Edible Hedge / Food Forest Progress - planting the gaps 🌱

[@natalie36592]

Hi Holly, I'm so happy that you post videos so often. I feel spoiled. So exited about your front garden and can't wait to see more. My front yard is just stones and I feel inspired to just get out there and turn it into a forest garden. I wish we had the edible canna available here in South Africa. It looks like an interesting plant to add to my backyard fruit guilds. 🌴🌳

[@SustainableHolly]

Thank you I’m am really trying my best! 💚 There are many other options the key is to finding what works for you by trial and error 🌱🌳🌱

[@gardentours]

A fedge is a great idea 🌱👍🏼

[@SustainableHolly]

🙌🙌

[@LukiLuluped]

So hyped to see more of this🤗🦋

[@SustainableHolly]

Yay me too! I have a good feeling about this 💚🌳

[@justmissmelly]

Another great video, thank you Holly! Love watching your experiment- it's given me the confidence to start doing similar myself 🙏😊

[@SustainableHolly]

Yay!! I love this! 💚🌱🌿🐝

[@wiwingmargahayu6831]

steamed torch ginger flower or bunga kantan or bunga kecombrang

[@stacyharris9669]

You have lovely gardens and your pup is so sweet looking. I think you would like David the good on you tube he does grocery store aisles ( even a small book on it) it permaculture reigned in also Nicole Jonsey Burke of Gardenary on KZbin also kitchen garden, revival book and leaves roots and fruit book. But she also does intensive planting in order to retain moisture shade the soil and halt weeds. I’ve also watched. I’ve also watched some other videos on fruit trees by Dave Wilson Company. He’s in California Central Valley and I’ve watched some of our local farmers. I am in Ventura county California, a little fruit basket of the world and to keep your trees so you don’t have to have a ladder they’ll be one shoot going up in the center of the tree and it’s telling the rest of the tree to join it if you don’t want a 20 foot tree and having a ladder out trying to harvest just chop that off and keep it to a 6 foot or 8 foot tree whatever is easiest for you to harvest. I have a neighbor that has all of her citrus on her side yard to her driveway and it’s like a hedge, pretty cool looking bonsai waste high trees. Anyway, this was a great video.

[@PegsGarden]

Everything looks amazing Holly, I need to grow that edible canna, love watching you all the way from SW Florida, have a wonderful day🌱🌱🌱🥀🌺🌻

[@SustainableHolly]

Thank you 😊💚🌱

[@craigmetcalfe1749]

Hey Holly! Your food forest reminds me of Paris...enjoyable to see in the rain. Was that a False Cardamom you were referring to? Very inspiring story! Cheers!

[@SustainableHolly]

Thanks Craig! Yep that is correct with the false cardamom 🌱

[@goldengirl65]

It's funny how people still think gardens have to have lots of space between plants when it's been shown in gardens all over the world you can plant quite close and fill up any garden beds and it will help shade roots in summer and keep them warm in winter not to mention how plants seem to do better with companion planting as well and it saves on watering because you have a living mulch. I read an online blog I guess it was recently by a so called horticulturist who was actually arguing with anyone commenting who said you can plant fruit trees really close or do a multi plant in one hole. The horticulturist insisted you can't do that even when all these people said they had them planted like that in their gardens for years and years, she still insisted they would not grow. Someone even referred her to a plant nursery in the US who plants close and also plants multiple trees in one hole and even then she argued you couldn't do it. Funny thing was someone finally asked the horticulturist if she had ever tried to grow things close together and she said no. So she had no real life experience of close planting and instead of trying it she just argued it couldn't be done even when people had proven her to be incorrect and also shown her a nursery who grows that way all the time and has done for years. It's funny how people refuse to even try a method but love to deny it works when they have no hands on experience with it. Your garden looks terrific and so lush which proves your method is working. Keep up the great work .

[@SustainableHolly]

High density and diversity is what has hands down worked in my gardens so I’m continuing in that direction. I also value variety over buckets of the same fruit 🍎 many people like to have exact answers and never fail. But failure is really the key to success because it means you have actually tried different things 💚 thank you!

[@stacyharris9669]

@@SustainableHolly did you get to see my comment just a little bit before this one I think you’ll like it too. I’ve seen Dave Wilson in California do three and one and it helps a Home gardener out so it’s not a 15 foot tall tree and then you get all the varieties.

[@renemaduro1071]

Muy hermoso

[@purposeful142]

Yum yum guava . I love guavas from South Asia, but they are getting so expensive in the uk, like 80p for 1. Or 2 for a £1. Recently, I got to know you can grow cherry and pineapple guavas in colder climates . Please, from your experience, suggest which variety is sweet and juicy?? Thank you so much .

[@SustainableHolly]

The yellow cherry is probably sweeter than the red. Pineapple guava/ feijoas are also delicious and quite fragrant.

[@purposeful142]

@Sustainable Holly Thanks, Holly, your videos and knowledge are really helpful 👍🌷🌷🌷

[@SustainableHolly]

Thank you 😊🌱

[@umakingplantlifeeasy1740]

Hi Holly , How do you keep cats away from your garden? Can you give me some tips please. Thank you.

[@SustainableHolly]

We do have a street cat… for the most part my dog is very loud and will scare most away. Stakes in the ground can also deter if there is no easy path for them to stand.

[@umakingplantlifeeasy1740]

Thank you so much Holly 😊

[@XYZ-sq7ki]

What zone are you in that you’re growing guava???