Transforming Lawn to Self-Sustaining Food Forest - Urban Syntropic Agroforestry (part 1)
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- NEW PROJECT!! Have you thought about converting a patch of grass or lawn into future groceries? but are not sure where to start?.... Big patches of lawn can be daunting so I've been tackling my edible gardens one section or project at a time....and that is exactly what we are doing today!
I already have raised garden beds, living shade, a food forest fence screen, a wildlife pond, and a kitchen garden...But today is something a little bit different. A step above the rest and a bit of an experiment...
I recently came across syntropic agroforestry which is similar to what I have been creating with permaculture food forests (but on another level). I use succession planting to grow annuals while I wait for the trees to get established but Syntropic Agroforestry incorporates so much more!!! So this garden will be my first syntropic experiment and I'm very excited to get started! SUBSCRIBE for future updates 🎉
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NEW PROJECT!! 🫢 If you have any questions about this new garden drop them below 👇🌳🐝
Thanks for featuring our products Holly, hope those garden gloves are keeping your hands clean! Can't wait to see how this project turns out
We need more of this. I'm a firm believer in growing food, not grass. I hate mowing grass, and it's such a waste of water, fertilizer, and pesticides to raise a crop you can't even eat.
Yep I’d much prefer avocado and mango 🥭 😝
@Disabled.Megatron That was definitely a consideration, but I live in USDA zone 7b which lemongrass will not survive outdoors. The one time we had lemongrass, I brought it indoors over the winter, and it died from lack of sunlight.
How to mow edge bEtween bed and grass
Grass is the easiest to grow and maintain. Unless you are really into they require zero input and only a mow.
Food forests require the most work. Especially if you grow in small spaces.
Also you forget most of our food comes from eating said grass lol
@@matthewfarrell317 yes but pretty wasteful
Holly on Garden Australia! Just saw, congratulations ❤
Thank you!!
Hi Holly! I do not miss the Perth sand, we had hydrophobic sand on our property in the hills. Now I have clay gallore in NZ 😂. Love watching your videos, I have neen think of doing something similar but now having this example from you I think I can totally fit it in our back yard.
Hi Holly! Love your urban garden videos. Love that you are inspiring others to grow their own food in an urban setting. I have a tiny back yard space and at last count had over 30 perennial fruits and veg, in a semi food forest type setting, as well as a thriving bucket garden of urban veg. My main back yard space is around 70m2. I’ve never actually measured it. Lol. Thanks for your content!
Just subscribed. Love these type of videos, thank you. All the best from the UK 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
So not jealous of your sandy soil but suuuper jealous of being able to grow mangoes 🥭! 🇳🇿
Ooh, mangoes and avocados, yum! I planted my avocado trees last year, but they just sat there all spring and summer not doing anything - maybe a handful of new leaves but that was it! I'm hoping it's a case of "first year they sleep, second year they creep, third year they leap". Fingers crossed because I love avocados and they are so expensive to buy. And I have since learned that they will stay on the tree for months, so you can pick them slowly over a long period. Sounds perfect for the home grower! Here's hoping we both have many delicious avocados in our future. :)
Avocados can be a bit sassy! I’m just hoping mine survives the summer and finds it’s feet. How exciting to be able to pick Avocados from home!! Sending your tree good growing vibes! 🥑
I love the treasure fnd in compost bins. One time i found my husbands reading glasses
Haha oh the treasures you find 😂🌱
I've found spoons, forks, and knives. Not the plastic kind I use as plant markers, but the silverware from inside that was accidentally dropped into the compost bin. I wanted to scream.
That is hilarious!
Gotta love the red bands bro 😂
You do such amazing things to be food self sufficient. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge Holly!
Absolutely love this Holly. Can not wait to see your new garden beds progress. ❤ So inspiring. 🎉
Thanks Libby! Excited to see how it looks in a years time 🌳
Me too, can't wait the progress. @holly what is your plan with 2 meter this raised bed. It will be look alike citrus bed on the front or look alike vegetable raised bed next to it :)
Thank you for reply :)
Hey Holly, since you grow some Queensland Arrowroot, I thought you might appreciate this link in UA-cam...Every garden needs this plant - how to grow, harvest and use Canna Edulis with Morag Gamble. Can't wait to see what you'll do next! Cheers!
Loved seeing the process of this new garden! Excited to see the progress! 😍🙌🏻💚
Thanks Jackie! Very happy to have some cooler weather for it to get settled in now!
I love watching your videos - you are always planting something that I'm just about to, or just have! 😂
I'm on the opposite side of Australia, I wish you were closer so I could pick your brain (trying to work out what to put in my gaps).
My style of gardening seems to be quite similar.
I started replacing my lawn last year. I love that I barely have to mow now. Soon I hope to have no mowing (except the verge, council regulations state that I have to have 2m of grass).
Love it! If you have any questions or topics you would like me to cover in videos pop them in the comments 💚🌱
Hey Holly! I suspect I am going to have to watch this video more than once because as you know, I love to learn. Congratulations also on being promoted to being the Australian-based manager of the All Blacks!! Love your work!!!
Awesome work!!
thanks holly 👋🏼😊👍🏼
Thank you! 🙂
Hi ya so smart , this video is full of so much interesting information thank you 🙏, take care and stay safe cheers from Qld, only spring but 33 Deg here today 🥵🥬 🌳🌺🥰
Thanks for stopping in Barry! Stay cool over there 🌿🌿🌿
Wrt growing your own mulch, seeding "lawn" areas with perennial green manures (like clover) and using a bagging mower, will give you a lot of fertile mulch.
Awesome project Holly - I'm looking forward to seeing the progress. What tomato variety are you using in the seed bomb? It's my first real go at growing this year, and our tomatoes were doing SOOO well, but then quickly died off.
These were pink Thai egg and tommy toe. I prefer small varieties as they don’t struggle as much with the heat and lack of water we have in summer.
Hi Holly, have you discovered a product called Soil Solver yet? The area I'm in is mostly river sand, and in addition to compost, I added Soil Solver to help with moisture retention.
I was planning on it but got carried away and didn’t end up adding any. This is only half the garden so I will be doing a round two after summer
Hi there, thanks so much for this video. How have you found that canola/chicken straw mulch? I have 2 bags and so need to use it (I'm also in sandy Perth!) but was worried that it might have been sprayed with herbicides when growning. Any thoughts / tips? Thanks so much, Tara
Think this is the perfect video to ask. I know you grow sweet potatoes. We dont eat the leaves the partner loves the tubers. What do you think about growing them around feijoas? Every time we have grown them they have stayed near the service.
We make hash browns out of our Queensland potatoes,they are delicious
What do you think about Celery? Do you grow it? I don't think I heard you speak about it
Hi Holly thank you for sharing this video, is 3meter in width and half both edge. Is that make in total 4Meter?
It’s 2metres wide. 1m central tree line and 1/2 a metre each side. Not sure how long it is
Holly is a gorgeous lady
"I wish I had a lttle digger..." Be glad, be very glad, that you don't live in N America with gophers or in Europe with moles... Oops, my bad, We live in Oz with a multitude of fauna that have urbanised to take perverse advantage of an urban gardners doomed efforts to harvest their crops before the opportunists (including neighbours) do. 😁