Another fabulous, informative, and enjoyable video Alex! Your soil is looking amazing after some rain. And your propagation skills are next level! All those amazing little plants ready to go in the ground. Life doesn’t get much better 😊🙋🏽♀️🌱
I've never made a comment in all of TH-cam but been watching for years. Your property and channel are outstanding. No fluff all knowledge. You bring happiness. Thank you very much.
I’m incredibly grateful for your kind words. To know I’ve brought you happiness has made my day. Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment. Much gratitude, Alex 🙏💚🌿
Haha! Don’t we both Martina? I think the next one coming up is about macadamias.. but I definitely need to get lots of cuttings going so I had better get onto it! 🪴💚🪴
We didn’t get that storm yesterday afternoon but got a tree down over the road. I’m tempted to go pick some of the rotten pieces up to add to my chicken compost system. I haven’t grown a Malabar Chestnut yet, I might have to investigate that one. I’ve taken cuttings of my Dwarf Black Mulberry also and the seedlings are great. Love your videos. 🌺🩵
The giant hail missed us too fortunately.. and I saw your lovely neighbour get the tractor out to clear the tree. Yes, it’s time to prune our dwarf mulberry.. it was so laden with fruit the branches are sweeping the ground! I can recommend the Malabar chestnut for fast growth and toughness, it would probably do exceptionally well downhill from your veggie patch too. And thanks so much for watching Janet! 💚🌿
I have a similar set up going on. Got a bit of a nursery happening. Have an abundance of some fruit trees , vines etc. Hope to swap abundant excess for different types of fruit trees going forward. Mulberry seems to be the go to for us all. We have sandy soil , so very different to you. Love your work. A lot of your land transformation is simply due to you having living tree roots in the ground. Especially nitrogen fixes. A lot of the latest science is confirming this. This information will be hushed up probably as the big commercial companies don’t want people to stop using fertiliser. They have found that just fruit tree living roots will change the soil 500% quicker than compost.
That’s so good to hear! And I love swapping plants.. great way to discover other plants that do really well in your area too. And yes, mulberries seem to adapt to anything.. love them! What’s working well with your sandy soil? I’ve given up on grafted avos (even planted on crazy steep slopes) but the seedlings are doing really well even in clay so it will be interesting to see how many end up bearing fruit. 💚🌿
@@dreamsofgreenOur biggest successes are Mulberries, grapes, passion fruit, bananas, mangoes, Pomegranates,citrus,avocados. Incredibly interesting you mentioned Avocados. We have a lot of avocados on our young trees this year. But a lot of my friends have lost all their grafted ones. They are growing heaps from seeds. A few have had awesome success with seeds in the past, contrary to what everyone says. In fact most have found they fruit in 3-4 years with good quality fruit. Had success with quite a few of other fruit and nuts. But I’m planting out around 5-6 acres so I’m just planting the above which thrive plus they are the ones I’ve managed to grow seedlings from. Also of course we have support plants, like Pigeon peas, Luceana & actually Cana lilies.( best mulch we find) Will do more under planting once the big area is planted out next year. We have a real rat and particularly Bandicoot problem. They got into my nursery recently and destroyed a huge amount of plants overnight.
This is so inspiring to read!! Wow, love what you’re doing. Great info on the avos too. Thanks for sharing this, lots of people tell me I can’t grow avocados from seed because I will never get any fruit. While this can happen in some cases you can also have great successes too! The kiwi grower on TH-cam is another one to check out. He’s got some great propagating videos and shows his seed grown avocado full of fruit after a few years. I figure if I don’t get fruit on some of the trees it will provide great mulch and shade anyhow, or I can graft onto it at a later date. The neighbour hacked his avocado back really heavily, and the new growth has been amazing. Nice to know they can tolerate heavy pruning. Anyway, love your work and thanks for taking the time to share what you’re growing. Really great stuff. Great to know about the cannas too. Looking forward to planting out the understory in the coming years. Best wishes, Alex 🥑🌿
@@chessman483and sorry to hear about the rats and bandicoots too. Very frustrating! I’m hearing from neighbours they’ve been here for years and never had a problem until this year with their trees..
@@dreamsofgreen feel like we could share stuff all day, yes avocados respond very very well to being pruned. . I watch the Kiwi grower occasionally.Got a Farm day “ how to create a Food Forest on next Saturday pity you weren’t in this area. Doing it for free so obviously got a fair bit of interest. Only thing I charged for was the organic meal on afterwards.
My local burrowing rodents (gophers, voles, ground squirrel primarily) have also avoided my plants from the Myrtle family. They go nuts for anything leguminous though, and Ice Cream bean and the like don't seem to stand a chance. Mulberry and fig as well. Surprisingly they've also taken out some pomegranate lately, which I've always thought they avoided. More trees in baskets these days! They are fascinating creatures (and having rehabbed one of the squirrels before, very curious and sweet), and actually do a lot of the work tilling the hard land into soft soil, bringing up minerals from deep in the ground, and introducing oxygen to compacted soil. I'm trying to learn to live with them.
Wow, this is interesting! I find it fascinating to know we’ve got a case of different animals but still targeting the same tree species. And I’ve got to agree, where they’ve burrowed the soil is beautiful. Definitely a plus when you’re working with compacted clay. I love your attitude of curious observation vs judgement. Beautiful you’ve rehabbed one of the squirrels too. Appreciate you sharing your experience! Alex 💚🌿
@@dreamsofgreen It is indeed fascinating! Other side of the world, but the rodents have similar preferences. Who would have guessed. I definitely get frustrated with the little guys some times (I've had gophers eat entire trees down to a nub) but I often tell myself that I'd rather have a yard full of wildlife and animals, and fewer trees, than live in constant conflict with them and have no animals around. The animals bring so much joy and wisdom that they are a mainstay in my garden. I've also noticed that nature has a way of balancing itself out. As the rodent population exploded this year, so too has the snake/owl/hawk population, and things have been kept generally in balance. I like it that way. Thanks for all the great info you're sharing, I love the simplicity of your methods, and they remind me to simplify my own.
Beautiful words of wisdom. Going with the flow of nature as opposed to fighting against it, and accepting the natural cycles. This is a great reminder to me too 🙏🌿
Astonishing results as usual. In particular, the way you've rapidly improved the soil without any amendments. If you already have more mulberries than you can pick, why plant more? Are you going to sell the berries? Let the birds eat them? Or are you going to replace those trees further on once they've helped establish a canopy?
Thanks very much and yes it’s lovely seeing things transform and seeing nature do its thing. I’m laughing at your question because you raise a very good point haha! Firstly we do need to buy a big freezer at some point so we can be enjoying them all year round (I love them blended up frozen in drinks and smoothies). And second of all you’re correct, they make the best fast growing shade trees and mulch producers, love being pruned for biomass and as I’ve discovered, chickens love the berries, cows love eating them, so do horses and goats so they’ll make great fodder for when we re-introduce animals in the future. They’re also fire retardant and cope with flood, drought and frost. And down the track it would be great to have harvest days with the community and make jams, ice cream etc. They’re definitely one of my favourite trees as you can tell! Alex 💚🌿
На Руси есть древние знания, недавно они вернулись под названием - "семечко-врач". Возможно вы сможете их найти, и перевести. Современные генетики тоже стали говорить об этом. А суть в том, когда вы трогаете руками Землю и притаптываете босыми ногами саженцы, вы передаёте через ДНК информацию о себе растению. Тем самым растение давая плоды/ягоды/овощи вырабатывают "лекарства" для того, кто контактировал с Землёй. И с таких деревьев/кустов/овощей плоды надо вкушать самим, а не продавать. Успехов, и всех Благ!;)
This is so beautiful. Thanks so much for taking the time to share this wisdom with me. I find it fascinating, it definitely resonates with me. I love having my hands in the soil and connecting with the plants. It brings me the greatest of joy. I look forward to researching this more. With gratitude, Alex 💚🌿
Great question, they’re Bowen mango which are polyembryonic and I select the strongest seedlings that come up from the seed which are clones of the mother tree and therefore grow true to type. We’ve had delicious mangoes from seed after 3-4 years. The selective bred ones I would assume if you get multiple shoots come up they’re a clone and true to type, if you only get one shot come up you may get mangoes but not necessarily true to type. Because we’ve got the space, I’m happy to throw any seed in the ground and see what happens, but I definitely don’t have experience with the more selected varieties at this stage. I’d love that to be a project at a later date. Hope this helps! Alex 🥭🌿
Property is 10acres.. this particular food forest I’m guessing covers around 1.5 acres..approx 1400-1500 trees. We’ve also got a native forest we’ve planted and another smaller food forest of around 400-500 trees plus other small plantings. There’s also lots of existing cow paddock that we haven’t done anything with yet.
A big reason I’ve planted loquats is that they are a great pioneer fruit tree that can tolerate drought, flooding rains and frost, as well as being very fast growing and providing much needed shade for my young food forest (and they’re just a beautiful tree!). I love the fruit too, but these are the main reasons I’ve planted them. We have lots of fruit bats when the large Moreton bay fig behind our house fruits, so I look at it as just part of nature. If we ever have too much fruit that we can’t make use of then we can simply prune the tree each season for mulch 😊🌿
Another fabulous, informative, and enjoyable video Alex! Your soil is looking amazing after some rain. And your propagation skills are next level! All those amazing little plants ready to go in the ground. Life doesn’t get much better 😊🙋🏽♀️🌱
Another fabulous, informative, and enjoyable video Alex! Your soil is looking amazing after some rain. And your propagation skills are next level! All those amazing little plants ready to go in the ground. Life doesn’t get much better 😊🙋🏽♀️🌱
Another fabulous, informative, and enjoyable video Alex! Your soil is looking amazing after some rain. And your propagation skills are next level! All those amazing little plants ready to go in the ground. Life doesn’t get much better
😊🙋🏽♀️🌱
I've never made a comment in all of TH-cam but been watching for years. Your property and channel are outstanding. No fluff all knowledge. You bring happiness. Thank you very much.
I’m incredibly grateful for your kind words. To know I’ve brought you happiness has made my day. Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment. Much gratitude, Alex 🙏💚🌿
Great image at end of king parrot hanging on to its spot in the storm!
Thank you! Yes the poor little fella was holding on for dear life! 💚🦜🌿
lovely to see your forest again, and all those lovely seedlings in your nursery. big inspiration 🤩
It’s good to be back! Thanks so much and so happy to hear you’re inspired! 💚🌿
Great video, very informative and enjoyable. I did not realise mulberries fruited so young. We live and learn. Thank you
Thanks so much Lynne, glad you enjoyed! And yes they’re such a great snack while I work.. best little tree. 💚🌿
Nice sharing vidio
Thanks for watching! 🦋🌿
Oh, I LOVE planting videos. That, and propagation. Could you make some of propagating by cutting?
Haha! Don’t we both Martina? I think the next one coming up is about macadamias.. but I definitely need to get lots of cuttings going so I had better get onto it! 🪴💚🪴
You really are back! 😅 Thanks for all the great content. Things are looking wonderful there.
Haha yes, about time! And my pleasure. Thanks so much 💚🌿
Happy that you had some rain. Plant plant plant.
Normally it’s our driest time of the year.. quite amazing so I’m taking advantage of it!! 💚🌿
Agroforestry is beautiful!
Thanks so much and I have to agree with you! Such a great way to increase diversity. Thanks for watching 💚🌿
We didn’t get that storm yesterday afternoon but got a tree down over the road. I’m tempted to go pick some of the rotten pieces up to add to my chicken compost system. I haven’t grown a Malabar Chestnut yet, I might have to investigate that one. I’ve taken cuttings of my Dwarf Black Mulberry also and the seedlings are great. Love your videos. 🌺🩵
The giant hail missed us too fortunately.. and I saw your lovely neighbour get the tractor out to clear the tree. Yes, it’s time to prune our dwarf mulberry.. it was so laden with fruit the branches are sweeping the ground! I can recommend the Malabar chestnut for fast growth and toughness, it would probably do exceptionally well downhill from your veggie patch too. And thanks so much for watching Janet! 💚🌿
Great video. Thank you! Already subscribed.
Thanks so much for watching and subscribing.. glad you enjoyed it! Alex 🙏🌿
I have a similar set up going on. Got a bit of a nursery happening. Have an abundance of some fruit trees , vines etc. Hope to swap abundant excess for different types of fruit trees going forward. Mulberry seems to be the go to for us all. We have sandy soil , so very different to you. Love your work.
A lot of your land transformation is simply due to you having living tree roots in the ground. Especially nitrogen fixes. A lot of the latest science is confirming this. This information will be hushed up probably as the big commercial companies don’t want people to stop using fertiliser. They have found that just fruit tree living roots will change the soil 500% quicker than compost.
That’s so good to hear! And I love swapping plants.. great way to discover other plants that do really well in your area too. And yes, mulberries seem to adapt to anything.. love them! What’s working well with your sandy soil? I’ve given up on grafted avos (even planted on crazy steep slopes) but the seedlings are doing really well even in clay so it will be interesting to see how many end up bearing fruit. 💚🌿
@@dreamsofgreenOur biggest successes are Mulberries, grapes, passion fruit, bananas, mangoes, Pomegranates,citrus,avocados. Incredibly interesting you mentioned Avocados. We have a lot of avocados on our young trees this year. But a lot of my friends have lost all their grafted ones. They are growing heaps from seeds. A few have had awesome success with seeds in the past, contrary to what everyone says. In fact most have found they fruit in 3-4 years with good quality fruit. Had success with quite a few of other fruit and nuts. But I’m planting out around 5-6 acres so I’m just planting the above which thrive plus they are the ones I’ve managed to grow seedlings from. Also of course we have support plants, like Pigeon peas, Luceana & actually Cana lilies.( best mulch we find)
Will do more under planting once the big area is planted out next year.
We have a real rat and particularly Bandicoot problem. They got into my nursery recently and destroyed a huge amount of plants overnight.
This is so inspiring to read!! Wow, love what you’re doing. Great info on the avos too. Thanks for sharing this, lots of people tell me I can’t grow avocados from seed because I will never get any fruit. While this can happen in some cases you can also have great successes too! The kiwi grower on TH-cam is another one to check out. He’s got some great propagating videos and shows his seed grown avocado full of fruit after a few years. I figure if I don’t get fruit on some of the trees it will provide great mulch and shade anyhow, or I can graft onto it at a later date. The neighbour hacked his avocado back really heavily, and the new growth has been amazing. Nice to know they can tolerate heavy pruning. Anyway, love your work and thanks for taking the time to share what you’re growing. Really great stuff. Great to know about the cannas too. Looking forward to planting out the understory in the coming years. Best wishes, Alex 🥑🌿
@@chessman483and sorry to hear about the rats and bandicoots too. Very frustrating! I’m hearing from neighbours they’ve been here for years and never had a problem until this year with their trees..
@@dreamsofgreen feel like we could share stuff all day, yes avocados respond very very well to being pruned. . I watch the Kiwi grower occasionally.Got a Farm day “ how to create a Food Forest on next Saturday pity you weren’t in this area. Doing it for free so obviously got a fair bit of interest. Only thing I charged for was the organic meal on afterwards.
My local burrowing rodents (gophers, voles, ground squirrel primarily) have also avoided my plants from the Myrtle family. They go nuts for anything leguminous though, and Ice Cream bean and the like don't seem to stand a chance. Mulberry and fig as well. Surprisingly they've also taken out some pomegranate lately, which I've always thought they avoided. More trees in baskets these days! They are fascinating creatures (and having rehabbed one of the squirrels before, very curious and sweet), and actually do a lot of the work tilling the hard land into soft soil, bringing up minerals from deep in the ground, and introducing oxygen to compacted soil. I'm trying to learn to live with them.
Wow, this is interesting! I find it fascinating to know we’ve got a case of different animals but still targeting the same tree species. And I’ve got to agree, where they’ve burrowed the soil is beautiful. Definitely a plus when you’re working with compacted clay. I love your attitude of curious observation vs judgement. Beautiful you’ve rehabbed one of the squirrels too. Appreciate you sharing your experience! Alex 💚🌿
@@dreamsofgreen It is indeed fascinating! Other side of the world, but the rodents have similar preferences. Who would have guessed. I definitely get frustrated with the little guys some times (I've had gophers eat entire trees down to a nub) but I often tell myself that I'd rather have a yard full of wildlife and animals, and fewer trees, than live in constant conflict with them and have no animals around. The animals bring so much joy and wisdom that they are a mainstay in my garden. I've also noticed that nature has a way of balancing itself out. As the rodent population exploded this year, so too has the snake/owl/hawk population, and things have been kept generally in balance. I like it that way. Thanks for all the great info you're sharing, I love the simplicity of your methods, and they remind me to simplify my own.
Beautiful words of wisdom. Going with the flow of nature as opposed to fighting against it, and accepting the natural cycles. This is a great reminder to me too 🙏🌿
Astonishing results as usual. In particular, the way you've rapidly improved the soil without any amendments.
If you already have more mulberries than you can pick, why plant more? Are you going to sell the berries? Let the birds eat them? Or are you going to replace those trees further on once they've helped establish a canopy?
Thanks very much and yes it’s lovely seeing things transform and seeing nature do its thing. I’m laughing at your question because you raise a very good point haha! Firstly we do need to buy a big freezer at some point so we can be enjoying them all year round (I love them blended up frozen in drinks and smoothies). And second of all you’re correct, they make the best fast growing shade trees and mulch producers, love being pruned for biomass and as I’ve discovered, chickens love the berries, cows love eating them, so do horses and goats so they’ll make great fodder for when we re-introduce animals in the future. They’re also fire retardant and cope with flood, drought and frost. And down the track it would be great to have harvest days with the community and make jams, ice cream etc. They’re definitely one of my favourite trees as you can tell! Alex 💚🌿
Good job Alex, we didnt get any of that rain this week
Thanks Bernie. We were lucky the golf ball sized hail missed us!! We’ve had some crazy storms about!
На Руси есть древние знания, недавно они вернулись под названием - "семечко-врач". Возможно вы сможете их найти, и перевести. Современные генетики тоже стали говорить об этом. А суть в том, когда вы трогаете руками Землю и притаптываете босыми ногами саженцы, вы передаёте через ДНК информацию о себе растению. Тем самым растение давая плоды/ягоды/овощи вырабатывают "лекарства" для того, кто контактировал с Землёй. И с таких деревьев/кустов/овощей плоды надо вкушать самим, а не продавать. Успехов, и всех Благ!;)
This is so beautiful. Thanks so much for taking the time to share this wisdom with me. I find it fascinating, it definitely resonates with me. I love having my hands in the soil and connecting with the plants. It brings me the greatest of joy. I look forward to researching this more. With gratitude, Alex 💚🌿
Hi Alex - are the mango seedlings from cutting or seed? I’ve heard some of the selective bred types are a bit hit and miss with seed grown.
Great question, they’re Bowen mango which are polyembryonic and I select the strongest seedlings that come up from the seed which are clones of the mother tree and therefore grow true to type. We’ve had delicious mangoes from seed after 3-4 years. The selective bred ones I would assume if you get multiple shoots come up they’re a clone and true to type, if you only get one shot come up you may get mangoes but not necessarily true to type. Because we’ve got the space, I’m happy to throw any seed in the ground and see what happens, but I definitely don’t have experience with the more selected varieties at this stage. I’d love that to be a project at a later date. Hope this helps! Alex 🥭🌿
how big is your property and food forest?
Property is 10acres.. this particular food forest I’m guessing covers around 1.5 acres..approx 1400-1500 trees. We’ve also got a native forest we’ve planted and another smaller food forest of around 400-500 trees plus other small plantings. There’s also lots of existing cow paddock that we haven’t done anything with yet.
Are you worry about attracting fruit bats? Loquats you can't only eat so much.
A big reason I’ve planted loquats is that they are a great pioneer fruit tree that can tolerate drought, flooding rains and frost, as well as being very fast growing and providing much needed shade for my young food forest (and they’re just a beautiful tree!). I love the fruit too, but these are the main reasons I’ve planted them. We have lots of fruit bats when the large Moreton bay fig behind our house fruits, so I look at it as just part of nature. If we ever have too much fruit that we can’t make use of then we can simply prune the tree each season for mulch 😊🌿
Another fabulous, informative, and enjoyable video Alex! Your soil is looking amazing after some rain. And your propagation skills are next level! All those amazing little plants ready to go in the ground. Life doesn’t get much better
😊🙋🏽♀️🌱
Another fabulous, informative, and enjoyable video Alex! Your soil is looking amazing after some rain. And your propagation skills are next level! All those amazing little plants ready to go in the ground. Life doesn’t get much better
😊🙋🏽♀️🌱
Wow, thanks so much Sharon! Yes, I think this has to be my ideal day… definitely in my happy place!! 🥰🪴🦋🌿🌺