What Should I Plant in My Food Forest? 3 Questions to Guide Plant Selection
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Once you decide a food forest design is right for you and your garden, what plants do you choose?
Here are three important questions to ask yourself as you begin the process of deciding which fruit and nut trees and berry bushes and other plants are appropriate for your particular food forest.
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Great advice. I love acidity in fruit, and have started looking more for terms like "subacid", "tart", and "balanced" rather than "sweet" in varietal descriptions. I finally found cornelian cherry jam online, and the sweet/tart balance blew my mind. Same with honeyberry jam.
I have very clay soil in my garden so it’s good to hear someone giving tips for that 🙂
I had fallen for the " must have permaculture plants" fad.
We tried growing cornelian cherry, we had tried them at a One Green World tour when they had a nursery store in Mollalla. I really liked the yellow one, and my spouse and daughter liked the red, so we bought 2 trees. The yellow died in the first 2 years, but the red one the graft grew very slowly, but the root stock grew like crazy. During an extended illness, the root stock took over, and when I recovered, I found the small scion trunk hidden in a mass of rootstocks. The root stock tree did alright for a couple of years, using a neighbor's tree for pollination. Then the root stock tree started splitting down the trunk and we removed it. This process took about 15 years. The root stock fruit was terrible.
I like to watch open fire village cooking videos from eastern Europe and central Asia as something quite to wind down with at night. It's like Cottage core for me. The families in these videos pick Cornelia cherries in common areas in their villages. They usually make "compote", which is a fruit drink made of fruit, water, and sugar, and they can bottles of it for winter. They use a lot of sugar in it, because the Cornelius cherries aren't that sweet.
I have a Cornelian Cherry in my front yard and for 13 years I have tried to love them (because the tree is THERE and is flourishing!!) but they are just terrible. :D
I'm curious if you've tried making jam with them? They seem a bit like olives - not intended for fresh consumption.
Whenever we do find our wee farm, I will definitely be setting up a farm stand for excess produce. It’s the best feeling ever to share food you’ve grown. How has your experience of having a farm stand been, Angela?
LOVE this! The issue I have is that over here in my part of the UK, I’m considered a bit of an oddball. I don’t know anybody who has ‘unusual’ fruit crops. Try before you buy just isn’t an option unfortunately.
I wish there was a more informative zoning. The hardiness zones just tell you the coldest that it can get.
I recently moved to a totally different climate. It has been hard for me to meet people, but driving around I recognize some plants and see what does well. I joined a guided nature walk in the spring, which taught me a lot about the native plants.
You should check on Facebook, if you’re on there. Angela has her own FB group, I believe. But I found so many groups for gardeners in my new state. I also joined a group about native plants from my area.
Great video again! Looks so nice and shady were you are filming. Paw Paws are something that I have been dying to try. I didn’t buy tickets to the state paw paw festival fast enough.
I'm so glad you recommended tasting these foods in another video. I have started trying the foods I've been interested in growing. I've tried goji berry, which I didn't like dried, but I have started adding it to my oatmeal rehydrated and enjoy that. I've tried pawpaw (yum!) And gooseberry. Not sold on the gooseberry yet. But, hoping to buy my first pawpaw this week, maybe two of they are different.
We have a few different gooseberry cultivars that recently came into production, and I'm seeing huge differences in flavor profile between them. The best one is pretty amazing (Juicy Fruit like intensity), and another is bland by comparison. FWIW, I mostly suck the juice and spit the peels...
Thanks for the advice! Just for your practical examples, the cultivars can matter a lot. I think some cornelian cherry cultivars are nice straight from the tree, some are not (but they might really add something to juices). Haskap can be awesome or terrible. And some apricot cultivars should do better in your zone (and mine, which is the same). So probably good not to write off a species based on some cultivars.
Very good point! Cultivar matters as much as the species. Thanks for bringing that fact up :)
I think your advice is great. But I have no way to taste a lot of the things I am going to plant. There are no permaculture groups in my area and no way for me to buy these fruits at farmers markets or at the store. However I did find a TH-camr that is reviewing strange fruits that has been helpful. And I have watched a lot of other TH-camrs with their food forests. I have tried to do research, but I am planning on planting and then ripping things out if no one in my family likes them.
His channel name is Weird Explorer for anyone else interested. He has reviews on a lot of common "permaculture-y" plants.
@@lwjenson I think he's shooting for "all edible fruits in the world", so that would include quite some permaculture-y plants. I always like his videos, very down-to-earth and indeed a very nice opportunity to get detailed tasting notes on things that are impossible to find in the shops around you!
Thanks!
Thank you!
Great videos. 👍
So, I've killed one fig tree already by container planting it, bringing it inside for the winter, and forgetting to water it. Fig #2 is flourishing away in the ground outside, and I'm starting to wonder what sort of protection a first season fig needs in the winter?
Put rocks around it protects it and add drainage and wood chips grass clippings cover it will old blankets and plastic
Is it possible to have chicken, rabbits and quails in a small fenced orchard with dwarf fruit trees? How much damage will chickens do to the trees or fruits?
Once the trees are established, the chickens don’t harm them. I have to carefully select shrubs that are thornier where the chickens will damage them. I use Rugosa roses and gooseberries and such.
@@ParkrosePermaculture Thank you for the advise, I am in the planning stage right now and want to do it as correctly as possible, I am learning a lot from your videos and currently taking PDC online to help me build my dream home
Hey, did you know the USDA wants you to register your garden? You ought to sign up.
lol, no it doesn’t. That’s not what they’re doing, despite the fear-mongering posts on social media lately.
ask the deer, raccoons and rabbits what they would like