2 Things you can do to boost fruit production (+ drone footage)

[@Alex_Riddles]

That business about multiple varieties works with apples also. If you know how to graft, you can put them on one tree. The joke at my house is, "I have 12 apple trees, 2 in the front yard, and 3 in the back."

[@therealkrystalvintage]

the sounds of water and bugs at 5:19 as you come close to the pond is intoxicating 🤩

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It's crazy how LOUD it is near the pond, but so quiet just 20 feet away from it.

[@therealkrystalvintage]

takes my breath away,... gorgeous

[@suebar5177]

Lol…I hear you…ice cream is my big vice!

[@hollyjordan1307]

Great take away message again Keith! You must be so proud of your land. I feel proud just watching the videos!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It's been easily the most rewarding thing I've ever done, absolutely. It's so humbling to see all the life move in, and know that I'm making a difference.

[@fabricdragon]

great advice! i noticed my "more shade" plants got started later, and flowered later, also by accident... the only thing i caution is if you have a tiny property like i do? make sure you have the cross pollinators you *need* in the same kind of light/micro climate so you actually get them blooming at the same time.

[@growinginportland]

Raspberries are the best. I’ve been picking a basket a day and eating away. Full harvest this year.

[@LucieMartins-ht9jf]

Love watching your garden updates. Great video thank you for sharing.

[@wahiine]

Thanks for the video! An idea to get more Patreon subscribers might be to offer something like an extra video a week for them. Or perhaps a 30 min live q&a for the top tier?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I definitely need to do more work on monetizing. I just don't like the idea of locking content behind paywalls. It's a hard balance to provide value to members/patrons, but not "sell out", because my main goal is get as many people growing as possible, especially the people who don't have enough money to support, but who need help growing food to save money.

[@wendyburston3132]

I was so shocked when you said you grew papas and pecans. I thought they were southern plants.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

There are cold hardy pecans, and the pawpaws (Asinoma Triloba, not papaya which is sometimes called PawPaw in some places of the world) are juuuuuust barely in my growing range, and I've managed to keep them alive for 7 years now.

[@annburge291]

Raspberries were such a desired fruit for jam in England during the time of Queen Victoria, that it was a job to make by hand tiny wooden ovals to imitate raspberry seeds so they could pass off other types of fruit jams as raspberry. I certainly would like some of those plants down south. Sigh. The drone shots look great. The trees certainly have grown. Hope your paw paws manage to ripen. Sometimes it takes trees one or two seasons to adjust their time clocks. I've had some crazy third year pomegranates that flower mid autumn as if they have no idea winter is coming. They do provide food for the hummingbirds. Thinking about your dog strangling vine.... would harvesting it and fermenting it in a barrel then diluting it and lightly watering the area stop it needing to come back. I use this method with some of my prickly weeds along where the dogs run.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I'm not sure about the last question, I could try it. I've never heard of that working before.

[@isabelladavis1363]

Never realized. That we could grow raspberries here in Savannah until last year and the challenge was on…grew up with these in my native land of Bavaria and they were my favorites…I always assumed since I grew up where the winters were cold that we would not be able to plant them in our present hot climate…but lo and behold this is my second year…still working on the varieties as well as locations…seems I need afternoon sun to shelter them from the extreme heat especially this last week…still learning a day at a time..thanks so much for sharing your wonderful content as well as your amazing food Forrest….stay blessed

[@lgrantsimmons]

Try yellow everbearing raspberries - Rubus idaeus 'Anne'. They are my new favourite for flavour and multiplying.

[@Crina-LudmilaCristeaAuthor]

Very nice!

[@PaleGhost69]

Now, it's time to make a drone that can harvest for you!

[@charlesbale8376]

Appreciated the information, thanks for sharing.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks for watching again Charles 😀

[@waykeeperfarmandnerdery]

Love seeing the pawpaws! I just planted 3 this year and they are so tiny still 😊

[@theartofginablickenstaff1314]

Cool idea to plant the raspberries in different locations. If I had your acreage, it would be easy, but I am on a small plot in the neighborhood. I already planted 6 pots of veg on my carport roof to get more sun and escape the grasshoppers. Maybe i could plant raspberries on the roof! Ha!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

That's a great idea! LOL raspberry living roof.

[@theartofginablickenstaff1314]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy yeah, see I don’t get the reason why everyone doesn’t grow stuff on their roofs (rooves?). They should require houses to be built to support green roofs. Have you ever seen Hundertwasser’s architecture? He had it goin’ on!

[@MegaDeKay]

I have four kinds of rhubarb just because I want four kinds of rhubarb. Haha.

[@lisaflannagan3659]

Thank you for this! I’m looking for suggestions on raspberry patch management specifically. I’m still getting very small berries and need to learn some new strategies - will also get more varieties though!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Lots of water during fruiting

[@annburge291]

Perhaps mulching with more variety of plant material could help and plant some more plant families in the same area so they can share microbiomes and nutrient uptake. Check your soil pH as well.

[@MsCaterific]

💟

[@Im-just-Stardust]

Always learning from ya bud, cheers and happy summer

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks, you too!

[@alexloenhart5553]

Are you having a lot of trees dying lately? Have you noticed your soil acidifying at all? Food forest looks great brother, keep up the amazing work!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Just ashes

[@lynnmoss2127]

Thank you! Noticing the beautiful mullein

[@yLeprechaun]

Hahaa!! I just commented on that also

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

You bet! We have some drying in the loving room. I always make sure we are tipped up before the fall.

[@blessildajoy]

Have you done a tour of the annual? Interested in how your first season is going..

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Kind of, it's been in a few of my last tours, but not up close and detailed My father was in the hospital for a few weeks, and my annuals suffered a lot. They are still doing okay (mulch is really powerful), but this is definitely not the season to expect much progress on annuals. I transplanted them, then didn't water them for almost a month.

[@blessildajoy]

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Hope your dad is better. Have you been lacking rain? After the early drought in spring, it feels like we're drowning in rain here in lower NY. Which means fewer watering, but also more fungal issues and weeds...

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yeah, we had 2 rainy days so far this season.

[@thevagrowinggardener1898]

Awesome video! Did you hand-pollinate the pawpaws?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I did hand pollinate some, but only one one side of each tree. I would say half of these might have been hand pollinated.

[@keithnotley2440]

G'day Keith! I am in awe of your food forest life journey! The time lapse drone footage is nothing short of inspiring, and a credit to your imagination and work ethic. Always greatly enjoy your "infotorial" vids - of which are rapidly moving towards "The Weedy Gardener" in production quality....well done! Great health and ongoing happiness to you and yours! 🥰🙏🌻🍀🥰

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

That's such a huge compliment.

[@Im-just-Stardust]

Great video as always man thank you. I had a little question. Are thornless blackberries as invasive as normal thorn blackberries? I'm asking because I bought a bunch of plants and I wanted to propagate them.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I don't know enough about them to answer with confidence, so full disclosure this is only a guess. First is that it depends massively on your area. No blackberries are bad here for example. Second, the ones invasive in the UK and Pacific Northwest are Himalayan Blackberries. There could be others that are bad. Himalayan blackberries are thorny. Mine here are thornless and they behave, but that could be only due to my location.

[@Im-just-Stardust]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you!

[@caleb98963]

Hi! We’re in ontario and would like to get a hold of some Paw Paw seeds. Are you willing to give some out? If not, could you point us to where you got them?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Do you have a lot of land, and are okay with getting some dud trees? Paw Paw variance through seed is extremely high, and it's very likely you will get really bad Paw paws through seed. They are also very slow growing trees, so it will be a decade before you even know what you got. I personally would recommend buying named varieties from a nursery.

[@lrrerh8090]

Do you cut down all your floricanes? How do you manage so many raspberry patches?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yeah, by the time April comes around, I'm so sick of winter that I don't need any excuse to get outside. I can clean them all up in about 2 hours. It's not too bad at all.

[@TheTeunvk]

Trying to find the almond, But i think you meant Pecan again. Do you have almonds? and what do you think about them?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I cut a little footage out from that part, because it ended up being 30 mons alone. We have nothing almonds and pecans down there. I don't know enough about either because neither have produced yet. The pecans are doing the best so far between the two of them.

[@SamJ6131]

Where in Canada are you? I'm in central Alberta. Just stumbled on this channel.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Ontario Canada, somewhat near Ottawa.

[@SamJ6131]

Thanks, my wife is from Kenora

[@ollyeccles]

Would love to know advice and recommendations for vines

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

For options? Lots of great ones. Groundnut is a good nitrogen fixer, as are peas and beans, but the last 2 are annuals. Then there are cold hardy kiwi, and grapes. For ecosystem support, Virginia creeper is a disliked vine, but its actually a fantastic option, as it won't pull trees down, and it supports hundreds of insects (and thus birdsl

[@ollyeccles]

Appreciate it!

[@MushroomMagpie]

You should host weddings there...

[@janewhitsell8820]

What do you do for diseases in trees?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It depends on what it is. I usually plant disease resistant trees, and if they get diseases I use that as information that nature is telling me that this type of tree isn't best here. However some diseases don't impact fruit production, like cedar rust on apples. For those, I just ignore them, because there isn't anything you can do about it.

[@CupoTress]

Raspberry mistake- I grew raspberries that fruit on primocanes (fall bearing on first year growth with raspberries that grow on floricanes (summer bearing on second year growth). Every year, I chop them all to ground level, so I never get fruit from my floricanes. Have you done this? Do you recommend mixing strawberry varieties regardless of season they fruit in? Also do you amend soil to make it more acidic specifically for berries? It seems like you would do that in a monoculture setting, but not polyculture. My strawberries don’t produce well and wondering if it’s the soil PH. How do you intermix plants but get the PH right for all of them?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

For the raspberry problem, just be lazier cleaning them up. They don't NEED to be pruned "in time". If they sit as a dead brown cane for a few months, it's not going to cause problems. Just remove clearly dead canes as you see them, and problem solved.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

For the other questions, you are correct that if you controlled things more you could benefit from small optimizations like that. For me, I'm more focused on sustainable growing, which means I don't mess with pH. If something grows it grows, if it needs constant inputs, (which by definition need to get mined, packaged, transported) then it doesn't get those things. If it cannot grow without them, I do not grow them. KY focus is entirely on growing as sustainably as possible (zero inputs), and I get more than I could possibly ever eat (plus plenty to share with nature), so I don't find any of that stuff necessary. Maybe if someone is making a living doing this, then making 10% more food per acre is the difference between profit and loss. For me, my goal is elsewhere... on sustainable lifestyle.

[@CupoTress]

⁠Hmm….you make it all seem so easy. I want that! It sounds like you grow raspberries on floricanes and just pull out dead ones as needed. I started growing fall bearing on primocanes to avoid early frosts and also because we get borers in our canes, so it’s nice to keep those to a minimum by chopping all canes to the ground in February. Maybe I’ll give your approach a go with my same primocane varieties and see how they like it.

[@CupoTress]

Regarding strawberries, my plants grow tiny, seedy berries. I thought ph was the problem. If we’re simplifying, and strawberries don’t grow, then I just need to find a new variety or different ground cover that works better in my area. Is that the idea?

[@wendyburston3132]

​@@CupoTressI have a lot of small strawberries. In pretty sure they are called alpine. So I bought some bare root from a store to plant this year. They say they're big😊

[@yLeprechaun]

Ok, I'm 15 seconds in and pausing to comment. Do you remember that video where you chopped a whole 5-6 ft tal Seaberry, and I said I sort of wanted to kick you in the shin?😂 Well, now I sort of want to again... My raspberries are a gut wrenching failure. Supposedly so easy to grow... Bull$@+#. Lol I'm really jealous. Ok back to the video. Edit: aaahhhh 8:40 I see Mullein! I have my eye on some growing in the ditch down the road from me. When/how is the best time to collect seed? I assume when it's dry, yes?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

LOL I rememeber that 🤣 😂 😅 Mullein is good when it starts to go brown, yeah. Keep watching it, ajd watch for it to make seed pods. Mullein makes about 2 trillion seeds.

[@yLeprechaun]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy , well surely I can grow Mullein.

[@lisaflannagan3659]

Lol once you’ve got, you’ve got it #MulleinforDays

[@yLeprechaun]

@@lisaflannagan3659, it's supposedly really good for the soil. Like comfrey. I hope so, otherwise a big headache for naught. Lol