Florida Organic Edible / Tropical Garden Food Forest Tour | June Zone 10a

Florida Organic Edible / Tropical Garden Food Forest Tour | June Zone 10a coastal central Florida. Enjoy!
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[@michellereedus9148]

Greetings from Ohio where we are currently in a heat wave with nearly 100 degree temps this coming week! I love watching your videos. Unfortunately its not warm enough here for a long enough time to grow most of these gorgeous plants, but I like living vicariously thru you all! lol

[@IslandsnHighlands]

We are in a heat wave down here too (and all the rain south Florida just got just missed us, so kind of a drought as well). We are originally from north Georgia- we enjoy growing all of these tropicals for sure! Thanks for watching!

[@goldenyearsacres9163]

I did not know about the saw palmetto. I didn't even realize they have berries. Now I need to take a trip to our back 5 to see if we have any.

[@maryguay908]

HAHA Analisa is quoting ALDI just like me!! ❤

[@IslandsnHighlands]

We got 6 more pineapples from Aldi yesterday!

[@champagnegardening5182]

I totally look forward to your late spring and early fall food forest tours! And yes, every gardener has home projects that have been untouched for years.

[@IslandsnHighlands]

Thanks for the kind comments! Also good to know I'm not the only one out there with unfinished house projects :)

[@belindam3797]

That variegated buttercup plant is a real beauty! Variegation in plants is just so cool. Your garden is magnificent, I dream of having a tropical garden- I grew up in australia where many tropical garden plants thrive- now I’m up near the arctic circle so I miss that heat and beautiful vegetation a lot! Thanks for sharing and I always look forward to a new episode of plant pirates! 😊

[@IslandsnHighlands]

Wow it must be very different living up there compared to Australia! We are originally from north Georgia- we cant grow any of this tropical stuff up there! Teddy and I enjoy doing Plant Pirates every week- you never know what we will find!!!

[@belindam3797]

@@IslandsnHighlands Yeah it is. Keep up the great work with Plant Pirates, its always nice to see sustainability in practice!

[@IslandsnHighlands]

Thank you!

[@IslandsnHighlands]

Thank you!

[@sofloprepper6710]

I just got a highly veragated bromeliadthe other day for free it is awesome I want to start a collection of veragated plants. After seeing that veragated awapuhi I will be looking for one of them that was so beautiful,if you ever want to share some of that rhizome let me know I'm just south of yall in saint lucie. Beautiful property, great video

[@IslandsnHighlands]

We have been trying to get the variegated awapuhi established in our property and are closing to having some to share- maybe we can do a plant swap some day!

[@onthefarmwithsmokymist47]

I just found your jungle....errr channel this morning and can't stop watching !!! People think I'm nuts for growing Dragon fruit in East TN. Just hve to put them on wheels to wheel in during our winter lol

[@IslandsnHighlands]

You are the first person I’ve known to have successfully grown dragonfruit in Tennessee! That’s amazing! They grow so well in pots so I can see how it would work-do you get the vines to fruit too?

[@onthefarmwithsmokymist47]

@@IslandsnHighlands My son built me two wooden 'cages', and in the winter we wheel them in, but he's done some amazing time lapse videos of them blooming at night. We get 4-5 fruits......so not a ton, but it's a thrill. We have a bud on one already this year. We have some very humid and hot summers now in East TN, but we still have spurts of super cold in the winter.

[@IslandsnHighlands]

That's so awesome! We will have to check out the time lapse videos your son has made! We are pretty close to you up in Georgia! Maybe we should give it a try up here. It would certainly be a thrill to grow any dragon fruit anywhere, but super special in Tennessee! We still have yet gotten blooms on our dragonfruit we have growing in Florida. I would love to build some structures there also. Thanks for the inspiration :-)

[@IslandsnHighlands]

Just subscribed to your channels!

[@onthefarmwithsmokymist47]

@@IslandsnHighlands I would love to email you pictures of what he made. Yes people find it hard to believe when they visit that I have dragonfruit lol

[@MyBookishEmpire]

Good evening plant pirates! I have recently been watching your plant pirate episodes on KZbin and I am blown away by what you find down in Florida in the landscape waste! I was wondering if you guys would be willing to sell a few cuttings? I know You mentioned your son was selling at a market, but unfortunately I am not in Florida so I would happily pay shipping. I am really looking for variegated song of India and plumeria which I cannot find up here even in stores. I am off to watch more plant pirate episodes and dream of my own endless cutting supply.

[@IslandsnHighlands]

Good morning! It is always amazing to see what we can collect in the rubbish bins in Florida! We actually have a nursery license but we don’t ship plants at this time…I wish we could help you out! There are rules on shipping plants to certain states and we need to figure out all the rules first. I wish you luck finding the plants you are hunting for! Thanks for watching!

[@goldenyearsacres9163]

Do you have a recipe with instructions on how to use beauty berry to make bug repellent spray. Native Central Floridian myself. I have several of the beauty berry plants on pur 10 acres. Would love another recipe for more natural bug spray for myself & 4 horses hubby & I have.

[@goldenyearsacres9163]

Do you have a loquat(japanese plum) tree? If so, please share any info you have on it. Can it be rooted? If so, how? Will it grow from the fruit seeds? If so, what is the growth time from seed to fruit bearing tree? I also luve in Central Florida, between Tamoa & Orlando. The loquat grows well, at least it did in my old neighborhood. The tree I have now has grown very slowly since we moved to a different county 5 years ago.

[@MyFLBackyard]

Lake Placid, FL is the Caladium capital.

[@IslandsnHighlands]

Yes! Thanks for adding the additional information!

[@lisag1153]

Lol No rain. That was so last week.

[@IslandsnHighlands]

For sure (for south Florida)- the rain missed us...

[@Florida882]

Let me ask you something… I have several banana plants in my yard which have about eight pups on them each. I was trying to get them for a friend and found that I couldn’t break off any of the root ball. Is this normal and will it still grow with no root on it

[@IslandsnHighlands]

You will need a little bit of the root system for them to survive. Place a full size shovel between the main plant and the pup you want to remove (making sure the shovel is sitting snug against the mother plant). Step down on it briskly to try to sheer off the pup and a bit of the root system / corm. You dont need to get lots of roots / corm, but you'll need some of it... Good luck!

[@IslandsnHighlands]

Also we try to keep the mother plant to pups ratio at about 1 to 3...

[@carolbailey838]

I have been watching your channel lately. After your plant pirate finds would you be kind enough to send me a cutting of plumeria. I live in ny to grow indoors. I would appreciate.

[@IslandsnHighlands]

We currently cannot ship plants from Florida legally, but we do have a FL nursery license and will be able to soon!