FULL FRUIT TREE TOUR || Urban Permaculture Garden on a 720 sqm suburban property

[@SustainableHolly]

What do you think I should grow in the gaps? 🌳 Watch this video on passionfruit 🤯kzbin.info/www/bejne/epapZ5Wbjc5-atE

[@melcooney2467]

Great vid Holly, maybe an acerola or Brazilian cherry in the gaps?

[@SustainableHolly]

Oooh yes I was actually thinking about this!! They are very prolific which I love. Thanks Mel.

[@seanca4502]

hey holly how about a meyer lemon they love sun and well draining soil

[@Darkfyre755]

I'd recommend plantains (they're delicious and healthy fried in coconut oil), or if you don't like them maybe something like jujube/Chinese date. They're so delicious

[@TheDebben]

what about Carissa? gorgeous fragrant flowers and delicious fruit

[@jackiek4159]

Fruit trees are seriously the best to grow and you can never have enough! Loved this tour Holly! 😍🙌🏻🍋

[@SustainableHolly]

Yay thanks Jackie! Happy Sunday 🙂🌱

[@craigmetcalfe1749]

One more piece of advice in return for all of yours. You mentioned grapes were on your to plant list. Same here! Did you know that one of the Australian founders of permaculture (Bill Mollison) once said that Americans do not grow enough grapes. So put on your old McDonalds cap and get out into your garden and plant some grapes. My wife likes Thomson Seedless, so I will have to see whether they grow well in my subtropical garden. Cheers!

[@SustainableHolly]

Thanks Craig! I need to build my grape structure first but I would love to get some green varieties as they are my favourite 🙌

[@katelynbee8]

It’s so inspiring to see how you have designed your garden. Your back garden looks so lush.

[@SustainableHolly]

Thank you Katelyn 💚 always a work in progress 🌳🌺🍊🌱

[@michelifig6356]

All this in 6-ish yrs, wow-ee girl. Well done😉

[@SustainableHolly]

Always a work in progress! I have held back a lot due to be uncertain about moving but I’m still here 7 years later so I’m going all in this year 😅😂🌳

[@michelifig6356]

@@SustainableHolly Cool, may as well😃 Love seeing what can be fit into a suburban yard

[@hoselink]

So many great fruit trees Holly! Amazing!

[@SustainableHolly]

Thank you! 🌳

[@jenniferk6697]

You can never have enough fruit. I’ve started getting my fruit trees since I know they will take a few years to get fruit: 11 types of figs, 2 pineapple guavas, a Meyer lemon. For kicks, I’m trying to germinate some date seeds from dates my mom brought back from Israel. Also got a vanilla orchid and two macadamia nut seedlings.

[@SustainableHolly]

Wow! Amazing! I think I’m about to start a fig collection 🙀 they do well in our climate. please share your favourites! I am thinking about getting a purple heart next 💜

[@jenniferk6697]

@@SustainableHolly my Italian 258 cuttings have rooted the fastest. The one I’m the most excited to grow and eat is the Col de Dame Blanc.I’ve eaten them fresh before and loved it, but didn’t know which one it was lol.

[@badajoma]

Thanks for being so inspiring. Brissy's been hot & you've inspired me that I can have more than QLD Bananas here😊 Do you use special potting mix? I have compost & I generally use that & soil from yard

[@SustainableHolly]

Yay im so glad! I did get a big delivery of soil when i added the raised garden beds. Since then i just add my compost and purchase a seed and cutting mix every now and then for new pots and cuttings.

[@jasmineb8576]

So many lovely fruit trees! You've given me plenty of inspiration! I have a Feijoa tree id love to move but was scared of stressing it out. Thank you for the boost of confidence that its ok to move it hehe

[@SustainableHolly]

Yay thanks Jasmine! Just don’t move before very hot weather/ heat wave and you should be fine 🌳

[@andrewpinto1778]

Hi Holly watching your beautiful garden made me very jolly.. i live in melbourne and love my fruit trees. Thanks for sharing, keep up the great work..

[@joannedixon1977]

Wow love your enthusiasm.its very ene😂rgising and infectious.look forward to your next video

[@SustainableHolly]

Thank you 💚💚💚💚

[@blindpro6404]

Amazing tour of your garden end of summer. I have to get a few more fruit tree. More guava in the gaps 🌳

[@SustainableHolly]

Thank you! It’s coming back to life quickly after such a dry summer. Definitely 🙌 I’m on the hunt for a Thai or south East Asian variety.

[@nazerulben-dzulkefli4084]

Being new to Perth, your videos have helped me a lot with deciding what to plant in the backyard. Really excited to see how your garden and food forest will continue to grow!

[@danielapettus7693]

Awesome garden everything looks amazing

[@SustainableHolly]

Thank you! 🌳🌱

[@melvanini]

I didn't think I'd have enough room for all the fruit trees I'd like to grow, but this gives me hope. I have a 600 sqm block and 6 fruit trees (had 7 but one died). Also a raised bed with blueberry plants, one raspberry cane, hoping to get my black raspberry seeds to grow this year so I can have those too.

[@SustainableHolly]

yes Mel 🙌 especially utilising dwarf or semi dwarf variety's to reduce the amount of pruning needed.

[@n0mnom]

I can't wait to see what you decide to plant to complete your edible hedge! I'm looking into that myself at the moment. Apart from some of the things you already have (like guava, feijoa, cumquat, pomegranate), there are some slightly less common options, like coffee arabica, macadamia, or lilly pilly. Or for a shorter hedge: camellia sinensis or blueberries (there are some good low-chill varieties available).

[@SustainableHolly]

Thank you for those suggestions! I was actually thinking about a Lilly pilly!

[@seanca4502]

hey holly impressive fruit trees love your layout and some varieties ive never heard of now im learning some different fruits very cool garden

[@SustainableHolly]

Thanks Sean!

[@adamharvey3564]

I watched my first video of yours a couple of hours ago which was you garden tour 2 years ago and then this one just popped up. Great to see the changes and I look forward to seeing what you do with the front yard. What about a custard apple out the front?

[@TheCrazeenana]

Holly thank you for videos you inspired me to get a guava tree 😂 ❤

[@pamlotridge5515]

I live in south Florida USA sounds like we had identical candy so8l and climate. I love your channel

[@emmacollosi3313]

What an enviable space. Thank you for sharing. Have you thought about adding avocados for your evergreen hedge? They can be pruned into a manageable size and might provide something different than what you already have growing.

[@SustainableHolly]

I would love that! I have ..but a few thoughts are that they need a lot of water and with such sandy soil i would need extra. Maybe once i get more recycled water systems set up.

[@bernicevanover726]

Pertaining to the elderberry bushes. They are medicinally used for skin infections 12 leaves simmered for 30 minutes in 1 cup of milk let cool and wash the area with the infused milk. Also used for cold, flu and allergies.

[@marycampbell4160]

Gorgeous tour thanks for sharing

[@SustainableHolly]

Thank you Mary! 💚🌱

[@s90598]

Hi Holly, love your video. A month ago I also bought black nugget passion fruit. What is the distance between fruit trees? I can see you plant them quite near one another.

[@SustainableHolly]

There is roughly 1.2m ish between main trees but then I plant lots in the gaps. I would rather have many smaller trees than a few big ones so that works well for me 🙂 I also trim the tops off each year so they don’t get too tall (so I can reach the fruit) and that’s what I use to mulch

[@s90598]

@@SustainableHolly Thank you, Holly. I feel more confident planting the fruit trees close to one another.

[@TheCrazeenana]

I’m not sure if you have them there, i live in Florida 10b muscadine grapes grows well here. Mine got hit with the hurricane and they are growing back fast. Love your videos

[@katebowler5750]

Love this video! Can't wait to move when we build our house so we can actually plant some trees in the ground. We have a few in pots now ready to go (including a feijoa as my partner is a kiwi too!). One question - how do you find the malabar spinach? And any tips for how best to eat it? I just popped some seeds in but so many people tell me they don't like the taste so they pulled theirs out..

[@SustainableHolly]

yay thats exciting you have a collection already! I don't use it a lot as the NZ spinach is more my staple but i just pop some chopped up in soup and stirfries. I will do more experimenting. It's a beautiful ornamental and provides shade.

[@robynstone4049]

Oh also I notice you have very tropical fruit no stone fruit

[@SustainableHolly]

I have an Apricot and did have a couple more but they died last summer 😬 its so hot here so i started with hardier trees until i had a little bit more shade established.

[@SuperNebula123]

A Moringa tree, Inga Edulis and Acerola cherries from a hedge.

[@craigmetcalfe1749]

Hey Holly! Love seeing tours of permie gardens! I am allergic to passionfruit, do you have any thoughts about what I can grow instead? I grow Nagami cumquat which is the best tasting in my opinion and also the variegated cumquat which is the prettiest. If I have shoots growing from below the graft point on citrus, can I strike them in a pot? I have mandarins growing below a graft point and Yuzu doing the same, so there is a lot of potential new plants if I can find out how to do it. I will have to seek out the Queensland Arrowroot. Thanks for the reminder to plant Lavender again this year. Currently, Curry leaf plant, camelias and chilies are coming into flower. I would love to grow a dwarf banana if I can find one. I am still looking for elderberry. Daley's is the nearest permie source for plants and seeds. Although I do order seeds from Diggers in Melbourne. I am also accidently following another permie technique called natural farming started by Masanobu Fukuoka in Japan. I recommend his book The One Straw Revolution. The proof it works happened only this morning when I picked the most fragrant and shiny coriander that I have ever plucked from my garden which grew from seeds fallen from a previous season's plant. This will go into Huevos Rancheros for lunch today. Cheers!

[@SustainableHolly]

Thank you for the suggestion Craig. I’m really interested in Japanese gardening so will check it out. I would live a variegated kumquat but they have a hefty price tag. I’m hoping I can get a cutting and try graft it on to my one! 🤔 the shoots below the graft will be random bush lemons or something not very good to eat. But important to remove them so they don’t over take your citrus!

[@PeterHuhse-yc6kg]

Hi Have you thought about a tangelo tree. I have two. They are so juicy. Like an orange but way better. Very hardy and low maintenance. Also a loquat tree, again very hardy, low maintenance and beautiful fruit. Love your garden. It’s inspired me to do an edible hedge in my front yard. Maybe another tangelo. Lol

[@SustainableHolly]

Great ideas! I have thought about a loquat but I think it would be too big for my space. Unless I do a potted one 🤨

[@robynstone4049]

Holly can you give more info on growing pinaple I tried 2 in my garden which have done nothing im wondering if too dry or hot any advice much appreciated. Also with fruit how do you control fruit fly and this year for the first time I've had something which I'm assuming is a rat eat through my exclusion bags.

[@SustainableHolly]

how long have they been growing? They can take years! They like warmth and feed every few months. Mine have hardly grown because they got shaded out by the fruit tree so i have moved them to containers to get more sun. I havent had much trouble with fruit fly but i know it will come now im getting more fruit. I will start using some bags. Rats are always an issue and birds!

[@joannedixon1977]

I have just been given a passionfruit that when ripe is still green on outside not purple which seems weird.have you seen thm?

[@SustainableHolly]

No I need to know more about this!!! 💚

[@julieweir5777]

Hi holly, I live in yanchep, would like to plant orange tree in front garden, we get southerly and easterly winds, will they survive?

[@miss_mish]

How did you bring your pomegranates back? I have bought a house with one that doesn't look great & produces 1 fruit.

[@SustainableHolly]

It was heat stroke with very hot weather and a small pot. It had dried out so even when you watered it the water just ran away. I popped a tray under it and let it soak with water for a few days. Then a feed of liquid tea. I would give it a prune, water and feed 🌳

[@miss_mish]

@@SustainableHolly thanks. I know zero about them so I have kind of put it on the back burner whilst I fix my lemon tree and plant a punch more. Any clue what to do with an abui? I have one, never even eaten one and it's ridiculously tall and I can't even reach the fruit. Lol

[@SustainableHolly]

I have no idea sorry! I have never tried one but I’m intrigued now! I would love to try all the fruits

[@Darkfyre755]

I've been trying to grow Goji berries for months from seeds but they never come up 😢

[@buzzmcmahan8827]

What zone would be in in North America

[@Rocky86148]

Why no lychee tree 😇