Thanks for your videos. I am in the UK so similar climate. I am working on transforming my garden into a food forest. You have inspired me to try machua and yakon. I also have put in Egyptian walking onions, Welsh onions and society garlic to see how these go.
Hi Ann, our pleasure! Thats so good to hear that you are trying Mashua and Yacon - let us know how they go. I've planted Red Welsh Onions this year, in both our growing beds and our current food forest, really looking forward to seeing how they go... society garlic ... this is a new one to me, will have to look into that - Thanks heaps and enjoy your transforming garden - stay in touch ✌️🌿
I'm in south east Essex so I take a lot of inspiration from what and how you grow. I have an allotment I'm turning over to permaculture principals. Love your videos and thanks for sharing.
Hey Lynne, thanks really nice to know we inspire you 🙏 and exactly what we hope for in doing what we do here. Growing food and taking care of nature at the same time are two of the most awesome things we can do for oursleves and for the planet 💚 So cool that you are moving into pernaculture ... we find as you learn and try more, it all just makes so much sense - happy growing & hope to see you here again soon ✌️🌿
Thank you, glad your enjoying our vids and thanks for the comments too 💚 where abouts in the world are you? All the best for your food forest number 2 too - good on you ✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife Thank you so very much. I am in the State of Mississippi in the United States of America. I guess you could say I'm about 3 hours from New Orleans La. Thanks for asking. Have have tremendous success with all your endeavors.
Great work you guys.Have you tried Quince?might be worth a go.I love your food forest.I have one too in my small town garden,but it's very small.However I have berries,josta and black and red currant,Globe artichokes ,Jerusalem artichokes,Kale Chives and lots of other things.It doesn't look like much but I can always harvest something.My focus is the soil and I make a lot of compost.Good luck with your projects.Q
HI there Quraiba, thanks for your lovely comment and suggestion 💚 We do have 1 quince tree, its only about 4 years old so hasnt really fruited yet, but I just LOVE the smell of quince when it is cooking so can't wait! Sounds like you've got some good stuff packed into your garden - I think even just having a constant supply of super fresh home grown greens like Kale is SUCH a massive benefit and it is DEFO all about the soil 👍 good on you - Where abouts in the world are you? Happy growing and thank you for watching our videos and commenting - means a lot to us 🙏✌️🌿
I'm doing a similar process in Zone 10 coastal Florida -- converting a backyard lawn with sandy soil. I'm digging out the sod and creating berms with it. I'm using huge piles of leaves and a liquid mix of goat manure, bat guano, molasses, coffee grounds, epsom salts to bio-activate the sterile soil. Right away I seeded nextar and host plants for butterlies and I have over fifty black swallowtail caterpillers munching on dill right now. But anyway, persimmon trees will grown very weill in you clmate zone -- and blackberries, mulberries, figs, etc. Figs will be super productive.
WOW, your really going for it - your soil should come out AWESOME with all those amendments and goodness. Thanks for the tips too - we defo plan to add another Mulberry actually .. I forgot to mention that in the vid 😆 We have tried Persimmons and will continue too .. but not so sucessful so far ..... LOVE figs too, we have a few planted in our existing food forest and also a bit of an experimental fig and Euc grove growing on, also have plants to try them under cover too .. just to make sure - ha!! Lovely hearing from you Gerry - stay in touch ✌️🌿
Thanks Sean - We do have a young crab apple here (not in this areas though) which is defo a red fruited one, can't remember the variety off hand, will check. Thanks for the suggest 🙏💚✌️🌿
If you want a Mediterranean area maybe a sunny seating area you could try some Washingtonia robusta won't have any issues in a zone 9 same with the Canary Island date palm. I'm not sure if you have any but maybe an avocado tree.
HI Cal, thank you for your great suggestions .... Dan LOVEs Washingtonia's!!!! We know they grow well near us in Ventnor Botantic Gardens, but they do have an awesome microclimate there - with climate change the way it is, I expect we are getting close to be able to grow them where we are too. There is a particular type of Avo we have tried to get hold of in the past that may well work for us ... we must look into this again ... thank you for the reminder 👍 and thanks for watching and commenting - much appreciated ✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife I've seen Washingtonia robusta growing in northern Wales 53n and inland by about 20 miles so I think they should be fine they are quite hardy and grow very fast.
Do you know that there is a variety of banana tree that produces a very tasty fruit without seeds and that resists -8 degrees? you could experience its cultivation there
Hello mate, that would be nice, i heard of one but i could only see it for sale in US, any idea of the name? i send u an email about the avocardos btw!
@@freedomforestlife I added you to your other network, the one with photos that cannot be named on TH-cam, and I sent you all the information about avocados, with photos I don't know if you saw it on that other network, look at it there, it's very interesting
Thanks for your videos. I am in the UK so similar climate. I am working on transforming my garden into a food forest. You have inspired me to try machua and yakon. I also have put in Egyptian walking onions, Welsh onions and society garlic to see how these go.
Hi Ann, our pleasure! Thats so good to hear that you are trying Mashua and Yacon - let us know how they go. I've planted Red Welsh Onions this year, in both our growing beds and our current food forest, really looking forward to seeing how they go... society garlic ... this is a new one to me, will have to look into that - Thanks heaps and enjoy your transforming garden - stay in touch ✌️🌿
I'm in south east Essex so I take a lot of inspiration from what and how you grow. I have an allotment I'm turning over to permaculture principals. Love your videos and thanks for sharing.
Hey Lynne, thanks really nice to know we inspire you 🙏 and exactly what we hope for in doing what we do here. Growing food and taking care of nature at the same time are two of the most awesome things we can do for oursleves and for the planet 💚 So cool that you are moving into pernaculture ... we find as you learn and try more, it all just makes so much sense - happy growing & hope to see you here again soon ✌️🌿
I'm looking forward to your future videos on jerusalem artichokes as I'm growing them for the first time this year.
Glad to hear this - They are fabulous - defo plan to do some vids about them, so stay tuned 😉✌️🌿
Can’t wait to see the transformation!!
This spot looks awesome, really looking forward to seeing its progression!
thanks Gawain - we look forward to sharing it with you - thanks for your comments, always nice to hear from you ✌️🌿
Awesome. I'm working on my second food forest as well. I enjoy your videos. Thanks for creating the content. Cool accent too.
Thank you, glad your enjoying our vids and thanks for the comments too 💚 where abouts in the world are you? All the best for your food forest number 2 too - good on you ✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife Thank you so very much. I am in the State of Mississippi in the United States of America. I guess you could say I'm about 3 hours from New Orleans La. Thanks for asking. Have have tremendous success with all your endeavors.
Great work you guys.Have you tried Quince?might be worth a go.I love your food forest.I have one too in my small town garden,but it's very small.However I have berries,josta and black and red currant,Globe artichokes ,Jerusalem artichokes,Kale Chives and lots of other things.It doesn't look like much but I can always harvest something.My focus is the soil and I make a lot of compost.Good luck with your projects.Q
HI there Quraiba, thanks for your lovely comment and suggestion 💚 We do have 1 quince tree, its only about 4 years old so hasnt really fruited yet, but I just LOVE the smell of quince when it is cooking so can't wait! Sounds like you've got some good stuff packed into your garden - I think even just having a constant supply of super fresh home grown greens like Kale is SUCH a massive benefit and it is DEFO all about the soil 👍 good on you - Where abouts in the world are you?
Happy growing and thank you for watching our videos and commenting - means a lot to us 🙏✌️🌿
I'm doing a similar process in Zone 10 coastal Florida -- converting a backyard lawn with sandy soil. I'm digging out the sod and creating berms with it. I'm using huge piles of leaves and a liquid mix of goat manure, bat guano, molasses, coffee grounds, epsom salts to bio-activate the sterile soil. Right away I seeded nextar and host plants for butterlies and I have over fifty black swallowtail caterpillers munching on dill right now. But anyway, persimmon trees will grown very weill in you clmate zone -- and blackberries, mulberries, figs, etc. Figs will be super productive.
WOW, your really going for it - your soil should come out AWESOME with all those amendments and goodness. Thanks for the tips too - we defo plan to add another Mulberry actually .. I forgot to mention that in the vid 😆 We have tried Persimmons and will continue too .. but not so sucessful so far ..... LOVE figs too, we have a few planted in our existing food forest and also a bit of an experimental fig and Euc grove growing on, also have plants to try them under cover too .. just to make sure - ha!! Lovely hearing from you Gerry - stay in touch ✌️🌿
Very informative tyvm
Hi Michale, Glad it was helpful! Thanks for commenting and for watching 💚✌️🌿
May I recommend a crab apple called a Red Sentinel. It has beautiful small red fruits & lots of them. They make a wonderful crab apple jelly.
Thanks Sean - We do have a young crab apple here (not in this areas though) which is defo a red fruited one, can't remember the variety off hand, will check. Thanks for the suggest 🙏💚✌️🌿
If you want a Mediterranean area maybe a sunny seating area you could try some Washingtonia robusta won't have any issues in a zone 9 same with the Canary Island date palm. I'm not sure if you have any but maybe an avocado tree.
HI Cal, thank you for your great suggestions .... Dan LOVEs Washingtonia's!!!! We know they grow well near us in Ventnor Botantic Gardens, but they do have an awesome microclimate there - with climate change the way it is, I expect we are getting close to be able to grow them where we are too. There is a particular type of Avo we have tried to get hold of in the past that may well work for us ... we must look into this again ... thank you for the reminder 👍 and thanks for watching and commenting - much appreciated ✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife I've seen Washingtonia robusta growing in northern Wales 53n and inland by about 20 miles so I think they should be fine they are quite hardy and grow very fast.
Do you know that there is a variety of banana tree that produces a very tasty fruit without seeds and that resists -8 degrees?
you could experience its cultivation there
Hello mate, that would be nice, i heard of one but i could only see it for sale in US, any idea of the name? i send u an email about the avocardos btw!
@@freedomforestlife I added you to your other network, the one with photos that cannot be named on TH-cam, and I sent you all the information about avocados, with photos
I don't know if you saw it on that other network, look at it there, it's very interesting
What other network is this pls I’m interested 😆