Starting a Food Forest - Turning this dry land into a self-sustainable wonderland! part one

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Join me in the garden while I start my food forest here. I use very minimal and easy practices for planting. Using some permaculture principles and things I have learned in various parts of the world. Embracing my outback garden cowgirl s elf and chatting as I plant!

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@katerinadiy 3 ай бұрын

Way to go! You choose a great niche for your channel. It will help to a lot of people. 🙏 I wish a YT Gold Button! 😉

@epiphyte8646 3 ай бұрын

just subscribed. i recently planted a brazilian fern tree in my fledgling food forest as well here in los angeles. while the fern tree certainly is beautiful i primarily planted it for its possible ability to supply and trade nitrogen with its neighbors. i planted it in the same hole as a black sapote. my fern tree came from my friend's huge tree. his tree provides 0% privacy because it looks like a lorax tree. plants trade resources with each other through their roots, thanks to fungi. more resources means greater productivity. so i always put multiple plants in the same hole. the trick is optimizing diversity so they can benefit from each other's differences. it's fun experimenting with all the different possible combinations, for example... a dragon fruit, a banana, a pigeon pea, a fig, and a jackfruit. if the jackfruit doesn't make it then at least i'll have a fig tree. if they both make it then i can severely chop the fig and plant the cuttings in other groupings. if you haven't already done so, i highly suggest subscribing to florida natural farming. he's in florida in conditions kinda similar to your own. i really love his food forest, it's easily the best i've seen on youtube.

@Anythingforfreedom 2 ай бұрын

Looks like you have great soil. I didn't expect that.

@michaelely2161 3 ай бұрын

My back hurts just watching you dig that hole Keeta - I'm sending you a shovel

@keetarose6095 3 ай бұрын

Haha! I was waiting for a comment on my digging skills! The soil is just sooo rocky in this area, like 80% big rocks. I only have a flat-nosed shovel right now, I need to go to the hardware store again!

@Adnancorner Ай бұрын

You can start a lot of fruits from store bought fruits with their seeds. Passion fruit, pomegranate, orange, Lime, Turkish large lemon, grapefruit, orange, guava, chikoo, Ice cream bean(you can have a visit to Zaytuna farm that permaculture specialist Geoff Lawton run, and that farm have a lot of fruit trees that they may help you to have some seeds and seedlings) custard apple, jackfruit, mulberry(you can buy one tree and propagate from cuttings) All the cucurbits family - pumpkins cucumbers squash all can be planted from store bought. For mulching you can get elephant grass or Bana grass, "White lead tree" that many australian farmers in Queenland use for the fattening the cattle before processing). These plants are drought tolerant and fast growing, plus fantastic fodder plant if you want to keep some goats or sheep.

@calmperson101 3 ай бұрын

Wow-zers! Any chance in creating rootings of your favorite plants, via chemical ways... Cheers!

@opulentlilt455 3 ай бұрын

I'm so excited for your forest. I'm in the US and love to hear about the different landscapes there.

@keetarose6095 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Me too!! What's your landscape like there?

@leodeymusic 3 ай бұрын

Amazing work and greatly informative 🌈

@keetarose6095 3 ай бұрын

Why thankyou kind sir

@Offgridgremlin 3 ай бұрын

Looks great, Where in Aus are you? Im in midnorth coast NSW and just started my food forest also. Excited to see the progress. I too also planted finger limes first haha

@keetarose6095 3 ай бұрын

They are a priority plant! I cant wait to get more of them! Im NE coast here. All the best on your food forest journey!