An Honest Look Around My Food Forest in Late August

[@ClareAndAlec]

Dear youtube, Please give this lady money! ~Thanks

[@BSUF303]

Stacking those functions and giving us education, beauty and inspiration as always Angela! Love these style of videos

[@charlesbale8376]

I always enjoy a garden walk at any time of the year.

[@PegsGarden]

Good afternoon Angela, always enjoy when you walk around and show your garden, hope you feel better soon💕

[@jwhite5396]

Thanks for sharing. I’d like to see when you cut into the different Paw Paws. Have a good weekend!

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

Oh, I will definitely do that! I was so excited to have such a big Harvest last year that I never bothered to make a video about it. I will share more this year for sure

[@jwhite5396]

☀️☀️😎

[@kerrymoore1961]

I so much appreciate the realistic approach to gardening, rather than only showing the most gorgeous results and hiding the kind of ratty parts. It's very reassuring to know that this is normal and expected. Hope you feel better soon.

[@Brennannnnnnnnn]

Sungolds are so good they’re almost another type of fruit. I grew a different type of cherry tomato this year and have definitely regretted it.

[@justalurkr]

You're getting an amazing yield given the weather in spring!

[@traryvery8851]

Lovely garden tour. Glad that you are ‘keeping it real’. Hope your recovery is speedy and not too frustrating.

[@MsAusarian]

Loving the progress. 🌱

[@deborahcoyle7612]

Your garden is beautiful! All the fruit makes me swoon. Each growing season is a wonderful, perplexing, frustrating lesson in acceptance, isn’t it?

[@sheilamorse2624]

Beautiful example of abundance!

[@geraghtykv]

Obsessed with that volunteer pumpkin just growing and hanging with the quince wow.

[@tanyadraper7588]

I let my goji berryies dry on the bush I like them better that way. I suppose I could dry them in a more traditional way but the birds don't bother them.

[@kerryfirehorse]

Thanks or the introduction to the paw paw. I see that they are hardy & thrive in the U.K. climate so definitely going to get a tree for my front garden.

[@atlnaturewalkabout]

Oh congratulations on constructing the new shed and cleaning out the older one! So happy for you!

[@bobbiejean864]

Hope you are feeling better soon Angela. I love your food forest tours!

[@alaskajdw]

Just found your channel. Wonderful "garden" ❤️

[@alexfaeth9673]

So beautiful

[@kathmandu1575]

Excellent video - thanks!

[@wesleyrobbins]

Lovely Angela I'm sure your Persimmon is so close I hope you give them another year I hear that's pretty common with them some will bear heavy and then bear light from year to year as well but I'm sure your well aware of this happy gardening!

[@mitchellbrown9713]

Thank you for posting this garden video Angela. It is very cathartic to follow you around your garden. We get to see the results without putting in the work a garden like that requires to get started. I am sorry you are struggling with your hard persimmon. I would suggest getting a soft persimmon and planting it nearby. I have persimmon trees from Dave Wilson Nursery and they claim you need one of each to cross pollinate the other.

[@wesleyrobbins]

Angela I have a Sweet Fuyu and a Coffee Cake persimmon trees if you’d like you can get scion wood from this winter I’m practically you neighbor I’m in Wilks East neighborhood

[@Tempdoom]

In my garden, the weirdly consistent heat in june and july caused a lot of plants (especially tomatoes, cucurbits, and peppers) to delay flowering and fruit production. It seemed bad but now it seems that these months of heat forced the plant to store lots of energy in the roots for a sudden burst at end of season. This is welcome on squash which I can keep for a while and cucumbers which I can pickle, but it's annoying on tomatoes and peppers which I always like to have fresh in the summer. In july the peppers looked like they were barely staying alive and yet over the month of august I got more fruits setting per plant than ever before. Almost as if the plants had been overwintered for a whole year.

[@kastenolsen9577]

Use Epsom salt and Sulphur paste, but use very small amounts, for your eye.

[@lorebrown5307]

Looks great for conditions, we had similar weather in N. Idaho. Can you please explain how you're getting such big yellow raspberry harvests? I tip prune my reds but don't know how/when to prune the yellow fall raspberries. Thanks for the vids despite the health issues.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

The yellow raspberries are “fall gold” …so they bear in June and again in September. They are basically one of the best varieties of raspberries I think you can grow in the home garden. They consistently produce large fall crops, and although the June fruits are somewhat smaller they are still definitelyn delicious.

[@lorebrown5307]

@@ParkrosePermaculture So you don't prune them? They look like they're producing abundantly

[@craidynr]

I wish i could get mine to this density. Problem i have is snakes. Cobras and mambas to be specific. Not good for the kids. But your forest is looking amazing! Thanks for all the advice in your videos!

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

It definitely makes a big difference when you live somewhere with no venomous snakes. My garden would look very different if we had venomous snakes or spiders

[@TeaCupSimmer]

hi Angela! I love your videos and your willingness to share information with us new permaculturists. I had a few quick questions: do you have any advice for people looking to start their own small permaculture food forests on plots of land that are mostly clay and bare? if you can share another video going into detail about how you started it would be really helpful.

[@majorpecan2526]

for planting annuals sooner, you can put down cardboard and pile compost/soil on top of it to plant into, for improving the soil long term it helps a lot to put down a layer of woodchips/leaves/other organic matter and basicly compost in place, the worms should start to work that matter into the soil as it breaks down. Hardy plants with taproots like mullein, comfrey, daikon radish, and mulberry are good plants to start with and improve the soil for other plants later. Also any nitrogen fixing plants like clover are a good option.

[@TaylorinShirewood]

Do you take cuttings from your sungold F1 tomatoes and overwinter them? If you have any experience with this I'd love to know! 💚

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

I have not. I don’t feel like I have the mental bandwidth to try to overwinter nightshades, and I don’t really have a good set up in the house for it either… I do know friends who have overwintered tomatoes, and my mom used to do it in Florida, but it is not some thing I have direct experience with

[@joanneo2741]

Does your persimmon need another for pollination? My parent’s tree didn’t produce viable fruit until a friend grafted another variety on it.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

This variety is supposed to be self fertile but I am concerned it is parthenocarpic fruit drop where fruit formed without pollination don’t mature properly. I am doing some digging and am currently thinking of grafting other varieties on to it as a possible solution.

[@Vixxiegurl]

how do you get the grapes to fruit? I have a grape vine that's growing but no fruit. the directions on the package said to cut back most for winter.

[@mlissawetherell2382]

What are good persimmons in the pacnw?

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

My Early Fuyu is a heavy producer and does very well here

[@dfhepner]

Very nice. Are the dark grapes concord? I hope the eye problem clears up soon. I’ve had that years ago and it’s not fun.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

They aren’t concord. I have concord in the backyard and the won’t be ripe for about two weeks. I would love to know what I have, but the fruit fair I went to had dozens and dozens of heirloom varieties so I don’t know!

[@lavendersky4324]

Do you know where to get the Sun Gold Cherry tomato seeds?

[@lavendersky4324]

BTw, your garden is so beautiful! I am inspired to plant some paw paws.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

I think FedCo and Johnnys Select both usually carry the seeds.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

Territorial also probably does

[@cholcombe973]

How drought tolerant have you found the goji to be in general? I'm also in the portland area and I'm thinking of growing some.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

Suuuper drought tolerant. I don’t water it at all.

[@Brennannnnnnnnn]

Sorry you have to negotiate the auto immune thing right now. Heal up as you can. If it’s easy to share the age of the plants/trees I’m curious to know.

[@hostadaze]

Loved the video! Thank you! How do you keep the turkeys in the yard? We’ve raised turkeys and they a great flyers. We’d lose them for sure without a very tall fence.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

We clip their wings and generally they want to stay with the flock but we have had a hard time with the fact that they know our next-door neighbors and really like them and if they hear our next-door neighbors are outside, they will fly into their yard to hang out with them.

[@Heather-yz6uo]

I accidentally hit the dislike button, but I fixed it! I just want to thank you. I started my own food forest in the backyard this summer after watching your videos! I now have pawpaw, American plum, downy serviceberry, American elderberry, raspberries, blueberries, and black chokeberry growing back there. I can’t wait until next spring when things flower! Thank you again.

[@ellens2476]

Don’t want to be patronising and I am aware you were given a hard time so this is NOT about giving anyone a hard time but sone thoughts. What are we telling people who are permanently visually different if we don’t show our face on camera? I just want to encourage everyone to think about beauty inside and not applying some sort of face police to themselves. Emmy own example: we did a grafting movie and booklet. Did I know that a sausage or two warped over my jeans? I inky became aware when I saw the pics in the booklet. I had to swallow a lot of “pride” to day yes go ahead and publish. Well, it was only my inner eye that isn’t generally aware if my sausages - but this is how other people see me - and they obviously are ok. Mind you, I could have chosen a better T’Shirt 😂

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

I appreciate the point you’re making. I do lots of videos with bad skin, bad hair, messy clothes, no makeup, however I happen to look while I’m working outside. I definitely don’t want to perform beauty or make people think permaculture should consider external beauty - and as a 43 yr old with wrinkles and grey hair and not conventionally attractive, I think I do a pretty good job of that. But I’m also a real person and when my the right side of my face is swollen and my eye is basically swollen shut, I’m self-conscious, and also don’t feel like dealing with the comments and questions. I can feel self-conscious, too. I don’t like being on camera in the first place, it’s quite hard for me, especially editing footage of myself and seeing myself on camera at all. But I do it because folks kept asking me to, but it doesn’t make it something I particularly like, even on days when I don’t feel crummy and my appearance isn’t hard for me.

[@ellens2476]

@@ParkrosePermaculture I have noticed the transition to the from of the camera and It is jo doubt a huge personal step that you have taken, congratulations. I appreciate your knowledge and possibly don’t understand well enough just how bullying people seem to behave in their comments. I am sorry I certainly didn’t want to put you in the spot, I was just worried for people who might feel confirmed in their self-consciousness about their lesser beauty. It’s probably way more a US American thing than a New Zealand (where I live) or German (who I am) thing to judge on this. It happens here, too but not to the extreme as in the US.

[@hostadaze]

I have an infection right now that has my eye almost swollen shut. My choice to stay out of the public eye until it heals and Angela’s choice to do what makes her feel more comfortable. I thoroughly enjoyed the video just the way it was.