Small Space Permaculture Food Forest Garden on 1/4 Acre Home Lot
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- John from www.growingyour... goes on a field trip to visit Dr. Bob Randall' Permaculture Food Forest in Suburban Houston, Texas. In this .28 acre lot Bob grows over 150 varieties of fruit trees, a raised bed vegetable garden and more. In this episode you will learn how he is growing many different types of plants using permaculture principles. During this episode John will give a tour of the property and share many of the different types of plants growing at this suburban food forest. John will also interview Dr. Randall and ask him some questions about permaculture and some new ways to get you to think about your organic home garden. After watching this episode you will be sure to learn some new ways and techniques that you can use to have a more successful garden in the future.
To learn more about Dr. Bob Randall, visit:
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To learn about the classes in Houston about permaculture:
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I like how John remains humble and shows his guests respect by not talking over them and listening attentively. It's a little thing, but it shows character.
I love what he has done with his place. It is like an Oasis in the middle of Suburbia. Better than lawn any day.
Gardening With Puppies Your right about that..who needs a lawn! YUCK..make a yard you can EAT!! That's what we are doing with our own landscaping even amongst of very steep terrain and rocky landscape. MAKE it work!
Starry Hilder Yep. We are doing the same thing.
Watched this video a couple of years ago and coming back to it now I still feel feel super inspired.
Love the fact that your host, Bob, has a method to his madness!
What a great garden! What a great gardener! People like this are true symbols of hope.
I wish him well.
Keep inspiring John. Best wishes from Australia.
I love that he catches his rain water. Makes watering things much more affordable!!
I'm a young adult (23) studying horticulture where I live in New Zealand, and I'm learning heaps from this channel. Organic gardening for the win! I hope one day to do companion planting like this on a commercial scale.
I'm growing in Te Aroha!
Oh my!...Organic farming in NZ?....my dream!! Seriously...
***** and his teacher Bill Mollison they have great 72 hours lecture on permaculture
Type in 'Food Forest Riverton New Zealand' in the search bar above and be pleasantly surprised.
My small farmers and I loved this so much. This is the sort of life we are heading towards. We really enjoy the friendly, exuberant style. John seems to have a lot of personality, this isn't like anyone else's videos. Lots of permaculture information in here and wow, what a garden. I have garden envy.
Love to watch these smaller spaces because it shows everybody can do it! Love it!
I really like it when you go on these road trips and show us what is growing in farms and gardens around the country. Thanks for sharing the Food Forest with us, John. I feel as though I learned so much in such a short period of time. You inspire me to grow more plants every time I watch one of your videos.
This guy needs a TV show. He makes organic farming and permaculture accessible and entertaining without the off putting save the world desperation plea.
and there's no product placement
Well in the big picture it is about "saving the world" but maybe you can see it that way.
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is Very Inspiring!!!!!
Thank you, both, John, and Bob!!!!
How are there any unlikes on this video? His enthusiasm alone makes this enjoyable. Thanks for all the great info. Now, to convert that info to our backyard in chilly, soggy Indiana.
Quite a bit in that small of a space. He's got some excellent creative gardening skills.
MULTI TASKING PLANTS!!!! 😀😊🌳🌳
Your channel rocks John! You should really contact youtube, they pay people (apart from the ads) who have a growing audience, have potential and make consistent videos.
'Systematized and Methodized!' Lol! Love you, John!
Always informative and practical videos...What a fabulous resource he has provided the world with. Can't thank him enough.
I bought a huge bin today to start composting today. thanks for inspiring me, John!
He cracks me up. I do believe he is smoking his greens.lol
I like you hosting others. Your monologues are good and instructive but interviews also lift you up and your expertise as you comment and interact.
Great exposition on permaculture concepts. Not sure John totally understands, but his audience is gardeners, not "permaculturists." Lovely. Love them both.
_I finally figured out how to grow artichokes _*_. .... and after many attempts blue berries *_*_ ...._ That's the spirit, he has apples, blue berries that are a also in the cooler zones up to tropical plansts like bananas and tumeric.
* Dr. Bob Randall
** John mentions it in the long intro that blue berries gave him some trouble
I like the idea of wondering around someones garden, without actually doing it of course......you really get some good ideas, that I could implement halfway round the world inAustralia, thanks John & Bob
Along with my vegetable garden, I grow a nice low maintenance moss. Moss has a lot of advantages to grass. The kids play on that and I compost the bits of grass that grow up through it. Now If I could just wipe out that pesky grass I could scrap the mower.
I like the videos on permaculture and different plant varieties. Thanks John!
OMG - Worth the price of admission with the T-Post idea! Thanks!
mojowomyn Bamboo stakes are also another great idea!
I’m so glad you made this video, John, because this Permaculture garden is no more. House and garden have been razed to the ground and covered with St. Augustine grass. I see just a few trees in pots behind a net fence at side back fence line and a small garden shed. Not sure what happened yet, but I know another Permie organic suburban garden was poisoned by Harvey’s toxic flood waters, not far from here.
He certainly shares info on all of what has been planted with good ideas on how to maintain what you have grown......he doesn't however go into how deep or far apart each plant should be..etc...his suggestions are more advanced for those very familiar with growing veggies/fruits/beans//etc...
This guy is awesome. I have learned so much from him.
I like the permaculture people you interview. More episodes like this. Thanks for sharing.
edit: oh, I found them. Just search your page for "permaculture", duh.
Thank you for sharing this field trip. It's amazing what he's packed into a quarter acre 😲🙌😃👍
This is an awesome one in Texas. VERY encouraging that it's been around since the 80s. A fairly newcomer in New Jersey is The Gardening Channel with James Prignoli. His dog Tuck pulls carrots right out of the ground and eats them. Too cute! Check it out folks. 🐾🐾🐕
mad respect for you brother. been watching for years. you have a lot to do with me just a California boy now working with China on Eco Village. thanks man.
Wow! Being in Houston myself, and on a 1/4 acre, this is great to see! I think the only thing he doesn't have are honeybees. But I'd think with all that plant life and fruit blooms he probably has no problem bringing them in!
Great stuff...I'm a new member of UrbanHarvest:) Great organization...they participate in many community gardens here in Houston.
This was good, Thanks John
Great video. This is one to share with friends and family for sure. Thanks John!
I would love to take one of his classes! Thank you so much for making this video. I had no idea this man lived in Texas.
love this video, that yard is a dream come true
Thanks for your awesome videos. A lot of TH-cam posters rarely go over 10 mins which is nice sometimes. I love your lengthy videos only because you make it fun to watch you all energetic, excited , and very informational. Keep up the great work and please keep sharing your knowledge with the world. You have a gift, sir ^_^
I already know most of these things, but its just a pleasure to watch your videos john....I'm too shy to make my own so thank you so much for your work! :)
Permaculture is the solution trend for the future climate change challenge. Good work John.
Love the long videos my man! Perfect to go with my 48oz lunch smoothie!
The banana blossoms are delicious too!
I really like your videos, keep growing.
This is what I'm working towards. I'm a few hours North of this location so I can grow most but not all of these. I'm in town and have rabbits (rabbit pellets make for excellent cold manure) and I have a goose as well as ducks. All the rabbit waste and the muck from the coop get used in the garden! I also do my own composting and vermicomposting. There's so very much we can do to enrich our soils. I also have clay soil. We get a lot of rain here so I had to dig ditches and make raised beds. Where there's a will there's a way!
Awesome video. Watched and loved the whole thing!
Thanks for the upload man. this was an awesome video
What I wonder is how does he deal with the worst pest of all, government.
When I lived in the burbs: I checked for permitting about rain water capture, they told me it was illegal. When I grew berry bushes more the 4', Goji and Raspberry, I started getting threatening letters claiming they were a fire hazard. My response was I did not want their "protection" and that green bushes would be nearly impossible to set on fire, then they came and chopped them down; good thing I was not home when they did it as I would have shot them. I moved out of town as a result.
Imagine how wonderful miles of food forests would be in place poisonous lawns.
Texas is looking better almost every day.
+nustada omg that's horrible :(
I live in Tx. and it is getting like everywhere else. Especially in town. All it takes is a complaining neighbor and they will give you a ticket for anything. You have to have a certain percentage of your yard without trees or anything else that blocks the view from the air. Now if that isn't a scary law. I cannot believe they chopped down your bushes. Our world is wacked. They love their precious lawns, but anything else they see as worthless.
ugh, that makes me so angry
It is according to what part of Texas. I live in a small town and any gardening and livestock is permitted here. I can hear/see goats, sheep, pigs, chickens, cattle, and horses when walking around town and I have a garden in my front and side yards as well as fruit trees. Another corner yard is forested and no one bothers me about anything I do in my yard and I live near a school. I'm sure there are other places as well but I'm a big fan of TX. It is very homeschool friendly and I can grow food year round. Best of luck!
Excellent. Thanks for sharing.
You're a cool dude man! I'm using straw for raised beds here in Massachusetts.
Thanks for the video, very inspirational!
Learned a lot from this video. I liked the metal stakes being stacked. I did the pvc pipes with the netting and they are too short. I think this will work out for me.
Very helpful information, thanks! Your videos are always so useful and informative. It's like you can read the questions in my head and make these videos just for me!
Amazing Video! Always precision info! What variety
Nice, please do more from Texas.
I like this system called Permaculture, also somebody suggested to make holes on the pots all over to air the roots of the plants so they don't cripples the roots inside the containers and the water jus run out of the container without moisture the roots because are to dense and no soil.
Beautiful!!! Great interview :D
John, your the man keep it up! This guys garden is awesome! IDK if you have said anything about this book Gaia's Garden , but i would personally recommend it to anyone interested in permaculture.
I love watching your videos so interesting gives me more insight in gardening as I love gardening too..,Thanks to you dear..
So inspiring!
these videos are great man nice and casual but also great info on one beauty of a property, good stuff!
Really impressive! Checked out the website too and was able to glean some helpful ideas for me to try here in S. Calif. Sandy soil, but probably similar climate. Thanks John and Dr. Randall!
The big green flying beetles got most of my apricots this year. Had no problems with them last year, so I didn't expect them this year and wasn't watching for them. Once I noticed them... too late.
I always love permaculture videos. However, Jphn, I think you should comment on the poor family in Florida (and others) that had a front yard vegetable garden for 17 years and now new codes in their county forced them to tear it down or pay a $50 per day penalty! Growing a vegetable garden in the USA nowadays is becoming NOT PERMITTED as long as we sit back and let the government rule. We gardeners need to STAND UP against to GUBMINT! Even worse, what about all the chemtrail spraying. Let's all get together and organized a way to STOP it so we can grow our own greens as John says!
ya. I use the concert wall block from home depot for my raise bed. it is about 2 feet high. they last forever lol
you really should make a visit to ontario and check out some gardens up here, see what we can grow in our short summers
I'd like to see more about ways to structure climbing plants in the garden, like peas and melons
Awesome garden!
Go brother!!! Love to be there,
What is the name of the okra that stays tender up to 6 inches long? I would like some seed.
very interesting your video . thanks.
Amazingly well done video !!
How about growing beans up column fruit trees? I have a row of column trees (apples and cherries) and this video gave me the idea to try and grow bean vines up them. What's your take on that?
John... Would be able to do a video on microclimates? We just got a freeze here in Sacramento, and we lost a few plants. Wondering how I can create some warmer spaces in my yard.
Great stuff!!! Sweet potatoes are not hard to find here at all!
Interested if any of this could apply to North Texas which has far less rain than Houston and actually has 4 seasons.
+Richard Lay All of it!!! ;) see 'greening the desert' and 'Geoff Lawton' . I am in Sweden. 'Martin Crawford' is in the UK (temperate) but design goals are the same.
Richard Lay I know this is an old comment, but I'm responding because people are still seeing it. Houston has a very different climate than North Texas. I'm in Austin, just a couple hours away from Houston & my brother's in Houston. We have very different conditions, for example, you can't grow avocados here. We get more freezes, have very different soil & usually more drought.
the principles of permaculture apply from Alaska / Russia / Sweden over India, the temperate climate zone, subtropics, cold or warm arid zones. Alaska to New Zealand and every property in between. It is interesting that there are two crops this highly experienced gardener found hard to grow and he had to experiment for a long time but he cracked the code eventually: blue berries and artichokes.
Presenter and gardener mentioned a few of the principles (or I see them enacted).
Multiple functions.
High diversity.
Find the seeds that work in your climate, micro climate, soil and water situation (have your own seeds - independence and self sufficiency).
Host and invite your defense troops against pests (beneficial insects, birds).
Use different levels to expand space (ground cover, understory (lots of citrus trees), canopy.
The ground is always covered with something and there are no monocultures.
Work with perennials and food trees (or trees).
Manage water and drainage (the huge tanks, the irrigation system. But also that he installed slightly raised beds to deal with poor drainage in clay soil. Soil is certainly much better now, but 20 or so years ago when he started out he needed those beds).
Managing water is one of the most important principles.
Create micro climates, and niches.
Borders between micro climates are the zones of most intense growth (also of soil life and of things that support like beneficial insects). He did not mention it but I see it in action (the magic happens in the zones of overlapp)
He has apples and berries that belong to the cooler zones and also things from the tropics (like tumerica or bananas - it is not a treee it is an annual or for a few years, so if they get a cold spell it is not that bad as loosing an tropical tree).
He does not mulch the garden beds - unfortunately that was not covered at all, maybe it does not work in Houston (insects, pests). I heard that gardeners in GA or MS get fire ants with mulch (at least with wood chips).
There are a LOT of things that were NOT covered, like how the raised beds might need more water in summer. Or is the shade different in summer and winter ? The beds warm up better in spring (the stones store heat) but that comes at a cost in summer (but maybe the shade situation is different).
Question? at around 23 minutes when you where showing the trellis setups... why go out and buy the concrete reinforcement material from Lowes? the idea is to reduce reuse and to recycle right? so why not repurpose old cables and lumber that would have been thrown out.. say old computer cat5 cables or old appliance cords etc.. and just set up for wood pillars.. attach screws facing one another and then just repurpose the wire that would have been in the landfill to act as the trellis mesh strung tightly between the four wooden posts? to me it seems that would be cheaper and again.. both reducing and reusing materials...
I wonder how the garden fared in Feb. 2021 (the extreme cold before that was in Feb. 2011, but 2021 was worse). - I wish there had been a drone shote and wide angle shots to see the design better. Or the examples when he went up in height, the close view was not really all that revealing.
Great video, Congrats on 448K subs..not to brag but we are pushing 65 haha
Love it thanks!
Musa "blue Java" (aka Ice Cream Banana) is hardy to 26F, I've read. I've got a couple of babies(ice cream banan plants) in a north Dallas suburb, so I do hope that 10F is accurate.
Where do you get the sweet potato spinach variety? We got lots in Taiwan but I cannot seem to find it in Canada or US. People will mostly grow it for the roots here in North America. I would love to get some here to grow for greens to stir fry it.
Those Georgia collards you showed are they a perennials? Or did it get that size in a season?
Awesome video!!
Zipper peas are my favorite.
So much better to use a yard for growing useful plants instead of a lawn which is only useful if you have a herd of some good animal to graze on it. It may take me a few more seasons, but I am going to do it.
Jicama is also good with just salt :)
Would love to do something like this but we have a septic system not sure where the drain field is so not sure where to grow fruit trees.
Maybe my alphabet is different, but I could swear those are U-posts, not T-posts? lol
CA zone 9b here, and avocados do absolutely just fine, plant on SE corner of a structure and they'll tower over the roof!
great video :) What about slugs, you dont have them in Texas?
Where can I get some of the veggie that in the video? Also I like know where can I find the Sweet potato spinach plant/seeds so I can try it. Where doe he find his veggie plant/seeds. Thank.
Same, really want to find this, I know some sweet potato greens/vines are edible, not sure if this is a special variety...
Hey john, is it possible to have a greenhouse business on 0.62 acres if properly planned
So he started that in the 1980s before the HOA's got out of hand ? Trail blazer for his neighbourhood because if one neighbour does it, others can also skip the front lawn.
Nice one.
Ok, Sweet potato spinach....can you please help me locate this somewhere, or, help me get the genus and species name?
What kind of issues if any did the HOA or city cause?
I live in the Houston area and that would not be allowed in my neighborhood. It's pretty cool though! :)
love yer show
9:55 What is this plant I didnt hear what you said. It looks great though
Does anyone know where to obtain the sweet potato spinach plant? Is there another name for this? Thanks, A
Same, really want to find this, I know some sweet potato greens/vines are edible, not sure if this is a special variety...