Expanding Guilds: Companion Planting Around a Nitrogen Fixing Shrub in My Food Forest

[@tgardenchicken1780]

Years ago, my Love in a mist was quite the conversation starter in my front yard. I wondered if you were going to mention the mushrooms, thanks for showing them. These show and tell, practical guides are very helpful.

[@nancywebb6549]

I live in East Tennessee near Knoxville. I have a permaculture garden which I started four years ago. I mostly grow fruit for the birds. I have elderberries, Nanking cherries, Aronia, Goumi, Mulberries, Wilder red currants, figs, American cranberries, strawberries. My zone is 7b.

[@ThomiBMcIntyre]

I’ve been eating up all the great content lately - you are on a role!

[@vickigunnpermaculture1976]

Oh MY GOD, I LOVE Jude the Obscure. The smell is divine, the flower is delicate, like the finest porcelain. I'm impressed b y the size of your goumi; I think I'll have to move mine to a location where they have more space...

[@iris.inspired]

I’d love for you to include in your videos what direction of the sun plants are growing in/where you are standing in order to understand placement of plants within guilds

[@vickigunnpermaculture1976]

I really like this approach to guilds. There are so many ways to do it, and sometimes the plants decide for us. Love this video.

[@janxious]

we're doing a lot of these small plant guilds, right now it's mostly a mix of strawberry, clover, yarrow, comfrey, onions, garlic but slowly are adding in other elements. the edible mushroom layer is genius

[@permiebird937]

This has been a great spring for Wine caps. I've been dehydrating a lot of them too.

[@amyjones2490]

I was noticing my black raspberries are ready to blossom. I love my black raspberry jelly.

[@nateanderson5289]

Thanks for the video! Love the guild tour format. Those wine caps are huge! Also didn’t realize black caps could work in a fully shaded spot like that.

[@candyceclaybornn1360]

I'd be interested in a video on how you are handling these crazy weather changes. I moved back to Vancouver, WA 3 years ago and last 2 Springs for sure have not only been cold but there are so many sudden weather changes and sometimes wind. How do you deal with this for warm weather crops. This year, I decided not to try my favorite tomatoes and just growing cherry and the cold weather tomatoe Stupice and 60 day tomatoe, Celebrity (which has flowers as we speak !) I'd be interested in specifics, such as not only how to deal with the elements but varieties you may have switched to. Peppers ? ground cherry? winter squash?

[@kushcraft9914]

🐝 very informative, thank you 🐝 Great channel 👍

[@julie-annepineau4022]

Love these guild videos. Gives me so many ideas. Would it be possible to mention hardiness zone on some of the different plants? I try to remember to research but some slip away in the awe of the beauty you have created!

[@thomasashe2681]

Yarrow is great too.

[@dfhepner]

Do you have a map of your property? From you videos it seems like the property is 5 acres. A drone view would be interesting.

[@MrBaker-qr6yi]

We have a 1/4 acre. Including the footprint of the house.

[@ChessKombat]

I am always getting a big piece of inspiration from your videos. Thank you Angela. Do you have asparagus hidden away anywhere in your garden?

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

I do!! I have 12 crowns right next to this guild!

[@vivianlilly]

Hi, I love your videos since I just bought my first home I started my garden and I was wondering if I can plant together hostas ferns and begonias in a shade part of my garden? Thanks in advance.

[@PegsGarden]

Hi Angela, I love when you show your guilds, because I am trying to do that in my garden, I have Nigella that I started in pots, then transplanted into the garden in early March, do you recommend direct sowing them because I wanted to grow them around my oak tree in the front of my home but the roots are so big around that tree, wondering what to plant under it that won't disturb there roots to much. Those wine caps look amazing!

[@thomasashe2681]

Where would I find the gumiberry? How much does it cost and will it grow in zone 7b?

[@sallymayer7875]

Where did you get your black cap raspberries?

[@mb19842002]

How did you get the wine cap mushrooms started? I would love to have these too!

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

I bought spawn from fungi perfecti. I think North Spore also sells it. I have some very old videos on how I started my patches if you search “Stropharia” on this channel. :)

[@YenniHope]

I have never seen eleagnus multifora available in where I live, but we have eleagnus commutata, that I think is very lovely looking schrub. Is it equally good plant for permaculture gardens?

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

I have one of those too! I find the fruit is ripe very late in the year or sometimes over winter. I have not found it to be invasive where I live and the chickens love the fruit and flowers. Eleagnus can be spread easily by birds, so make sure they're not invaisve where you are! (I have also found silverberry more prone to cold damage where I am)

[@YenniHope]

@@ParkrosePermaculture thank you. It's not invasive here up in the northern Europe luckily. I have couple of bushes that have survived couple of years in Finland, so I suppose cold-hardiness varies by the source of the plant as well.

[@candyceclaybornn1360]

what is name of your video that explains what to plant around Arona berry?

[@thomasashe2681]

Parkrose Permiculture, is Aronia berry a nitrogen fixing plant?

[@Brennannnnnnnnn]

If you want any free aerial video for photography to use as B roll just send me a message.

[@thomasashe2681]

You can actually eat the leaves of those violets too.

[@cleonawallace376]

Loved this video! I am just starting my food forest, and in a hot climate where water conservation is especially important, so I particularly liked you talking about the ground cover layer. I am a bit obsessed with goosegrass (in the UK we also call it sticky willy and cleavers). Chop and drop is good, but save some for medicinal uses!! The YT channel Home is Where Our Heart is have a great video (kzbin.info/www/bejne/mF66qmB4iKZ4d5o) and since watching that, I pour some boiling water over a few sprigs at night, and then strain and drink it in the morning. It's an amazing liver cleansing tonic.

[@nima16042]

No one ever mentions how huge goumi is!! Need to think carefully about where to squeeze it in 🤔

[@ebybeehoney]

Do you keep the keep your black raspberries separated from your red and yellow raspberries? I see that warning regularly.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

Yes. They are in different parts of the garden since they have some disease overlap.