all high humidity loving plants together. Water loving trees like jackfruit and jaboticaba at the lower or wettest part of your property, durian grow out in full sun and water well when it's small
At least the former owner had some edibles on the go... Regarding the mango, in my experience older trees do sometimes fruit well on alternate years. We use the frondy end of fallen palm leaves as the base for starting a new compost heap, to keep stuff off the ground and let the air through. They're a pain, but not totally useless!
Wow massive change! You guys are living my retirement goal so will be taking lots of notes. Do you have a Macadamia in at all? unless you do and I missed it. I remember them in Yepoon absolutely loaded with nuts. Mine doing well in its 2nd year in freezing Victoria lol
I've now had time to watch the whole video Gareth, truly you've found paradise ( except for the snakes lol ), you'll certainly enjoy your growing there mate 🤩🤩👍👍😎😎. PS George might SEEM to like Bougainvilleas, but I reckon if Kim turns her back for half a day he'll have that ripped out as well 😂😂
I spent 30years in Queensland on acreage, after leaving South Australia. We've just returned to STh. Aust, I've bought an acre property, I'm planning on turning it to a food forest too. We spent 3 months homeless trying to get our place. Don't be fooled by the green tree snakes, they can breed with the Eastern Browns, and be venomous. They usually are green with a brown stripe.
Great you could acheive your dream with all the COVID stuff. Well worth that you stuck with it. Congratulations. Snakes I know what you mean a weekly is about our rate too usually Eastern Browns. Best of luck with the property.
Great new property and channel name 😉 Looking forward to seeing your food forest go in over time. Once you’ve got your fruit and nut species in, don’t forget your understory perennial food crops (Yacon, Jerusalem Artichoke, Ground Cherries etc etc). Exciting!
Your not far from Noosa = Just discovered you defected - good on you - id love to but have too much invested here time wise and mature productive trees but have alot in pots that could be trucked North ha ha - Hope you like Dragons as they can be a bit boring unless you grow Yellow or Pink Panthers? - have 1 forming and 8 buds one is a red. Heavily prune Custard apple in Winter to 2.5mt and strip all leaves - may need more sun esp Morning - cheers Mark
Great stuff. Welcome to Queensland. Quite a challenge for you and your family to get here, but you did it. Harvey Bay is a great spot. Fraser Coast Food Forest is a good name. I think you really belong up here and will really love to grow a wider rage of fruit trees and plants. Beautiful shady block you have there, will be very cool and comfortable in summer. A shame to cut some trees and palms out, but you do need to do that if you want more fruit trees. It's a very nice block as is, but yes too shady for most fruit trees and food plants. A suggestion is don't be too fast to remove your Pythons, although it is a pity about your cat, cats can easily become python food. Although I have seen cats that grow up in snake infested areas and they can get really smart about snakes and cannot be caught. Also I've seen cats go 'toe to toe" with (smaller) deadly snakes, doing a kind of "cat kung fu" which is mind blowing to watch and will alert you to the danger as well. . . The good thing about pythons is when you have them around you will have less deadly snakes. You don't want any deadly snakes, get rid of them asap. I've always felt having deadly snakes in your garden is like having sharks in your swimming pool haha.. And pythons can get quite tame. Just don't step on them or they can give a nasty bite. You will get used to the different sounds from lizards and snakes after awhile. The lizards tend to rustle the leaves in short bursts of movement, whereas the snakes usually make a longer more flowing rustle in the leaves. As you get better at picking the sounds, that longer flowing rustle will be the sound that will put you on alert haha. Good luck Mate. Can't wait to see what you do there. Best regards 👍🙂
You are in a really nice area up there and you'll be amazed at how quickly things grow compared to Melbourne. Looks like a nice property you've got too. Watch out for those Copperheads, they can move scarily quick when they want to. I'm so jealous having just moved to another suburban block here in Melbourne. You still doing the Gardening business up there?
You walked around the garden before you went into the house lol.. classic. Thanks for the tour! How does the dog go with the snakes? You have some great fruit trees already! Good to see you doing well! 👍 Cheers
Haha, mate you are a Queenslander now you will have to get used to snakes....but tbh they mostly will get well out of the way of you, unless you tell them you are from victoria 😅😅
Welcome to QLD! It's not normal to have THAT many snakes, I suspect you have a food source attracting them to your property. Check if previous owner used food scraps as a compost in the ground attracting rodents.
Congratulations Gareth. Inspiring.
Oh and a nursery tour would be awesome too!
You are truly an inspiration.. what a bold move.. it gives major Paradise vibes!
Thank you so much. It was definitely nerve racking for the 1st few days.
Just subscribed to your channel.
Beautiful mate
Welcome to the Fraser Coast! Enjoy! We live here since 2008 and love it! I just subscribed to your channel :D Cheers! Ewa
Thanks Ewa . I've already subscribed to your channel and love it. Maybe some time in the future we could do a collaboration video.
That was complicated to get to the new property 🤔 The place looks amazing 👍
Thanks, the move was very stressful.
Just subscribed
@@frasercoastfoodforest3092 Thank You. I subscribed to your channel as well.
Welcome :) great looking property!
Amla, Jamun,Sapodilla
Such a spectacular looking property Gareth! Your wife & kids would be over the moon. Don't think you'll need any new mango trees. My first choices to begin with would be jackfruit, cempedak, star apple, abiu, sapodilla, all the sapotes, lychee, longan, brazilian cherries and custard apple. Creepy crawlies are mostly geckos & harmless lizards. Fraser Coast is beautiful, drove up with the caravan in 2004. Enjoy your new garden life mate!
Thanks mate, I love you starting list. I've already got some more and the jackfruit is one. And I have a delivery from Daley's coming in. January. But the nursery down the road has some fantastic prices. Thanks again mate.
Love the video mate 👍
Yeah mate lots of snakes up there 🐍
Garden looks great
Nice block of land you got to work with there
Thanks Paul.
Congratulations on your new garden.
What a great chance to map out your favourite fruit trees that you want to put in.
Looks fantastic.
thanks mate
just subscribed to you channel
Cannot wait to see how things progress!
Thanks Will
Wow that was a major relocation, you really went for it ! You'll certainly now be able to grow the tropicals you aspired to 😎🤩😁
Living the dream, Beautiful property man. Keep all high humidity loving plants together. Water loving trees like jackfruit and jaboticaba at the lower or wettest part of your property, durian grow out in full sun and water well when it's small
thanks for the tips
At least the former owner had some edibles on the go... Regarding the mango, in my experience older trees do sometimes fruit well on alternate years. We use the frondy end of fallen palm leaves as the base for starting a new compost heap, to keep stuff off the ground and let the air through. They're a pain, but not totally useless!
Hi Kate, i'm hoping to have a massive compost pile soon, the palms are driving me crazy.
Welcome to paradise! Only a few minutes in but can't wait to see what you do with the place.
Lol you southerners and fear of snakes!
Brunfelsia latifolia is the flowering tree with the great smell.
Try to suss out good producing lychee varieties in the area. I think bosworth and chompogo would do well.
Wow massive change! You guys are living my retirement goal so will be taking lots of notes. Do you have a Macadamia in at all? unless you do and I missed it. I remember them in Yepoon absolutely loaded with nuts. Mine doing well in its 2nd year in freezing Victoria lol
Hi Stacey, I dont have one yet. i have noticed some growing on the nature strips up here just like the dragon fruit as well.
I've now had time to watch the whole video Gareth, truly you've found paradise ( except for the snakes lol ), you'll certainly enjoy your growing there mate 🤩🤩👍👍😎😎.
PS George might SEEM to like Bougainvilleas, but I reckon if Kim turns her back for half a day he'll have that ripped out as well 😂😂
Lol
Thanks Brett
Congratulations! What an awesome property. My mind kept thinking of all the fruit trees I can grow as you were touring us around your property 😆
thanks mate
I spent 30years in Queensland on acreage, after leaving South Australia.
We've just returned to STh. Aust, I've bought an acre property, I'm planning on turning it to a food forest too.
We spent 3 months homeless trying to get our place.
Don't be fooled by the green tree snakes, they can breed with the Eastern Browns, and be venomous. They usually are green with a brown stripe.
Thanks for the info on the snake 🐍
Wow mate that's amazing you must be in heaven congratulations on the purchase mate that's an awesome property
Great you could acheive your dream with all the COVID stuff. Well worth that you stuck with it. Congratulations. Snakes I know what you mean a weekly is about our rate too usually Eastern Browns. Best of luck with the property.
Thanks mate, haven't seen a eastern brown yet thank goodness. Just saw a snake last night, unfortunately couldn't ID it.
@@frasercoastfoodforest3092 we see them mate but we don’t have to remove them.
Great new property and channel name 😉 Looking forward to seeing your food forest go in over time. Once you’ve got your fruit and nut species in, don’t forget your understory perennial food crops (Yacon, Jerusalem Artichoke, Ground Cherries etc etc). Exciting!
Thanks Marisa. Don't mind the Yacon, I'll be constructing a veggie garden soon.
Your not far from Noosa = Just discovered you defected - good on you - id love to but
have too much invested here time wise and mature productive trees but have alot in pots that could be trucked North ha ha - Hope you like Dragons as they can be a bit boring unless you grow Yellow
or Pink Panthers? - have 1 forming and 8 buds one is a red. Heavily prune Custard apple in
Winter to 2.5mt and strip all leaves - may need more sun esp Morning - cheers Mark
thanks mate, just planted about 7 dragon fruit cuttings today, and have 3 more flowers about a week or so away from opening.
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What a mess getting your home sold, being homeless, buying and not able to get over right away. Glad you got it sorted out. Beautiful property!
Thanks Virginia
Great stuff. Welcome to Queensland. Quite a challenge for you and your family to get here, but you did it. Harvey Bay is a great spot. Fraser Coast Food Forest is a good name. I think you really belong up here and will really love to grow a wider rage of fruit trees and plants. Beautiful shady block you have there, will be very cool and comfortable in summer. A shame to cut some trees and palms out, but you do need to do that if you want more fruit trees. It's a very nice block as is, but yes too shady for most fruit trees and food plants. A suggestion is don't be too fast to remove your Pythons, although it is a pity about your cat, cats can easily become python food. Although I have seen cats that grow up in snake infested areas and they can get really smart about snakes and cannot be caught. Also I've seen cats go 'toe to toe" with (smaller) deadly snakes, doing a kind of "cat kung fu" which is mind blowing to watch and will alert you to the danger as well. . . The good thing about pythons is when you have them around you will have less deadly snakes. You don't want any deadly snakes, get rid of them asap. I've always felt having deadly snakes in your garden is like having sharks in your swimming pool haha.. And pythons can get quite tame. Just don't step on them or they can give a nasty bite. You will get used to the different sounds from lizards and snakes after awhile. The lizards tend to rustle the leaves in short bursts of movement, whereas the snakes usually make a longer more flowing rustle in the leaves. As you get better at picking the sounds, that longer flowing rustle will be the sound that will put you on alert haha. Good luck Mate. Can't wait to see what you do there. Best regards 👍🙂
Thanks for the tips mate. I'm gonna keep anymore pythons I come across. I've been told by 3 more people the same thing. Cheers.
You are in a really nice area up there and you'll be amazed at how quickly things grow compared to Melbourne.
Looks like a nice property you've got too.
Watch out for those Copperheads, they can move scarily quick when they want to.
I'm so jealous having just moved to another suburban block here in Melbourne.
You still doing the Gardening business up there?
Thanks mate. I bet I'll fine one today.
You walked around the garden before you went into the house lol.. classic.
Thanks for the tour! How does the dog go with the snakes?
You have some great fruit trees already!
Good to see you doing well! 👍
Cheers
Thanks mate, I built the enclosure for the dogs plus we have to keep an eye on them all the time.
Do you use your palm leaves for mulch?
Yes i do. But not all the time
fruitfly... exclusion for fruitfly in Queensland is essential!!!
Any room for some jack fruit?
Definitely
Haha, mate you are a Queenslander now you will have to get used to snakes....but tbh they mostly will get well out of the way of you, unless you tell them you are from victoria 😅😅
Lol.
Thanks mate
Welcome to QLD! It's not normal to have THAT many snakes, I suspect you have a food source attracting them to your property. Check if previous owner used food scraps as a compost in the ground attracting rodents.
G'day Tim, and thanks. I have found out the old owners treated them like pets, they feed the bush turkeys and we get a lot of rabbits.