April Tour of our 1/4 acre Food Forest
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- Join me for a spring tour of our temperate climate 1/4 acre food forest!
I'll show you which fruit trees have the most beautiful blossom, what berries can already be harvested in April and how we're developing a diverse herb layer.
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Salmon berries...I always thought they were boring, but I have since found out that different soils and microclimates can make a huge difference in taste. Mint grown in poor soil in the desert with water is so very strong and much different than when grown good soil and a cool moist climate. I have even noticed that more water and mulching with wood chips and grass clippings can change a bland apple into a flavorful one. If you find that you are not thrilled with the flavor, sometimes spices and mixing berries can bulk up and help so much.
I love your videos, just found them, will you be posting more? It's been a while since you did!
Thank you!! I posted a new video just 2 weeks ago so please check it out :) I am currently finishing the manuscript of my next book though, so will see when times allow to film more. I do have lots of ideas!
I love your garden, so beautiful
Thank you so much! It will only get more beautiful as more plants in the herb layer start flowering!
personellement, j'aime surtout la façon dont vous parlez de votre jardin, the way you speek about your garden
Nice garden tour as usual!😎 I have never thought of domesticated salmon berries before , I've only seen them in the wild. I live on coastal Vancouver island and they usually grow by rivers or lakes in wet-ish ground and under the shade of trees. I like them but their taste is slightly sweet but bitter too , sort of like the taste of yellow grapefruit compared to an orange.😎
Thanks for sharing, Anthony! It is so interesting to hear how the plants we have in our gardens grow in the wild. And you made me very curious about the fruits!
@@GrownToCook Hope you get a good salmonberry harvest!🐟😎
That sounds pretty nice actually.
Garden tours are my favorite.
I live in the Pacific NW in the USA and salmon berries are native here. I've never liked the taste much but a good one to grow for the birds. A delicious native here is called a Thimbleberry. It grows abundantly here with the salmonberry, usually on the edges of the woods.
Ah Salmonberries! When I lived in Vancouver Canada I would forage for these berries every spring along creeks and riverbanks. They love growing in these shady wet areas. They were always the first wild berry out (in our climate)! They are a bit like a raspberry (in shape & structure) but with a milder more watery/watered down flavor. The red berries are sweeter than the yellow ones, but I find them both delicious. Enjoy your Salmonberries this year! And thanks for sharing your beautiful garden with us!
Thanks for sharing Tatym! I love to hear how the things I grow in my garden grow in the wild! I like the plant so much (the blossom is so pretty) I'm thinking of adding another bush. But maybe I should taste the fruit first :)
Spring is a favorite time of year for all the fresh growth everywhere, and of course for the warming weather after winter. You have a beautiful garden and I enjoyed the tour.
My own apple trees had their first blooms this spring and I was surprised how excited I was to see them.
Thank you, Mel! Spring blossom is so beautiful, I hope you can taste your first apples this year! What variety do you have?
@@GrownToCook I have a Gala (boring I know but they're my favorite) and a Pink Lady. Both appear to be putting on just a couple fruit each this first year. They both seem quite healthy and I'm a bit surprised how easy they've been to grow, as long as I can keep the deer off of them. : )
It was lovely to see your food forest. I follow Martin Crawford's garden too. Would you be able to give a simple plan of the site to help us think about where different groups of plants are? Perhaps on the longer session.
I have a plan of the garden on my blog! Her's the link: www.growntocook.com/?p=5671
I am also thinking about doing a video on the design process - do you think that would be interesting?
@@GrownToCook A video on design process would be great!
Martin is great as his forest garden.
Backyard orchard culture is also a good system is one have less space, or want to grow more manageable size fruit trees.
You always inspire me, Vera, with your lovely garden & permaculture way of planting. I wish, I had a bigger garden.
You can still get a good amount out of a small space if your inventive and creative!
Thank you so much! For small spaces, have you seen the video on our small backyard? th-cam.com/video/l294zaoLgoA/w-d-xo.html
GrownToCook yes, I did 🙏 I think, I've seen most (if not every) videos of yours 😅😍
I use cardboard and woodchips as well, but no need to wait a year before planting. Just cover the cardboard with chips and leave it permanently.
The weeds die, the wirms love the weeds and cardboard and you'll have beautiful soil in just a few months.
You can plant right away by poking holes in the cardboard for each plant.
I started my food forest in 2016 and the Abundance is unbelievable.
Good luck!!
We have tried this but adding the wood chips immediately led to the cardboard breaking down too quickly and the couch grass growing right back :(
Just watching now
Greetings from Ukraine ! Please make more videos on Salmonberry--I've never seen it in my region!
Hi! I'll see if we get any fruits and try to make a video if we can taste them :)
Watching from the low desert where it is already over 100 F. Beautiful.
just reached 100 for us to! time to switch out the peas to beans
whats the difference between high and low desert? is it altitude or temperature or latitude?
Always love the garden walk throughs. I'm glad my young nanking cherries are flowering this year
So exciting! They are some of the most beautiful edible plants when flowering!
I’ve been rereading your book many times over as I work on my garden. This video is so inspiring! I hope to turn more of my yard into a food forest. I just showed my first large polyculture and can’t wait to see how it turns out.
Wait, Vera has a book? Would love to read that!
@@familyfruit9833 Edible Paradise by Vera Greutink, I recommend it.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/43597685-edible-paradise
Yes, I do! it's called EDIBLE PARADISE. I really should make a video about it - I'm totally failing at marketing :)
That's wonderful @airemay! PLease let me know how your polyculture turns out! Would you maybe consider writing a review on Amazon? It is a great help for authors! (and sorry if I've already asked you :))
Salmon berries grow wild where I live. They are delicious!!
That's great to hear, I can't wait to taste them!!
I love your food forest! We have a bit in common; I love your choice of fruit trees. I'm growing serviceberry, asian pears, mulberry, and apples..stone fruits are such a pain now! We're growing in 6b united states. These warm winter's and late frosts are absolutely maddening.
Hi Paul, thank you! So fun to hear you're on a different continent but growing a lot of the same fruits! I agree completely on the climate! My hardy berries and figs were also damaged
Thank you for sharing . Howie
Thanks, Howie!
Your food forest is such an inspiration, I'm in the process of reclaiming my garden from the last owner's turf. So far I've planted Raspberries, Blackberries, Gooseberries and Strawberries, and mulched them all with woodchips, bark and pine needles. I'm going to plant fruit trees next, but I need to think carefully about what to get, rootstock wise, and varieties. Anybody got any suggestions for what I should plant first? I'm thinking about 4/5 trees. My garden is long and fairly thin runs east to west.
Thank you, Matt! Sounds like you're well on your way to an abundant garden! Choosing the trees depends very much on your climate and how much space you have available. I'm thinking of doing some videos on this topic, like what you need to keep in mind when shopping for fruit trees...
@@GrownToCook Yeah, that would be a great idea for a video. I live in Scotland so similar trees can do well here as would in the Netherlands, Pear, plum, Apples etc. I'm still in the research and planning phase. There's so much advice you could put in a video, for Apple trees, you have pollination groups, all the different rootstocks, the ways to train them from cordon, bush, stepovers, fans, espaliers. What varieties, when they ripen, how they store, what tastes best.
I would soooo recommend Martin Crawford's book "Creating a Forest Garden". There is a thorough listing of plants for all layers of a forest garden, including common and less common fruiting trees, and trees with other uses. And lots of info on how to put it all together. All based on his research/experience in his mature forest garden in Devon.
It's funny how different the abundance of berries is around the world , where I live it is a life long undertaking to keep blackberries at bay. I love them though and usually pick 100-200 pounds per year within a one to two minute walk from my house.😎
Hi Matt, I'm in Derbyshire and also have a long thin garden that runs East to West. I have 9 fruit trees in a garden 45 m x 5 m. The trees zig-zag along the garden from one side to the other. It was not planned and evolved that way but works well. The gaps give enough room for bushes and perennials, a chicken run and a few raised beds dotted between them. They give enough shade from the ones on the south side and enough sun in front of the ones on the north side. Good luck with your planning.
Thank you from Derbyshire, UK for this video. Your garden videos are very inspirational to me.
Thank you so much, Anne, so lovely to hear!
Thank you for a nice tour in your food forest. I have been trying to find information about the edibility of Halesia for some time, so it was very nice to see it in your garden and hear that it is actually edible. I bought one myself this spring, and it is not in bloom this year.
It is an extremely ornamental plant and the fruits really are pleasant to eat!
@@GrownToCook Yes, it is in our front yard and will look good do well there I hope. Looking forward to seeing video about the fruits :)!
Wow great to see you.. be safe
Thank you, you too!!
Leuke video. Geweldige tuin.
Dank je wel!
Nice! Our backyard is only .16 acres, but we live in Georgia so the growing year is long.
Small backyards can be very productive!
That sounds like a dream climate to me :) But even here a lot is possible in small spaces - we also have a video on our tiny backyard full of edibles: th-cam.com/video/l294zaoLgoA/w-d-xo.html
I always learn something new! There are just so many more plants than one can imagine.
And unfortunately also always more interesting than one can fit in a garden :) I have a few things sitting in containers that need planting out but I can't find the space!
Thanks for sharing. This has given us lots of ideas! 🌿🐸🐝👍🌱
Thank you, Jennifer, that's great to hear!
I always look forward and enjoy your permaculture videos!
Thank you from Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, USA.
Jean J.
Thank you, Jean! It's so amazing to hear from gardeners on other continents!
I find myself looking forward to your videos! Thanks
Thank you. Lindsay! That is so sweet!
Very informative video, thank u
Lovely to see. We are also harvesting our first berries of the year - Mahonia "charity".
Thanks you! I'll check out the mahonia - there are some bushes growing here in a park nearby but the berries ripen much later. Is it a specific early variety? And how do you use the fruits?
@@GrownToCook we mostly just eat them from the bush and spit out the many (many!) pips. Sorry that's not v exciting.
I think is probably an early one. I wanted to get the earliest variety I possibly could, but I didn't find much information comparing them. Eventually I noticed an early fruiting one in a friend's garden. She had bought it at Saville Garden's, which is apparently where "charity" was first grown, so educated guess that's what her's was. It's a very commonly sold variety here anyway. I have it in full sun.
We are south east England, and benefit from a heat island effect from a nearby airport. Not sure how that would compare with where you are in the Netherlands?
Also your natural wood trellis area is BEAUTIFUL!!! Can you please tell us what you're growing on there?
Thank you, I'm very happy with how it is turning out :) I hope to do a video on it this coming season!
I absolutely love your channel! I started some peas outdoor about a week and 1/2 ago because they are a cold weather crop and they are doing well and survived! I'm so happy
Wow, wonderful use of space! Great video, Grow on!
Thanks so much! The garden gets better every year :)
Welkom terug! Ik heb jou videos gemist! Graag snel een rondleiding van je groente tuin, welke tomaten soorten heb je gezaaid dit jaar?
Dank je wel! Ik ga dit jaar mijn proef met ziekteresistente tomaten buiten uitbreiden met o.a. Galahad, Dorado, Crimson Crush en Coctail Crush. Ik heb er een heel artikel over geschreven in het laatste nummer van De Tuin op Tafel, mocht je mer willen weten! www.detuinoptafel.com/category/onze-uitgaves/
Amazing garden. Have you read Steve Barstow's book 'Around the world in 80 plants', plenty of perennial vegetables in it.
Thank you!! Yes, I have Steve Barstow's book, it's great and I actually mentioned it in my previous video on 10 perennial vegetables to grow for spring!
@@GrownToCook cool that's great. Is there any other books you'd recommend?
The king and I have the same birthday!
Haha, you can celebrate together :)
Greetings from Washington State!. Beautiful and inspiring, thank you for sharing your knowledge and the garden with the world. I was surprised to see you have salmonberries in The Netherlands. They are very common and grow wild here in the northwest coast of North America, from norther Oregon well into Canada, so they should survive the freezing weather. They look like a yellow raspberry, not very sweet, a bit on the bitter side but are fantastic for making jams. will be interesting to see what you think of them, let us know.
Thanks for sharing, Iris! I think the plants can probably survive a lot of frost as long as they are dormant but can be damaged by frost once they start growing? It is the same with hardy berries - during the winter they tolerate deep frost but the young shoots were also damaged. I am looking forward to tasting the salmonberry!
So lovely and inspiring ❤ thank you for sharing 😃
Thanks so much!
Thanks, i always enjoy your tours! Would love some videos on your guilds, or how you choose what to plant together, as i am thinking about our herb layer right now and would love some input on interesting combinations =)
Thank you! We'll try to film more videos but it is a lot of work (one to two days per video) and paid work has to come first. Google blocked our ad income (without giving us a reason) so we are unfortunatelly not making anything from our videos :(
@@GrownToCook Oh I am very sorry to hear that... not fair at all, as you make very good quality videos with interesting content. Hope that gets sorted quickly!
Great to see your Elaeagnus Ebbingei producing lots of berries. Did you plant another variety to pollinate it or did it pollinate itself?
We only have this one bush but other neighbours also have one. Might be the same variety though since we ordered from the same nursery :) The variety is called 'The Hague'
@@GrownToCook Thats interesting. I have planted some of the Hague variety and normal type this spring so hopefully we get some berries in a few years😉👍🌱
Loved this! I am very interested in the snowberry, we have lots growing near us planted to brighten up housing estates but had no idea it was edible
That's nice! They are beautifully trees and the fruits are quite nice, crunchy and a little cucumberlike flavour. I talked about them in a video last year: th-cam.com/video/xXyYjrCGESU/w-d-xo.html
Hello
Enjoying your videos.
Can you give me some advise .
I have a,small garden but I would like to buy 2 apple trees, which would be the best for pollination and best for my garden
Thanks
Hi Suzy, Thea's a complicated question! Where are you located? It is best to research local varieties - is there a nursery near you? And for a small garden =, dwarfing rootstock is probably best, but most varieties can grafted on a dwarfing rootstock. It also depends on whether you want dessert apples of apples for cooking/baking.
Thanks Vera, what a fantastic food forest/garden👍🏼 What kind of artichoke is this or is it a cardy?
Hi. I love your garden. I would like to ask a question. Is it feasible to create a fruit guild in a pot? I have cherries, apples, and plums in pots and was wondering if a guild is suitable? Thanks for your time and for sharing your work.
Hi Ricardo, yes, I have done this before in large pots but obviously the plant choice is more limited. I have for example a variety of violet under my blueberries and French sorrel under my gooseberry.
Heel inspirerende video, dank! Ik ga een deel van onze tuin omplanten tot een eetbare tuin en doe veel ideeën op in jouw video's. Zelf vind ik duindoorn prachtig maar weet niet hoe de bessen smaken. Hebben jullie duindoorn?
Dank je wel, Pauline! Ja, we hebben wilde duindoorn in onze gemengde haag en een paar variëteiten op naam (Botanika, Sirola). De bessen zijn aan de zure kant, eigenlijk beter voor verwerking tot jam of siroop. Ze bevatten wel ontzettend vitamine C. Ken je mijn boek TUIN SMAKELIJK? Er staat veel info over het ontwerpen van een eetbare bostuin en over specifieke planten.
@@GrownToCook Dank voor je antwoord, Vera. Ik wil de bessen voor mijn ontbijt smoothies gebruiken. Daar doe ik veel groente in en dat vind ik alleen lekker in combinatie met zuur fruit. Ik heb wat van je video's gekeken en geleerd dat ik van de Duindoorn een man en vrouw hebben moet. Goed om te weten. Je boek ga ik beslist aanschaffen. Dank en groet.
How about rubbarb , I just got some and I’m exited to plant it in a few days!
I love rhubarb! We have more than a dozen plants around the garden, the first harvest should come within a few weeks!
Hi Vera, great video as always. I see your cardoon is putting on growth, as is mine. I have never figured out a palatable way to eat it; any tips?
Yikes! I should have waited until the end because now I know those are artichokes! Does anyone have any ideas regarding cardoons?
Hi Danielle, I must confess that even though I do have cardoons too I have not figured out how to use them yet either! They could be blanched by tying the leaves together with a string and I understand that you basically just eat the ribs of the leaves? When I interviewed the head gardeners at the beautiful historical West Green Garden they said they only grow it as an annual because it is more palatable in the first year. I should make trying cardoon one of my goals for this season! If you figure it out, let me know!
I think covers crop with nitrogen fixedtion capability is more better for minimalis weeds growth
Which video is the one you made about the plants around the plum tree?
I see you have mulched your food forest floor with woodchips. do you plan to generate your own mulch on site or will you always be dependent on importing mulch from outside your garden.? do you get it for free or do you have to buy woodchips?
can a food forest be self sustaining completely with no inputs from outside its boundaries ?
Great question and I should maybe make a video on this topic! My intention is to only use wood chips for paths in future, with plants mostly covering the ground under the trees. It is helpful in the beginning to mulch though in order to prevent weed growth before the plants you do want spread. I am also planting a tripple row of comfrey along the edge as weed barrier and also to use as mulch, though primerily for my kicthen garden. And we have a mixed hedge around two sides of the plot which could theoretically generate some wood chips in the future.
Can i ask what sort of wildlife including birds, reptile, insect that you can see in your food forest? And whats the interaction between the plants and the wildlife? Thank you
We have birds and lots of insects (solitary bees, bumblebees, hoverflies...) but our pond especially helps a lot and there are lots of newts, frogs and dragonflies. But we also have rodents that dig tunnels throughout the garden :)
Diversity insurance, good concept.
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I lost an apricot tree to a late frost. The buds were out as well as the blossom, and the whole tree was killed. It was awful...
Oh no! A few years ago my mother in law lost a 15 year old kiwi vine due to a late hard frost. It was awful. :(
Temperate Climate? That's a bit vague. What hardiness zone are you in? They have Zones in the Netherlands. That's the important data point. After that is is soil type, pH, and dominant soil mineral load.
Hi Raul, sorry for the delay in responding. Yes, there are hardiness zones in Europe too, but they do not correspond well to the USA because we're much further to the north. That means our minimum temps might be the same but our day-length and summer temperatures are rather different. So I do not like to just give the zone number as I find that quite misleading for my American viewers. If you'd like the details, I made a video about what our climate is like: th-cam.com/video/Z0YdKOBat4M/w-d-xo.html
Where is nitrogen fixed plants
We have lots of nitrogen fixers, both in the herb layer (like lupin) and bushes (such as silverberry and sea buckthorn)
We had the same crazy late freeze here in Indiana. 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
It's becoming a pattern here - very hard to plan for! Also our pawpaws and hardy kiwis were damaged when they started sprouting. It doesn't't kill the plants but it means no harvest :(