Mangos are lovely trees. They have capability to stand heat after parm trees.easy to grow and taking care of itself. Needs little water only. Capable to live more than 300 years(around 3 generation) Thank you Geoff.
Hey Geoff! Josh here....I was one of your PDC students back in 2012/13. Just circling back around to catch up with what you're doing these days. Hope you & family are well!
After all you've seen, not just the positives, but the betrayals an be failures (learning opportunities) and you're still getting excited and loving it! I try to hold my down times to your up so that we all continue to grow! Thanks for being you!
i buried a very pretty cat under a walnut tree that summer. he as hit by a car in my neighbourhood. there is always a way to honor life, by creating more life out of death. thank you for your videos, geoff lawton!
Geoff, my neighbors are the worst. I use a lot of mulch, twigs and leaves, wood chips to slowly replace my lawn with native shrubs. My neighbors hate the 'wild' look. They all have ugly lifeless lawns. But today, I watched as birds dug through all the mulch layers looking for bugs.
Don't judge someone else, how many years ago you were used to it, you didn't know better. Everyone grows at their own pace with their own insights.Make sure there is a hedge between you and your neighbors. Seeds blown over will make your neighbors angry and more resistant than insight. Admiring and answering solutions, offering alternatives when their mind is open to them. That takes courage, insight and is wisdom. With love herma
@@LPKlok well said. In the UK, lawns were a sign of wealth and status for a very long time, and that type of hard wired association takes time to overcome. What I see as ugly, heavily manicured, unnatural landscape, my wife and family see as desirable. Take the time to talk to your neighbours if you can, maybe offer them some of your flowers, cuttings etc. They might then ask for advice on how to plant a few things and it can build from there. Planting isn't easy for most people, especially those that have long working hours and have struggled to get things to grow in the past. Cutting grass is easy, it's thoughtless, that's why people do it.
I discovered this technique of using an animal body to fertilize a tree about 15 years ago when my beloved German Shepherd Raleigh died. Worst day of my life (almost) too... We have very poor, rocky soil so I dug a big hole (planter) about 5' deep by 3' around and put my large dog in the bottom with some salty tears & heartbreak and covered him with about a foot of soil. Then fertilized soil for another foot. And then a cherry tree with more fertilized soil to memorialize him with a living tombstone. Mulch on top too. It grew slowly for the first year or so until it hit the body of the dog and then that tree just took off like a rocket!!! That cherry tree has produced more cherries over the years than any tree I've ever planted. One year there were so many that some branches BROKE! But that was also due to the fact that I got bees that year and they fertilized every single blossom! I'm looking for Permaculture/Homestead land right now and I want to go down to the local animal shelter where they unfortunately kill a lot of dogs and cats and get a body for every food tree I plant- that is if they don't think I'm crazy or something! That request will take a little forethought as to how I present it!!! But waste not, want not, right? All they do with all those animals now is dump them into the landfill!!! We'll see but it also seems that the bigger the body the greater the benefit. If that doesn't work out, I can shoot wild hogs with a night vision scoped rifle as needed because they are a big nuisance where I am looking to move to and are open to shoot all year. Cheers and thanks so much for the fantastic videos!!! Gary... (my real name, heh...)
Well, as far as I can tell there's a "my father and his father before him have farmed this land. If the farming methods were good enough for them then it's good enough for me". This is usually spoken within view of a dozen empty twenty litre chemical drums or a dust storm resembling the great dust bowl of 1930s USA. A lot of interest in cover cropping and zero till is being generated but I personally think that it will be too little, too late. We are a a very greedy, selfish species which refuses to learn from the mistakes of the past.
I also soak mulches in worm tea before applying, but it is important to only soak the material for a few hours at most, otherwise anaerobic conditions will develop and toxic byproducts can end up harming the plant
When we plant a tree, we use a garden fork to loosen up the dirt outside of the hole, and even use the fork to wedge some of the dirt towards the middle, which fills in any areas that would create voids under the tree, and the fork tine patterns can be filled in with compost~
Watching with subtitles on, Geoff is going to "f**k it here with mulch". 2:06 not sure who controls subtitles on youtube these days. You've to love planting trees though, so much potential.
I am about to plant our first mango tree and this video is exactly what the doctor ordered. I saw a dead hedgehog on the road earlier today and I will go out and pick it up now 😢🙏😊
Quick question for you Geoff. Do you have a problem with brush turkeys, scratching back your mulch - exposing the soil again? We have to put down big tree branches, so they can't undo all the hard work of creating a micro-organism buffet for the tree.
My sweetie planted a mango seed, and we now have a mango tree. Unfortunately, we are in temperate forest, and it will likely never give us any fruit. Best to you and yours.
Pretty straightforward tree planting method. Makes sense (as everything we have learned here) I'd like to read Geoff's opinion about Ellen White's method.
hi geoff did you tried indian mangoes ?they grow quite tall and the fruit can be as big as 2 kilo single fruit.. and full of juice and more watery flesh than some pastey texture.. the mango type "chausa" i think you can get from indian supermarkets and can grow from seed.. 4 to 5 years will start producing fruit
Beautiful Jeff thanks for another tree planting lesson, I'm guessing the mango 🥭 likes semi well drained fertile soil and sun? Does that mean it's not optimum for a Food Forest? I'm pretty sure you have mangoes in the food Forest right?
Oh, can I ask you under what conditions that it's better to put charcoal directly into the soil and when it's more effective to use that same charcoal to fire cat litter into ceramic and put that into the soil instead? Kind of a Terra Preta question. I'm thinking the cat litter ceramic would be too wasteful of other materials for the gain in light rocky material. There are places of heavy clay soil where half the clay is cooked to change the properties of the soil to fit those light-airy conditions that are sought after for gardens~
Ecological succession is when meadows become forests, with everything in place over the entire time frame, but so called "succession-planting" is merely clear cutting every few months and replanting. We recognize that succession is plants growing through each other to become established, so succession planting is actually when perennials with different growth patterns are planted together in a way to colonize and establish an area, basically the standard permaculture setup. Since in farming the end-state in nearly every case is a cut-to-the-ground field, no part of it resembles succession~
If I remember correctly, Avocado trees will die if they're in boggy soil, so as long as the top meter or so of your soil drains well, then yes, everything Jeff did in this video would be excellent for Avocados. I would even go so far as to say that unless you know a tree specifically doesn't do well in rich forest soil, it should be safe to assume that this will work well for any tree you might want to plant. Also this is a good method for bananas and papayas if you're not going to put them in a circle around a mulch pit.
hi, i live in zone 7b and we get some good wind with very good amount of sunlight. i'm trying to grow my tropical fruits outside and would like your opinion on the type of greenhouse to get preferably one that can be taken down with ease so during summer they won't be confined. the greenhouse id like to be 15-20 ft length 10-15ft high. any recommendations would be appreciated. thank you
My manila mango grown from seed keep stopping their growth after about 3-4 months. I've re-potted using 30% sand, 30% peat moss, 30% perlite, and 10% mix of compost, composted manure, worm casting, and myccorhiza. They're getting 6-8 hours of direct sunlight. It's seems to be at a complete halt, and can't produce leaves. Any tips?? These baby's look like they're dying.
Random question. Im scared of hornets in the wilderness because i heard they can kill. Is there a way to be safe from it while clearing bush ?i saw one going into hole in the soil
Best Ahmad Azizi, In the Netherlands we have several types of hornets. some are very annoying and some are our best friends. Our best garden aids against mosquitoes, our best friends against pests. My advice look at each insect, how it lives, what it lives and why it lives with you. You can kill a hornet, but get back a plague of insects. So always think very carefully, there is no nutrition in your garden, you will not find a hornet. The European hornet is also much kinder in terms of venom than its 'colleague' wasp. The bump is bigger but the pain less. So conclusion with every insect. First know who it is, how it lives, what function it has and first investigate before acting. With some hornets you can work fine at a distance of 1 meter and nothing happens. Even more crazy some species don't like people and even try to avoid contact with people. And yes, those are big boys. So not every hornet is the same. Herma
I second this question... Is it just the frame rate of the camera that creates the reversing vortex pattern, or does it look like that in live real life?
Sahih al-Bukhari »Agriculture - The Book of Cultivation» Hadith 2320 41 Agriculture (1) Chapter: Sowing seeds and planting trees Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "There is none amongst the Muslims who plants a tree or sows seeds, and then a bird, or a person or an animal eats from it, but is regarded as a charitable gift for him." May Allah have great Mercy on you Geoff for all that you do for others now and into the future.
Love how you honour the animals and handling the goat with bare hands. The natural way. Love and respect for the living world.
keep making videos geoff I'll keep watching learning and applying it on a daily basis .The Man From Strugglers Farm
Mangos are lovely trees. They have capability to stand heat after parm trees.easy to grow and taking care of itself. Needs little water only. Capable to live more than 300 years(around 3 generation)
Thank you Geoff.
Hey Geoff! Josh here....I was one of your PDC students back in 2012/13. Just circling back around to catch up with what you're doing these days. Hope you & family are well!
We watch your videos smiling. What a contagious faith is life. Thank you!
Mate. You make it simple and give us a lot of info. Love your spirit brother, and it looks like you are just down the road from The Weedy Garden!
My goodness it would be epic if the two of you crossed paths and made a little video 😊
@@jesscoachsds or a big video!
Lovely video Geoff. Thanks 🙏
Geoff, the soil you dug from the hole looked pretty darn good! Looks like your pasture managment is paying off.
Great video as always.
After all you've seen, not just the positives, but the betrayals an be failures (learning opportunities) and you're still getting excited and loving it! I try to hold my down times to your up so that we all continue to grow! Thanks for being you!
i buried a very pretty cat under a walnut tree that summer. he as hit by a car in my neighbourhood. there is always a way to honor life, by creating more life out of death. thank you for your videos, geoff lawton!
What an kind-spirited person. Thanks for sharing! I love mangoes! 😋
Geoff, my neighbors are the worst. I use a lot of mulch, twigs and leaves, wood chips to slowly replace my lawn with native shrubs. My neighbors hate the 'wild' look. They all have ugly lifeless lawns. But today, I watched as birds dug through all the mulch layers looking for bugs.
Don't judge someone else, how many years ago you were used to it, you didn't know better. Everyone grows at their own pace with their own insights.Make sure there is a hedge between you and your neighbors. Seeds blown over will make your neighbors angry and more resistant than insight. Admiring and answering solutions, offering alternatives when their mind is open to them. That takes courage, insight and is wisdom. With love herma
@@LPKlok well said. In the UK, lawns were a sign of wealth and status for a very long time, and that type of hard wired association takes time to overcome. What I see as ugly, heavily manicured, unnatural landscape, my wife and family see as desirable. Take the time to talk to your neighbours if you can, maybe offer them some of your flowers, cuttings etc. They might then ask for advice on how to plant a few things and it can build from there. Planting isn't easy for most people, especially those that have long working hours and have struggled to get things to grow in the past. Cutting grass is easy, it's thoughtless, that's why people do it.
Also, permaculture doesn’t have to look wild. Just a little bit of manicuring would make it look like a beautiful garden.
@@LPKlok there is not enough time.. the destruction of land is a serious situation. things cant go like this
I'm loving your videos and disappointed I hadn't found them sooner! Cheers Geoff!
So good to see you Mr Lawton, beautifully put together. Thank you 🌱
This is one of my favorite videos! You're right it's all about love and respect!!!!! :D I love this mindset!!!!!
Anda sangat menginspirasi kami di Indonesia. Terima kasih 💕
I discovered this technique of using an animal body to fertilize a tree about 15 years ago when my beloved German Shepherd Raleigh died. Worst day of my life (almost) too... We have very poor, rocky soil so I dug a big hole (planter) about 5' deep by 3' around and put my large dog in the bottom with some salty tears & heartbreak and covered him with about a foot of soil. Then fertilized soil for another foot. And then a cherry tree with more fertilized soil to memorialize him with a living tombstone. Mulch on top too.
It grew slowly for the first year or so until it hit the body of the dog and then that tree just took off like a rocket!!! That cherry tree has produced more cherries over the years than any tree I've ever planted. One year there were so many that some branches BROKE! But that was also due to the fact that I got bees that year and they fertilized every single blossom!
I'm looking for Permaculture/Homestead land right now and I want to go down to the local animal shelter where they unfortunately kill a lot of dogs and cats and get a body for every food tree I plant- that is if they don't think I'm crazy or something! That request will take a little forethought as to how I present it!!! But waste not, want not, right? All they do with all those animals now is dump them into the landfill!!! We'll see but it also seems that the bigger the body the greater the benefit. If that doesn't work out, I can shoot wild hogs with a night vision scoped rifle as needed because they are a big nuisance where I am looking to move to and are open to shoot all year. Cheers and thanks so much for the fantastic videos!!! Gary... (my real name, heh...)
Such a good video clear and straight to the point
Where did the arrogant idea "man vs nature" come from in our modern western world. Man has always been a teammates of nature.
Well, as far as I can tell there's a "my father and his father before him have farmed this land. If the farming methods were good enough for them then it's good enough for me". This is usually spoken within view of a dozen empty twenty litre chemical drums or a dust storm resembling the great dust bowl of 1930s USA. A lot of interest in cover cropping and zero till is being generated but I personally think that it will be too little, too late. We are a a very greedy, selfish species which refuses to learn from the mistakes of the past.
Tanks , Geoff
We want a latest farm tour Geoff❤️❤️
I also soak mulches in worm tea before applying, but it is important to only soak the material for a few hours at most, otherwise anaerobic conditions will develop and toxic byproducts can end up harming the plant
When we plant a tree, we use a garden fork to loosen up the dirt outside of the hole, and even use the fork to wedge some of the dirt towards the middle, which fills in any areas that would create voids under the tree, and the fork tine patterns can be filled in with compost~
Watching with subtitles on, Geoff is going to "f**k it here with mulch". 2:06 not sure who controls subtitles on youtube these days. You've to love planting trees though, so much potential.
Fixed it, thanks Nick! - Bonnie (GLO team member)
@@DiscoverPermaculture thanks Bonnie. Your channel is awesome.
I am about to plant our first mango tree and this video is exactly what the doctor ordered. I saw a dead hedgehog on the road earlier today and I will go out and pick it up now 😢🙏😊
Awesome!
Quick question for you Geoff. Do you have a problem with brush turkeys, scratching back your mulch - exposing the soil again? We have to put down big tree branches, so they can't undo all the hard work of creating a micro-organism buffet for the tree.
My sweetie planted a mango seed, and we now have a mango tree. Unfortunately, we are in temperate forest, and it will likely never give us any fruit. Best to you and yours.
Pretty straightforward tree planting method. Makes sense (as everything we have learned here) I'd like to read Geoff's opinion about Ellen White's method.
Great instructional, thanks!
hi geoff did you tried indian mangoes ?they grow quite tall and the fruit can be as big as 2 kilo single fruit.. and full of juice and more watery flesh than some pastey texture.. the mango type "chausa" i think you can get from indian supermarkets and can grow from seed..
4 to 5 years will start producing fruit
Perfect!!
Salute to u Sir
Lovely
Absolutely spot on, very informative right there. Wondering , whats the purpose of the cardboard and jeans? Keeping it warm?
Loved your vid, also loved the ones over @ weedy garden. You explain a little better there, exactly where & why the tree(s) go in that area.
Great method of planting a Mango tree Geoff! Looking forward to your online PDC 2020. Any idea when it will be ready?
Super hit video sir ji🇮🇳🇮🇳💓🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
beautiful
Beautiful Jeff thanks for another tree planting lesson, I'm guessing the mango 🥭 likes semi well drained fertile soil and sun? Does that mean it's not optimum for a Food Forest? I'm pretty sure you have mangoes in the food Forest right?
Nice and cool
the sprinkle looked like the water was flowing in.
Very informative video 👍🏽, great work hopefully you can give me tips on caring for my mango plant.
The end of one life is the beginning of many.
Oh, can I ask you under what conditions that it's better to put charcoal directly into the soil and when it's more effective to use that same charcoal to fire cat litter into ceramic and put that into the soil instead? Kind of a Terra Preta question. I'm thinking the cat litter ceramic would be too wasteful of other materials for the gain in light rocky material. There are places of heavy clay soil where half the clay is cooked to change the properties of the soil to fit those light-airy conditions that are sought after for gardens~
Everything Bless
Ecological succession is when meadows become forests, with everything in place over the entire time frame, but so called "succession-planting" is merely clear cutting every few months and replanting. We recognize that succession is plants growing through each other to become established, so succession planting is actually when perennials with different growth patterns are planted together in a way to colonize and establish an area, basically the standard permaculture setup. Since in farming the end-state in nearly every case is a cut-to-the-ground field, no part of it resembles succession~
Nice
Do the same principles apply for all fruit tree? I have 6 Hass graftings that I want to plant but want to give them the best start possible.
If I remember correctly, Avocado trees will die if they're in boggy soil, so as long as the top meter or so of your soil drains well, then yes, everything Jeff did in this video would be excellent for Avocados. I would even go so far as to say that unless you know a tree specifically doesn't do well in rich forest soil, it should be safe to assume that this will work well for any tree you might want to plant. Also this is a good method for bananas and papayas if you're not going to put them in a circle around a mulch pit.
@@DaveTpletsch Thanks. We live in Thailand which is quite sandy with clay below. Bananas and Papayas grow like weeds here ☺️
hi, i live in zone 7b and we get some good wind with very good amount of sunlight. i'm trying to grow my tropical fruits outside and would like your opinion on the type of greenhouse to get preferably one that can be taken down with ease so during summer they won't be confined. the greenhouse id like to be 15-20 ft length 10-15ft high. any recommendations would be appreciated. thank you
I have one i grew from seed! Going on second indoor winter.
Mulch the earth!
My manila mango grown from seed keep stopping their growth after about 3-4 months. I've re-potted using 30% sand, 30% peat moss, 30% perlite, and 10% mix of compost, composted manure, worm casting, and myccorhiza. They're getting 6-8 hours of direct sunlight. It's seems to be at a complete halt, and can't produce leaves. Any tips?? These baby's look like they're dying.
Can we grow mango in Melbourne?
Random question. Im scared of hornets in the wilderness because i heard they can kill. Is there a way to be safe from it while clearing bush ?i saw one going into hole in the soil
Best Ahmad Azizi, In the Netherlands we have several types of hornets. some are very annoying and some are our best friends. Our best garden aids against mosquitoes, our best friends against pests. My advice look at each insect, how it lives, what it lives and why it lives with you. You can kill a hornet, but get back a plague of insects. So always think very carefully, there is no nutrition in your garden, you will not find a hornet. The European hornet is also much kinder in terms of venom than its 'colleague' wasp. The bump is bigger but the pain less. So conclusion with every insect. First know who it is, how it lives, what function it has and first investigate before acting. With some hornets you can work fine at a distance of 1 meter and nothing happens. Even more crazy some species don't like people and even try to avoid contact with people. And yes, those are big boys. So not every hornet is the same. Herma
What kind of sprinkler is that?
I second this question... Is it just the frame rate of the camera that creates the reversing vortex pattern, or does it look like that in live real life?
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Sahih al-Bukhari »Agriculture - The Book of Cultivation» Hadith 2320
41 Agriculture
(1) Chapter: Sowing seeds and planting trees
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "There is none amongst the Muslims who plants a tree or sows seeds, and then a bird, or a person or an animal eats from it, but is regarded as a charitable gift for him."
May Allah have great Mercy on you Geoff for all that you do for others now and into the future.