Thoroughly enjoyed watching the tour of your Food Forest and all the different fruit varieties.

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Denise, glad you enjoyed 💚

Love all your fruit trees and nice garden💐

I love that you’re from Melbourne. What a wonderful Global movement are the Food foresters.

Unbelievable paradise, what a magical place to call home. Super happy for you that your channel is growing, too! (I thought the thumbnail for this video was very well done)

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! You are spot on KZread is a slow marathon 😅Glad we made an attractive tile for this! Hopefully we can keep improving over time. Thanks again for your support x💚

Aunty, looking good 👍

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 💚

I'm always learning about plants and the compounds they have. That ground cherry portion of your video was really inspiring.

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Ross, plants are endlessly fascinating and I'm learning something new about them everyday 💚

Thanks so much for sharing! I took loads of notes 🤣 lots of ideas for what I can add to my garden!

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Yaneka, so glad it gave you some inspiration!! You can always fit more in I say 🤣💚

Hi there, really appreciate your videos and often rewatch them as I develop my garden forest. I would love to see a more zoomed out picture of your garden if possible so I can get more of an idea of the planting density😊. Have used many of your plant recommendations and my next purchase might be a pluot when spring arrives. Thank you so much for these very well produced videos.

I'm glad to see this tour of your beautiful food forest. I live on the other side of the world, but in a similar climate and I looking to start a garden myself, this gives me hope that we can grow things here, your forest is beautiful 💚💚🌺🌺

@MelbourneFoodforest

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jessica, I have no doubt you will create your own flourishing food forest. I'm glad this has given you some inspiration 💚

Love your videos - I'm in Austin, TX so I'm close to your climate - probably a little more temperature variation and draught issues, but great to see a full on food forest in a similar climate. We have an over abundance of Cape Gooseberries here as well (we call them Tomatillos - which I think is the same thing) and they are amazing in the heat - bullet proof and draught tolerant which is perfect for here. We're working on flushing out the rest - fruit trees, berries, etc. We're going through, yet another, draught, so great to watch your videos to keep the inspiration going. Keep it up.

Hey I literally just discovered your channel and have been binge watching over the past 2 days. What a stunningly gorgeous garden you have and rammed with productivity. I’m sure you are always having something to eat through the year. Just wondered if you had a video with an aerial view of your property to give and idea of the layout of your various systems? For example how does your food forest relate, geographically with your vege beds? Is it in the front yard whilst the veg and chooks are out back. How big and area is the garden all in? Thanks

I am so awed by ur garden. Where did u get all ur knowledge of fruit trees, flowers and vegetables from? How do u know where to start?

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Kho. Many years of learning, taking permaculture courses, attending open gardens, volunteering for three gardening organisations, and borrowing every book in the library. When I get focused on things I tend to get obsessed 😂Fortunately I can now share my knowledge with all of you! 💚

Fantastic tour really appreciate the in-depth explanations. I learnt so much from it.

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Really glad to hear thank you! 💚

So informative and inspiring!

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Vanessa, glad you enjoyed 💚

Beautiful!!! I live in Long Beach CA, I believe our climates are similar. I would love to try to grow some of those fruits that I've never heard of. Have you tried growing jackfruit or a mango tree? I love your garden. Best wishes.

Plants look inordinately productive. I'm sure you're naturally fertilizing but what tips can you share for this super productivity?

Hi Jian, I'm from Gippsland in Melbourne and just came across your KZread shows which Ifind so interesting. I wanted to know where you get all these wonderful and different types of fruit trees from. I'm a member of The Diggers Club and don't think I've seen these varieties in their catalogues. Keep up the good work.

Your food forest is amazing, ours is only about 2 years old, same city Melbourne. But yours is so grown in. We have about 5 hybrids about to get a 6th and I am going to steal that strawberry grape lol. Mighy get one on monday. Oh is that Siberian white strawberry the same as a white alpine? If not where did you get it? This is what I get following the rabbit hole, we were looking at strawberry guava and now watched a few vids. Some things you might be interested in. That snow apple, the original name was snow whites apple (in French but don't know the French words) it is the apple that is given to snow white, I have one myself. Also if you like venegrated plants. Citrus men do a version that's a eureka lemon that's pink inside.

😯The Variegated cumquat! Noice! I never though of growing cumquat until I saw this 😍 Where can I get one?

Love your videos. I'd love to know what variety of Jujube you grow?

@MelbourneFoodforest

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! The variety we have is 'Li' - produces giant jujubes, round almost peach-shaped.

Recommendations on pruning and I have not looked through your videos and I will after I get off

Jian your channel makes me so happy, I wish I could come and visit you but I'm on the GC. I dream to have a beautiful backyard like you

I love seeing the different tours from your garden! Where do you get the many interesting varieties from, especially the strawberry grape? My local nurseries tend to stock the standard varieties.

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Lisa! The Strawberry grape we purchased from a local gardener during an open garden - very much a backyard variety and hasn't bee commercialised. Most of the other interesting varieties we purchase from our local speciality nursery - we're fortunate in Melbourne to have some wonderful nurseries that stock unusual edibles. Depending on where you're located you should be able to order them from online suppliers like Daleys 💚

You are so lucky i have so many birds all kind hardly can bring in any fruit if its not covered forget it they iven attacked my flowers on the guava tree 😢

Wher could i get a babaco from, i love you channel and videos

sooo beautiful, how big is our yard?

What does one do when the tv cricket gets cancelled of a Friday night? Watch a gardening video, of course! I mean, it's obvious really 😃. Anyway, great to see you're still doing such awesome work. Say g'day to the chooks, kids, cat and crow for me. Panda ain't the only bomber there! How did you keep the banana passionfruit on your hand for the still photo at 10:15?

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

We've missed your witty commentary around here Perry Sivo! Clearly a bit too much cricket on recently 😂 Than you for 'gracing' us with your presence. We are honoured to have your company on a Friday night. The chooks who are ladies and are already in bed, say g'day right back at ya 💚

You're the only person I've seen say babaco is sweet. All the other videos I've watched say it's sour. How sweet is yours? Can you give a comparison to another sweet fruit?

Wow..it’s an amazing garden with heaps of varieties..May I know which suburb of Melbourne you are in just to check climate comparison to the side I live..and also can you let me know where we can buy the pluots plant..Thank you so much.

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Alekhya! We are in the inner-easter suburbs of Melbourne :) We bought the pluot from Bulleen art and garden, but I've also seen them at Bunnings from time-to-time. It's under the "Flemings" brand. Cheers 💚

@alekhyasurya7823

2 жыл бұрын

@@MelbourneFoodforest Thank you so much for prompt reply.

How are you trellising your passion fruit on your fence to hold that much vine?

Abacate resistir frio 🥶

Babaco looking excellent. Just a heads up that banana passionfruit is a hugely invasive weed all over NZ in similar climates to yours. Vanilla passionfruit is more tolerant of cooler climates than most passiflora and tastes better than banana passionfruit, so that's an option to at least try

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I had heard that it can be weedy in certain parts of Australia. I've never come across it growing wild in Victoria, but wouldn't be surprised as it's so vigorous. Thank you for the tip. I can't seem to source any vanilla passionfruit in Australia... would be very keen to try 💚

WOW, I am so glad I found your channel! I'm going to enjoy catching up on your videos! I'm completely out of space in our fruit n veg garden in the Mornington area! Trying to grow many tropicals. Do you use the green babaco as a papaya substitute in soups?

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, glad to have met another Victorian gardener interested in subtropical fruits! Our backyard is completely out of space too, so many trees still in pots with nowhere to go 😂Our dream to have a farm down the coast one day and finally settle these trees. We've used the green babaco in curries before and it is quite similar to green papaya, although they are so good ripe it seems like a waste to eat green. The kids are addicted to it and they ripen up easily on the bench so we usually enjoy as a delicious juicy fruit 💚

Thank you for sharing, I didn't realise we can buy pluort and aprium in Melboune, I bought plumcot and planted for the first year Ii would think you can remove pine trees to give some more room for more fruit trees.

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes we have access to some great unusual varieties in Melbourne. You can definitely remove ornamental trees to make more room for fruit trees - we had to do a lot of this to create our foodforest 💚

@helenharland6050

2 жыл бұрын

What is the difference between Pluot and Plumcot?

Fantastically productive and just as impressed by the mulch underneath including living mulches: how important is the mulch to your fantastic production?

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Catherine! Mulch is a non-negotiable for protecting our soil structure, microbes and conserving soil moisture & reducing how much we need to water. It has definitely boosted our production 💚

whats a Plumcot then?? i havent seen pluots for sale in nz

Hi, is it possible to purchase a cutting of your strawberry grape vine? I can not get this grape in California.

Can you pls tell me where in Melbourne I can find some Babaco seeds?

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Griz, good news or bad, Babaco doesn't produce any seed at all. It's an entirely seedless fruit so there's no pesky seeds when eating. This does mean you can only purchase plants and it can only be grown from cuttings. You'll be able to find them at our favourite nursery in Melbourne, Bulleen Art & Garden. Cheers

It’s amazing what you fit in! How many square metres of growing space do you have?

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you we cram a lot in as this is slightly less than half of the fruit varieties we have 😂! I will show the other half in another video as there's too many to fit in. Our backyard is around 250 square meters with around 200 square meters of growing area. A few more facts & figures on our website melbournefoodforest.com.au/about/. We're just beginning the front yard transformation now!

@aussieurbangrowing8366

2 жыл бұрын

@@MelbourneFoodforest Wow, I think I'm seriously underutilizing my space!

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

@@aussieurbangrowing8366 My motto is you can always fit more in! 🤣💚

Can I ask where u get your trees from?

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Kho if you're in Melbourne, I get most of them from Bullen Art & Garden, my favourite nursery for edibles 💚

Hi how big is your land?

How large is your property?

All my fruit trees are sick and unwell. I need Help please

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know why they're unwell? Many issues start with the soil so I would work on that and build lots of organic matter and biodiverse life in your soil. If it's an issue with leaf disease or fungus then think about pruning and spacing your trees further apart 💚

You need to trap and eat possums.