Six Month Food Forest Follow-Up @ Englewood FL // Water Quality Update

[@Savingusnow]

This was apparently shot this past winter. I hope you keep up the six month reviews for the next couple of years. Then annually for a couple more even once it stabilizes. Super helpful and interesting to watch successes and challenges and see the speed of growth. I think a multi year video series will be great for your business too and setting expectations.

[@sir2022]

missed you pete and happy to see you back

[@MatsukawaZaraki]

Great to see you back on the "Tube" buddy! Looking forward to the follow-up to see how the water change helped!

[@shannonsims8942]

Awesome to see you back

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Glad to be back!

[@maggidull1952]

Glad to see you back and giving updates. Interested in hearing more about the nursery, too.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thank you! 🙏

[@antoniiocaluso1071]

Pink Guava and Papayas would add ALOT to that landscape! Angel Trumpet, too. Like me in Punta Gorda :-))) About the water...seems they need a BIG Cistern, to "age" the water before irrigating, which helps (unless one prefers constantly adding amendments to their H2O-filtering equipment. buona fortuna!

[@davidjslack]

Love the updates to see success and failures.

[@eduardodiaz5877]

HEY 👋 PETE PURA VIDA AMIGO, MISSING YOUR COSTA RICA ORGANIC VIDEOS WITH YOUR FRIENDS , BROTHER 👍,

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

👋 👋 Hopefully we can go back down and film!

[@charlotteking8123]

Now we're waiting for the spring follow-up. I wasn't sure; did the new well access less-salty/sulfury water? Looks like they could really benefit from another layer of compost/chips too. This was really helpful for me, though I'm about 15 minutes away from your place, my water tested high in sulfur and my trees are only taking off at about the 3-year mark. The avocadoes have done a little better. The stone fruits and persimmons are very stunted. I'm about to start working with biodynamic compost/teas/extracts, so excited about that.

[@shalomtoday]

Interested to see how those breadfruit trees fare over time. Would love to plant cold-hardy ones in Hillsborough County

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

We shall find out!

[@honeybadgerisme]

@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFLtop O' Lake County, too!

[@pradeepgossai6437]

Thanks for the update. Where do you get your Micro Sprinklers and tubing from?

[@Bob-w2b8j]

It has been bone dry here in Sarasota county going back to last summer when it was extra hot and we basically got no rain. This summer is off to a more normal start, fingers crossed that it continues... Also as an FYI the water around that whole area is very hard, sulfurous water. I have a sibling that lives in North Port and his well water is the same way. North Port actually has a giant natural mineral spring that you can swim in, it's literally called Warm Mineral Springs

[@themangovista]

Once the water issue is fixed, that place is going to be rocking 🥭🍌🥑

[@shalomtoday]

High flow reverse osmosis filter for the saline well water if the pocketbook is deep enough

[@joanneganon7157]

Hey Uncle Pete, I was wondering if you quit, I'm so pleased you didn't 😊. JO JO IN VT 💞

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Oh, just super busy! We're back!! 😊

[@stephenstapler9996]

Hope to see some Jim videos or gardening in general Pete!! Love the content as always

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Jim's next! Stay tuned

[@stephenstapler9996]

@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL yay!!!! Pete thanks for the reply!!!

[@HFTLMate]

Much love Pete! Inspiration!

[@LouiseHowell-v9o]

They could use Mr. Jim's help with building the soil. They could have the water plant test the water for all the characteristics. I suspect manganese on the old well. I worked in water treatment for 19 plus years. A water test showing what's in the water.

[@jchandler3336]

I guess the sapodilla didn’t get the memo. 😂She’s the best of the bunch. It didn’t look like the veggie garden was affected by the poor water conditions unlike the fruit trees.🤔 Looks good and can’t wait to see the summer follow up, especially since all the rain.

[@doesnotexist6524]

Have you tried any of the Australian citrus, like finger limes? I hear they're greening resistant.

[@Bob-w2b8j]

Or sugar belle, but the flavor on that seems to have mixed reviews

[@sowyouthinkyoucanplant5630]

Bele (Tongan Spinach) could win the competition for best leafy green plant? It is definitely about the tastiest and grows as the perfect sized shrub/tree, combine with Okinawan Spinach and you can't go wrong!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

It’s a good one!

[@shinaskitchenfs344]

consider mushroom to help with water quality?

[@mommabear2544]

I'm confused. Post 2hrs ago but you are saying it has already gotten down to 43°f. It's summer and 43°f left in February

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

It was filmed in January 2024

[@Jack_of_1_Trade]

Welcome back! How much does an install like that run for?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks! The budge for this project was roughly 55k.

[@Jack_of_1_Trade]

@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL that a great price. I’m sure you definitely take care of your clients. Keep up the good work!!

[@Haedrix]

I've also had a mexican sunflower that bloomed at a really short height despite all of the others on my property blooming at a much taller height. It was on the east side of my property near a fence line only a few feet away from a normal height one. I suspect they know to bloom early if they sense something stunting their growth. In my case, there turned out to be a leak in a gas line that was near it. Once the gas company fixed the pipe it started getting taller again. Not sure if this gives any useful information but I thought I'd share just in case. Would hate for it to be something like contamination in the water supply from nearby fracking or anything. I'm sure there's other reasons it can happen though or maybe just high sulfur content in the well water like you mentioned.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

That's an interesting experience you had! There are so very many possibilities of what caused it.

[@shalomtoday]

Are there little earthworm factories in those compost buckets next to the banana trees?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Most likely or nearby!

[@Sandra-gk3ct]

I would take the hose with the nozzle on a jet stream and stick it right up close to the surface of the soil and see if you don't have moles. I bet that's your problem.

[@paulweakley3440]

imho that mulch should have been laid down way thicker and at least a year before planting everything. Looks like very poor soil so it takes awhile for good soil to form.

[@mr.hamilton5393]

One thing about Englewood is packed full of.... rootknot ....

[@Bob-w2b8j]

Nematodes? They prefer sandy soil hence the reason it's a bigger issue in Florida than most other areas of the country

[@ThePeoplesGardener]

Better to plant at the bottom of the hill rather than the top. From my experience

[@jackson8085]

Is it sulfur in their water or salt, that's the question. I'de get it tested. It could be a compounding effect of relatively high both. Water quality (sulfur, but especially salt content) gets worse with depth. And given the size of their property they dont need the capacity of a deep well, a shallow may be better. Or, even better, can they pump from the canal behind them? I irrigate a variety of trees with relatively high sulfur water from a deep well, but i'm inland and low salt. Plants don't love it and it's adjusted my soil pH up 1.5-2 points after a long irrigation only dry spell, but they grow ok for our winters. Remember , if you smell the rotten egg smell, that's the sulfur off gassing. Sprinklers, esp overhead likely remove a lot of sulfur. Trees on my pond water do much better, lots more biological decay and associated organic acids reduce the pH of that water.

[@shalomtoday]

There is a kit that attaches to the well head casing for about 200 dollars on Amazon that reduces sulphur content. Title of the product is "Sulfur Removal System | Remove Odor from 2", 3", 4"+ Wells ". There is also a KZbin channel, Yuri D. TV, that has a video that was recently posted that shows a similar aeration nozzle solution for sulphur removal from well water inexpensive ly.

[@theleefamily6446]

Does the neighbor use herbicides?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Possibly..?

[@theleefamily6446]

@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL One major lawn company I know uses a product that contains Dicamba. Dicamba is highly volatile and becomes a gas at temps as low as 59 degrees, increasing as temperatures rise. Studies have shown it to volatilize and move off target plants as far as half a mile for 4 days after application. With the direct neighbor using herbicides, it could drift, though gas vapor or runoff. I ask because I have had significant damage being adjacent and downhill to a neighbor that has frequent herbicide applications to his lawn. Another chemical, metsulfuron methyl, is also used and causes damage through runoff.

[@maga4u]

they just need to water the heck out of them geez