I went back to your old vlogs from 4yrs ago, you have come from far, you have created a truly food forest🎉🎉 congratulations. replicating thus concept on my farm in Kenya
Very nice video and amazing plant growth. You're doing a fantastic job👍 explaining what you've planted and we're looking forward to seeing more from you Mike! Cheers, RB 😀
I've only been growing my food forest for five months and I can't wait for it to get to three years like yours! It thrills me endlessly. I have a baby rainbow eucalyptus, too (I'm from the Philippines)- and I so look forward to getting older because of that one tree- how marvelous it would be with all the changing colors in its trunk! Thank you for sharing your journey in food foresting!
We have found on some of our fruit trees over the years which have suffered from disease. As we increased the fertility and water availability ( through mulch particularly) that the trees naturally became resistant.
Thanks for sharing your passion Mike, was a very enjoyable and informative video, you are very knowledgeable and passionate, lovely to see everything flourishing in your rainforest food garden under your care and attention, thanks again ;)
Veeery nice Mike. Beautiful place you got there and shaping up to be a really excellent food forest. I would think haveing a block in Kuranda is about as good as it gets. Hope it keeps going well for you. Best regards.
Your process i is easy than my / because you in 10b / where I grow theses trees in 9B zone so I got all the tropical trees just like your garden . I got mangosteen & durian tree too .
Awesome video! I can't believe how grown up your trees are now! So impressive how you got so much so established with so many critters in the rainforest to contend with 👍✌️💚
Not that easy in the tropics. We find never ever had the problems which we now find in QLD Australia. Back in a cold part of NZ was at least 100x easier. All the months of frosts were brilliant on hindsight. You just grow different things and /or nurture some things differently.
@@jenskarlsson4744we are in the sun tropics but because we r inland we do get 6-10 frosts every year. We still grow hundreds of bananas and about a dozen mango trees. They do ok. But agree that’s why in colder climates it’s easy to grow a lot of other stone fruits . We struggle to grow a lot of stone fruit here.
We have been going for 9 months. But after 5 months we decided to start our main food forest elsewhere. So we have two food forests going . But the second one is getting most of the attention now. Exciting to see what you have done, hopefully we will be similar after 3 years.
I can nearly guarantee you can reduce those leaf miners damage more than 70% with two simple solutions: 1. Swallow birdhouses 2. Bat homes You need more swallow nesting sites and bats. During the day, swallows will feed on thousands of flying insect pests in midair. Sparrows will be good to control beetle, grasshopper and lower level pests, and will just need shrub nesting sites (tall thrushes, etc). Swallows will need a small birdhouse on posts. Both of these birds main diet is insects and if you have a feeder stocked with seeds / water , the swallows will be less likely to go after fruits. Get rid of those day leaf miners saw flies etc. Bats on the other hand will be perfect to control those night pests (moths). Get rid of those night pests, e.g. moths and other leaf miners. Here's what you'll get bats and swallows to eat: The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths (Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta, the mother clade of wasps), and flies (Diptera). Getting rid of these pests will greatly reduce damaged leaves and ensure better photosynthesis for your plants which equates to better growth and less plant stress. This will also lead to increased fruit yield, as the undamaged tree leaves can focus on creating more sugars to create fruits. Hope that helps 🌴
Just discovered your channel now… congratulations on this wonderful piece of land 💚 While watching, I am wondering all the time if you’re German as well 😁 could also be Austrian though… Maybe I will find out when binge watching all your other videos. Great work you have done here, from what I can tell! Really inspires me not to shy away from dreaming bigger! Thank you very much for all the detailed explanations, and keep up the great work 🤝
Hey Mike, have you considered planting local species endemic to the area to control pests? To attract predatory insects that attack the pests. Awesome work, BTW!
Hi Gavin, I do have planted a lot of local species but they don't seem to attract any predators. I think the predators may get attracted by their prey rather than plants... I do have some assassin bugs and praying mantids but just not enough to keep the bugs in check.
Where are your supports? I don’t see lines, trees, plants. Work with plants in your area take in your environment and you’ll find your native supports. Lots of food but you can never have enough multch. There’s a ton of bare ground, I’m covering all the soil with P1 Basic Grasses and a week later they shift, getting support and pioneer species only here in the beginning. I’m using a combo of the most used in agroforesty and the best native fast pioneer trees and plants. Again I love your place just having better success taking a step backwards to go further faster.
Hey Mike, I moved to Kuranda a few months ago with the goal of living more off the land. I'd love to meet and check out what you have done on your property, get some ideas.
4:17 Actually it’s quite easy to deal with Prest and disease. Use KNF Korean Natural Farming methods, IMO4/mantanice solution specifically IMPO for pest by Chris Trump. There’s also JADAM using JMS/JLF JWS/JWA that’s very effective and cheap for both. Lots of free info to learn
hi there, found you a few weeks ago, you livin my dream bro, still stuck in austria, if i´m wrong please correct, but i can hear a austrian accent in your english, right? :) i saw what andreas pfeifer in paraguai made years ago..... till that time my wife bianca and i just wanna escape our " rat race" in austria... keep on growin :) much respect! light & love
You do realize, if the Panama Cherry is an invasive species, and if the birds are taking most of the berries, then the seeds are already distributed everywhere for miles around and it is too late to control by just taking out your own trees. 😢
The trick to save the planet is to be a breatharian and keep the ground covered with plants and trees very close together so there is no sunlight hitting the ground , like nature does it..... welcom to the jungle!!!!🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌾🌾🌾🌱🌱🍃🍃 as long as we eat we will never recouperate this planet a her 100% capacity!!
Everything eats something... that's the foundation of life on this planet. That's why there is a food web. We're just a part of that... and we should be humble enough to acknowledge that... one branch of the tree of life. 🙏🏾
Thanks for your input mate, but I do have a reason for keeping them bigger. They are shade trees for a new succession planting. My new video shows how I prune them for that purpose.
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very beautiful food forest.thank you for upload
Grow food forest in under 3 years amazing work big like
hope you upload more.waiting from THAILAND.
I went back to your old vlogs from 4yrs ago, you have come from far, you have created a truly food forest🎉🎉 congratulations. replicating thus concept on my farm in Kenya
Beautiful food forest ..Much respect
It is good to see you bro. Your food Forest looks amazing.
So excited for you for your jack fruits 👍
Very nice food forest. All the best!
Very nice video and amazing plant growth. You're doing a fantastic job👍 explaining what you've planted and we're looking forward to seeing more from you Mike! Cheers, RB 😀
Thanks so much. I'll try to put up videos more frequently now. Stay tuned.🙏🏾❤️😊
This is so great to see! Loved having a virtual tour around the land. Well done. So proud of you 🌿. X
good stuff, love the fungi set up
I've only been growing my food forest for five months and I can't wait for it to get to three years like yours! It thrills me endlessly. I have a baby rainbow eucalyptus, too (I'm from the Philippines)- and I so look forward to getting older because of that one tree- how marvelous it would be with all the changing colors in its trunk! Thank you for sharing your journey in food foresting!
lmao i hope your in a tropical climate
That amazing of the growth of your trees. I also started my food forest about 3 years ago but I am still planting trees.
Love all the tree knowledge and info…looking awesome
Thanks mate. Sorry for the late reply
So many ideas and answers I found in this, thank you 👌
We have found on some of our fruit trees over the years which have suffered from disease. As we increased the fertility and water availability ( through mulch particularly) that the trees naturally became resistant.
Thanks for sharing your passion Mike, was a very enjoyable and informative video, you are very knowledgeable and passionate, lovely to see everything flourishing in your rainforest food garden under your care and attention, thanks again ;)
Great to see the growth Mike.
Thanks James. You have definitely been one of the inspirations! 😊🙏🏾❤️
@@gaiasgardeninkuranda Ah cheers man, glad to be of help then, its pretty cool stuff, growing all this food hey :)
Veeery nice Mike. Beautiful place you got there and shaping up to be a really excellent food forest. I would think haveing a block in Kuranda is about as good as it gets. Hope it keeps going well for you. Best regards.
I love your work along with you
Your process i is easy than my / because you in 10b / where I grow theses trees in 9B zone so I got all the tropical trees just like your garden . I got mangosteen & durian tree too .
Love Rollinia, my favourite fruit. I have Panama berry growing in Sydney and it still grows like crazy here. I agree will likely be weedy in Kuranda.
There are parasitic wasps that help control leaf miners, hopefully some turn up for the ones in your mango leaves.
Amazing Mike!!
Thanks Bellazinha!😍
hey brother, welcome back to youtube, keep up the great work
Thanks mate. How's things on your end?
You have a very beautiful garden, congratulations!🫒🍍🍌
Ich denke, du sprichst Deutsch. Viele Grüße von Ungarn.🇭🇺
Danke dir🙏🏽❤️
Awesome video! I can't believe how grown up your trees are now! So impressive how you got so much so established with so many critters in the rainforest to contend with 👍✌️💚
Ha ha ha, yes I know. These little buggers really make it heaps harder...🤣
As someone who has lived in the tropics for a long time, I have found that coconut palms are the biggest attractor or pests that there is.
So easy in the tropics !! try it in norway canada or finland !!
too easy in the tropics
Not that easy in the tropics. We find never ever had the problems which we now find in QLD Australia. Back in a cold part of NZ was at least 100x easier. All the months of frosts were brilliant on hindsight. You just grow different things and /or nurture some things differently.
@@chessman483 Bananas and Mangos dont like frost that much ?
@@jenskarlsson4744we are in the sun tropics but because we r inland we do get 6-10 frosts every year. We still grow hundreds of bananas and about a dozen mango trees. They do ok. But agree that’s why in colder climates it’s easy to grow a lot of other stone fruits . We struggle to grow a lot of stone fruit here.
@@chessman483 In sweden outdoors bananas Avocados Mangos no way !! Greenhouse u can grow what ever !!
We have been going for 9 months. But after 5 months we decided to start our main food forest elsewhere. So we have two food forests going . But the second one is getting most of the attention now. Exciting to see what you have done, hopefully we will be similar after 3 years.
Oh wow. Good luck with 2 of them. I sure have enough on my plate with only one...😜
I can nearly guarantee you can reduce those leaf miners damage more than 70% with two simple solutions:
1. Swallow birdhouses
2. Bat homes
You need more swallow nesting sites and bats. During the day, swallows will feed on thousands of flying insect pests in midair. Sparrows will be good to control beetle, grasshopper and lower level pests, and will just need shrub nesting sites (tall thrushes, etc). Swallows will need a small birdhouse on posts. Both of these birds main diet is insects and if you have a feeder stocked with seeds / water , the swallows will be less likely to go after fruits. Get rid of those day leaf miners saw flies etc.
Bats on the other hand will be perfect to control those night pests (moths). Get rid of those night pests, e.g. moths and other leaf miners.
Here's what you'll get bats and swallows to eat:
The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths (Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta, the mother clade of wasps), and flies (Diptera).
Getting rid of these pests will greatly reduce damaged leaves and ensure better photosynthesis for your plants which equates to better growth and less plant stress. This will also lead to increased fruit yield, as the undamaged tree leaves can focus on creating more sugars to create fruits.
Hope that helps 🌴
Oh wow! That's so nice of you. Thanks so much. I will try that out.🙏🏾😊
Looks great! 🤙
I had a kangaroo eat the leaves off the first tree I planted . We now have a fence. So far so good with rest of trees
Awesome 👌🏻 👌🏻 👌🏻
Thanks 🤗
The bunya trees are cool
Love the music
Yeah, me too. It's Carl Orff. Carmina Burana. One of my favourite classic pieces of all time! 😄
Lovely xx
Just discovered your channel now… congratulations on this wonderful piece of land 💚
While watching, I am wondering all the time if you’re German as well 😁 could also be Austrian though…
Maybe I will find out when binge watching all your other videos.
Great work you have done here, from what I can tell! Really inspires me not to shy away from dreaming bigger!
Thank you very much for all the detailed explanations, and keep up the great work 🤝
Thanks so much for that Sebastian. I was born in Austria, but I was made for the tropics...😉
Those fast growing trees are great for having something to mulch but if it is to much work to keep on top of then removing them seems Wise ✌️👍
Yeah, any plant that can reproduce so vigorously can get out of hand really quickly, especially, when birds spread the seeds.
Wasn't expecting to hear O Fortuna while vicariously gardening today. Kudos!
Awesome, new subbie here! 🤩
May i suggest spraying wood vinegar aka liquid smoke as pesticide.
amazing, encouraging
Hey Mike, have you considered planting local species endemic to the area to control pests? To attract predatory insects that attack the pests. Awesome work, BTW!
Hi Gavin, I do have planted a lot of local species but they don't seem to attract any predators. I think the predators may get attracted by their prey rather than plants... I do have some assassin bugs and praying mantids but just not enough to keep the bugs in check.
Where are your supports? I don’t see lines, trees, plants. Work with plants in your area take in your environment and you’ll find your native supports. Lots of food but you can never have enough multch. There’s a ton of bare ground, I’m covering all the soil with P1 Basic Grasses and a week later they shift, getting support and pioneer species only here in the beginning. I’m using a combo of the most used in agroforesty and the best native fast pioneer trees and plants. Again I love your place just having better success taking a step backwards to go further faster.
Hey Mike, I moved to Kuranda a few months ago with the goal of living more off the land. I'd love to meet and check out what you have done on your property, get some ideas.
Hi Samson, that's great to hear. Yes, let me know when it suits you snd come have a look😊
Boa noite meu amigo Fábio de Serrinha de São Gonçalo do Amarante RN
Nice!!! Do you take visitors? Im in cairns and would love to see your food forest
Hi Jodi, Hi Tyler, yes absolutely. Let's arrange a visit soon!😊
Hi mike. I would love to come see your work would you be interested in a visitor at all? I only live 3.5 hrs away… ?
Yes absolutely. When would it suit you?
Wow, looks amazing! Have you tried growing breadfruit in Kuranda?
Hi Rory, I have not tried but I know some trees here so it definitely grows, event though rather slow.
@@gaiasgardeninkuranda Awesome! Thank you.
4:17 Actually it’s quite easy to deal with Prest and disease. Use KNF Korean Natural Farming methods, IMO4/mantanice solution specifically IMPO for pest by Chris Trump. There’s also JADAM using JMS/JLF JWS/JWA that’s very effective and cheap for both. Lots of free info to learn
hi there, found you a few weeks ago, you livin my dream bro, still stuck in austria, if i´m wrong please correct, but i can hear a austrian accent in your english, right? :)
i saw what andreas pfeifer in paraguai made years ago..... till that time my wife bianca and i just wanna escape our " rat race" in austria...
keep on growin :)
much respect!
light & love
Mantap bagus sekali saya suka
You do realize, if the Panama Cherry is an invasive species, and if the birds are taking most of the berries, then the seeds are already distributed everywhere for miles around and it is too late to control by just taking out your own trees. 😢
Good problem. The birds can feed the world. We can all retire 😂.
Have you tried neem oil for the pests on your mangoes trees?
Hi mate, as I mentioned in the video, it won't affect the leaf miners, as they are hidden inside the leaf.
while watching i think this is Philippines?
Hi Love you video, can I ask which nursery you bought all your fruiting plants? Im very interested to find a nursery that sell Durian tree.
That sure is a lot of diesel powered equipment used for a small piece of land.
Out of curiosity, what part of the world is Kuranda in? Thanks.
Far North Queensland, Australia
It's in Far North Queensland, Australia 😉
👌👌👍👍💐💐
Hi Mike, do you have WWOOFing opportunities?
Hey, sorry for the late reply. Yes I do for someone who is self-contained in a van or other accommodation though.
@@gaiasgardeninkuranda, thanks Mike but I'm not self-contained. All the best!
Tô lhe assistindo aqui no Rio Grande do Norte Brasil
How long did the guanabana take to fruit? 3.5 to 4 years?
Eu também gosto de plantar igual a você
The trick to save the planet is to be a breatharian and keep the ground covered with plants and trees very close together so there is no sunlight hitting the ground , like nature does it..... welcom to the jungle!!!!🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌾🌾🌾🌱🌱🍃🍃 as long as we eat we will never recouperate this planet a her 100% capacity!!
Everything eats something... that's the foundation of life on this planet. That's why there is a food web. We're just a part of that... and we should be humble enough to acknowledge that... one branch of the tree of life. 🙏🏾
Where is kuranda, just saw you for the first time
Burn some brown and green leaves beneath or near a sick mango tree. It will fix it. Make sure the mango does not get burn.
Content starts at 2:30
Sorry mate, content starts at 0:00. That's my summary of the last 3 years of preparing the site. Not sure what the purpose of your comment is...?🤔
Wowsundar may india sa bat kar rahahu vary good farm good good
Grow a food forest in under 3 years.... in the tropics! (subtropics).
These guys do something similar in Canada: @CanadianPermacultureLegacy. It's worth it checking them out!
you have dont not enough pruning in the begin fase. keep the branches pick height, cut lower and top when young'
Thanks for your input mate, but I do have a reason for keeping them bigger. They are shade trees for a new succession planting. My new video shows how I prune them for that purpose.
other weise known as Jamaca cherry,didnt know they suckered
The song thou..😅😂
My name Fabio aqui no Brasil
Very nice place to retire...
No irrigation would be impressive. Thus not impressed