I Got Rid of my South Florida Food Forest || Here is Why
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In this video I will share with you why I got rid of my food forest.
Welcome to my channel, Our Tropical Soil, where you can learn how to grow food in the tropics!
Food forest gardens are mainly perennial systems that can produce a lot of food for an indefinite amount of time. I had one growing on the side of my house, but I decided to get rid of it. Why? I wanted to grow annuals! The best place to plant my annuals was where the food forest was located. I decided to take out my food forest and plant my annuals in that location. I still want to have a perennial food forest garden, so I am working on transforming my front yard into one. If you are interested in seeing this then be sure to subscribe so you won't miss those future videos.
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Much gardening wisdom for a young gardener. Thanks for the help!
Thank you and I am glad you found this video helpful!
@@OurTropicalSoil Yes and keep learning and sharing!!
Love it!
I’m trying to grow and put up food for the food shortage I believe is coming. I don’t have a dog but the wild pigs tear my yard up on a regular basis.
I was recently in Tampa and saw the damage that wild pigs do in a preserve I went to. It's crazy! It looks like a plow came through. I think your best bet is to put up a good fence. I like chain link because it can double as a trellis.
At least your gardening food. That's all that matters.
I agree! :)
My aunt and uncle lived in Coconut Grove and garden all their life. One day some guys in a pickup truck drove across her lawn up to their house and climbed on top of their truck and began pulling the coconuts off of the coconut tree right next to the front of the house. My aunt and uncle were in their late 70s and early 80s. They called the police. The city of Miami police. They told my aunt and uncle that they don't come out for coconuts.
The same thing happen to my father and his avocados at his house in Miami and when I lived in North Miami people stripped our neighbors mango tree. One of my neighbors caught people taking the mangoes from our neighbors tree and when he confronted them and call them a thief they told him it was better a thief than a nosy man. It's only getting worse. It's a shame that we have to rack our brains trying to figure out what kind of fruit vegetable or we can grow that will be identified by strangers who will come on our property and steal it. I remember the first job I ever had was working for a plant nursery in North Miami. We had a banana tree right by the front entrance driveway. One day somebody drove by a nursery stop their car got out walked over to the banana tree in our driveway of the nursery and cut off the bananas. The owner of the nursery was a very old lady and the man taking the bananas was baffled why she was upset with him. My father would spend the whole season taking care of his avocado trees and fertilizing them and pruning them and spraying them with treatment so they did not get any diseases and when the crop came in people would climb in his trees and break the branches down to get at all the fruit.
Hey Melanie, I really appreciate your vlog. I grew up in Broward County, but live over in Ft. Myers now. I'm relatively new to gardening and I 'm mostly still growing in containers. I'm about to make the progression to raised beds and in ground patches for annuals. You have introduced me to some plants, that I hadn't considered. Thank you! We are blessed with some mature mango trees, avocados and Surname cherries. You are so right about people stealing fruits. When your trees get big enough, you will be glad they do. I will definitely keep the precious veggies in the back yard. BTW, raised beds will solve the doggy problem.
Thank you for the kind words and tips. I am glad you appreciated the video. We have some very mature fruit trees and end up giving a lot of the fruit away to friends and family :) Fruit trees are such abundant producers.
Gardens are cool but so are dogs. Hard choice. Love your videos, you are wonderful!
Thank you for your support! It is a hard choice but luckily with some planning both are possible. :)
This is a great video. So much information. Eres fantastica!!
Thank you! The wood chips are still going strong. We have had very little weeds come up even in the areas where we didn't remove the weeds completely before putting the wood chips.
I'm in kendall too! Happy to help and/or learn
Awesome and thank you! Reach out to me on Instagram @ourtropicalsoil or email me ourtropicalsoil@gmail.com
You vibe is awesome, subscribed 🤟🏽
Thanks for the sub!
Why did the annuals go to seed in the forest food?
Isnt it natural to go to seed, and wouldnt it just come back next year?
N S Annuals die after going to seed. An annual plant is one that lives for only a year so the seed germinates, the plant grows, then flowers and sets seeds. After the seed pods dry and the seeds are spread around the garden then the initial plant dies. The following season some of the fallen seeds will likely germinate and you’ll get new plants. These plants are called “volunteers” since you didn’t have to plant them or plant the seeds. I hope this helps.
@@OurTropicalSoil Yes I know what annuals are, but you said in your video that one of the reasons to remove the forest was because your annuals kept going to seed. It sounded as if this was a bad thing, like maybe the forest was making them prematurely go to seed perhaps? I just couldnt understand if annuals go to seed each year anyway, why would this be a reason to remove the forest?
Sorry, I didn't understand your question at first. The food forest wasn't making them go to seed prematurely. I just found it difficult to remove annuals and replant them in a food forest style garden. I learned from my experience that I preferred to keep perennials and annuals in separate beds. I do know that some people love growing annuals mixed in with their perennials and they let the annuals go to seed and they have a ton of volunteer plants each year. With a perennial food forest you can just plant it and maintain it every so often but with annual plants mixed in you have to be constantly replacing them and removing the older ones and putting in new ones. Since annuals and perennials require different levels of upkeep I decided it was best for me to just have separate areas for them. I hope that answers your question. It's honestly just a preference. You can definitely grow annuals mixed in with perennials.
You're awesome. And you're/you've starting/started young. Great job. What part of Miami?
Thank you! I am glad to have sound something I am extremely passionate about while young. I am in the Kendall area.
You're welcome
When u start your seedlings?
When starting seedlings in South Florida timing is not as important as other colder climates. In colder climates seedlings need to be started early enough to grow through the warm months while being started late enough so that they are ready to plant before they outgrow their pots. The temperate vegetable growing season in South Florida is during the winter months. If I had to choose a time to start them it would be sometime in September or October and then I would plant out when they are large enough. You can also just direct seed. As long as you are starting them early enough then they will grow a good amount before getting damaged by the heat in the warmer months like in April and May. April is a good month to start plants that like the warmer months and then you can transplant in May or direct seed during those months. I hope this helped.
How did the Everglades tomatoes produce for you?
Emily Daniels Well if they are grown in shade they don’t do too well and it also seems they rather not be trellised. I grew one plant just sprawling on the ground with a good amount of sun but not a whole lot either. It was in the middle of summer and it grew like crazy. It also produced like crazy too. It was just a pain to harvest since the plant was on the ground. And the roads would hide in there and freak me out sometimes lol. I am starting a bunch of plants now and I’m going to try and trellis them similar to how James Prigioni trellises his.
It would have made more sense to train your dog than destroy your food forest.
Good luck training a male dog to not pee on everything when he is left alone out in the yard.
@@OurTropicalSoil I did my dog knows better than to mess with my garden it's call training
She got the sickness
Sounds like you’re getting lots of experiences by trying things, keep it up and grow on 🪴🌳🥕 you’ll become a master gardener like that! l’ve also got some issues with raised hugel beds l build 4 years ago, they actually dry out to much and are very free draining in this arid landscape, they really are a thing for wetter climates! The more research l do the more l come to feel that the best way to start a bed is with a layer of manure, a layer of leaves and then a thick layer of straw, maybe initially till to decompact the soil, this is best done in autumn and then let it sit till spring, l did that last fall and that bed is nice and moist compared to my 4 year old hugel beds that are bone dry.. transplanted seedlings in both yesterday and guess which ones are fully wilted..