Forest Garden Tour - Summer UK - Wins & Losses | Why Autumn Raspberries are BEST | Year 5 (2023)

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  • @craigwatson9320
    @craigwatson9320 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing 💚🌱👨🏻‍🌾✨

  • @buddleiabee
    @buddleiabee ปีที่แล้ว +1

    7:00 good to know, I've just bought one today. Along with a pink-currant bush, which I've not heard of before. Great tip with the raspberries.

    • @freedomforestlife
      @freedomforestlife  ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad it was helpful 🙏 pink currant sounds nice too! We have a pink lemonade blueberry… last years it was beautiful, but has not been looking so great this year, I think it was effected with by last years drought or the extra cold winter we just had as it is pretty much an ever green … normally! Thanks for watching and commenting 🙏✌️🌿

  • @gawain8000
    @gawain8000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video!
    The everlasting sweet pea and the perennial broccoli look/sound really cool!

    • @freedomforestlife
      @freedomforestlife  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad you enjoyed - Yes, just gotta get the 9 Star past pigeon and now cabbage butterfly destruction stage and all will be good, I found with the perennial kale in the past that these perennial versions do seem to bounce back a lot better from being stripped than the annual varieties too 🤞✌️🌿

  • @Canna1d
    @Canna1d ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderful.

  • @huttonsvalleypermaculture
    @huttonsvalleypermaculture ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The autumn fruiting raspberries are my favourite also. I never cut them back which really extends the harvest!!

    • @freedomforestlife
      @freedomforestlife  ปีที่แล้ว

      They are great aren't they 🙌 I think i'm going to have to do a little light pruning of the older branches which just fruited .. but only to re open some of the paths between bushes, where the old branches have colapsed in, just to make harvesting the next batch easier ! Do you cut out any of the dead branches at all on yours ? .. or just leave it ALL to it natural process? Thanks for watching/commenting 💚✌️🌿

  • @robpaton7
    @robpaton7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Watch out for the winecaps… ours have been so productive that I have over-indulged and made myself quite unwell! I read up on them and one source does say that if not cooked properly (they do get very watery when fried in butter) or if you eat too much it can cause digestive upsets! I need to look into it more because they are just so productive that it would be a shame to waste them!

    • @freedomforestlife
      @freedomforestlife  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for the heads up on that Rob 🙏 Good to know as I LOVE mushroom, so could easily over indulge i'm sure - I've got a good mushroom (no) Meatball recipe I can use them in if we get abundance, that can be frozen and enjoyed later to help spread the goodness ... I'll just be happy if/when they do start fruiting - We've had a good amount of rain the last couple of weeks so they should be liking that! Thanks for watching ✌️🌿

  • @wesleydavis8786
    @wesleydavis8786 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved your video, thank you. I'm intrigued how you use your chocolate mint? You mentioned drying them but how do you use them afterwards please?

    • @freedomforestlife
      @freedomforestlife  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      HI Wesley, glad you enjoyed the vid 🙏 I use the choc mint mainly for tea, both fresh and dried, you can just use it where ever you would use normal mint though, it only has the slightest hint of chocolate too it, I really like the type of mint flavour it offers overall 💚✌️🌿

  • @samhaynes2
    @samhaynes2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Daffodils or similar bulb plants planted around a plant to stop moles and voles

    • @freedomforestlife
      @freedomforestlife  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey - thanks for this - thats a really good tip 🙏✌️🌿

    • @samhaynes2
      @samhaynes2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@freedomforestlife I think perennial Alliums may work too like Welsh bunching Onions and Babington Leeks. While doing my PDC I saw alot of this.

  • @lynnerobinson6425
    @lynnerobinson6425 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Will you use the acacia for chop and drop when they get big?

  • @Happy.Chappy
    @Happy.Chappy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I suppose a fruit cage goes against the design/idea of a food forest? Perhaps you could put temporary netting around your nearly ripe berries?
    I did this recently with green netting and bamboo canes to protect what few blueberries I have left after the birds had a picnic 😂

    • @freedomforestlife
      @freedomforestlife  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have added temp nets to a couple of the bushes now, just to get us a but of a harvest 😃 and it has been worth it - as we have had a few little bowl fulls now - first time ever 🙌 thanks for watching and for you comment 💚✌️🌿

  • @maxsheffield2279
    @maxsheffield2279 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really interesting content, you're meant to thin the fruit on fruit trees to stop them falling into a biennial harvest.

    • @freedomforestlife
      @freedomforestlife  ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi Max, glad you found our video interesting 🙏 Yes, i can never quite be sure how i feel about thinning - We try to leave things to nature as much as possible in the food forest - its defo an art knowing when to intervene and when to let things be! Thanks for watching and commenting 💚✌️🌿