Hi Gareth, what an amazing collection mate. Looks like a bumper season ahead. Mulberry in Urdu (Pakistan's national language) is called "Shahtoot". I grew up eating both white (long ones) and black vartieties. The white variety can grow into a huge tree.

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Love the growth of the garden. What’s the size of your block is it 1-1.5acres? I’m in a suburban block atm and looking for some acreage as I have more trees I want to grow. I don’t think I need much more than your sized block.

thanks for the tour mate. Things are looking pretty good. I chose a green sapote over mamey for the reason you mentioned but it’s been growing really slowly and got stunted with cold I think.

I'm liking the idea of using the bathtub mate, as for the ants I use food grade DE to keep ants away from my pets food bowls and I also use it in my garden as an ant deterrent. Where I am in Hervey Bay the ants have been a huge problem for us, even in the house. I purchased this pet feeder stand that you can put DE on each feet and it' keeps all the ants away. So read up more on DE and as long as it's Food Grade it's safe for us and our pets and great for use in the garden. Cheers Kat.

Hey mate. Love the raw videos and watching the garden expand. Just letting you know the video cuts back and replays a section of the video @1:14:34

Bet that rain is exciting right now

Mate try the Atherton Raspberry (wild raspberry), it's suited to our warmer climate. Cheers.

Cocao don't like full sun Gareth, even when they are quite big. We are getting a bit of a drenching down here as well, and it bodes well for spring growth.

I'm also trying to reduce using any external fertilizers. Currently have 6 chooks so their (fresh) droppings are being used for a bit older trees. Otherwise I just use a liquid fish poo fertilizer to boost growth. For ants, I've found borax + sugar or yogurt to be very affective. They take the mixture back to their nests and spread around.

All I could focus on was the star apple growing next to the tub. One of the best looking fruit trees!

Coming along nicely - warmer weather coming up so will speed things up for you.

your compost and worm farm is looking awesome! I have just started the exact worm farm about 6 weeks ago but only one tier. I will do the others after work tomorrow. May buy some more bedding and worms and add more food. Love it! Thanks. I see this was done 3 years ago... are you still doing them?

Ty x your tips, appreciate it

Love this! I have two trees one is double grafted. they flower well but no fruit. Seams to be fairly common especially here in Melbourne but I’m trying anyway.

Can you post an update on this tree? What zone are you in?

Nice additions. Z4 is supposed to be a superior selection of Red Hybrid

Looking good - will be another Garden Asset.

I have an old tub, going to give it a try in Florida. I have many wigglers in my back yard.

Excellent idea. I've an old bathtub left from a renovation that needs to be disposed. I guess it'll be used in another project now.

Lovely, healthy worms! ~ Sandra

South Fl here, I want to buy a grafted tree. Do I need to buy 2 to cross pollinate? Thank u new subscriber

I've a couple; a Bunning seedling and a Costada from Daley's. Doesn't look like they'll do well in Sydney. Very slow growing.

Nice plants : I've got as many. jabs I can fit in and gone sideways to eugenics : my jab fruit are nice but quiet similar like white sapote .: I wish I had a hectare lol

They look great Gareth 👍. How fortunate that you can grow them there so easily 😁

Never heard of them, but now I want some - thanks for the Ep

Have you considered digging up the seedling jab and replacing it with a named variety? That seedling one is taking up prime real estate I reckon. I dug up and then potted up one of my seedling jabs until I found a spot I didn't mind 'wasting' on a tree that may not fruit for years (chook pen).

From what I've seen on Georges and other banana growers videos, once the first bananas start to turn yellow, the rest will also ripen if you remove the whole bunch and I'm guessing it cuts down on splitting and ants and other pests ?

Never heard of Ducasse. Looks like a good one

Alright that's it. I'm sold on Ducasse. Planted some a couple of months. They're very difficult to get on Daley's. Hopefully, we'll get first bunch in the summer. Also love that they're so dwarf.

Thanks for the review. My girls love the lady finger bananas but it looks massive, I like how compact the ducasse is. Will have to give these a go.

Do you get fruit fly there?

Great tips, thank you! I’ve wanted an avocado for a while but have hesitated until I decide where to plant it. Your video is encouraging me to buy one, knowing I can keep it potted until it strengthens. Do you have a recommendation for the size pot to keep it in for that time?

Hi. How many years to mature?

where in Melbourne do you live ? this is an amazing range of tropical plants. how big is your garden ?

u can grow star fruit in Melbourne ? did you cover it up during winter months ?

It was a gamechanger when you moved North Gareth, poor old George has been battling for years with his starfruit trees and never seen a single fruit 😢

Those starfruit look good. Wish I could grow the passionfruit, it's just too vigorous and too much maintenance where I am. You have an awesome dragonfruit set up mate, can't wait to see what you got going on there

What dragon fruit variety is this?

Nice. I just give extra pups to the chooks. They love all the fibre and keeps them busy for hours!

Well done, Thanks for the video this is great!

What about topping the tips only ?

Great collection of bananas going on there now Gareth 👍

Audio/video quality is fantastic on DJI. Well done. Your previous videos were quite shaky. I thought you were recording with a phone. What a beautiful property. Love the calm and openness. Great banana collection. For us in Sydney, bananas have already stopped growing because night temps are now in single digits. I'd need to do a video of my banana collection as well. Now that I'm thinking, probably I have 10 different varities growing in 1/8 of an acre 🤭

I keep hearing same feedback on Blue Javas. They're the fastest growing of all varieties for me here in Sydney. First bunch should be ready in next couple of months. Let's see how it tastes with all the chook poo it's getting.

At least you can grow edible bananas there lol. Your Panama red passion fruit looks distinctly non red 😁

Your garden is coming along great, good to see everyone enjoying the garden. The dogs are real characters, especially sonny

Do the bananas taste better after handing for a week

At least your Java blues fill out, mine are just skinny and rot...lol

I’m sure your over the moon like I am to have first jabo flowering Is this purchased after your move?