Thanks heaps for coming along to see what we've been up to - I hope you enjoyed it! If you'd like to see more, feel free to check out the video I made of the land back in Summer which shows some of the other cool stuff we're growing :) th-cam.com/video/gkoic01w6pk/w-d-xo.html
Have you considered a "setting up the property " video discussing building yalls house and the start of the food forest ? I think it would be really interesting and help push more people into doing this sort of thing
try mix plants " pumpkin root and watermelon top ' those watermelon will become so strong and big , start in spring time can harvest 3 to 4 time in summer.
Many people still don't know the importance of native trees and plants and what role they play in local ecosystem and how many animal species are dependent on those native plants and trees, awesome video and nice updates 👍🏼.
Thanks Benny, definitely agree. Planting more native trees is something we're going to continue working on more and more. There's a real lack of them in the farmland that surrounds us unfortunately.
I’ve been planting native fruit trees on my property as well. I’ve been putting them close to my property line so the squirrels will spread the seeds to other properties. I planted 25 bare root pawpaw trees a couple months ago. I gathered wild persimmon seeds from a friends property to add to mine. I’m going to find spots in my woods that get sunlight and plant the seeds. Then I will let nature take its corse.
We really need a revolution in education…. I would like to know Americas educational system history and if nature based information was taught even 100-150 years ago… seems like reading writing arithmetic and history, social studies, and geography came eventually, but why is it that people don’t really learn about plants until college (horticulture, ecology, landscape architecture?)
I adore birds, really. They're really something when you've raised them from the egg no matter what species it is! Loved the excited gobble in the end!
After 6 years of gardening I decided a no dig garden, we bought like 60 tones of compost so we can reduce weedings. I put the cardboard first then the compost. I cover weed mat to my tomato beds a 1 meter wide and 40 meters in length. This time the tomato got no weeds because I used a 1.83 wide weed mats but the walk way have some weeds. You inspired me with the no dig and I believed next season will be less work because after harvest this summer we will cover them with weed mat so next planting will just create the holes and plant our seedlings. Planning to cut trees to shredded so we create mulch for the walk way in winter.
Kalem, you are a Zookeeper!! I am in deep awe of you. You are truly a holy man. May you live a very very long and lovely life. We need people like you in world leadership.
Sometimes we think back to what we’ve done over the past 5 or 10 years. And I’m amazed at what we got through. Doing a recap on how far you’ve come is amazing. Congrats on your progress. I still remember early days when the Feijoas went in.
Just found your channel recently been binging all your vids. So jealous with your section and green fingers, veg patch and plant looks great. Would be keen to see what you plant in the summer :)
So thankful I caught your video!!! I'm taking my farm in the same direction, meaning creating a food forest. :) It's a beautiful way of gardening, very intuitive aa well. Thank you for the visuals! It's even more beautiful than I imagined! The bees and beneficial insects must be extremely happy as well! :)
Love it! Food Forrest is what I’m going for on 1 acre here in Northern California. My plants made it through the summer of constant heat 110 - 120 so I am doing a happy dance. I mean a HAPPY dance! It was brutal. We are experiencing a mild fall so everything looks pretty good. I worked like a fool to stay ahead of the heat. I have chickens and a rabbit too. They had misters, shade, shade cloth, ice and a fan. It was still hotter than blazes but we made it!
Thankyou so much for sharing your experience!! I swear most 'gardening books' and websites just cut and paste what has been written before. My mountain paw paw melted too, even though I planted it alongside a gabion wall (stone filled) that I had put in to help my avocados cope with winter in Dannevirke. I shall go out now and see if there is any sigh of life at the base!!
This is a great way to garden. I am in the process of doing it this way. I have planted my trees and shrubs in different guilds and planted herbs, veges, flowers etc around the shrubs and trees. I have vines growing along the fences. A voulnteer choko is growing over one tree in my garden. I have other volunteers popping up everywhere, including sunflowers, wheat and corn in the chicken run from where I broadcast the seeds for the chickens lol. Love your garden. So inspirational.😁
You are building a natural world in your homestead while big corporations driven by greed and power are destroying the natural resources like forest in order to get rich. The guardians of the natural world salute your efforts. Whatever you are doing now will be celebrated and enjoyed by generations and generations to come. Please keep it up and God Bless
someeee years agoooo i took a class of horticulture and I remember that the teacher spoke about a farmer that started to have issues with wild animals eating his crops...so he decided to plant half of acre at one corner of his property and he let the animals know that the food growing in that part of his property was only for them but he wanted them to stop eating his crops...long and behold...the wild animals ate from their garden and never bother the farmer's crops ever again...nice...and the story is real
Your property is like my absolute dream. I’m trying to do my best version of a food forest on my suburban houseblock in Australia. This year Im expanding into my front yard & putting in a bunch of trees which I’m going to grow in grow bags with raised beds in between each tree.
Man, your videos are a huge help in getting my own little garden project to survive. Northern Germany has seen drought after drought in recent years and the parts of my backyard, that I don't water like every other day already are literally just dust for the first 20cm down which is insane for these parts. I've been trying to get a miniature version of how things looked around here like 200 years ago before agriculture sort of turned 80% of open space into farmland to take foot and even the plants, that should be absolutely A-OK with the sandy soils have struggled beyond believe. I mean, even the damn juniper I planted has. Mulching as much of the ground as I can to at least give the bigger plants a chance to establish themself has been a huge help because no way any sort of natural groundcover is going to survive without hundreds of liters of water every week for the whole summer and our well has been running dry cause groundwater levels are at an all time low, lmao
Hey Kalem! Its all looking really great. I look forward to seeing how things are progressing down the track and what you have planned for the summer veg garden. Cheers as usual from Oz!
Nice to see your patch of green amongst the farmlands, love it. Can't wait to see what it looks like in a few more years. Maybe start keeping your own bees ;)
Thanks Charlie, hopefully one day it's completely consumed with trees haha. We've got a few hives here, have been beekeeping for around 3-4 years now :)
Eleagnus hedges would be an amazing wind break for your property we grew a hedge about 200 feet long from our neighbor and it has turned into a sheltered place for birds and the fruits are loved by one and all…
Taking tiny steps. So far my succulents haven't died, mind you, I had to replace a few before I knew what I was doing. So their thriving. My first attempt at growing something. I also planted spring onions, to my amazement they grew. Growing confident now. Next, more veges. Auckland weather is so dang unpredictable, so I'm more inclined to grow items in pots then the ground. Small steps.
I got recommended your channel at the same time a lot of others have, been hooked ever since! Your content is great! Can't wait to see what's to come :D
You and your videos inspire me in my own garden. Have you investigated the benefits of biochar? I never learned about in my Agronomy studies, but I now believe in it the emerging science. I love when age-old, low tech methods prove better than our chemical fixes. Thanks!
Love this! I have no space where I am to grow much (save a few pots of basil, parsley, mint, and some tomatoes out the front). Going to see if my parents would be okay with me commandeering their yard... 🤔😅
Kalem, I have used newspaper before, and it didn't seem to break down well. I have used just mulch, but it didn't kill the weeds. I love the idea of the cardboard! That's pure genius!
Cheers Joe, same here with newspaper, I've also found it takes much longer to break down. I guess with cardboard the corrugation allows water to soak through better and it can then break down much quicker.
@@TheKiwiGrower - Seems like a great idea, but I was wondering what chemicals are used in the manufacture of cardboard. A quick google search seems to indicate that there are quite a few toxic chemicals involved. - I guess its all a matter of degrees.
Thanks for your videos!! I'm an avid listener.... I have a land in Southwest Spain, and I do collect planta from all over the place... I'll be delighted to share experiences, and pant soecies
Thanks for the video! It'd be cool if you could talk a bit about the particularities of your site - where are you at in NZ? What's your climate like? What's your soil like - alkaline, neutral, acidic? Sand, silt, clay? Makes it easier for the viewer to understand the results :) Cheers!
Thanks! Without the cardboard the grass grows through which then competes with the other plants. The cardboard just blocks the grass from growing for long enough that it dies off. :)
You should get some Lingoberry bushes and some Vaccinium myrtillus , blackberries , Fragaria vesca ,Rubus arcticus and finally the golden once Rubus chamaemorus (Cloudberry) maybe have a patch of edible mushrooms ?
You got nice dirt buddy in my place it's impossible like that even i use compost, so i gardening use polybag and pot but it's very2 expensive :) i just have 2 plant, 1 tomatoes and 1 green paprika
I'm happy to see how beautiful and diverse It's become. There's another Brasilian fruit of the same family of Guabiju you have to try, we called Jabuticaba (Plinia cauliflora), it's endemic from here and one of my favorites fruits.
@@TheKiwiGrower I didn't know about this video, just saw it. And yes they take like 15 years to fructify when are planted from seeds, but don't give up, it's very rewarding. Also they will need a lot of water and when become older a bunch of sunlight too.
I really appreciate the effort you've obviously put into your garden! You've given me the inspiration to try my hand at growing. For a point of reference, I'd love to know how often you tend to your plants.
Hey Zach, thanks heaps. It varies, and I haven't really had the time over the last 6 months to do that much to be honest, even though it might look it. Most of the mulching was done in a few days during lockdown and aside from that it's just a bit here and there. Over Winter at times I often went 3 weeks or more without doing a single thing. So probably average an hour per week during Winter. Spring needs more time due to the change in season, and honestly I've been struggling a bit to keep up, as I work full time, plus do TH-cam which takes up pretty much all my time. It really depends on the size of your garden though, and in Summer watering can take a bit of time especially if you don't have irrigation set up (which we don't as we're on rain water here, so we have to be more precise with water use).
@@TheKiwiGrower Awesome to hear from you, thank you for sharing your experience. Having a reference point will definitely help me design what scale I can commit to, I'll be sure to keep this in mind. I look forward to seeing more of your content in the future!
For your colder intollerant trees do what your ancestors did in the UK. Build a wall of dark stone (can be the side of a house or barn) and set up a trellace along the wall out of wood. Plant your trees and train them to grow flat among the trellace and against the wall. The wall should face rhe sun in winter months, South in the northern hemisphere and north in the southern hemisphere. making the wall semicircular in arc like a satellite dish facing the sun will help hold the heat in the winter and make a micro climate for your fruit trees. They used to grow apples like this in northumbria and scotland.Research how it was done online. Good for apple and pear trees as well as peaches, cherries, and plums The trick is to trim and train them to grow horixontally in different height levels for the branches and limit the branches one to each level left and right of the main trunk. Good luck!
VERY Nice! :D it's just awesome! I was wondering how you select of your variety of plants? You have so many and I wouldn't know how to do a food forest as yours! I love it!
Thanks heaps for coming along to see what we've been up to - I hope you enjoyed it! If you'd like to see more, feel free to check out the video I made of the land back in Summer which shows some of the other cool stuff we're growing :) th-cam.com/video/gkoic01w6pk/w-d-xo.html
i have been growing a dragon fruit not grown I just put the seeds they haven't sprouted yet
Banana? avocados
See my post below
Truly. When I watched this I thought (vegetable sky) from toriko
Have you considered a "setting up the property " video discussing building yalls house and the start of the food forest ? I think it would be really interesting and help push more people into doing this sort of thing
try mix plants " pumpkin root and watermelon top ' those watermelon will become so strong and big , start in spring time can harvest 3 to 4 time in summer.
Many people still don't know the importance of native trees and plants and what role they play in local ecosystem and how many animal species are dependent on those native plants and trees, awesome video and nice updates 👍🏼.
Thanks Benny, definitely agree. Planting more native trees is something we're going to continue working on more and more. There's a real lack of them in the farmland that surrounds us unfortunately.
@@TheKiwiGrower I can't wait for that! I am very interesting in New Zealandian flora 😊 though I am from Austria
I’ve been planting native fruit trees on my property as well. I’ve been putting them close to my property line so the squirrels will spread the seeds to other properties. I planted 25 bare root pawpaw trees a couple months ago. I gathered wild persimmon seeds from a friends property to add to mine. I’m going to find spots in my woods that get sunlight and plant the seeds. Then I will let nature take its corse.
They attract natural wildlife and pollinators
We really need a revolution in education…. I would like to know Americas educational system history and if nature based information was taught even 100-150 years ago… seems like reading writing arithmetic and history, social studies, and geography came eventually, but why is it that people don’t really learn about plants until college (horticulture, ecology, landscape architecture?)
The cardboard is a wonderful idea,the thought of weeds really put me off,thank you for that tip
No worries! So easy and works so well :)
I adore birds, really. They're really something when you've raised them from the egg no matter what species it is! Loved the excited gobble in the end!
Haha yea they're a lot of fun to raise and have as friends :)
"Hey turkeys! Gobble gobble!"
After 6 years of gardening I decided a no dig garden, we bought like 60 tones of compost so we can reduce weedings. I put the cardboard first then the compost. I cover weed mat to my tomato beds a 1 meter wide and 40 meters in length. This time the tomato got no weeds because I used a 1.83 wide weed mats but the walk way have some weeds. You inspired me with the no dig and I believed next season will be less work because after harvest this summer we will cover them with weed mat so next planting will just create the holes and plant our seedlings. Planning to cut trees to shredded so we create mulch for the walk way in winter.
Nice, definitely good idea to cover walkways with mulch, sounds good!
Kalem, you are a Zookeeper!! I am in deep awe of you. You are truly a holy man. May you live a very very long and lovely life. We need people like you in world leadership.
Sometimes we think back to what we’ve done over the past 5 or 10 years. And I’m amazed at what we got through. Doing a recap on how far you’ve come is amazing. Congrats on your progress. I still remember early days when the Feijoas went in.
Thanks Janine, yea it’s easy to get caught up in the things that need to be done and looking forward, so it’s good to be able to stop and reflect :)
You are living in heaven! Nature around you is amazing ❤️
Love to see how devoted are you to this garden, and it actually repays. Plants knows when you care well about them, it makes them grow healthy.
One of the rare channels with no dislike! Weel deserved and more power!
Yours is the most beautiful vegetable garden I've ever seen, so inspiring
You’ve got a beautiful plot of land! So nice to see the updates to your gardens. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers Brendan!
Just found your channel recently been binging all your vids. So jealous with your section and green fingers, veg patch and plant looks great. Would be keen to see what you plant in the summer :)
Thanks heaps, glad you like them. Will definitely share more and thanks for checking out all my other vids! :)
So thankful I caught your video!!! I'm taking my farm in the same direction, meaning creating a food forest. :) It's a beautiful way of gardening, very intuitive aa well. Thank you for the visuals! It's even more beautiful than I imagined! The bees and beneficial insects must be extremely happy as well! :)
Love it! Food Forrest is what I’m going for on 1 acre here in Northern California. My plants made it through the summer of constant heat 110 - 120 so I am doing a happy dance. I mean a HAPPY dance! It was brutal. We are experiencing a mild fall so everything looks pretty good. I worked like a fool to stay ahead of the heat. I have chickens and a rabbit too. They had misters, shade, shade cloth, ice and a fan. It was still hotter than blazes but we made it!
Thankyou so much for sharing your experience!! I swear most 'gardening books' and websites just cut and paste what has been written before. My mountain paw paw melted too, even though I planted it alongside a gabion wall (stone filled) that I had put in to help my avocados cope with winter in Dannevirke. I shall go out now and see if there is any sigh of life at the base!!
This is a great way to garden. I am in the process of doing it this way. I have planted my trees and shrubs in different guilds and planted herbs, veges, flowers etc around the shrubs and trees. I have vines growing along the fences. A voulnteer choko is growing over one tree in my garden. I have other volunteers popping up everywhere, including sunflowers, wheat and corn in the chicken run from where I broadcast the seeds for the chickens lol. Love your garden. So inspirational.😁
It’s great to see just how much you’ve developed your property! Congrats mate
Thanks heaps!
You are building a natural world in your homestead while big corporations driven by greed and power are destroying the natural resources like forest in order to get rich. The guardians of the natural world salute your efforts. Whatever you are doing now will be celebrated and enjoyed by generations and generations to come. Please keep it up and God Bless
Very nice...... And control of human fertility also very very importent, helping nature to recover itself.....
someeee years agoooo i took a class of horticulture and I remember that the teacher spoke about a farmer that started to have issues with wild animals eating his crops...so he decided to plant half of acre at one corner of his property and he let the animals know that the food growing in that part of his property was only for them but he wanted them to stop eating his crops...long and behold...the wild animals ate from their garden and never bother the farmer's crops ever again...nice...and the story is real
Your property is like my absolute dream.
I’m trying to do my best version of a food forest on my suburban houseblock in Australia.
This year Im expanding into my front yard & putting in a bunch of trees which I’m going to grow in grow bags with raised beds in between each tree.
The light is so beautiful!
Man, your videos are a huge help in getting my own little garden project to survive. Northern Germany has seen drought after drought in recent years and the parts of my backyard, that I don't water like every other day already are literally just dust for the first 20cm down which is insane for these parts. I've been trying to get a miniature version of how things looked around here like 200 years ago before agriculture sort of turned 80% of open space into farmland to take foot and even the plants, that should be absolutely A-OK with the sandy soils have struggled beyond believe. I mean, even the damn juniper I planted has. Mulching as much of the ground as I can to at least give the bigger plants a chance to establish themself has been a huge help because no way any sort of natural groundcover is going to survive without hundreds of liters of water every week for the whole summer and our well has been running dry cause groundwater levels are at an all time low, lmao
QUE HERMOSA ES LA CREACIÓN. GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESTAS IMÁGENES.
Beautiful 👌🏾I am about to binge watch all your videos
Hope you enjoy :)
Loved your comments on all d gardening
Wooow, what a garden this guy have😯 I love it 😍🌱🌿🍊
Just found your channel and I'm geeking out over it lol...instantly subscribed. Great videos, thank you.
Thanks heaps and welcome to the channel 😁
💗💗💗
Watching from Philippines 🇵🇭
Thank you for your lovely videos!! We get inspired even in another part of the world!! Aegina island - Greece!! Thank you :-)
"Labor of love"
And there are many in the club :)
Hey Kalem!
Its all looking really great. I look forward to seeing how things are progressing down the track and what you have planned for the summer veg garden.
Cheers as usual from Oz!
Hey Mark, thanks heaps, look forward to sharing more as things continue to progress :)
Dude you have the life I want to live damn it! Awesome stuff man, just getting into gardening and this is a great channel!
Cheers and glad you're getting into it! :)
Nice to see your patch of green amongst the farmlands, love it. Can't wait to see what it looks like in a few more years.
Maybe start keeping your own bees ;)
Thanks Charlie, hopefully one day it's completely consumed with trees haha.
We've got a few hives here, have been beekeeping for around 3-4 years now :)
Ahh, I was looking forward to seeing the loquat tree
Repeat watching. Really inspirational. Thank you
When you hit max level on farmville and start a real life one 👍👌🙏
i cant imagine how beautiful the garden is in spring! 😭✨✨
Love your garden ,sir
wow! I wish I knew even a small fraction of the things you know about nature
Eleagnus hedges would be an amazing wind break for your property we grew a hedge about 200 feet long from our neighbor and it has turned into a sheltered place for birds and the fruits are loved by one and all…
What an amazing garden you have there. thumbs up.
Thanks man!
Hey man thanks for being so educational and broadening our horizons with exotic items. Don’t think I’d ever get to learn about this in college.
Hand pollination incredible
Taking tiny steps. So far my succulents haven't died, mind you, I had to replace a few before I knew what I was doing. So their thriving. My first attempt at growing something. I also planted spring onions, to my amazement they grew. Growing confident now. Next, more veges. Auckland weather is so dang unpredictable, so I'm more inclined to grow items in pots then the ground. Small steps.
All is beautiful, really love it👍
I got recommended your channel at the same time a lot of others have, been hooked ever since! Your content is great! Can't wait to see what's to come :D
Thanks so much, glad you like it!
Love your work! Bula from Fiji 😍🖐🏾
How inspirational! I’ve been trying to get closer to the source of my food/eat more plant based, and your farm is my dream!
Thanks Charlotte! Sounds good, a great goal to work towards :)
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Very good example how one can change a lawn to a food forest 🌱👍
Thank you!
You and your videos inspire me in my own garden. Have you investigated the benefits of biochar? I never learned about in my Agronomy studies, but I now believe in it the emerging science. I love when age-old, low tech methods prove better than our chemical fixes. Thanks!
Love this! I have no space where I am to grow much (save a few pots of basil, parsley, mint, and some tomatoes out the front). Going to see if my parents would be okay with me commandeering their yard... 🤔😅
What a joy to watch, I wish I had something like this.
new subscriber here from Philippines, I am happy to see your garden, it motivates me do my own. Thank you for sharing this very informative video.💚☘️
amazing farm,, success always🙏🙏🙏
6:17 they had me in the first half.
Absolutely awesome what you're doing there keep it up
Hi.. I'm from India . Awesome video.. updates are good...
Awesome work man!!
What a dream!
Ive never seen someone who puts cardboard unter the soil…good to know that it helps
Brilliant 👏 loved the update such good progress - thanks for sharing 👍
Amazing Information and best maintenance of plants of an expert gardener. Thanks
Green zone, i love it
brilliant.. really enjoying your videos.. so much great info.. thanks
Great work I like all your stuff.
Kalem, I have used newspaper before, and it didn't seem to break down well. I have used just mulch, but it didn't kill the weeds. I love the idea of the cardboard! That's pure genius!
Cheers Joe, same here with newspaper, I've also found it takes much longer to break down.
I guess with cardboard the corrugation allows water to soak through better and it can then break down much quicker.
@@TheKiwiGrower - Seems like a great idea, but I was wondering what chemicals are used in the manufacture of cardboard. A quick google search seems to indicate that there are quite a few toxic chemicals involved. - I guess its all a matter of degrees.
I was just watching your first tour of the yard the other day, what an awesome garden you've created. Loved seeing the update!
I have a couple of huge fig trees out the back. Don't usually harvest them, but the birds love them. Same with the nectarines.
Cheers Brodie! Thanks for watching
Omg. At 2:48 in the bottom left corner, is that VARIEGATED MINT?! If so, I am in love.
I salute you! Great job
Wooow l love it am from kenyan
Such a lovely place, so relaxing!
Guabiju aka araçá is so good, it's everywhere here in south brazil
Your videos are all very informative and helpful. I can spend my whole day watching your videos!👍👍
Thanks Jenny! :)
Omg! I want to live with you! You have my kind of garden ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ love your garden so much
Haha thanks Kay! :)
Excellent 👍
Thanks for your videos!! I'm an avid listener.... I have a land in Southwest Spain, and I do collect planta from all over the place... I'll be delighted to share experiences, and pant soecies
The food forest is looking good. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Hana! :)
Thanks for the video! It'd be cool if you could talk a bit about the particularities of your site - where are you at in NZ? What's your climate like? What's your soil like - alkaline, neutral, acidic? Sand, silt, clay? Makes it easier for the viewer to understand the results :)
Cheers!
Thanks for the feedback! :)
I love your work
Beautiful garden👍🌺 Why do you need to cover it with a sheet of paper before pouring the soil?
Thanks! Without the cardboard the grass grows through which then competes with the other plants. The cardboard just blocks the grass from growing for long enough that it dies off. :)
@@TheKiwiGrower This is great new knowledge for me. Thank you🙏
You should get some Lingoberry bushes and some Vaccinium myrtillus , blackberries , Fragaria vesca ,Rubus arcticus and finally the golden once Rubus chamaemorus (Cloudberry) maybe have a patch of edible mushrooms ?
Thanks for the suggestions, always looking for more types of berries! And yes super keen to get into mushrooms at some point. Cheers :)
Very inspirational, thank you for sharing your experience. 👍
Love your channel!
Lovely sir I really like your garden
You got nice dirt buddy in my place it's impossible like that even i use compost, so i gardening use polybag and pot but it's very2 expensive :) i just have 2 plant, 1 tomatoes and 1 green paprika
Yay finally a new video 🎉
Lil' fat turkeys in time for Thanksgiving 😁 Terrific gardens, and an owner as cute as a box of puppies! A perfect Sunday morning 'wake me up'.👍 🇺🇲🇦🇺
Thanks Marc, lucky for them they're safe on this farm :)
@@TheKiwiGrower I kind of thought so. Just funny watching them ride on your shoulders. 👍
The turkeys have changed quite a bit between those 2 clips hahaha
I'm happy to see how beautiful and diverse It's become.
There's another Brasilian fruit of the same family of Guabiju you have to try, we called Jabuticaba (Plinia cauliflora), it's endemic from here and one of my favorites fruits.
Thanks! I’ve made one video on growing Jabuticaba before, so I do have some small seedlings of them. They grow so slowly haha
@@TheKiwiGrower I didn't know about this video, just saw it. And yes they take like 15 years to fructify when are planted from seeds, but don't give up, it's very rewarding. Also they will need a lot of water and when become older a bunch of sunlight too.
Awesome video bro, love it :)
Cheers bro!
was browsing the video and saw an upload! been loving the videos man keep it up
Thanks heaps, glad you're enjoying them!
A new subscriber really enjoying the content...
Awesome 🤩👍
I really appreciate the effort you've obviously put into your garden! You've given me the inspiration to try my hand at growing. For a point of reference, I'd love to know how often you tend to your plants.
Hey Zach, thanks heaps. It varies, and I haven't really had the time over the last 6 months to do that much to be honest, even though it might look it. Most of the mulching was done in a few days during lockdown and aside from that it's just a bit here and there. Over Winter at times I often went 3 weeks or more without doing a single thing. So probably average an hour per week during Winter. Spring needs more time due to the change in season, and honestly I've been struggling a bit to keep up, as I work full time, plus do TH-cam which takes up pretty much all my time. It really depends on the size of your garden though, and in Summer watering can take a bit of time especially if you don't have irrigation set up (which we don't as we're on rain water here, so we have to be more precise with water use).
@@TheKiwiGrower Awesome to hear from you, thank you for sharing your experience. Having a reference point will definitely help me design what scale I can commit to, I'll be sure to keep this in mind. I look forward to seeing more of your content in the future!
For your colder intollerant trees do what your ancestors did in the UK. Build a wall of dark stone (can be the side of a house or barn) and set up a trellace along the wall out of wood. Plant your trees and train them to grow flat among the trellace and against the wall. The wall should face rhe sun in winter months, South in the northern hemisphere and north in the southern hemisphere. making the wall semicircular in arc like a satellite dish facing the sun will help hold the heat in the winter and make a micro climate for your fruit trees. They used to grow apples like this in northumbria and scotland.Research how it was done online. Good for apple and pear trees as well as peaches, cherries, and plums The trick is to trim and train them to grow horixontally in different height levels for the branches and limit the branches one to each level left and right of the main trunk. Good luck!
Thanks heaps for the info, sounds like an awesome method!
Excellent💯
Wow that’s amazing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️
VERY Nice! :D it's just awesome! I was wondering how you select of your variety of plants? You have so many and I wouldn't know how to do a food forest as yours! I love it!