The Food Forest: A Guide to Harvesting Nature’s Bounty | Harvesting from Your Food Forest

[@TheWeedyGarden]

I didn’t know this until some comments coming through that some varieties of mangoes are not true to type. If I had known I would have said something, so I’ll pin this comment as a learning curve, and probably mention it in another video. Before I planted the seed five years ago, I asked a bunch of locals including my Permaculture teacher (who has a few hundred mango trees) the same question and all of them said that the bowen seed will grow a nice tree with bowen mangoes but it would take longer to get fruit than if you graft onto it. So I planted the seed thinking I would need to wait at least ten years if I didn’t graft onto it. You can imagine my surprise this year right? FYI, Bowens Mangifera indica are actually naturally polyembryonic hence are virtually true to type from seed. Cropping takes 3-4years, with identical fruit quality to grafted trees. That’s a little quote from my local nursery who specialize in tropic and subtropical fruit trees. Conclusion… I was lucky. The Weedy Garden had my back on this one,. So…If you DO plant a mango seed from a mango you ate from some random fruit shop somewhere out there because you were inspired to do so, then do your own homework to find out which OTHER varieties other than the Bowen and the Nam Dok Mai are true to type. Many commercial varieties of mangoes, Avocados and dates are not polyembryonic, which means the tree you get from the seed might not grow the same mango you ATE, and in most cases will be a crappy stringy mango. If you do plant a seed then you can graft another variety to your rootstock 🕉🙏🏻😳🫵🏻

[@erfan4244]

I understand If you have a small piece of land and you want fast yield of true to type fruit it's ok to buy those seedlings instead of planting seeds but in a bigger property and on a longer timeline it's quite rewarding to make a habit of growing trees from seeds and naturally selecting the best fruits and planting them again because your plants are gonna get more and more adapted to your local condition and give bigger and tastier fruits, that's how natural selection and evolution works instead of cloning.

[@jason123w4]

Considering this weedy's production standards are higher than any netflix flagship show, this is surely the most underrated and undersubscribed channel on KZbin.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

And I am a one man production 🎬🎥💪🏻

[@ים_היימן]

When I was 12 years old me and my friend had a small food garden on the roof of his house and we planted corn watermelon tomatoes zucchini and I remember the smell of the soil we bought it was a very relaxing smell. Today I am 20 years old from Israel and I always had a dream to do what you do, you are an inspiration to me. Keep up what you're doing it's amazing

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Nice childhood

[@paulawaldrep5286]

These videos are inspiring, but NOTHING would exist without the Lord God my Creator. 😊💝

[@spoolsandbobbins]

We’re using your artistic, knowledgeable, fun packed videos as homeschooling curriculum. But most of our curriculum isn’t from books but in our growing homestead. Thanks for sharing your “Garden of Eden”. Blessings from Nova Scotia 🇨🇦

[@excelbuzz]

Awesome video mate. A natural storyteller! 🍌 🫐 🌴

[@meghamalhaarfarms]

your videos are a university by itself... so much to learn and watch... thank you

[@turtle2212]

Down the carrot hole is a breathtaking film I can only recommend. An inspiration for us earthlings, Dankeschön Weedy😊

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Thanks Turtle 👍🫵🏻😃

[@Msmeomeo]

Thank you for your video. I also love gardens, livestock, and farms. Every day I also share my life like you. ❤️

[@elimorris2273]

Thank you dude.

[@rbrack54]

I was wondering if you are Geoff Lawton ever did a video on the " Chinampas" of Mexico, and if you ever experimented with them. I think the big key to them is the water wicking, and most of all the soil they produce is remarkable. They use the silt off the bottom of rivers and canals to make it. The soil does not need to be watered for a month when planting seedlings in just a small block of it!

[@GardeningwithDave]

Nothing is better than freshly harvest food from your garden. Love from California. First time here and I already subscribed!

[@JTRBeats]

Thank you

[@nicolasdavies4129]

You are my favorite youtuber right now. great video as always

[@tractororganics]

Amazing

[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

Good morning, David "Weedy", from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 🍌🍍🥭🍒🥑🫐 I feel internal joy when I watch your videos. And I always learn something new! Take care ❤Peggy❤

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Wonderful. Thanx Peggy 😃🙏🏻

[@napeekapunpimtongnara9111]

I found your face full of happiness And your health looks very good and you have wisdom that looks very smart. Really great

[@TheWeedyGarden]

YOU are very kind...and sweet 🙂

[@hardygardener3091]

My Dad grew bananas in our backyard when we lived in Townsville and again when we moved to Brisbane. To prevent bananas re-growing after cutting he cut a cross in the stump with a machete and they never grew back! Love your channel, I miss the growing climate of QLD now I live in Sydney. I still grow a lot in my backyard, just not a lush. Keep filming!

[@vereto1]

Thank you for your content - It is very inspirational. I think I saw a coconut tree in a few of your videos but I have not seen you talk about it. Mind covering it in a video sometime? Your labor is so beautiful.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

no coco nuts here 🤔

[@vereto1]

@@TheWeedyGarden Sorry, I think I got confused. What is the lit tree in this shot? kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZXWn6NujZ1skKcsi=pvqnwPtNP-glr2G8&t=905 Thank you for replying :) In retrospect, it doesn't look like a coconut tree....

[@jodityler5539]

Every time I see the movie trailer I get goosebumps all over!! Love the movie and the weedy garden!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Nice one!

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I LOVE THE WEEDY GARDEN.... WHAT AN AMAZING PLACE TO WALK EVERY DAY. ITS COLD AND THE WINTERS ARE LONG IN IDAHO. THE ALTITUDE IS 4300 FEET, AND WE HAVE TEMPS TO MINUS 10 F IN WINTER LOTS A SNOW. SO SEEING YOUR RAIN AND HUMIDITY GREEN ANS LUSH IS LIKE ANOTHER WORLD. THANKS FOR SHARING AND THE GIFT OF PHOTOGRAPHY THE LORD HAS BLESED YOU WITH. 🤙🤙👍👍🙏🙏

[@TheWeedyGarden]

I lived in Denmark for 35 years, and spent a lot of time in Greenland so I know what you are saying!! That` why I LOVE it here sooo much

[@boayman5153]

ما شاء الله حديقة رائعة جداً تحياتي لك من تونس المدينة قابس قرية شطئ السلام

[@frost6471]

Much love from india weedy

[@narelle4868]

The laid back ambiance of this video is lovely. You went home for lunch after eating all those bananas and other fruits? 😂

[@TheWeedyGarden]

yeah. needed some protien lol 😅😎

[@marekoybetchay]

beautiful video ilove it

[@flightycocktails]

Great intro Weedy!

[@truesight91]

If you only ate fruit you'd be set 4 lyfe brother :) Dreaming well ~

[@NewDimension7]

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[@douglastobin8996]

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[@daleireland]

Kicking off 2024 with a BANG! Love it ❤️

[@metadayana]

How inspiring ✨️ thanks for the great tips ❤

[@susanaquezada7671]

Fantastico Weedy

[@ngbe4987]

You are awesome Weedy😁 keep inspiring 😊

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Thank you, I will

[@lindenhardy9021]

I love your videos, they make me smile and feel happy...

[@melanieallen8980]

great video!😍😍

[@fillfinish7302]

The intro is gold❤❤❤

[@SC-fk9nc]

What a fantastic tree diversity, already producing fruit after 3 years or so, the advantage of sub-tropical regions. My orchard in Victoria requires 5 to 10 years to start producing. 😄

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Yeah but you can grow apricots 😝

[@supattrasoykheeree3083]

You are great and brave. I would also love to do like this but still can't find the way. By the way, thank you for doing this and sharing. (from Thailand)

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Kop kun krup 😄

[@fermebiozouhair]

Geaf are here thats good ,hello i m in morocco

[@KPKENNEDY]

THank you for making your videos so enjoyable to watch

[@theplantista25]

You are such an inspiration! So interesting & helpful! I would love to know more about your support specie trees! See you in the next one. 😁🌿🌱😂

[@biblicalwealth]

Love your fruit trees David. All your videos are inspirational and we loved your movie. Think we’ve watched it half a dozen times now. I’m just growing a grafted Babaco now as I haven’t had luck growing cuttings.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Try using a different potting mix

[@biblicalwealth]

@@TheWeedyGarden I have, I just planted it a couple of weeks ago which I bought from Ross Creek. 🤞 I succeed this time, I’m keen to try this “Champagne” fruit.

[@TheBarefootedGardener]

Wow! Wasn’t that mango the first thing you planted?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

yes. As you can see on the previous video to this

[@tanyareynolds1960]

So cool 😊

[@RisenUponTomorrow]

Can you do a video on support trees? Are these different than nurse trees? How do they work?

[@brentonbills5946]

Im from up in Brisbane and ive not even heard of some of those fruits, you went through pretty quickly but id like to learn about some of them.

[@AndreBatistaSilva]

Hey Weedy greetings from Brazil mate! Love seeing you use the technique Brazilian Agroforestors are using to harvest Bananas

[@melanieallen8980]

babaco sounds nice! have never heard of it.

[@mdbee5]

Traveling through your beautiful state right now, inspiring for the home garden.

[@RoyHolder]

You can propagate tomatoes the same way as Mulberries and other tree berries, very handy when you want a lot of plants but can only afford a couple. Thanks David!

[@chili.Hawaii]

Haven’t seen something from you in a while, my end, glad to have it popped up now.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Been doing heaps. Try going back to see the series from the start 😝

[@louishesketh2482]

Hey Weedy, Russian Bocking 14 - Sterile, will not go to seed, but the rhizomes can be harvested after the first year. 30% protein content for fodder and fed to your livestock. Deep tap root will also make a great companion plant for high nitrogen consuming fruit trees! Enjoy :)

[@dnawormcastings]

Very good video as always. I love your energy 😀

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Thank you so much 😁

[@pietsnot7002]

The food forest is coming along very nice 🤩 Some of my fruit trees are breaking bud here on the other side of the world, quite early tbh but we’ll see what happens..

[@omermann]

Great video keep it coming 🙏🌸

[@TheWeedyGarden]

next one in three days

[@Mashiamape22]

I get lots of Mulberry Seedlings from birds under my peach tree they take them from my community and when they come to eat my peaches they poop Mulberry seeds and they germinate inside my veggies pots under peach tree.

[@RockwannaHurdy]

Sorry to hear your down to Two chickens. Great video as usual.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Us too! Thanks.

[@buzzwerd8093]

It has come together nicely and it can change slow and constant. Harvest only starts drying, canning, fermenting; more to be done!

[@grod-1976]

Another great informative and inspirational video, i have plans for a food forest got 7 nut and fruit trees in and got more in pots waiting to be put in when the weather is cooler.

[@amithasamanmali1879]

Hello Mr Gandalf, show me some fireworks. 😊

[@TheWeedyGarden]

⚡️

[@Greenplatypus12]

Legend mate keep it up 👍

[@GrandmomZoo]

Thank you my friend. ❤

[@OscarBiedma]

Feeding the Algorithm ❤

[@AndrooJeanPierre]

You sure are lucky to live in a subtropical area. Enables you to plant amazing fruits. Unfortunately, mangos don't grow in the south-west of France

[@MrRicehard]

Thank you for the great informative video. I am currently volunteering at a community garden/food forest in Taupo, New Zealand. We are one year in and all a bit haphazard. Next summer we will be pumping as many crops as we can that fits our micro climate. Ground Cherry/Physalis is looking like a perfect crop for us.

[@edithgarcia1848]

Love it! I will try to get some trees growing on our balcony

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Yeah...take some cuttings from somewhere. If they are in a pot they will stay small, so perfect for a balcony. You might only get one fruit, but at least you can say "I GREW THIS"!

[@blacksinglemomhomesteadont6454]

Enjoyed your video very much. Im working von doing the same on less than an acre .

[@jessicaheger1880]

I love your videos! I'm in Florida, and while our seasons are opposite yours, our climate are quite similar. I saw your flooding video a while back and wondered if you've thought of planting vetiver grass to prevent erosion from water. Great for inclined areas in subtropical climates. Thanks for the lovely garden walk about! ❤🌱

[@TheWeedyGarden]

our creek banks are all planted but still we lose a little every time it floods.

[@edsboyd]

we called that Aratilis - panamar berry in PH. soon they will infest all around your garden. nice video always..

[@Alieombaba]

I had yet to see someone take their fruit tree cuttings and make more trees from them! Im so glad you did because I want to be able to prune our trees in the future and also make more trees with the cuttings! Curious why the whole branch wasnt used and only the tip of it? Also have you seen or tried air layering the branches youd like to cut off to hve roots already settled before cutting and repotting? ❤ You have so many banana trees you could live off of them! 😅 or Sell them!! Sell the pups! Give some away! Some fruity vegans would love that to start their food forests!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Seen it yes but have not practiced it as yet

[@Alieombaba]

@@TheWeedyGarden 😃 would love to see you try it out! 🙏🏽💗🙏🏽

[@KateKoger]

How many chooks did you start off with? And what happened to the others? Another stunningly informative video. So many things you're growing I've never heard of. Love ya Weedy!! 🥰

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Four. Two died

[@ruthlongridge2137]

Admirable, and beautiful and informative, as always, but the cut on that Panamar Berry! Eish! a good way to invite fungus into your tree; rather cut at an angle...

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Great tip!

[@Dharmaholic]

Weedy, that was great. It's especially interesting to note that what you feed the worms may influence the output. I wonder, would you bother keeping a store of potassium rich worm wee for special occasions?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

You could even make two worm farms having one for growing and one for flowering/fruiting.

[@shahesfelazi8549]

The soft inside of the banana makes a good curry

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Do you mean the plant?

[@gokufrostcaleb8716]

Good day mate

[@TheWeedyGarden]

It is!

[@SyerlyPutri]

I suggest you also plant mangosteen, soursop, hybrid coconut, bitter melon, long beans, sugar apple, these are tropical fruits.

[@danielf9250]

Great vid Weedy - so many ideas for my own food forest. I thought kiwifruit needed some chill. Have you managed to get yours to fruit?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

not yet as they are only two yrs old but I did see a flower the other day

[@lucaandhisgenius1462]

i love your videos ! a big time fan! i also love growing healthy food from the garden! have you heard of the book one straw revolution?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Sure I have, but have not read it. Sounds like my kinda guy 🙂

[@ourstoneycreekjourney5702]

Wish we could grow bananas & mangos, too much frost in south coast NSW. Enjoy your videos 😁

[@TheWeedyGarden]

I can’t grow apricots😢

[@johnbrown6769]

What is your banana variety. I inherited my tree but don’t know what type.they are small and do not ripen well off the vine. Even the few that appear ripened are hard on the inside and not sweet. Saw your site for the first time today. I am not sure what your members mean but I assume subscribers?

[@haleya9526]

Thats a lot of fruit trees close together! Is the goal to sort of "crowd" them, so get them to be a bit smaller? Cheers from Alaska

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Yes. I keep them small

[@kellymack7680]

I LOVE your videos. Thank you. Could you tell us what time of year or month you're doing what you're doing in your videos? I'm in Florida & I think I started late. I just finished setting up my garden. I'm starting my indoor seeds 2/5. 🙋🏼‍♀️❤️

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Hi Kelly. This series is almost live...maybe a few weeks delayed. This episode was shot two weeks ago.

[@bretthunt2510]

have you grafted any of your trees? I love grafting you should try some grafting its satisfying.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

not yet

[@ManivaHouse]

💚

[@JohnUwins]

Hi mate your Bowen mango seed may not grow true to type so you might have a mystery strain if you want to propagate that particular tree you are going to have to air layer a couple of branches 🤙🏽

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Good point 👍 Bowens Mangifera indica are actually naturally polyembryonic hence are virtually true to type from seed. Cropping takes 3-4years, with identical fruit quality to grafted trees. That’s a little quote from my local nursery who specialize in tropic and subtropical fruit trees.

[@dragoniousmaximus7304]

Coool

[@lpmoron6258]

Nice video. They always are. Do you have room for expansion? What are you going to do when your area is full of all this wonderful stuff? I would love to be able to grow the things that you are growing. We live in the Arkansas river valley of Arkansas. Temperate climate. Till next time. Have a wonderful day!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Eventually I’ll expand the area yes 😃

[@rahulmalsani6202]

❤❤❤

[@trevorwhat]

Plant coffee!!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

I did but the bush turkey destroyed it all 😞

[@sunnyrivers]

🌱👏🏼💜

[@chrismartin2664]

I try to eat a broad variety of food but I haven’t heard of most of these species. I live south though. I guess I’m conditioned by supermarkets but I’d love this same format episode for SW WA if anyone knows of one?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Perhaps it is mainly the support trees you have not heard of. The rest are tropical fruit trees. Some of them I had never heard of either.

[@Lahuerta10]

It's possible to tell us how big is your garden please

[@heartheath]

50 x 50 metres 🤗 Cheers Heather (Mrs Weedy)

[@judithfriend1050]

How do you keep the grass off your fence line?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

I use an organic weed killer called Slasher from Eco who also make eco neem and eco oil...it is not as effective as round up but keeps the weeds from the electric fence line

[@rahulnambiar4473]

Add jack fruit and sapotte

[@TheWeedyGarden]

lol. I also have both of them that didn’t get a mention in this video

[@guillermogodinez2324]

❤🌻😜

[@Nihlink]

What’s your minimum temperature like. I’m curious to try growing some, I’m in a sub tropical-ish costal Mediterranean zone.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Min here would be probably 5 celcius

[@ohmimprovement5767]

Do you really smell popcorn? Or is it just butter? The only popcorn I smell is the burnt kind. Lol

[@hokyou8363]

Please also grow some lychee trees Wendy garden

[@TheWeedyGarden]

I actually do have one

[@kalaoaflowerpower]

appreciate you

[@drpk6514]

Do NOT grow mango from the seeds (also dates and many others)! Except for a couple of Asian varieties, they dont grow true to the type. I know you wanna say there is a chance they grow better than the parent plant but that chance is close 1 in 1000, but you almost certainly get a plant a lot worse than the parent, usually much smaller and more fibrous. And it takes many years to figure it out. But a grafted tree then you know you arent wasting years and a big space in your garden.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

ok. I think actually that the Bowen mango does grow “true to type”, or I am just super lucky in that case because the fruit from this tree are sweet, nice size and not fibrous at all…just like a Bowen. I do also have one grafted mango. A Thai Dwarf which also has fruit this year.

[@drpk6514]

@@TheWeedyGarden Only polyembryonic mangos such as Nam Dok Mai grow true to type from seeds and the vast majority of commercial varieties arent in that group. When you put that in your videos it results in disappointment for many people in the future. Before posting such info do your homework and at least make people aware of what might happen. Other such seed-growing mistakes are Avocados and Date fruits.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

@@drpk6514 Good point. I didn’t know this until your comment that some varieties are not true to type. If I had known I probably would have said something, so I’ll pin your comment as a learning curve, and probably mention it in another video. In my defense, before I planted the seed five years ago, I asked a bunch of locals including my teacher (who has a few hundred mango trees) the same question and all of them said that the bowen seed will grow a nice tree with bowen mangoes but it would take longer to get fruit than if you graft onto it. So I planted the seed thinking I would need to wait at least ten years if I didn’t graft onto it. You can imagine my surprise this year right? FYI, Bowens Mangifera indica are actually naturally polyembryonic hence are virtually true to type from seed. Cropping takes 3-4years, with identical fruit quality to grafted trees. That’s a little quote from my local nursery who specialize in tropic and subtropical fruit trees. So…If you DO plant a mango seed from a mango you ate from some random fruit shop somewhere out there because you were inspired to do so, then do your own homework to find out which OTHER varieties other than the Bowen and the Nam Dok Mai are true to type. 🕉🙏🏻😳🫵🏻

[@rahulmalsani6202]

A land with slope has more energies compared to the flat one...