Check out BetterHelp with my link betterhelp.com/thekiwigrower - Clicking that link helps support this channel, but it also gets you 10% off your first month of BetterHelp so you can connect with a therapist and see if it helps you. Thanks everyone for watching and for your continued support! Happy gardening :) -Kalem
So glad your back posting Kalem, sad to hear youve had some struggles, I can completely sympathise and gettit as this year has been an utterly unbearably toughy for me too, so chin up lad, your spectacualr and your vids are epic and keep me and so many others enthused, its true thou, Physician, hela thyself! - is the old adage, how does the one who brings help and healing to others heal themselves when they are in straits...im so glad your building back up and take some succour in knowing that your viewership is 100 behind you mate!!! and always happy to lend a hand if u need backups xxx
assalamualaikum hallo bro #TheKiwiGrower I'm your fan from Indonesia trying to grow Musa ingens bananas from PAPUA but the taste has to be delicious right
Hello Kalem, i absolutely love your videos and what you do. My kids and I enjoy gardening and experimenting on growing new plants and vegetables. We live in BC Canada. I have been looking for some of the fruits and or seeds you showed on in this video. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find any. I believe we may be able to grow these here. Do you sell your seeds? If yes, I’d be interested in some please. I hope your mental health had improved and you’re in a happier place in your life now. Thanks
@@wilsonakmadia3997 never heard of that one. wiki says its from the coast: perhaps useful in salty or sandy conditions? chances are its berry when ripe is also edible but do a normal poison check with berries (try a little and spit, see if it numbs your mouth, if not try a small bit and see how you feel the day after)
Sixty years ago I worked in a factory making topping syrup for ice cream. We used white strawberries to flavour the syrup because they had much more taste than red ones. At the finish of the cooking we had to strain out the strawberries because customers thought there was something wrong with the product if they saw white ones. At that time, they were called white Russian strawberries.
I believe there were more sorts of all fruits some 30-50 or 100 years before than now. We had pink more smaller sized strawberries we called pineapple strawberries, they had better taste than regular red ones. Haven’t seen those in a while.
Really sorry about your personal life issues but I just want you to know that you are doing a really good job on your channel, you’ve got so many people who wait patiently until you post your next video, and you have built yourself a community on this channel. I personally could watch your footage all day. You are doing amazing and you are appreciated and loved. Bad days will come and go, just like good days. We are all walking the same life together. Keep smiling through it all. Sending you lots of love and blessings from a far far away tiny island🥰
its so good to see you back - mental health is so important, so its nice to hear you're looking after yourself. I'm working on building a terrace on my parents farm house, going to plant out some blueberries in terracotta pots.
I really enjoy growing tropical fruit trees in pots when possible...things like mangos, jackfruit, miracle berry, fingerlime, ice-cream bean, jaboticaba, dragonfruit..all in pots. For the larger trees it's a challenge. .but certainly possible
Hi Kalem. Greetings from Kentucky USA. I always enjoy your videos. You always offer precise and informative content. It's very inspiring. Side note.....it is ALWAYS OK to seek help rather than struggle alone. Everyone struggles and I am glad you are being OK! Cheers my Friend!
My primary school used to grow apples and pears and there were always around 300 on each tree, In high-school the only cool things are the pine trees and dwarf willows
i live in Pennsylvania in America and i have watched a couple of your videos as a new gardner and they’re so informative and helpful! our winters are hardy so i’d love to see a video of all the plants you can grow in New Zealand, as the weather is similar to ours! thank you so much for your videos
Those alpine strawberries will grow perfect in PA. I lived in New York and mine went nuts. They took over my garden. And best tasting fruit I've ever had by far
I have memories of my mother growing pepino when they were very new in New Zealand. She must of taken cuttings as there would have been 30 plants edging the rose bed. I would come home from school and pick a couple to eat every day. I've never experienced such bounty since. I have tried growing them several times but our short Central North Island summer season makes it challenging. But I'll be trying again this summer. I have had the white alpine strawberry for the first time last summer and loved it. I think I will try growing some from seed this year as a fun experiment. Thanks for all the info. It was great that you included information on propagation.
Man i swear Kalem is the most patient plant grower. I am from Indonesia, im trying to grow some Cape Gooseberries soon.. This guy explains everything so perfectly :)
I'm growing a number of fruiting plants in pots including jaboticaba, pitangatuba, caimito, limequat (lime/kumquat hybrid), mango, and peanutbutter fruit. I've also grown 'cape gooseberry' which should work well in containers. It rarely freezes here, so I never take the containers inside.
fantastic to see a new vid Kalem. Sorry to here about the tuff times but stick in there mate the gardening community in New Zealand is a great place to chat/share life's challenges. my bonsai's help me to relax and take my mind of everything going on. big thumbs up from south Canterbury
I adore Alpine strawberries! All my red ones are long gone but my white ones have been prolific. After seeing this I might have to try growing some from seed just in case I'm lucky enough to get a red one again. I compare the taste to pineapple, banana & strawberry all mixed up together. SO different when they're nearly ripe to ripe to over-ripe, but always tasty. Unfortunately my local birds have discovered them. It was years before they realise these little white ones were OK to eat, but now they've figured it out I have some fierce competition for them. Thanks for another helpful video! Once again you've taught me a lot - I didn't know that particular guava was the NZ cranberry! I didn't know I could grow my Cape Gooseberry from cuttings! Even we experienced gardeners have a thing or two more to learn huh :)
I am from Peru, and the cape Gooseberies are truly easy to grow them here, just by putting compost in our plant we ended with 2 or 3 plants of them. I love how they get completely down when they need water and once you water them, they get up really quick. In the other hand, the pepino fruit have a weird flavor to me.
I’m growing 2 plants in Canada this year. Started them indoors in March. Both are in one pretty small pot and just blew up in size when it started getting hot here…two plants probably have 80-100 berries and as you say when they need water they ask for it…always has been that way even when it was a small plant. Very easy to grow and very satisfying plant to grow/look at.
I`m growing Cape Gooseberry in Louisiana for the first time this year. I planted about 20 of them just to be sure I have plenty in case something happens. Armadillos often uproot my garden and worms attack. A tomato worm ate the top from one and I don`t know if it will sprout side shoots.
Your narration and presentation and overall video production are superb to match your in incredible garden and farm. Adding short but entertaining takes of your multiple pets and farm animals really adds nicely to your topics. I only discovered your site tonight when I came upon your video on black sapote. I only recently started getting into growing tropical fruit trees here in Southern California. I quickly became a subscriber and already thoroughly enjoyed your videos on container fruits and gardening with digging. Both are quite inspiring. Looking forward to watching all your other topics. BIG THANKS 🙏
Hi Kalem, very interesting video about 4 fruits that you can grow in containers. I have had the Alpine Strawberries but they were much larger. They really taste like a cross between and Strawberry and Pineapple. A friend brought them from a store so not sure where they were grown. On video you always come across so strong and confident. Sorry to hear that you have been struggling but am glad that you reached out for help. Better Help seems like such a great service in that you can get the help you need from the comfort of your own home.
Hey Kalem, great to see another video from you. Sorry to hear you have been going through some tough times recently., but glad you have been seeking help. There are some good options here, I've recently been trying some Chilean guavas too, they have started to become a little more popular over here. I've also been trying out feijoas in containers too, which are incredibly hardy, they seem to have no issues with our winters here.
Hi Kalem, I've watched many of your vids and have been very inspired and impressed with your passion, garden and attitude. I'm a grower too in Whangnui NZ, working in orchards and cultivating a diverse food landscape so I feel strong connection to you and your content. It was great to hear you talk about your struggles in this vid, obviously not the struggles themselves being great but because it's good to hear about real human complexity. Good on you and for supporting good mental health practices. I reckon you're a legend. I've always wondered what region of NZ you are in?
Container + trellis. Container + pergola. Containers + arbor. Also, grafted mini dwarf citrus, nectarine, etc. Lay packing cardboard along paths and beneath plants. Cover with compost and mulch. Trim and harvest from bottom up to get leaves and fruit up from the ground, encourage air circulation, and leave room for interplanting. Clover works beautifully, and can be easily turned back into the soil a couple times a season.
Thank you so much for this video! I have all 4 of those growing and I never knew you could propagate them that easily! I will surely do this now. Thank you
So good to see you Kalem! Glad to see you are doing well and getting help you need! You are by far one of the youtubers I follow regularly, cheers to a great life my friend!
Wow, your cape gooseberry is HUGE. They pop up here practically like weeds, but I've never had one grow more than about 2' tall, and all the fruits I've ever had haven't gotten much bigger than the "small" ones you show in the video. (And mine are a lot bigger than the ones my friend grows. I think he got his seeds from a weird source, though.)
Cape gooseberry grows well in down south, too. They are delisious. I planted pomegranite and peach trees in containers last autumn and see how it goes. Citrus trees don't grow well here in cooler temperature so far... I may try them in containers.
So good to see another video from you! Thanks for more cool plants and gardening suggestions. Love it! All the best for you personally (I can totally relate to your thoughts about therapie...thanks so much for sharing!) and halt die Ohren steif (as we say in Germany) :)
Hello from Vermont USA Great seeing you again! Very interesting episode and plant options.. and thanks for the BetterHelp suggestion as I am in a remote rural part of the world and this could be a solution. Love the tea ideas!
@@TheKiwiGrower, if you are escaping to the big city of Auckland this weekend for the Auckland Food show look for one of my best friends there. Annabelle White. ... a friend for 30 years... she has been here and I have been there too. You two would have such a great time.
My favorite container fruit is the "Litchi Tomato", Solanum sisymbriifolium, which tastes similar to Ground Cherries or Cape Gooseberries - tropical and fruity with a slight vegetal tinge. It's quite an unhospitable plant though, with spines freaking everywhere, and I mean EVRYWHERE - stalks, leaves, flowerbuds and even the husks covering the fruits - but it grows heaps of fruits for me. You can cut them back heavily in fall and overwinter them free of frost, and they will vigorously sprout again the next year. I'm also growing ground cherries and Pepinos this year, as well as "Wonderberries" (Solanum retroflexum) and more - basically with the tomatoes and peppers my container garden is a carnival of nightshades.
@@seebastian5834TY. I thought it was like cucumber that can get crossbred with wild ones and then you get poison cukes the next time you plant those seeds.
Thank you for this very helpful video. I have lots of cape gooseberry plants (self-seeded0 and love the fruits. I also have the little strawberries, but red ones. A month or two ago I cut back a fig tree and put about ten cuttings in a pot; they are now starting to sprout green tips. My aim is to grow them in pots, as the sunny parts of my garden are mostly concreted and unused.
Hello from Florida! I hope all is well with you. I bought some chilean guava seeds a few months ago and forgot about them until now! Thanks for the great video! 🌱💕
Great video, my Chilean guavas were almost all killed completely in the freak cold we had of -8c last winter so I'd say -6 is a more realistic claim. If id known i would have covered mine with a fleece 😁
Hi Kalem. Sorry to hear you're going through a bit of a rough patch mate. Hoping you can patiently wade through the mire with resolve. The pepinos remind me of a mate who had a few hundred plants up in Kumeu (Auckland). He went away for a few weeks, leaving one of his sons to look them after them. When he came back, he checked on his pepinos. Turns out his son forgot to water them and they'd all perished. He was not a popular lad.
Hi Kalem, thank you so much for your great videos! I only just started tuning in, but loving your content as I'm starting to explore more exotic edible plants in my Dunedin garden! I was wondering where you got your initial pepino plants/seeds from? They seem to be a bit hard to get? Might have a wait a bit longer perhaps before they appear in the stores?
I'm growing elderberry bush in a container and also some ground cherries. Where do you get the pepino and the Chilean guava from? I've never seen them anywhere.
Thank you so much for sharing all that you have. You shared so many really interesting and unusual fruiting plants that I would really love to grow here. I live in Phoenix AZ in the USA and am wonder where I could even find seeds, let alone any of these unusual plants you're sharing, to try giving it a go but wonder if its just too hot here to keep them alive. We rarely get freeze warnings and have beautiful mild winters here. What do you think? Any feed back from you would really be appreciated and thank you again
Great plant recommendations! I am about to start some raised beds for the fall, and I will try to out these plants if I can find them in my area or order online.
Nice one, Im now keen on reliving my youth through planting some gooseberries this spring! Saw you commented below as Northern Waikato, and so am I. Found this Autumn and Winter were really hard to grow in locally thanks to the terrible weather. I could only grow mini spinach and silver beets, everything else was moss! Things are finally starting to grow again. Sorry about your challenges, I suffered a complete burnout a year ago and due to that I am now studying Psychology to help others. In NZ we have along way to go when it comes to holding mental and physical wellbeing in equal importance, so good on you shining a light on it and being ok to openly discuss and seek help for what is a very common occurrence. The old saying 'a stitch in time saves nine' would fit well with seeking help sooner rather than later. Love all your vids over the years, especially the ones done over a year!
Thanks for sharing your struggles. I've been hit really hard the last few years with work and then isolation where I live. Best wishes and happy health from the other side of the world (Ohio, US)... Take care, love your channel.
Love your channel Kalem ! .. about to grow some seeds harvested, spring is here in NZ, thank you for all your amazing help, and all the best, you are appreciated in these difficult times, your videos are a liferaft for the future :)
First off. I hope you conquer whatever your challenges are. Given your smile, your demeanor, and just your overall vibe, I'm sure you will come out of it better than you were! Secondly. I came for the dragon fruit. But stayed for your beautiful accent, how genuinely you speak and act, and for how much I learned! I started growing tropical trees a few years back, and have been slowly challenging myself with new plants. These 4 would be amazing for me and my kids. I'm so grateful to have found your channel! I'm subscribed, and can't wait to see what's next. 😊
The first plants. In VietNam we call the name of this plant is " tầm bóp" or " thù lù", they grow up around house and countryside fields. In the childhood i eat them so much and when i saw your video they make me remember the memory of childhood. 😁😍👌👍
Great job! Mango tree yet to fruit, lemon tree which has fruited, mandarin not yet, a couple of kratky tomato plants which possums seem to love and a couple of pumpkin vines which seem to only make male flowers.
I love your channel and closely following all your tips. Thanks a lot. Need one small clarification. 1. Can you tell me the difference between growing a jackfruit sappling from a seed vs grafting? Which is better? 2. Which is the best manure for jackfruit sappling? How often the manure needs to be given? 3. Currently I have kept the sappling in a 12" x 15" grow bag, how long can I keep it in this? and when to transform to land? 4. I have used "Red soil + Vermi compost + Cocopiet" mixed together and kept the grafted sappling in the mentioned grow bag under a shady mango tree, is this fine? Or need to move under direct sunlight? Kindly need your advice on this. Thanks in advance.
White alpine strawberries are my favorite!! Sooo good, I had my garden loaded with them and had to move. Was the biggest plant heartbreak. Can't wait to try and grow the cape berries!
Great video again. Last year I grew cape Gooseberries Andover wintered 2 plants. They became quite huge. But enjoyed the fruits. This year I am attempting dwarf Cape Gooseberry. Very high rate of germination. They re pretty dwarf and currently flowering with a couple of berries. ( In Uk). Plants look happy and healthy. Looking forward to the next stage. Also have Chilean Guava. Only had a couple of fruits last year not many flowers this year either . Any I ask how do you loo after them as in fertilising and feeding . Thanks
Sorry to hear that you've had some tricky times to navigate. I'd missed your videos and wondered what was up. Nice to see you back online here. Thanks for the video.
Physalis makes a wonderful salad addition...nasturtium greens, one tennis-ball lettuce, a few physalis berries, and a balsamic vinegar dressing (I prefer vinaigrette, but not everyone likes it)...all conrainer-grown so seasonless.
Thanks Kalem, Good to see you back. Love guava and cape gooseberries (the latter have self seeded on our section - think there were some permaculture folks there before us, and I was very glad to see them, as I tried to grow from seed without much success), have just got some white alpine strawberries and will try the pepino on your recommendation. Sorry to hear you have been having some rough times - hope things are looking up. Kia kaha from the Waikato.
I grow ugni in a container as I am too affraid to test its hardiness through Polish winters. Last summer it flowered and grew fruits for the first time. I was pretty excited as I have special place in my amateur gardener heart for plants form southern South America and New Zealand (I grow among others: Luma apiculata, Ugni molinae, Crinodendron, hardy magellan fuchsias, lots of Cordylines, Metrosideros, Phormium which I am testing this year planted in the ground, etc) Flowers of ugni are gorgeous and scented and the fruits taste amazing, so different to any other fruit, like this cotton candy taste mixed with strawberry and something else, love it. Thanks to you I will now taste a ugni tea, never new this before. I will also try to propagate it to have more plants to try and grow it in the ground to test its hardiness. When would be the best time to take cuttings? Also love white alpine strawberry, have it in my garden growing close to the entrance to my house, it grew into a groundcover and on a hot summer day the aroma of the ripe fruits is just beautiful, everyone asks what smells so good when they are passing by. We have the wild alpine strawberry, the red colour type growing wild in Poland and as a kid me and my friends would always look for them on our walks on a countryside, they were our delicacy. We had that method of using a long grass stalk as a needle and thread our wild alpine strawberries on it as we found them here and there. Then we would eat them all at once as you did to really get a mouthfull of that amazing taste😁
Bless you for sharing your knowledge and your personal story. I actually find gardening, quite therapeutic myself. I'm growing Pepino and Cape goldberry for the 1st time. Bless you. Love from Holland.
What a great channel! Whenever I have a question you almost invariably anticipate and answer it. I'm in Vic, Australia, so your location is quite similar, although we recently had a -5 degree frost that killed several plants, and they were in plastic greenhouses. Win some and lose some. Great to know pepinos and Chilean guavas can be grown from cuttings. I just bought one of each and will keep them going and give away some as gifts. Also, the turkeys are beyond cute.
Hang in there Manis. Dark times to be sure. Gratitude for your art. Perrenials will be my friend, Mackenzie country here, ten below is a thing... Until the pit glasshouse is built. ❤ Keep your pecker hard and your powder dry. We need more folk doing what you do.
Very identical but bit smaller in size version of those Cape gooseberrys grow naturally in places like river banks in my region(Tripura-India) but no one eats them because they smell really bad. But when we were kids we were used to play with them by popping them on foreheads of other kids.
I have the Alpine Strawberries and I love them. I have the plants in three pots now. They're prolific producers that go from spring to autumn but really slow down in the summer and the fruit are smaller in the heat. In the winter I just put a frost cover over them and the plants are fine in freezing New Jersey cold snaps. Mine are full sun and so dense now I no longer use mulch.
You've got such a great garden, always in development... and loved that pepino, never tried it. This last weeks I've been growing citron (Citrus medica) in container, but just for the first stages, it's too big... Have you tried to grow any kind of spice (any 'peppercorn' -regular, pink, Tasmania, Chiloé, Sichuan...- star anise, cardamom, wasabi!...)? I haven't had any luck from seeds, and I'm not in a tropical environment, that's true. Anyway, thank you for a new video, I was missing them, and stay strong!
@@TheKiwiGrower Obviously, you have a Sichuan pepper... how could I ever had any doubt?? I do have red and green Sichuan peppers... in a bag, not the same. And a video about that would be great, I'll be waiting for it. Enjoy winter, make plans and relax, heat is quite a thing these days at the other side of the World. And all the best!
@@TheKiwiGrower Hi again! I don't know if you're as well into culinary herbs, I am. Well, I've spent two weeks in Northern Italy, but what I found there is well known, the case is that now I'm in Vietnam and I've just tried Vietnamese cilantro, that tastes similar but milder. And maybe... If you are planting herbs as well, you could show some of your 'stars', as I'm sure I'd discover many interesting species I don't know... Just an idea! All the best.
One day I'll hopefully have enough land for several types of fruit trees, but since today is not that day this video is perfect! I currently have two young Feijoas (which is how I believe I first found your videos) and a lemon tree that belonged to my dad but died in a freeze and was cut back. It had offshoots though and so I'm trying to grow it back. Hope whatever you're going through improves soon!
I grow a lot of fruit trees but find that the elephant plum hasn’t given me much fruit in the last 2 years here in Northland NZ. Also can I use your cutting technique for all types of guava, and when is the right time to do this please. So good to see you back, missed watching your videos and have watched your watermelon videos so so many times now. Hopefully this year the storm doesn’t kill them off.
Hey, I usually do the chilean guava cuttings in Spring but it can work at other times too quite easily. And yep guavas can be successfully grown by cuttings.
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Thanks everyone for watching and for your continued support! Happy gardening :)
-Kalem
So glad your back posting Kalem, sad to hear youve had some struggles, I can completely sympathise and gettit as this year has been an utterly unbearably toughy for me too, so chin up lad, your spectacualr and your vids are epic and keep me and so many others enthused, its true thou, Physician, hela thyself! - is the old adage, how does the one who brings help and healing to others heal themselves when they are in straits...im so glad your building back up and take some succour in knowing that your viewership is 100 behind you mate!!! and always happy to lend a hand if u need backups xxx
Thanks so much, that means a lot :). Sorry to hear things have been tough for you.
assalamualaikum hallo bro #TheKiwiGrower I'm your fan from Indonesia trying to grow Musa ingens bananas from PAPUA but the taste has to be delicious right
Hello Kalem, i absolutely love your videos and what you do. My kids and I enjoy gardening and experimenting on growing new plants and vegetables. We live in BC Canada. I have been looking for some of the fruits and or seeds you showed on in this video. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find any. I believe we may be able to grow these here. Do you sell your seeds? If yes, I’d be interested in some please.
I hope your mental health had improved and you’re in a happier place in your life now. Thanks
@@TheKiwiGrowerdo you grow mulberries
I love that the goose berry comes with its own little biodegradable paper wrapper.
@@oksalbrightthere are a few species of physalis. provided you eat them when fully ripe they should all be edible.
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What abt Physalis. Angustifolia?
The plants were growing at the small garden at my school, the berries are yellowish-white when ripe.
@@wilsonakmadia3997 never heard of that one. wiki says its from the coast: perhaps useful in salty or sandy conditions?
chances are its berry when ripe is also edible but do a normal poison check with berries (try a little and spit, see if it numbs your mouth, if not try a small bit and see how you feel the day after)
They look like sand cherries that grow around here
Sixty years ago I worked in a factory making topping syrup for ice cream. We used white strawberries to flavour the syrup because they had much more taste than red ones. At the finish of the cooking we had to strain out the strawberries because customers thought there was something wrong with the product if they saw white ones. At that time, they were called white Russian strawberries.
Wow thats so cool!
I believe there were more sorts of all fruits some 30-50 or 100 years before than now. We had pink more smaller sized strawberries we called pineapple strawberries, they had better taste than regular red ones. Haven’t seen those in a while.
Really sorry about your personal life issues but I just want you to know that you are doing a really good job on your channel, you’ve got so many people who wait patiently until you post your next video, and you have built yourself a community on this channel. I personally could watch your footage all day. You are doing amazing and you are appreciated and loved. Bad days will come and go, just like good days. We are all walking the same life together. Keep smiling through it all. Sending you lots of love and blessings from a far far away tiny island🥰
Thanks so much :))
What fruits would you like to grow in a small space or container? Keen to hear your ideas and what's worked for you :)
its so good to see you back - mental health is so important, so its nice to hear you're looking after yourself. I'm working on building a terrace on my parents farm house, going to plant out some blueberries in terracotta pots.
cherry guavas. cherry plums. cherry apples. kumquat... Quince! Figs!
Pepino! They look yummy
I really enjoy growing tropical fruit trees in pots when possible...things like mangos, jackfruit, miracle berry, fingerlime, ice-cream bean, jaboticaba, dragonfruit..all in pots. For the larger trees it's a challenge. .but certainly possible
In the uk I grow teaberries. The leaves can be used to make tea and the berries are edible. Its a great container plant as its very compact
Hi Kalem. Greetings from Kentucky USA. I always enjoy your videos. You always offer precise and informative content. It's very inspiring. Side note.....it is ALWAYS OK to seek help rather than struggle alone. Everyone struggles and I am glad you are being OK! Cheers my Friend!
Cheers and hi from NZ! :)
My primary school used to grow caped gooseberries and I loved eating them, they taste absolutely amazing.
My primary school used to grow apples and pears and there were always around 300 on each tree, In high-school the only cool things are the pine trees and dwarf willows
Regardless of what you're going through, you managed to make us a video. Thanks and God continue guiding you in your endeavours.
i live in Pennsylvania in America and i have watched a couple of your videos as a new gardner and they’re so informative and helpful! our winters are hardy so i’d love to see a video of all the plants you can grow in New Zealand, as the weather is similar to ours! thank you so much for your videos
Those alpine strawberries will grow perfect in PA. I lived in New York and mine went nuts. They took over my garden. And best tasting fruit I've ever had by far
Opening the video with such a good puppy getting all the puppy cuddles is genius!
Aloha Kalem, Thanks for another great video. You always seem to have a positive mindset. Glad you’re getting help. We all need some from time to time!
I have memories of my mother growing pepino when they were very new in New Zealand. She must of taken cuttings as there would have been 30 plants edging the rose bed. I would come home from school and pick a couple to eat every day. I've never experienced such bounty since. I have tried growing them several times but our short Central North Island summer season makes it challenging. But I'll be trying again this summer. I have had the white alpine strawberry for the first time last summer and loved it. I think I will try growing some from seed this year as a fun experiment. Thanks for all the info. It was great that you included information on propagation.
Man i swear Kalem is the most patient plant grower. I am from Indonesia, im trying to grow some Cape Gooseberries soon..
This guy explains everything so perfectly :)
Thanks so much :). Hope it goes well!
I'm growing a number of fruiting plants in pots including jaboticaba, pitangatuba, caimito, limequat (lime/kumquat hybrid), mango, and peanutbutter fruit. I've also grown 'cape gooseberry' which should work well in containers. It rarely freezes here, so I never take the containers inside.
Nice, some very cool plants you have!
fantastic to see a new vid Kalem. Sorry to here about the tuff times but stick in there mate the gardening community in New Zealand is a great place to chat/share life's challenges. my bonsai's help me to relax and take my mind of everything going on. big thumbs up from south Canterbury
Cheers! Appreciate that
I adore Alpine strawberries! All my red ones are long gone but my white ones have been prolific. After seeing this I might have to try growing some from seed just in case I'm lucky enough to get a red one again.
I compare the taste to pineapple, banana & strawberry all mixed up together. SO different when they're nearly ripe to ripe to over-ripe, but always tasty.
Unfortunately my local birds have discovered them. It was years before they realise these little white ones were OK to eat, but now they've figured it out I have some fierce competition for them.
Thanks for another helpful video! Once again you've taught me a lot - I didn't know that particular guava was the NZ cranberry! I didn't know I could grow my Cape Gooseberry from cuttings! Even we experienced gardeners have a thing or two more to learn huh :)
Funny you say the Cape Gooseberrys taste like “pineapple”🙂 in Denmark, we call these fruits “pineapple cherrys” 🍍🍒
Ananaskirsche its called in German too but its a different species
I am from Peru, and the cape Gooseberies are truly easy to grow them here, just by putting compost in our plant we ended with 2 or 3 plants of them.
I love how they get completely down when they need water and once you water them, they get up really quick.
In the other hand, the pepino fruit have a weird flavor to me.
I’m growing 2 plants in Canada this year. Started them indoors in March. Both are in one pretty small pot and just blew up in size when it started getting hot here…two plants probably have 80-100 berries and as you say when they need water they ask for it…always has been that way even when it was a small plant. Very easy to grow and very satisfying plant to grow/look at.
I`m growing Cape Gooseberry in Louisiana for the first time this year. I planted about 20 of them just to be sure I have plenty in case something happens. Armadillos often uproot my garden and worms attack. A tomato worm ate the top from one and I don`t know if it will sprout side shoots.
Your narration and presentation and overall video production are superb to match your in incredible garden and farm. Adding short but entertaining takes of your multiple pets and farm animals really adds nicely to your topics. I only discovered your site tonight when I came upon your video on black sapote. I only recently started getting into growing tropical fruit trees here in Southern California. I quickly became a subscriber and already thoroughly enjoyed your videos on container fruits and gardening with digging. Both are quite inspiring. Looking forward to watching all your other topics. BIG THANKS 🙏
Dear Kalem! Congratulations of getting help! Sending you healing prayers! Love your vlogs
Hi Kalem, very interesting video about 4 fruits that you can grow in containers. I have had the Alpine Strawberries but they were much larger. They really taste like a cross between and Strawberry and Pineapple. A friend brought them from a store so not sure where they were grown. On video you always come across so strong and confident. Sorry to hear that you have been struggling but am glad that you reached out for help. Better Help seems like such a great service in that you can get the help you need from the comfort of your own home.
Hey Kalem, great to see another video from you. Sorry to hear you have been going through some tough times recently., but glad you have been seeking help.
There are some good options here, I've recently been trying some Chilean guavas too, they have started to become a little more popular over here. I've also been trying out feijoas in containers too, which are incredibly hardy, they seem to have no issues with our winters here.
Hey Peter, that's awesome you're growing feijoa! My fave :)
Hi Kalem, I've watched many of your vids and have been very inspired and impressed with your passion, garden and attitude. I'm a grower too in Whangnui NZ, working in orchards and cultivating a diverse food landscape so I feel strong connection to you and your content. It was great to hear you talk about your struggles in this vid, obviously not the struggles themselves being great but because it's good to hear about real human complexity. Good on you and for supporting good mental health practices. I reckon you're a legend.
I've always wondered what region of NZ you are in?
Hey, thanks a lot for the comment, that means a lot. Sounds awesome what you're doing down in Whanganui. I'm in the North Waikato area :)
Container + trellis. Container + pergola. Containers + arbor.
Also, grafted mini dwarf citrus, nectarine, etc.
Lay packing cardboard along paths and beneath plants. Cover with compost and mulch. Trim and harvest from bottom up to get leaves and fruit up from the ground, encourage air circulation, and leave room for interplanting. Clover works beautifully, and can be easily turned back into the soil a couple times a season.
Thank you so much for this video! I have all 4 of those growing and I never knew you could propagate them that easily! I will surely do this now. Thank you
Glad it was helpful! Good luck with them :)
always a treasure Kalem! I hope things continue in the up for you. Always a treat to see you. ❤
So good to see you Kalem! Glad to see you are doing well and getting help you need! You are by far one of the youtubers I follow regularly, cheers to a great life my friend!
Thanks so much and cheers for the ongoing support too!
Wow, your cape gooseberry is HUGE. They pop up here practically like weeds, but I've never had one grow more than about 2' tall, and all the fruits I've ever had haven't gotten much bigger than the "small" ones you show in the video. (And mine are a lot bigger than the ones my friend grows. I think he got his seeds from a weird source, though.)
Thanks Kalem for your video. Growi ng raspberries and strawberries.🍓
Wishing you all the best 🦋
So great to see you back and happy to know you're past your bout with covid! Always take care! ❤
YAY! Youre back. Love your vid's and rather fond of you too...glad you are looking after yourself soz we can see more mega awesome vids. Good man!
Cape gooseberry grows well in down south, too. They are delisious.
I planted pomegranite and peach trees in containers last autumn and see how it goes.
Citrus trees don't grow well here in cooler temperature so far... I may try them in containers.
Great information, I’ll have to try some of these 😊 well done!
your videos are an encouragement to grow new and unusual plants... I really enjoy them
So good to see another video from you! Thanks for more cool plants and gardening suggestions. Love it!
All the best for you personally (I can totally relate to your thoughts about therapie...thanks so much for sharing!) and halt die Ohren steif (as we say in Germany) :)
Hello from Vermont USA
Great seeing you again!
Very interesting episode and plant options..
and thanks for the BetterHelp suggestion as I am in a remote rural part of the world and this could be a solution.
Love the tea ideas!
Thanks for the comment and glad you enjoyed. I'm also in a rural area so it worked out really well for me. All the best
@@TheKiwiGrower, if you are escaping to the big city of Auckland this weekend for the Auckland Food show look for one of my best friends there. Annabelle White. ... a friend for 30 years... she has been here and I have been there too. You two would have such a great time.
Ooh I love coming across a new food plant! Never heard of the Chilean guava! Thanks for sharing!
Love your vids - so good to have NZ specific information and tips. Thank you!
My favorite container fruit is the "Litchi Tomato", Solanum sisymbriifolium, which tastes similar to Ground Cherries or Cape Gooseberries - tropical and fruity with a slight vegetal tinge. It's quite an unhospitable plant though, with spines freaking everywhere, and I mean EVRYWHERE - stalks, leaves, flowerbuds and even the husks covering the fruits - but it grows heaps of fruits for me. You can cut them back heavily in fall and overwinter them free of frost, and they will vigorously sprout again the next year. I'm also growing ground cherries and Pepinos this year, as well as "Wonderberries" (Solanum retroflexum) and more - basically with the tomatoes and peppers my container garden is a carnival of nightshades.
Wouldn't that mean you can't keep seeds from them coz they're all nightshades?
@@nunyabiznes33 Nah, the different species are far enough apart to not hybridize.
@@seebastian5834TY. I thought it was like cucumber that can get crossbred with wild ones and then you get poison cukes the next time you plant those seeds.
Would love to try those Litchi tomatoes out if I can find one! Cheers :)
Can you please post more often? Love the vids.
Thank you for this very helpful video. I have lots of cape gooseberry plants (self-seeded0 and love the fruits. I also have the little strawberries, but red ones. A month or two ago I cut back a fig tree and put about ten cuttings in a pot; they are now starting to sprout green tips. My aim is to grow them in pots, as the sunny parts of my garden are mostly concreted and unused.
Sounds like an awesome idea!
Amazing video, I love seeing the animals and crazy fruits ❤
I'm growing cape gooseberries/goldenberries, ground cherries, columnar apple trees, fig trees, melons and alpine strawberries in containers this year. Eagerly awaiting harvest time!!!
Hello from Florida! I hope all is well with you. I bought some chilean guava seeds a few months ago and forgot about them until now! Thanks for the great video! 🌱💕
Hi Kalem. I got so excited when I saw the notification next to your channel. Great to watch another very helpful and informative video from you.
Great to see you back. Ive been in therapy for years. Im glad you have reached out for help.
I bought a pepino plant this year.
It's making small flowers, but it keeps losing them.
They just drop...
Great video, my Chilean guavas were almost all killed completely in the freak cold we had of -8c last winter so I'd say -6 is a more realistic claim. If id known i would have covered mine with a fleece 😁
Thanks heaps for that confirmation, good to know!
Hi Kalem. Sorry to hear you're going through a bit of a rough patch mate. Hoping you can patiently wade through the mire with resolve. The pepinos remind me of a mate who had a few hundred plants up in Kumeu (Auckland). He went away for a few weeks, leaving one of his sons to look them after them. When he came back, he checked on his pepinos. Turns out his son forgot to water them and they'd all perished. He was not a popular lad.
Hey, thanks for the comment. And yikes that would be guttering!
Man Betterhelp is advertising like crazy. Every single homesteading channel I watch advertises for them.
Hi Kalem, thank you so much for your great videos! I only just started tuning in, but loving your content as I'm starting to explore more exotic edible plants in my Dunedin garden! I was wondering where you got your initial pepino plants/seeds from? They seem to be a bit hard to get? Might have a wait a bit longer perhaps before they appear in the stores?
I'm growing elderberry bush in a container and also some ground cherries. Where do you get the pepino and the Chilean guava from? I've never seen them anywhere.
Thank you so much for sharing all that you have. You shared so many really interesting and unusual fruiting plants that I would really love to grow here.
I live in Phoenix AZ in the USA and am wonder where I could even find seeds, let alone any of these unusual plants you're sharing, to try giving it a go but wonder if its just too hot here to keep them alive. We rarely get freeze warnings and have beautiful mild winters here. What do you think? Any feed back from you would really be appreciated and thank you again
Lots of love from India..
Its called pillpoten in india
Another great video. Luv container growing. Hope your doing well 🙏🏽
Great plant recommendations! I am about to start some raised beds for the fall, and I will try to out these plants if I can find them in my area or order online.
We are eagerly for ur entire garden tour video bro ..we love to see u in videos keep posting them more frequently ..love from india
Thanks Kalem, I have the cape gooseberry popping up all over my garden, and now I am going to try the Pepino and Chilean Guava too. Hope you’re well💕🌻
Nice one, Im now keen on reliving my youth through planting some gooseberries this spring! Saw you commented below as Northern Waikato, and so am I. Found this Autumn and Winter were really hard to grow in locally thanks to the terrible weather. I could only grow mini spinach and silver beets, everything else was moss! Things are finally starting to grow again.
Sorry about your challenges, I suffered a complete burnout a year ago and due to that I am now studying Psychology to help others. In NZ we have along way to go when it comes to holding mental and physical wellbeing in equal importance, so good on you shining a light on it and being ok to openly discuss and seek help for what is a very common occurrence.
The old saying 'a stitch in time saves nine' would fit well with seeking help sooner rather than later.
Love all your vids over the years, especially the ones done over a year!
Thanks for sharing your struggles. I've been hit really hard the last few years with work and then isolation where I live. Best wishes and happy health from the other side of the world (Ohio, US)... Take care, love your channel.
Hey, thanks a lot. Sorry to hear about your stugles also. Take care :)
so not only do tomatillos have a fruity cousin, but eggplants too!? Nature never runs out of ideas. Love it!
Love your channel Kalem !
.. about to grow some seeds harvested, spring is here in NZ,
thank you for all your amazing help, and all the best, you are appreciated in these difficult times, your videos are a liferaft for the future :)
First off. I hope you conquer whatever your challenges are. Given your smile, your demeanor, and just your overall vibe, I'm sure you will come out of it better than you were!
Secondly. I came for the dragon fruit. But stayed for your beautiful accent, how genuinely you speak and act, and for how much I learned! I started growing tropical trees a few years back, and have been slowly challenging myself with new plants. These 4 would be amazing for me and my kids. I'm so grateful to have found your channel! I'm subscribed, and can't wait to see what's next. 😊
Thanks so much for your kind comment and all the best with the growing! :)
Thanks for the Help!
they are all so beautiful but cape berries look so elegant like princess of the fruits.
Gotta try those alpine strawbs for sure! Toes and thumbs up for the turkey ta-ra.
Love the videos would love another farm tour again.
The first plants. In VietNam we call the name of this plant is " tầm bóp" or " thù lù", they grow up around house and countryside fields. In the childhood i eat them so much and when i saw your video they make me remember the memory of childhood. 😁😍👌👍
The first fruit grows all around my house and until today i considered it as a wild plant.
Great job! Mango tree yet to fruit, lemon tree which has fruited, mandarin not yet, a couple of kratky tomato plants which possums seem to love and a couple of pumpkin vines which seem to only make male flowers.
I love your channel and closely following all your tips. Thanks a lot. Need one small clarification.
1. Can you tell me the difference between growing a jackfruit sappling from a seed vs grafting? Which is better?
2. Which is the best manure for jackfruit sappling? How often the manure needs to be given?
3. Currently I have kept the sappling in a 12" x 15" grow bag, how long can I keep it in this? and when to transform to land?
4. I have used "Red soil + Vermi compost + Cocopiet" mixed together and kept the grafted sappling in the mentioned grow bag under a shady mango tree, is this fine? Or need to move under direct sunlight?
Kindly need your advice on this.
Thanks in advance.
White alpine strawberries are my favorite!! Sooo good, I had my garden loaded with them and had to move. Was the biggest plant heartbreak. Can't wait to try and grow the cape berries!
I love the Physalis group. They all come in their own paper bags.
Love your channel 👍🏼. Love your doggie also, so beautiful.
Great video again.
Last year I grew cape Gooseberries Andover wintered 2 plants. They became quite huge. But enjoyed the fruits. This year I am attempting dwarf Cape Gooseberry.
Very high rate of germination. They re pretty dwarf and currently flowering with a couple of berries. ( In Uk). Plants look happy and healthy. Looking forward to the next stage.
Also have Chilean Guava. Only had a couple of fruits last year not many flowers this year either . Any I ask how do you loo after them as in fertilising and feeding . Thanks
This was fascinating! Thank you! I will look into planting some of these.
Thanks very much for that!
So glad to see you back! Another great video as always. I definitely need to try those Alpine strawberries. ☺
Cheers Nic!
Sorry to hear that you've had some tricky times to navigate. I'd missed your videos and wondered what was up. Nice to see you back online here. Thanks for the video.
Physalis makes a wonderful salad addition...nasturtium greens, one tennis-ball lettuce, a few physalis berries, and a balsamic vinegar dressing (I prefer vinaigrette, but not everyone likes it)...all conrainer-grown so seasonless.
Thanks Kalem, Good to see you back. Love guava and cape gooseberries (the latter have self seeded on our section - think there were some permaculture folks there before us, and I was very glad to see them, as I tried to grow from seed without much success), have just got some white alpine strawberries and will try the pepino on your recommendation. Sorry to hear you have been having some rough times - hope things are looking up. Kia kaha from the Waikato.
Glad you're going to try them all out, and thanks a lot :)
I grow ugni in a container as I am too affraid to test its hardiness through Polish winters. Last summer it flowered and grew fruits for the first time. I was pretty excited as I have special place in my amateur gardener heart for plants form southern South America and New Zealand (I grow among others: Luma apiculata, Ugni molinae, Crinodendron, hardy magellan fuchsias, lots of Cordylines, Metrosideros, Phormium which I am testing this year planted in the ground, etc) Flowers of ugni are gorgeous and scented and the fruits taste amazing, so different to any other fruit, like this cotton candy taste mixed with strawberry and something else, love it. Thanks to you I will now taste a ugni tea, never new this before. I will also try to propagate it to have more plants to try and grow it in the ground to test its hardiness. When would be the best time to take cuttings? Also love white alpine strawberry, have it in my garden growing close to the entrance to my house, it grew into a groundcover and on a hot summer day the aroma of the ripe fruits is just beautiful, everyone asks what smells so good when they are passing by. We have the wild alpine strawberry, the red colour type growing wild in Poland and as a kid me and my friends would always look for them on our walks on a countryside, they were our delicacy. We had that method of using a long grass stalk as a needle and thread our wild alpine strawberries on it as we found them here and there. Then we would eat them all at once as you did to really get a mouthfull of that amazing taste😁
Bless you for sharing your knowledge and your personal story. I actually find gardening, quite therapeutic myself. I'm growing Pepino and Cape goldberry for the 1st time.
Bless you. Love from Holland.
What a great channel! Whenever I have a question you almost invariably anticipate and answer it. I'm in Vic, Australia, so your location is quite similar, although we recently had a -5 degree frost that killed several plants, and they were in plastic greenhouses. Win some and lose some. Great to know pepinos and Chilean guavas can be grown from cuttings. I just bought one of each and will keep them going and give away some as gifts. Also, the turkeys are beyond cute.
Good thing I didn’t skip your infomercial as I got to see some of your wake up routine!!!
I really want to try these pepinos here in San Diego! 🤯
Love your content, well done. Where do you source all these unusual plants?
The dwarf, thorn-less raspberry 'Raspberry shortcake' is great for tiny space, too!
Hang in there Manis. Dark times to be sure. Gratitude for your art. Perrenials will be my friend, Mackenzie country here, ten below is a thing... Until the pit glasshouse is built. ❤ Keep your pecker hard and your powder dry. We need more folk doing what you do.
Very identical but bit smaller in size version of those Cape gooseberrys grow naturally in places like river banks in my region(Tripura-India) but no one eats them because they smell really bad. But when we were kids we were used to play with them by popping them on foreheads of other kids.
I have the Alpine Strawberries and I love them. I have the plants in three pots now. They're prolific producers that go from spring to autumn but really slow down in the summer and the fruit are smaller in the heat. In the winter I just put a frost cover over them and the plants are fine in freezing New Jersey cold snaps. Mine are full sun and so dense now I no longer use mulch.
Your videos are so informational! Thank you for educating us. :)
You've got such a great garden, always in development... and loved that pepino, never tried it. This last weeks I've been growing citron (Citrus medica) in container, but just for the first stages, it's too big... Have you tried to grow any kind of spice (any 'peppercorn' -regular, pink, Tasmania, Chiloé, Sichuan...- star anise, cardamom, wasabi!...)? I haven't had any luck from seeds, and I'm not in a tropical environment, that's true. Anyway, thank you for a new video, I was missing them, and stay strong!
Thanks mate, sounds good. I do have red sichuan pepper. I'll do a video one day about them probably :)
@@TheKiwiGrower Obviously, you have a Sichuan pepper... how could I ever had any doubt?? I do have red and green Sichuan peppers... in a bag, not the same. And a video about that would be great, I'll be waiting for it. Enjoy winter, make plans and relax, heat is quite a thing these days at the other side of the World. And all the best!
@@TheKiwiGrower Hi again! I don't know if you're as well into culinary herbs, I am. Well, I've spent two weeks in Northern Italy, but what I found there is well known, the case is that now I'm in Vietnam and I've just tried Vietnamese cilantro, that tastes similar but milder. And maybe... If you are planting herbs as well, you could show some of your 'stars', as I'm sure I'd discover many interesting species I don't know... Just an idea! All the best.
One day I'll hopefully have enough land for several types of fruit trees, but since today is not that day this video is perfect! I currently have two young Feijoas (which is how I believe I first found your videos) and a lemon tree that belonged to my dad but died in a freeze and was cut back. It had offshoots though and so I'm trying to grow it back. Hope whatever you're going through improves soon!
That snail threw me off 😂
Great video 👍
Yay! You're back! Lovely video!
Thanks for sharing....this was very interesting!
I’ve tried twice to grow Cape Gooseberry and never had any luck. I’m in Auckland
I grow a lot of fruit trees but find that the elephant plum hasn’t given me much fruit in the last 2 years here in Northland NZ. Also can I use your cutting technique for all types of guava, and when is the right time to do this please. So good to see you back, missed watching your videos and have watched your watermelon videos so so many times now. Hopefully this year the storm doesn’t kill them off.
Hey, I usually do the chilean guava cuttings in Spring but it can work at other times too quite easily. And yep guavas can be successfully grown by cuttings.
I think it would be handy to also tell people that the Chilean Guava takes between *2 and 8 YEARS* to bloom and fruit.