Looking very lush

I’d love to learn more about the kangaroo apple - very interesting

Absolutely love your videos. Thank you so much. Would love to see more in-depth information about any of the gourds😊.

wow your garden is so full of life! We are just beginning to put veggies into the ground here 😊

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, very exciting you are beginning on your journey 💚💚

@bluebirdhomestead

2 жыл бұрын

@@MelbourneFoodforest it is always a fun time of year to be growing food 😊💚

Your garden utilizes space so well, can you talk about how you made your trellises? Tx!

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Eric - our trellises are made from Reo mesh, it comes in these pre-cut lengths and sizes. You should be able to get it from your local garden supplies. You don't need to pre-bend, it's simply a matter of just ramming it into your soil, you'll need two people for the job 💚

Absolutely love to watch and be inspired. I am working my way through all of your videos. Do you have any trombonchino recipes? I am going to do your choke stir fry this evening.

@MelbourneFoodforest

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Veronica! Your feedback means a lot to us. If you are eating tromboncino green, then our favourite way to eat it is to thinly slice on an angle and stir fry with garlic and a little soy sauce, in patties or in soups - it can be used in place of any recipe that needs zucchini. If eating tromboncino when it turns orange, as a pumpkin then use in place of all pumpkin recipes but may need a bit of added sugar as it's not quite as sweet as pumpkins. Hope you enjoy the choko stir fry! 💚💚

You can pickle or make a kimchi out of the large cucumbers! It sounds delicious

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Great suggestion - we love kim chi! We were worried it'd be too sour or bitter but a pickle is a fantastic idea 💚

Another lovely tour of your beautiful forest. Keep up the great work.

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Denise!!! 💚

Love your work and this format - I read your article in the organic gardener magazine. I’ve recently bought my first house, had my first baby and can’t wait to put these garden ideas in place! Picking up a worm farm today (would you think about doing a video on how you add compost or worm casting to your garden?) ✨🌻🌱I hope many people find inspiration from you, and change the way we think about food production and help our planet

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Brianna! Glad you enjoyed the video & article. We first started our garden just after we had our daughter and moved into this new place. It's a very exciting time for you! Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely show how we use worm castings, and most of our compost is done on site rather than from our compost bins, but I'll do a video talking about some of these techniques. If you haven't already, don't forget to check out our hot tips for worm farming success melbournefoodforest.com.au/2021/07/06/tips-for-worm-farming/, and we will soon have a video out showing you how to get your worm farm started and fill it using free & sustainable materials. I really hope so too that we can make the world a little greener and encourage more gardeners to grow food 💚

@briannadoff4051

2 жыл бұрын

@@MelbourneFoodforest Wonderful! Thank you so much, I keep an eye out for it! You have done an AMAZING job building this space with 2 little people around! Wow, just my one little person makes my progress feel slow, but I'm planting fruit trees this week. It will be amazing to pick them together one day

Amazing

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 💚

Love your videos! These tours are fab. I’d love some more videos which act as prompts eg of you sowing seeds at the time that it’s appropriate to do so! Thank you

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! When we get a bit more time we'd love to be able to post more regularly about what we're up to in the garden each week 💚

I was wondering how you do all your arches? Do you buy them from somewhere in particular? Absolutely love your videos!

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, really glad you enjoy the videos! Our trellises are made from Reo mesh, it comes in these pre-cut lengths (6m) and sizes. You should be able to get it from your local garden supplies. You don't need to pre-bend, it's simply a matter of just ramming it into your soil, you'll need two people for the job 💚

I'm keen to see you make some stuff with the Kangaroo Apples! mine is still small and there is very little content around on how it tastes and ways to cook with it.

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

The main thing we do with the fruit is make jam and chutney. Different plants will taste better/worse for fresh eating - one variety we tasted was barely palatable while another was really delicious straight off the bush! We're also experimenting with grafting onto it - will have a video up shortly about our attempts to graft tomato and eggplant on it to create a year-round tomato and eggplant tree! 💚

@mattrupp8562

2 жыл бұрын

@@MelbourneFoodforest thanks for sharing your experience and I am so there for the grafting stuff. I sourced material for tasting but also a native vigorous rootstock to graft other solanaceous species on to. Tamarillos are the ones I'm most keen to try grafting on them.

Hello, I am a fellow Melbournian, I am really keen to know what vegetables grow well in Winter / autumn and what are you planning to grow in Winter? Would be really great if you can do a video on that. Thanks

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Jatin, I've got a few videos which cover our favourite winter veggies. This one is a tour of our winter/spring garden: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eaKNpNizn5CWf5M.html and in this video we show you some of the winter seedlings we are potting up right now kzread.info/dash/bejne/e2uYzrOiqtbNhKg.html. We'll have more on video tours on our channel showing what we're up to and what we're planting right now 💚

Sorry I have another question! I read somewhere you use bush mulch on the ground and for the pathways, do you put weed mat under that to keep the weeds out? You don't seem to have any grass and the area I plan on working with is currently covered in grass, I'm always a little hesitant to use weed mat.

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Hi no we don't use weed mat as we try to minimise the amount of plastic and new inputs we use in our garden. We dug out all of our grass by hand, best decision we ever made - no mowing and no issues with weeds! 💚

你好, 我看见你种了食用黄花菜, 能告诉我哪里可以买到种子或根, 我也在墨尔本, 很想种它, 谢谢。

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

We purchased from Bulleen Art and Garden 💚

@ubiquityification

2 жыл бұрын

@@MelbourneFoodforest 谢谢, 我就住在 Bulleen.

How long does the plant start to fruit when grown using a seed

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Hi K L, with veggies this really depends on what it is - but most of the seed packets should tell you. With tomatoes for example it could take 3 months, but lettuce, radish and asian greens you could be harvesting in 3 weeks! With fruit trees it is better to buy established trees rather than grow from seed as it can take 7-10 years to get a crop and the fruit may not resemble its parents as it could be cross-pollinated 💚

@KLMN890

2 жыл бұрын

@@MelbourneFoodforest thank you

Wow what is your secret you only have 35 videos with over 1k subs...

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Panda, just keep at it KZread is a marathon 💚

lazy houseeperson

@MelbourneFoodforest

2 жыл бұрын

Lazy Houseperson works great and is a much better name 👍