This Used to be Grass!!! Touring Our 13-year-old Food Forest in South Florida
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- Опубліковано 10 січ 2023
- 12 years ago, my Dad and I started planting a food forest in a tiny South Florida backyard. Here's how it looks today.
You can do this too! It's amazing to look back and see the transformation that happened here. This is South Florida Gardening the EASY way, by planting a Florida food forest, just as I share in my book Create Your Own Florida Food Forest:
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If you create your own Florida food forest in your backyard, you'll have an emergency food supply, a beautiful natural oasis, fresh organic produce, lots of fruit you can eat, share and sell, a beautiful place to relax and more! A food forest in your backyard - even a tiny one - can be accomplished! My Dad and I planted one, and you can too. South Florida gardening doesn't have to be difficult. Plant a food forest of fruit trees and start reaping the harvest! - Навчання та стиль
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In norcal, 9b, very wet for now. But cold!
@davidthegood
Just checking in on our friend Ice Age farmer, can you let us know if he is OK.
Have you heard from ice age farmer? Do you know if he's alive?
I'm trying to escape California. Looking at acreage in Oklahoma.
I'm trying to determine if it's worth digging up all my fruit trees, or just start anew.
Curry leaves are the best source of plant based iron and I struggled with anemia during my first pregnancy..so.. I planted curry leaf trees from seeds I bought on Etsy. They’ve grown wonderfully. I prune them hard often, dry the leaves, then powder and encapsulate them as a supplement. No issues with anemia in my second pregnancy. 🙌🏻
That is amazing - new to me! Thank you.
Really cool…thanks! That’s actually very valuable info as a natural healer myself. I wonder if it’s a source of iron itself or if it helps the body absorb or hold onto iron.
Star fruit makes an amazing juice. And I also make a mixture of starfruit and acerola cherry. Its delicious.
I love your new food forest book so much! I read it cover to cover and I keep it at the front of my bookshelf to reference various plant profiles again anytime I get a new plant and want to review your tips about it.
Your comment of plants "planting themselves" made me think of my starfruit that has grown past its nursery pot into the ground. I think I'll let it stay there and keep it trimmed. Thank you.
Perhaps grow the mulberries from the seed of these old trees and get rid of them. If you can grow subsequent generations they can assimilate with the climate.
Happy Hump Day y'all.
Let those kids eat their mangoes 🥭 whenever company is around 😂😂😂. Stay blessed sir!
-Calvin
@@gardenwitheden thank you my friend and I just returned the favor and subscribed to your channel. I’ll be checking it out ASAP. Stay blessed!
David, you are such a plant nerd....and I mean that in a very good way! I enjoy watching you get so excited about this.
The art on the cover is so cute!
I should add, my kids pick morenga and star fruit every time we are there. They love morenga with ranch. 🤣
Here in Austin TX we have loads of mulberries everywhere. One thing I’ve noticed is the trees growing right next to a body of water seem to make really good, big fruit.
That gorgeous starfish tree would give you guys the most delicious sweet and sour Vietnamese fish soup
The swing doesn’t make any fruit lol but the children love it you good man..
Fruit trees are so incredibly generous. The return on investment is just amazing
You, your family, are blessed; and truly a blessing. What abundance!
God bless your family spread the word
Yayyy! You are back! I have been waiting4 your next video!! Feels like 4ever!!
In my area the dewberries grow wild! I never pull them up. The throns are worth it for all the yummy fruit. I was so mad when the local park sprayed chemicals all over the nearby dewberry patch and killed it. It used to produce so much that you could pluck a gallon of berries in a couple hours.
Totally agree with your view on carambola trees
The swing fruits children's laughter and earlier sleep times.
David I wish I could plant edibles in the front yard if you can eat it the homeless takes them and enjoys them before I can
That Malabar chestnut is a lucky money tree. They sell them as braided miniatures all over. Even seen them in wally world. You love on them and money will appear for you but be careful, the first time I did it the money came in an inheritance. I have mine in pots. They are easy for cut n poke.
David, have any of the neighbors or family friends started to emulate this garden?
Hard to believe it has been that long... I remember when you first started planting. Love you, brother. Thanks for the tour.
The Geraldi Dwarf mulberry might be interesting for you, it is a dwarf mulberry so it grows less vigorously and requires less pruning. Supposedly the fruit is comparable to Illinois Everbearing. No idea how it does in warmer climates though.
Really enjoyed this gorgeous tour. Thanks, DtG!
Placing banana plants under a AC drainage line works well.
Very enjoyable to watch. Thank you
David the good is the worlds best gardening channel known to man
Tropic heaven
Looking forward to the next video
your videos make me miss FL
I'm in Tn now and just starting my garden journey
Great video, this should get our juices flowing. I want to get started in my garden, but free rangers will destroy it. Gotta get a plan to coop them up, just concerned they won't be very happy. My 7 are 9 months old, laying is down, but I'm swamped in eggs n happy!
Probably a challenge, but several people have built their chicks several runs, planning them for the area between the garden rows. They keep the path clean, fertilize from the side, and can nibble the edges a bit. Just 1 idea : )
Great video David!🤩🤩
While in cocoa, I visited a nursery owned by an Indian. I bought one of those curry plants lol.
Nice vid , regards from Bengaluru karnataka
i been gardening since 2014 the first plant i believe we grew was jalapeno
Thank you!
15 👍's for this video.
QUESTION DAVID: My husband and I live in Pace/Milton, FL. (NW FL). Is your updated book suitable for our area? I love the ending music!
Yes, definitely suitable. It covers the entire state, with notes on hardiness of various species. You're not far from me.
@@davidthegood Thank you. Some day I would like to tour your food forest after you get settled in.
Missed this Goodstream, but as always so AWESOME to enjoy this glimpse into the South Florida Good Food Forest! Chocolate Pudding fruit, sometimes they come out bland, others mildly sweet, now if you really like sweet than you need a Mamey sapote or a Chicosapote(Naseberry in Jamaica).So many types of banana and new to me that Mango from the Caribbean. The Star fruit is so beautiful and such variety, this Florida Food Forest is anything but monotonous and boring, no wonder your little cousins revel and enjoy this place when on visit. The Schefflera tree your dad planted, a neighbor here had one and she finally had it taken out, her home has an upper level, that Schefflera passed the upper level by a meter or so, in total about 8 meters more or less,and the wandering jew is totally at home and flourishing in your sweet potatoe patch, my mom's Pothos, we put it outside and the leaves on the outdoors Pothos are huge, totally went wild, its vines also, very thick, now I understand why you prefer a machete to chop and drop all the luxurious vegatation.
Julie mango is my absolute favorite fruit 🥰
Hey David ! Happy New Year !
I grew a ton of Okra this past season, I sold them for 10 dollars a pd. and I dumped all of it.
Fascinating!!!
Blessings +++!!!
Keep it up
Nice! I come for the video, stay for the music! Can’t say I’ve ever tasted star fruit. I’ll have to try it.
Some are very sour, some are bland, and some are amazing.
Any idea for top 10 idea for north Alabama food forest. Plz. Love your channel. Ok top 5
Thank you for sharing David. I don’t get why orange or other citrus trees are not planted much in residential neighborhoods.What’s up with that? Thanks . Lord bless you all.
A lot of folks in Florida had their trees forcibly cut down by the state during the Citrus Canker scare.
@@davidthegood they must have been out of their minds
Citrus yellowing has also killed off so many citrus.
@@sandrabeck8788 it just sounds ridiculous to cut down healthy trees . There may have been a homeowner who figured out how to get rid of citrus disease.
2.50$ for one star fruit in Indiana, I just bought one last Saturday and tried it for the first time in my life. I also have a lot of Wondering Jews in pots 🤣 They are an easy house plant that also enjoys spending spring and summer outside they also propagate soooo easy that I'm now over run with them 👍
If you have chickens they will love eating the wandering jews.
“This is the main tree”, and I didn’t understand what kind of tree is…(curry leaf tree?)🙏🏻
Murrayi koenigii
Star fruit here in Hawaii are 3 bucks each.
Thanks for the video. BTW, did you know there are wood-splitting swords?
Hi David, you should be able to grow curry tree right up to the north carolina boarder, i'm 50 miles south of sydney, australia and i get frost and cold winters, ( like north carolina ) it never snows here but 10 miles south ( colder ) from me does snow about 2 times in winter and we get frost a lot in winter, so you can grow curry tree in georgia, no problem.
I'm in Sydney (west) which I'm guessing is like north Florida central Florida climate?
Yo I never knew you can plant potato by cuttings
Always enjoy your videos! Question... does that mango your children love grow in NW Florida... zone 8b / 9a?
Well it should as long as it doesn't go below 5 degrees or freezing
I would love an older, established starfruit tree. I'm not sure it would do well in Southern Alabama
It would die unless you brought it in during the freezes, but they will grow in pots.
I love your mom's backyard. I wish I were her neighbor. Do you think the store fruit will grow in your Zone 8B Garden?
David would you like a cup of chayote squash that have already started to sprout? I saved them from last Fall's Harvest
I meant to say a couple chayote squash not a cup. Oops
The star fruit would have to be potted up or put in a very sheltered location. They don't like weather below freezing at all. Thanks for the chayote offer - I don't need any right now.
David, where in south FL? I was born and raised in West Palm Beach and I’m wondering if this is why you continue to look familiar to me.
Ft. Lauderdale is my home town.
Do people get mad if fruit drops into their yard if you plant along a fence line?
How are you not being attacked by fire ants, lol. This is a lovely property. Good job, to you and them.
Can you graft a better variety of chocolate pudding fruit to that bland tree? That is the hope when I plant mangoes and avocados I plant from seeds or pits. I’m in Cape Coral, FL still recovering from the horrible Ian. I want to leave FL, but my daughter does not want to leave. She was in Europe when Ian hit. I was here.
Do you think Everglade tomatoes will survive in India in summer?
Yes they do
@@introtwerp thank you👍👍🙏
@@introtwerp do you live in India?
Heads up don't eat fruit on the trees next to your outdoor AC unit, when the AC techs work on those units a fair amount of refrigerant gets released onto those plants and there's no way you wanna eat that stuff. NOT a good location for edible plants next to AC units.
Will the star fruit survive in Live Oak, FL? My parents had one in Naples. Would love to have one here!
In a very protected location.
I am an Indian...nice to see your Indian currency leaf plant...if you want to..see some Indian tropical fruits plants then I will try to help you to know more about Indian fruits plants 😊😊...just comment me...I will send image of fruits plants as well as video if you want...😊😊😊
Don’t the ants bite your bare feet???!! Yikes! I’m a magnet for them 😢
There are very few in this yard - I didn't get bit.
David I love your channel. I live in Houston Tx and I would love to grow all the fruit trees. I live in zone 9a do you think its doable? Also, what can I do organically to get rid of fire ants? Seems I tried everything with no success! Thx
"wandering jew plant", that's a funny name for a plant
It's from a very old legend.
Us older folks know it by that name as a house plant from the 60s and 70s. Tradescantia zebrina although I think it used to be called Zebrina pendula. Even when grown as a house plant, it can send out vines all over the place. Probably would swallow up a Florida backyard, if you're not careful.
My mother always called it a Wandering jew . Not my favorite but it's pretty invasive
I have loved Wandering Jew plants my whole life. They are hardy, adaptable, and beautiful.
This garden is not permaculture and lacks mulch, fertilizer and water. Okay, yet not great, because you are lazy and so this is what you get.
Good stuff!
David the Good! not good,not better! THE BEST!
Any idea for top 10 idea for north Alabama food forest. Plz. Love your channel. Ok top 5