I learned to use an air prune box from your videos. Now a tiny food forest is growing in Kansas City. It started from cuttings and seeds without cash. Thank you!
I know this is a year old, but I'm beginning my food forest in KC as well and I'd love to hear more about what worked or didn't work for you! (Maybe even tour your place if its nearby?)
Such a brilliant example of making paradise wherever we are. Don't have to run to the country to do it. I love that your neighbor sees the value of this and is on board with expanding the lush gardens!
My mower broke down and I didn’t get it fixed. I had been mowing where my chickens had been a year earlier but without mowing I found bok choy, kale, millet, lettuce - all sorts of things growing where grass had been before. I moved my chickens back on to this area and they just loved it - free chicken food - love it!!
I'm 2 months into converting a bare yard into a food forest. I spent last weekend digging out a pond in a wet area after watching your videos on water management. Fixed the flooding problem I had & created a nice frog habitat.
I think I have "Neighbor-envy" :D I want you as my neighbor. ;) Instead I'm surrounded by people loving their lawn to death. But I planted fruit trees, berrybushes, hazels and even a walnut, and am starting now with perennial veggies in the understory. As non of my neighbors or friends have even heard of stuff like that I have to buy everything at least once - and hopefully i can start to copy/paste like crazy :D I infected one of my dogsitter clients and she started a food forest last autumn. There is hope growing :D
So happy you are doing what you are doing. It can't be easy in a vacuum like that, without folks being excited (and many I'm sure being upset)... But you stick with it and more and more folks will get it, I'm sure... The plants love you for it, so you always have that as a baseline for now!
@@edibleacres yes, some are uspet - last year my garden looked really wild. But it starts to look better and at least I can see the pattern behind it all. And as I sneeked a LOT of tulips, crocus, daffodils and "ornamental" alliums in, this spring it looked like at least THAT was intentional. The berrybushes are kind of still hiding in the Tulip-Forest :D
I'm about to set up a new food Forest wood chip garden. No pun intended at my mom's house I set up tons of great variety mother plants to multiply. I found the best method to be early fall put pots full of soil around your plants like currants/goose/jostaberry ect. Bend the lower branches down to the potted soil level and simply place a rock on the branch to keep it down pressed against the pot. And I walk away and don't come back until early spring next year when the buds are starting to grow I cut each rooted pot away from the mother plants and quickly end up having many very healthy fully rooted pots with growth ready to explode wherever I transplant them to that's spring and in one year I can have quite the healthy ribes hedge going! So easy I can't wait to do that
Being on my second PDC (online), I can safely say this has been one of the best learning experience I've had! Thanks a lot and I will share it with both my online group of permies!
Hopefully you had a relaxing winter now that you're meeting the spring mad rush! You're doing great work showing people how to work with nature and not against
My elderberries are doing well so far! Just planted them 2 weekends ago. Very exciting to have more of our own permaculture elements to our space. Awesome work you are doing!
"allies in the neighborhood" who share our sensibilities can be hard to find, but I love the sudden possibilities presented by a brand new site and interested/permissive partnership. I can't wait to build up my stock of valuable perennials so that I can better do the same. you are increasing the value of your neighbor's land in a real way.
An incredible side benefit of focusing on plant propagation is that the 'excess' really stimulates some seriously interesting opportunities. When you have more plants than you know what to do with, they really help you figure out what to do with them! :)
So excited to see this growing in the future. I’m in the very early stages of planting a little food forest with a few friends and the thoughts of what might be possible are mind boggling in the best way possible! Thanks for sharing
Sounds like everything is going well! My ducks have been making their own pond out in the pasture when it rains. I found 2 pear limbs that were sprouting in a hugelkultur bed I was starting and I transferred them to a pot with some soil to maybe let them root. If they do root, they're going to my sister who lives a bit farther south and not as subject to late frost.
It’s so exciting to see and dream about what can be. Thank you for all of the great tips, I am becoming more and more empowered to start my own food forest!
What an exciting project this is, I love the updates. I wanted to let you know, you gave me advice about rooting tree collard cuttings earlier in the spring, and it worked! I was amazed at how quickly bottom heat in a cool space worked compared to what I had been doing (indoors, clearly too warm). Thank you so much! I was so excited to see beautiful roots.
@@edibleacres watching the thought processes and progression associated with starting new land is so helpful. We're just getting started on new property. This is helping me reason through how to approach it in a sensitive and effective manner. Thanks for doing this!
Hi Sean, thanks for the great update, it's really looking good. How far apart are the seaberrys and currants planted from each other? Love the idea of the pond, that'll be interesting to see how it's done
Looking good sean.....my wine cap mushroom spore arrived last weekend....so excited !!!!! Cant wait to be able to get some currant cuttings from u guys !!!
Am looking forward to the clearing and replanting in the mini forest - will be excited to see what happens with the hazelnut duets, also. Excellent info - look forward to the next one, too !
Awesome to see this progress and learn the patterns at play. Thanks for sharing it! Cool that your neighbor is getting more interested and engaged with a yard agroforest too. It'd be cool to see the hedge or pond shape up, and to learn how your neighbor's yard culture is changing as it goes from mostly plain lawn to diverse, complex forest garden for provisions. Hidden hazelnut in that thicket - cool! I wonder if it's a wild (American) hazelnut, or something planted? Maybe nut size will be a clue, in any case that's great. Does your neighbor heat with wood - could be a head start on a coppice? Helpful to learn about path spacing and management in these different contexts. It would be useful to learn more about how you scythe in forest gardens - navigating narrow areas and working around select, tiny plants like those baby apples.
Scything in a tight spot is super hard... I will probably use a battery push mower for year one as much as possible for the detail work, and scythe on the larger areas if he doesn't mow.
Great video....so lucky to have that openminded and supportive neighbor! How do you remove/ handle the multiflora rose if you want to get rid of it in your plan? Thanks for all you share and teach :)
wish we could grow currants in SC, i do really wanna buy some seaberry from you at some point. thanks as always..... as far as im concerned AO is only invasive in undeveloped areas, i hear it from all the haters too Sean
I've see Autumn Olive really dominate landscapes before, but it has only ever been spaces that have been recently deeply wounded by human activity. The abused corn field, the edge of a highway, the beat up landscapes after development. It feels distinctly like a repairing organism.
Fun to see the progress on this! Waiting and observing the endemic species is a cool concept. Also curious, are you situated in a larger depression? I'm always surprised by how wet your context is
We're on a northern facing slope, with a ton of clay in the soil. Our site is pitched mainly but there could very well be a gentle bowl above us. It is a remarkable amount of water. I suspect the clay has the main influence.
Hey Sean. This is kinda a weird question but have you guys ever thought about adding truffle mycelia to your food forest? From my limited knowledge they form a relationship with a variety of trees, including hazelnuts.
I can't thank you enough for this playlist. I am learning SO much! Regarding the Autumn Olives, I have two questions: First, (and this is not meant as a criticism - I don't know enough to do that) are there no native plants that one could use that would provide the same function in this design as the Autumn Olives do? And next, are you at all concerned that they might self-seed into other areas near you, where they may not be wanted? I don't know how prolific they can be.
I haven't found a native plant that is a shrub form, makes an incredible nectar flow for bees, makes an edible/medicinal fruit, has a branching structure that is strong enough to grow vines, and fixes nitrogen like AO so that is who we work with. We haven't seen them spread much in this context at all...
Would you say it's better to just strip the cuttings up to one or two growth points on top rather than letting them grow flowers out from lower nodes and tasking to trim them later?
What do you use for straw mulch? I’d like to start growing something specifically for that purpose. I’ve heard alfalfa hay has a good C:N ratio for annual veggies. I’d prefer to find something native to Iowa, though.
Hi Sean! So exciting to see your progress, I am really looking forward to seeing how this develops. I have a question for you.. when you do super selective “mowing” with a scythe, which tool(brand etc) do you use? I would like to get one and would love some recommendations!
I have a few, but a good starter scythe that is pretty nicely made and not super expensive comes from 'scythe supply' up in Maine. scythesupply.com/ They are really helpful too.
If you have a chance to do an update video i'm very interested in what results you've had so far with biochar. Several years ago you posted the video about making charcoal in your fireplace inside a steel container. Wondering if its worth the effort to add biochar when you are growing on naturally fertile soil and adding compost as well.. any advice or just experience shared would be appreciated.
Hey 👋 I'm the guy in tburg you delivered some trees to a few weeks ago, if you guys are taking out any of those Apple trees, I'll give them a good home.. I've got young walnut, locust, ash, black cherry I could give you in return.. no pressure, let me know!
that little pole to your lef looks like a cat's face lol...i've got a question for you about planting with cuttings: can you cut and insert most perennial plants directly into soil or is this strategy directly applicable to certain species? i'm guessing you're not using rooting hormone when you're doing this?
Do you have volunteer currants? Here in zone 7, we have red currant popping up everywhere in our garden. And some of the seedlings are already fruiting. I've transplanted a few already to fill in some spaces :) The only problem with them is that they are magnets for aphids. If we don't spray, the aphids will take out almost all new shoots and growing tips. Sadly we can't just put a glue ring around the trunk like we do with our fruit trees. Keeping out the ants would be the first step to reduce the problem 🤔
Let the aphid grow, it will look unsightly but once ladybug establish aphid problem go away very quick. Just a note, ladybug will take some time to establish. I did this for my fava beans. Now I only see ladybug larva. Good luck.
Aphids come and go. They aren't the problem, it's more about excess nutrient and imbalanced soils that draw them in. Killing them, spraying them, etc only deepens the problems over time. Focus on fungal rich, aged compost soils, old wood chips, etc as deep mulches around your plants and give it time, it will balance without spray.
I ask the folks who have the hay! Finding a way to ask that is gentle feels worth doing... I generally lead with "I hate to ask, but we're trying to get organic certification and I need to know if there are any sprays on your hay"
How do you start the hazelnuts? I've tried to get some nuts to sprout this year by putting them in peat and putting them in the garage over winter (northern Indiana). I haven't seen any of them sprout yet.
Hazelnut sometimes sprout somewhat late anyway, so you might not have to worry. They tend to do better outside than inside in my (admittedly limited) experience. If you want to grow a tree for yourself I would suggest you dig them into the soil where you want it.
Do you worry at all about your large apple tree dropping apples for curculio insects to overwinter? Do you clean them up and process them all for not worried if fruits land on the ground and over winter to just let nature balance out any pests?
That seems reasonable. If the conditions are really favorable for rooting (cool weather, very moist soils, etc., then they should do just fine with that approach I bet.
@@edibleacres Both conditions exist in the PNW spring. Even the summers rarely get about 65°, and heavy mulching keeps the soil moist. Whew! I was worried there for a while.
@@edibleacres In my experience, some grass makes it through, though by slicing back the sod, the Thyme gets the upper hand. One variety I've grown quadruples in surface area in a season. Another that grows more like a golf green, is slower, but better at choking out competition.
Not sure if you are allowed it in the states or not but a perennial that I have recently discovered due to a UK youtuber is Caucasian spinach. It is a vine that in your climate should die back and re grow each year. Hopefully it can be of use maybe in the walk way using the shrubs as a trellis
Hablitzia! We love that plant. Learning that it is very very intolerant of wet soils so not appropriate in this installation, but a wonderful character to work with for sure.
Hey, love your videos but as someone getting a degree in ecological restoration planting invasives is harmful for everyone in the long run, reducing biodiversity. They really should not be planted and promoted online
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I learned to use an air prune box from your videos. Now a tiny food forest is growing in Kansas City. It started from cuttings and seeds without cash. Thank you!
So awesome to read this! Kudos for making the moves :)
I know this is a year old, but I'm beginning my food forest in KC as well and I'd love to hear more about what worked or didn't work for you! (Maybe even tour your place if its nearby?)
Such a brilliant example of making paradise wherever we are. Don't have to run to the country to do it. I love that your neighbor sees the value of this and is on board with expanding the lush gardens!
My mower broke down and I didn’t get it fixed. I had been mowing where my chickens had been a year earlier but without mowing I found bok choy, kale, millet, lettuce - all sorts of things growing where grass had been before. I moved my chickens back on to this area and they just loved it - free chicken food - love it!!
Awesome!
That's cool. Food just waiting to emerge!
I love watching this playlist as I'm preparing the lawn area and the garden to establish a food forest at our property. Thank you again for this!🤗💛🤗
I'm 2 months into converting a bare yard into a food forest. I spent last weekend digging out a pond in a wet area after watching your videos on water management. Fixed the flooding problem I had & created a nice frog habitat.
Thanks for the hard work. So excited to see how it evolves!
I think I have "Neighbor-envy" :D I want you as my neighbor. ;)
Instead I'm surrounded by people loving their lawn to death. But I planted fruit trees, berrybushes, hazels and even a walnut, and am starting now with perennial veggies in the understory. As non of my neighbors or friends have even heard of stuff like that I have to buy everything at least once - and hopefully i can start to copy/paste like crazy :D
I infected one of my dogsitter clients and she started a food forest last autumn. There is hope growing :D
So happy you are doing what you are doing. It can't be easy in a vacuum like that, without folks being excited (and many I'm sure being upset)... But you stick with it and more and more folks will get it, I'm sure... The plants love you for it, so you always have that as a baseline for now!
@@edibleacres yes, some are uspet - last year my garden looked really wild. But it starts to look better and at least I can see the pattern behind it all. And as I sneeked a LOT of tulips, crocus, daffodils and "ornamental" alliums in, this spring it looked like at least THAT was intentional. The berrybushes are kind of still hiding in the Tulip-Forest :D
I'm about to set up a new food Forest wood chip garden. No pun intended at my mom's house I set up tons of great variety mother plants to multiply. I found the best method to be early fall put pots full of soil around your plants like currants/goose/jostaberry ect. Bend the lower branches down to the potted soil level and simply place a rock on the branch to keep it down pressed against the pot. And I walk away and don't come back until early spring next year when the buds are starting to grow I cut each rooted pot away from the mother plants and quickly end up having many very healthy fully rooted pots with growth ready to explode wherever I transplant them to that's spring and in one year I can have quite the healthy ribes hedge going! So easy I can't wait to do that
That is a great system!
Being on my second PDC (online), I can safely say this has been one of the best learning experience I've had! Thanks a lot and I will share it with both my online group of permies!
Hopefully you had a relaxing winter now that you're meeting the spring mad rush! You're doing great work showing people how to work with nature and not against
That will be amazing and not only functional but fruitful to boot!!!
You have an awesome neighbor, couldn’t tell you how many beautiful gardens I see where none of their neighbors even seem to notice.
My elderberries are doing well so far! Just planted them 2 weekends ago. Very exciting to have more of our own permaculture elements to our space. Awesome work you are doing!
"allies in the neighborhood" who share our sensibilities can be hard to find, but I love the sudden possibilities presented by a brand new site and interested/permissive partnership. I can't wait to build up my stock of valuable perennials so that I can better do the same. you are increasing the value of your neighbor's land in a real way.
An incredible side benefit of focusing on plant propagation is that the 'excess' really stimulates some seriously interesting opportunities. When you have more plants than you know what to do with, they really help you figure out what to do with them! :)
Great example of how small steps quickly add up to a more complete food producing ecosystem.
So excited to see this growing in the future. I’m in the very early stages of planting a little food forest with a few friends and the thoughts of what might be possible are mind boggling in the best way possible!
Thanks for sharing
Sounds like everything is going well! My ducks have been making their own pond out in the pasture when it rains. I found 2 pear limbs that were sprouting in a hugelkultur bed I was starting and I transferred them to a pot with some soil to maybe let them root. If they do root, they're going to my sister who lives a bit farther south and not as subject to late frost.
It’s so exciting to see and dream about what can be. Thank you for all of the great tips, I am becoming more and more empowered to start my own food forest!
So much progress already.
I found the information really useful...Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
What an exciting project this is, I love the updates. I wanted to let you know, you gave me advice about rooting tree collard cuttings earlier in the spring, and it worked! I was amazed at how quickly bottom heat in a cool space worked compared to what I had been doing (indoors, clearly too warm). Thank you so much! I was so excited to see beautiful roots.
Very excited that works for you!
I love autumn olive, I will use it extensively alongside black locust and mountain mahogany and alders.
Great stuff, Sean! I always get ideas and solutions when I each your videos!
Fantastic, Sean! I love your ideas.
Really nice video, and I'm enjoying the series.
Glad you enjoy it!
@@edibleacres watching the thought processes and progression associated with starting new land is so helpful. We're just getting started on new property. This is helping me reason through how to approach it in a sensitive and effective manner. Thanks for doing this!
Hi Sean, thanks for the great update, it's really looking good. How far apart are the seaberrys and currants planted from each other? Love the idea of the pond, that'll be interesting to see how it's done
Not suggesting I am implementing best practices here, but the seaberry are roughly 6' apart, the currants are 3-4' apart.
W😮w so many ideas and vision i cant wait to hear about the next update
Looking good sean.....my wine cap mushroom spore arrived last weekend....so excited !!!!! Cant wait to be able to get some currant cuttings from u guys !!!
Am looking forward to the clearing and replanting in the mini forest - will be excited to see what happens with the hazelnut duets, also. Excellent info - look forward to the next one, too !
Us too!
Awesome to see this progress and learn the patterns at play. Thanks for sharing it! Cool that your neighbor is getting more interested and engaged with a yard agroforest too. It'd be cool to see the hedge or pond shape up, and to learn how your neighbor's yard culture is changing as it goes from mostly plain lawn to diverse, complex forest garden for provisions.
Hidden hazelnut in that thicket - cool! I wonder if it's a wild (American) hazelnut, or something planted? Maybe nut size will be a clue, in any case that's great. Does your neighbor heat with wood - could be a head start on a coppice?
Helpful to learn about path spacing and management in these different contexts. It would be useful to learn more about how you scythe in forest gardens - navigating narrow areas and working around select, tiny plants like those baby apples.
Scything in a tight spot is super hard... I will probably use a battery push mower for year one as much as possible for the detail work, and scythe on the larger areas if he doesn't mow.
Great video....so lucky to have that openminded and supportive neighbor! How do you remove/ handle the multiflora rose if you want to get rid of it in your plan? Thanks for all you share and teach :)
We won't get rid of it... It is a lovely plant, so we'll just plan to prune them back to keep things a bit more manageable and accessible.
wish we could grow currants in SC, i do really wanna buy some seaberry from you at some point. thanks as always.....
as far as im concerned AO is only invasive in undeveloped areas, i hear it from all the haters too Sean
I've see Autumn Olive really dominate landscapes before, but it has only ever been spaces that have been recently deeply wounded by human activity. The abused corn field, the edge of a highway, the beat up landscapes after development. It feels distinctly like a repairing organism.
Fun to see the progress on this! Waiting and observing the endemic species is a cool concept.
Also curious, are you situated in a larger depression? I'm always surprised by how wet your context is
We're on a northern facing slope, with a ton of clay in the soil. Our site is pitched mainly but there could very well be a gentle bowl above us. It is a remarkable amount of water. I suspect the clay has the main influence.
Hey Sean. This is kinda a weird question but have you guys ever thought about adding truffle mycelia to your food forest? From my limited knowledge they form a relationship with a variety of trees, including hazelnuts.
I have no source of good truffle mycelium here, if you have a reliable source I would appreciate you sharing your experience.
Sounds compelling. Haven't tried it but am open to the idea for sure.
I can't thank you enough for this playlist. I am learning SO much!
Regarding the Autumn Olives, I have two questions:
First, (and this is not meant as a criticism - I don't know enough to do that) are there no native plants that one could use that would provide the same function in this design as the Autumn Olives do?
And next, are you at all concerned that they might self-seed into other areas near you, where they may not be wanted? I don't know how prolific they can be.
I haven't found a native plant that is a shrub form, makes an incredible nectar flow for bees, makes an edible/medicinal fruit, has a branching structure that is strong enough to grow vines, and fixes nitrogen like AO so that is who we work with. We haven't seen them spread much in this context at all...
@@edibleacres thanks!
Are the black currants wild buffalo currants ?
I don't think so, but I can't say for sure.
Would you say it's better to just strip the cuttings up to one or two growth points on top rather than letting them grow flowers out from lower nodes and tasking to trim them later?
I'd just focus on pinching flowers as they form. You don't need to rip lots of leaves off, just whatever flower sets start to form.
SO COOL!
I can't remember where I read/heard about this, or if it's true or not, but can't plums be grafted onto European Buckthorn?
Truly have no idea on that. I suspect not but what do I know!
What do you use for straw mulch? I’d like to start growing something specifically for that purpose. I’ve heard alfalfa hay has a good C:N ratio for annual veggies. I’d prefer to find something native to Iowa, though.
I would look for hay that has no spray on it... Ask around for 'mulch hay' or 'waste hay' and make sure they don't use any weird sprays on it.
Excellent, thank you!
Hi Sean! So exciting to see your progress, I am really looking forward to seeing how this develops. I have a question for you.. when you do super selective “mowing” with a scythe, which tool(brand etc) do you use? I would like to get one and would love some recommendations!
I have a few, but a good starter scythe that is pretty nicely made and not super expensive comes from 'scythe supply' up in Maine. scythesupply.com/ They are really helpful too.
EdibleAcres Thank you! I’ll check it out! 🙏
If you have a chance to do an update video i'm very interested in what results you've had so far with biochar. Several years ago you posted the video about making charcoal in your fireplace inside a steel container. Wondering if its worth the effort to add biochar when you are growing on naturally fertile soil and adding compost as well.. any advice or just experience shared would be appreciated.
We make biochar in the woodstove all winter. Its in our compost everywhere now. Not sure I can say one way or the other.
Hey 👋 I'm the guy in tburg you delivered some trees to a few weeks ago, if you guys are taking out any of those Apple trees, I'll give them a good home.. I've got young walnut, locust, ash, black cherry I could give you in return.. no pressure, let me know!
Nice to hear from ya! We aren't digging more now but in the fall that could be fun.
that little pole to your lef looks like a cat's face lol...i've got a question for you about planting with cuttings: can you cut and insert most perennial plants directly into soil or is this strategy directly applicable to certain species? i'm guessing you're not using rooting hormone when you're doing this?
Do you have volunteer currants? Here in zone 7, we have red currant popping up everywhere in our garden. And some of the seedlings are already fruiting. I've transplanted a few already to fill in some spaces :)
The only problem with them is that they are magnets for aphids. If we don't spray, the aphids will take out almost all new shoots and growing tips. Sadly we can't just put a glue ring around the trunk like we do with our fruit trees. Keeping out the ants would be the first step to reduce the problem 🤔
Let the aphid grow, it will look unsightly but once ladybug establish aphid problem go away very quick. Just a note, ladybug will take some time to establish. I did this for my fava beans. Now I only see ladybug larva. Good luck.
Aphids come and go. They aren't the problem, it's more about excess nutrient and imbalanced soils that draw them in. Killing them, spraying them, etc only deepens the problems over time. Focus on fungal rich, aged compost soils, old wood chips, etc as deep mulches around your plants and give it time, it will balance without spray.
How do you confirm your hay was not treated for weeds?
I ask the folks who have the hay! Finding a way to ask that is gentle feels worth doing... I generally lead with "I hate to ask, but we're trying to get organic certification and I need to know if there are any sprays on your hay"
Your choices for melon, pumpkin and squash?
We don't have any particulars we go with...
How do you start the hazelnuts?
I've tried to get some nuts to sprout this year by putting them in peat and putting them in the garage over winter (northern Indiana). I haven't seen any of them sprout yet.
Hazelnut sometimes sprout somewhat late anyway, so you might not have to worry.
They tend to do better outside than inside in my (admittedly limited) experience.
If you want to grow a tree for yourself I would suggest you dig them into the soil where you want it.
They may very well still sprout!!! Give them time and patience. Ours haven't emerged yet for this year.
bread bread...do you mean that they do better outside in the ground?
@@davidkehr4730 in my experience, yes. But putting them outside with protection might be just fine
Do you worry at all about your large apple tree dropping apples for curculio insects to overwinter? Do you clean them up and process them all for not worried if fruits land on the ground and over winter to just let nature balance out any pests?
Haven't worried about that.
Huh. Maybe I have been doing it wrong. I let young plants go ahead and flower - to feed the pollinators - and then pick off the fruit at petal fall.
That seems reasonable. If the conditions are really favorable for rooting (cool weather, very moist soils, etc., then they should do just fine with that approach I bet.
@@edibleacres Both conditions exist in the PNW spring. Even the summers rarely get about 65°, and heavy mulching keeps the soil moist. Whew! I was worried there for a while.
How about plant Thyme along the driveway? It spreads like wildfire and bees love it to pieces. :)
Lovely idea. I just wonder how it would handle the competition with the grasses there... Hmmm...
@@edibleacres In my experience, some grass makes it through, though by slicing back the sod, the Thyme gets the upper hand. One variety I've grown quadruples in surface area in a season. Another that grows more like a golf green, is slower, but better at choking out competition.
Not sure if you are allowed it in the states or not but a perennial that I have recently discovered due to a UK youtuber is Caucasian spinach. It is a vine that in your climate should die back and re grow each year. Hopefully it can be of use maybe in the walk way using the shrubs as a trellis
Hablitzia! We love that plant. Learning that it is very very intolerant of wet soils so not appropriate in this installation, but a wonderful character to work with for sure.
@@edibleacres oh thanks for that tip on wet soil, I'm hoping to plant out its crown next year. we currently have it in a player growing from seed.
Why can't I be this guy's neighbor???
Let's be each others neighbor overflowing trees :D
👍🏽👍🏽
Hey, love your videos but as someone getting a degree in ecological restoration planting invasives is harmful for everyone in the long run, reducing biodiversity. They really should not be planted and promoted online
The term 'invasive' leaves a lot to be desired