Best Perennial Vegetables for Your Tropical Food Forest Garden

John from www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits Incredible Edible Landscapes in Loxahatchee, Florida to share with you the amazing perennial tropical vegetables and rare fruit trees you can plant in your food forest garden.
In this episode, you will learn about Incredible Edible Landscapes, and how they offer the best perennial vegetables you can grow in Florida that will easily grow over the warm summer season and provide you with food year-round.
You will discover some of John's favorite perennial vegetables they are selling at Incredible Edible Landscapes, a destination spot for every permaculture food forest designer so you can source the best plants for a tropical food forest in zones 10 and 11.
You will get a full tour of this food forest nursery including the many plants for sale as well as the different demonstration areas that show how you can create a food forest on your property. You will see different native landscapes, perfect for south Florida, as well as a model food forest showing stacking food forest plants so you can maximize your production in a small space.
You will learn about John's favorite perennial vegetables as he highlights his favorites and shares his knowledge about each one.
Finally, John will interview Conner Murphy, founder of Incredible Edible Landscapes so you can learn more about his company that helps people in South Florida grow food as well as his gardening tips for growing food in the subtropics.
Jump to the Following Parts of this Episode
00:00 Episode Starts
00:11 Incredible Edible Landscapes
02:18 Perennial Vegetables are More Important than
Fruit Trees
04:28 What They Sell at this Nursery
05:10 Demonstration Food Forest
06:07 Showing Excellent Example of Stacking Layers in Food Forest
09:05 Plant Tubers and Roots in Your Food Forest
09:43 Everbearing Mulberry & Australian Mulberry
11:41 Ripe Australian Mulberries that Are Invisible to Birds
13:29 Longevity Spinach and Sweet Potato Vine as edible groundcovers
13:52 Salad Tree aka Bele Tree
15:30 Food Forest Landscaping
16:40 This Nursery Propogates Their Plants
18:39 Grow Tropical Vegetables
19:10 Grow these vegetables in the Summer for Success
19:59 My #1 Tropical Vegetable: Salad Tree ak Bele aka Abelmoschus manihot
20:49 Egyptian Spinach
21:16 Katuk - Taste Like Peanut butter
22:10 Rungia aka Mushroom Plant
23:06 Okinowan Spinach
24:45 Large Leaf Chaya
25:25 Perennial Basils
26:09 Brazillian Spinach aka Sisso Spinach
27:10 CALLALOO aka AMARANTH
27:48 This Tomato is Perennial
28:58 Cranberry Hibiscus aka false roselle
29:37 Roselle - edible leaves and flowers
30:24 Spilanthes aka Toothache Plant
32:40 Longevity Spinach -Tons of greens
33:43 Variagated Nopoles Edible Thornles Cactus
35:40 Interview with Conner Murphy
36:18 What have you been up to since my last visit?
37:38 What got you interested in growing food forests?
39:20 Is this the same issue spinach you are selling today?
40:28 Tell me more about the variegated nopoles cactus.
43:06 Tell me more about making this the Disneyland of edible plant nurseries.
46:24 What are the top 3 perennial vegetables to grow in S. Florida that will do the best?
50:26 What are the top-yielding 3 fruit trees in South Florida?
52:14 What is a good starter food forest package?
57:18 How to SAVE money growing a food forest
1:01:01 Don't Put in a Raised Bed Garden in South Florida
1:02:10 Raised Beds vs Food Forest Landscaping
1:04:45 Any Success Tips You would like to share?
1:07:38 Experiment in Your Garden
1:09:32 Don't Be Afraid to Kill Plants
1:10:01 Your Garden is Not Permanent
1:10:43 Grow easy stuff first - Listen to Recommendations
1:12:00 Growing a Food Forest is Not Rocket Science
1:12:43 Do you ship plants?
1:15:15 Best Places to Buy Plants Online
1:16:37 How can someone contact you?
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