You're an inspiration, Angela. My kids recognise your voice now because I've watched so many videos, they come in chanting, "hello, it's Angela from Parkrose Permaculture" 🤣 Your garden was remarkably resilient considering the unseasonal weather for your area. I was interested to see your comments about the raspberries. You mentioned you should have put shade cloth over them. Where I am we would usually get a few weeks of around that temperature. I've never shaded them mainly because it's too hard for me to do. But I think if I design an easy way to implement the shade it would be a great solution. Thanks for the thought
Just found your channel with this video as I was looking into how to deal with heat stressed plants. I’m gardening in the south metro area. What a relief today was! But I had similar thoughts to yours as I surveyed my garden. I lost a beloved old vine maple in February when we got slammed with that horrific ice storm. Tree had to come down, moved the hostas, planted sun loving perennials in May. When I heard the heat prediction, I really didn’t think it would be that hot. As we got closer to the weekend and the numbers kept going up, I got busy. A trip to Home Depot and I found burlap shade cloth. Hubby had leftover pvc and fittings so - frame, shade cloth, zip ties- I had my “cooling center” for all the new plants and lugged the containers there for good measure. Everything there was fine. Fortunately I did mulch this spring. My poor macrophylla hydrangea is crispy, wondering if I should let it be or cut out burnt leaves. ( Did a hard prune this spring so no blooms, thank goodness!) I’m worried that any new growth will just get burned later in July or August. Thoughts on that? Anyway, happy to have found you, subscribed, and look forward to checking out your channel.
Hey, hello from a fellow former Tucson resident too. It always baffles me why people from the SW make those comments about high temps...the SW and the PNW are very different biomes. Truthfully, the whole PNW is a mismash of biomes depending on prox to water/coast, altitude, what side of the Cascades you're on. We moved to the PNW 25 years ago, currently live south of Seattle, and i can't believe how much the climate has changed in that short of time. Your garden and videos have been such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your talents here!
I'm a new subscriber to your channel but a long-time permaculture gardener myself (20+ years). I enjoy seeing how your garden is flourishing through the solutions you meticulously employ by observing and getting real about your circumstances. For me all of this has everything to do with being in touch with Truth that does set us free. On that subject, it may be better if you'd refer to 'climate change' also interchangeably with 'geo-engineering' that is deliberately done upon the earth in the name of 'science' that's causing the supposed climate change. We'll be literally taxed for it soon, if not already in some places! In using the correct term we not only educate but also do not fault 'mother earth' for it but rather work with her through our own resilience in countering and recovering from any unnatural effects of geo-engineering. I experience daily how wonderfully robust creation is designed but nevertheless the battle is on between mama earth and mammon.
Thank you for sharing this. Radical climate swings have been on my mind as well. I'm in SW Portland and noticed the areas where I had planted densely, maintained the best health during the heat wave. While I typically mulch heavily, I also took your advice and mulched more, making sure I had no bare patched of earth before the heat came. I believe this really helped my fledgling veggie starts stay alive. Interestingly, this year, I ran out of room for my cucumbers and planted them in a spot in afternoon shade. Turned out to be quite helpful for this dry/warm weather. They are doing very well. Lots of small fruit on them. Also, I had improved the ground this spring where I planted my tomatoes and due to settling of the improved soil, the tomatoes are in a sunken area (not on purpose). They are now 5 feet tall with lots of fruit. I think being planted in a sunken area helped with saving water. Not sure this would work well in a regular rainy spring though?
Better Water Catchment: Good point! Erratic weather events are only going to get worse. We live in a similar climate to Portland. (Vancouver Island, BC) We get plenty of rain during the winter months, so now I'm thinking: Seasonal Ponds, Roof-runoff tanks, etc.
Hmm, let’s see. In the garden my mom took care of when I was a girl, the things that did the best had a living mulch shading the soil around them. We were in the Post Oak region of TX hardiness zone 8a. We had a region of the garden heavily much with wood chips. The reflected heat from the wood chips really stressed all the plants out. The garden was in full sun, and you could see the heat waves between the plants. If you walked on that side of the garden barefoot you would burn your feet. In contrast, on the other side of the garden, where we would let the various cucurbits wander over everything, the ground was *cool* and I swear I could feel a cool breeze over there. The living mulch did not reflect the sunlight and heat up like the wood chips did. And the plants growing up out of the squashes, tasted sweeter and less spicy. They were less pest ridden as well. My parents only had enough money to mulch 1/4 of the garden and put down soaker hose underneath. The other side they had to plant the ‘ traditional’ way around buried unglazed pots full of water. If you dug under the wood chip mulch the soil was like a steamed potato. The soil on other side shaded by all our squashes, sweet potatoes, and everything else there was not hot. If you dug even two feet from the buried pots, you would find moist soil which was cool. During the dry season, the clay soil would crack so badly your whole leg would fall through some places. The soil near the pots did not crack. I think the combination of the living mulch and buried pots really helped. Plants growing in the wood chip mulch: Various peppers - stressed, low yield, super spicy. Eggplant - stressed. Tomatoes - completely burned up. Rocket - super spicy. Chives seemed fine. Other thing that just died I can't remember. The other side: Many, many squashes, sweet potatoes, bush beans, pole beans, chards that lived for seven years and grew to 4 feet tall, mustard, rocket, sunflowers (lots of aphids, but did OK), Jerusalem artichoke, okra, asparagus, tall verbena, marigolds, cabbage, onions, chives, lots of peppers, lots of herbs that attracted parasitic wasps. My mom loved roses, there were lots of them. Before the garden, on the side of a slope, my parents dug a ditch and planted a fig on one end, and a peach on the other end. Between them, in the ditch, they grew their blackberries. The ditch was to catch water and let it soak in. The garden was at the bottom of the slope for this reason: it’s where the water went. My parents didn’t know about Pirmaculture. This is just what they were able to figure out. Because my father could not make enough money for us to buy food always we had to figure out how to grow it. One of my favorite things in our yard was the wild red buds. They would be absolutely covered with mason bees in the spring. I loved watching them. When my grandfather was alive, he would walk out and eat the flowers right off the trees in the spring. He taught us to harvest the beans the tree would make. He showed us lots of things. I hope this was helpful for some people.
Some of my perennial plants got burnt some Its cooler and wetter here now in Ontario Rain water catchment is a big thing for us because we don't like wasting chemical expensive tap water but we did use it by filling up the pond and rain barrel then letting it sit before adding it to your garden
Thank you. Very helpful for me....we are establishing a permaculture food forest on1/4 acre near Powell Butte in Portland. i was blown away by how well Serviceberries did. They were not irrigated and for the first 2 days of the heat there was only a little curling of leaves and the berries didnot shrivel. I watered late on the second hot day and that helped the leaves ,but a little of the fruit did shrivel a bit. It is a native variety ... do not know the name that i got at the east Mult. County soil and water conservation district plant sales. Ginkgo needs water. It had not been irrigated until i saw that and gave it a soak on the first hot day, and then it nostly bounced back but lost a few leaves. In full sun. Goumi needs water...... the large healthy ones at our community garden, in full sun, not mulched or irrigated, had some leaves shrivel, and the abundant fruit withered. Ours in shade with mulch, unirrigated, had some withering of fruit...less so. Sweet Cicely must!!!!! be irrigated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shade and deep mulch are not enough. Ground Elder, in shade, not irriagted....shallow mulch was not fazed....it is second only to nettles innutrients!!!!!!!! More than dandelion.....I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It spreads about 1 foot a year. Good!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nettles in shade, unirrigated, were not fazed. Lavendar, full sun unirrigated, not fazed. Oregano and Basil, full sun, unirrigated, loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Autumn Olive (not deemed invasive here) did ok unirrigated until the last day...full sun....then a tiny bit of leaf wilt until I gve them water. On the hottest day, day Lily flowers in full sun wilted!!!!!!!!! Currants need a lot of water. Mariomberries and black berries grew!!!!!!!!!!!! they loved it!!!! full sun, unirrigted. Hablitzia tamnoides in shade needed some water....mostly they were Ok...had not been irrigated. Fig needed irrigation. Honeyberries in community garden, unirrigated, full sun, deep ( 6 inch) wood chip mulch...not fazed. Ditto Aronia berries. In community garden, the plant that is a cross between currants and gooseberries...full sun, no mulch, unirrigated, unfazed. I also see this as a trend. :( We have been demoted in Portland from 8b to 9 :(
Part ofmy comment got cut off...... Good news....Moringa can overwinter in zone 9. We scrounged free food grade plastic 50 gallon rian barrles and 260 gallon ibc totes on craig’s list. Put together water catchment by wtching youtube vids. 1,000 gallons storage. In winter when the catchment storage fills, I run hoses out to the yard and put the excess there where it really upgrades the soil biology and helps mind bogglingly!!!! Perhaps analagous to your rain garden to some extent. Very worth doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In summer that amount of stored water does not go far. The plant that did fine, no mulch or irrigation..... in the community garden that is bred from currants nd gooseberries is Jostaberry. At One Green World. There will be lots less denial of climate change and lots more interest in permaculture. Many Thanks!! I learn a LOT from you :) All Blessings Always :)
Peace! New friend here! Your channel popped up on my CZcams feed and I'm so glad it did, because I'm really really really enjoying your content! You have such awesome information and content! I'm genuinely enjoying every bit of it! Blessings!
I am just getting started with permaculture, and I can see the benefit of taking notice of all the effects of the heat (or any other weather for that matter) on our plants to build resilience into our system. Thanks for showing us the nitty gritty of all the process stuff. I'm finding it very helpful as someone that's just getting started.
An Italian CZcamsr interviewed an expert who said that in order to lower C02 in the air and reduce the effects of climate change we need to plant at least 1.000.000.000.000 trees.
I have found eastern/midwestern native Ribes more resistant to Continental heat than the (mostly Maritime) European ones. I highly recommend "Crandall" and other clove/buffalo currants. Prettier plants too.
Your garden is looking beautiful despite a few crispy leaves. As you say, managing soil moisture, protecting the soil with mulch, and layering plants is protective of the whole system, including all of the critters. Water storage is an excellent idea. Whilst saving for tanks we have used large recycled pickle barrels (200L) as an inexpensive option for water collection from our shed and there are also lots of things online about setting up systems with recycled food grade plastic IBC’s (1000L). Sometimes it is just hard to avoid plastic. There are water dispersal fittings designed for low pressure. I would love to see videos about how you use your produce and other self sufficiency activities. I continue to enjoy and appreciate the way in which you discuss permaculture principles and interweave them with practical advice. Our climates are very different (though maybe not so much given the heatwave) but I have gained a lot that I can apply to my situation by watching your presentations and much food for thought. And of course I love seeing your garden. Thank you Angela.
Thank you! Amazing to see the effect the trees have on the plants below. A year ago our garden was a plot of agricultural land with only gras and thistles. It's heavy clay soil. Our newly planted trees are still small and some strugle a lot with drought. (Fortunatly, after weeks without a drop, it's already raining a couple of days). I don't know if I want to water my plants... I want to have plants that are strong and can handle themselves.... But maybe I cannot expect this from such young and unprotected plants? (I wish I could share pictures 😇). The Netherlands (zone 7/8)
I love your content, thank you for filming it! Here in London UK our weather is as random as ever, but more extreme. Inappropriately hot in early spring, then a very cold stretch, then extended drought, then extended deluge. I've resigned myself to planting in broadest diversity, knowing that about half of them will hate that year's weather and half love it. Also growing more perennials that will be able to access deep water.
I’m a Michigander but I’ve spent much time throughout the years in the Vancouver, BC area. The total climate change y’all have experienced in the PNW is eye opening. I remember summers on Vancouver island with frequent rain and 70° weather. Now they can expect much more heat and drought every summer. Maybe it’s time for more figs haha.
I was able to find some free scrap wood at a home improvement store that I used combined with some large branches to build an a-frame for my cantaloupes. Should have enough to build another for my small watermelons, and maybe something for my winter squash too. Anyways, it does feel weird that the Pacific Northwest is so much hotter than here in the Great Lakes. Usually it's here that it's hotter. So far our summer has been fairly average.
Thanks Angela, I appreciate your videos.I did get a little bit panicked during this one though, because I feel like we are now starting to go over the cliff and the effort to remain resilient just for a moment overwhelmed me.However I am going out to fill my rain barrels with town water because my rain water is finished.Gonna let that gas off and drench the plants to get through the weekend at least.I am in the south west of Ireland and it's as dry as a bone here and the heat continues... Daunting times.
It's interesting to see what thrived for you through this! And this year's weather, well, it's been nuts! It's almost like your area and mine (SW Oklahoma) have swapped weather the past couple weeks. We've had 5 inches of rain this week. Eye-opening for our area was the big arctic freeze back in February. Many of us lost plants to that (my young pomegranate, for instance). We usually have a week or two of real cold, but not normally into negative temperatures.
I'm so glad your garden faired so well! It is so helpful to see your design and how it worked for you during the intense heat. You mentioned water catchment. I am really curious to see what you will do. I'm wondering how much water you you will want to catch and how you determine that amount. What form of catchment that will be? I am hoping to stack the large blue drums and connect them together, collecting water off our house roof as well as my studio and use a gravaty system to deliver water, but need to delve into it with knowledgable people for feedback to hopefully avoid mistakes. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I have a living mulch of arugula and radish at the base of one of my trellis beds and they're doing a pretty good job of keeping the soil moist. The tall/vining plants there are sunflower, cucumber and pole beans. The radish are bolting and kinda inedible though so I might try exclusively arugula or maybe a different variety of radish next year or maybe something else like beets. I used Garden Giant radishes and I'm finding that French Breakfast hold up better in my heat (which is not that extreme - 75-90F). The ground has only started to get fully covered about 10 days ago though and we got a good amount of rain in that period, so the true test of my living mulch's effectiveness will be when we hit another dry spell.
I consider radish somewhat inedible (unless pickled) even under the best of conditions, but you can eat both flowers and young pods. In the Southeast, standard radish is purely a winter crop. We do have the lesser known rattail radish, grown solely for its pods, for the warm months.
@@erikjohnson9223 I was a fairly new gardener when I made that post. With an extra couple years of experience, I'd say it's tricky to manage a living mulch, trying to balance out the sunlight, space and season/temperature requirements of the different plants you're intercropping. The easiest solution might just be mulch that's inoculated with winecap mushroom. I have had bush beans do ok in partial shade of taller crops though, and produce a decent amount before getting crowded out by the tall crops. Corn salad also works during the cool temperatures as an edible ground-cover - winter in the SE US, spring in southern Canada (I'll be finishing harvesting them over the next week). Sorrel might work too, it mainly grows during cool weather and goes semi-dormant in the summer heat. Once you're into summer though, I'd say the summer crops should be mature enough to shade out the ground pretty well. The purpose of the mulch would be more to reduce the drying effect of air flow at the ground surface than to shade out the sun.
I would love to know more about what specific changes you end up making as you reconfigure. I am in the E Vancouver area and just starting my food forest plan, so I’m now adding “plan for extreme climate events” to the list of things to consider as I work on my system.
Definitely a struggle. I plant for zone 4 on up as I live in "zone 5" but Temps can swing dramatically here in s. Michigan. We've been in a 6 month drought and last week it rained 1-2 inches every day to make up for it.
Thank you for sharing! We are just starting out designing our gardens here in SW France. This year (as it is our first year having a large garden), we just planted a huge amount of annual veggies, while getting to know this land and planning for the future. A future with a foodforest hopefully. I am constantly learning from people all over the world. Climate change predictions for this region are in my mind all the time when we are planning/designing. Have you grown fruit trees from seed? Or do you recommand buying trees? We are saving every seed from apples, cherries, peaches,…
The seeds of fruit trees are a way to get inexpensive rootstocks. However very few will come remotely similar from seed, and all will be much slower to bear than for grafted trees. If you have time and space to experiment with breeding new varieties, seed might be worthwhile. I would stick to plants (or buy lots of rootstocks and buy or beg scionwood).
I had no idea that you could grow Fijoa here! Our family fell in love with the fruit while we were in New Zealand. Can you please tell me what variety to get and where I can source them?
Yes! I got them at One Green World. They carry several named varieties and seedlings as well. I have a Mammoth, an Apollo and a seedling. They grow super slow here and benefit from a sheltered spot out of winter winds.
@@ParkrosePermaculture I'm fascinated by the feijoas too - I live near Victoria BC (8a/b) and would love to grow one of these - a local nursery has them but says that they need to be hand pollinated because we lack the tropical birds that normally pollinate these plants....what do you do?
@@sailorssmallfarm1867 In FL, bumblebees and carpenter bees will visit them. Not enthusiastically, but enough for fruit set (if you have a self-fertle type, or multiple cultivars near each other). I also used to pick the petals as a sweet nibble, and if you do that (which is what the South American birds are doing), it is not much extra work to hand pollinate them as you harvest the petals.
Another great positive message but you look extraordinarily attractive and beautiful in this video. That roller derby background changed my observation of you 180. The divisive sign in your front yard must be some sort of camouflage...or the like. I just wanted to say you looked beautiful in today’s video...and your garden
You're an inspiration, Angela.
My kids recognise your voice now because I've watched so many videos, they come in chanting, "hello, it's Angela from Parkrose Permaculture" 🤣
Your garden was remarkably resilient considering the unseasonal weather for your area. I was interested to see your comments about the raspberries. You mentioned you should have put shade cloth over them.
Where I am we would usually get a few weeks of around that temperature. I've never shaded them mainly because it's too hard for me to do. But I think if I design an easy way to implement the shade it would be a great solution. Thanks for the thought
Just found your channel with this video as I was looking into how to deal with heat stressed plants. I’m gardening in the south metro area. What a relief today was! But I had similar thoughts to yours as I surveyed my garden. I lost a beloved old vine maple in February when we got slammed with that horrific ice storm. Tree had to come down, moved the hostas, planted sun loving perennials in May. When I heard the heat prediction, I really didn’t think it would be that hot. As we got closer to the weekend and the numbers kept going up, I got busy. A trip to Home Depot and I found burlap shade cloth. Hubby had leftover pvc and fittings so - frame, shade cloth, zip ties- I had my “cooling center” for all the new plants and lugged the containers there for good measure. Everything there was fine. Fortunately I did mulch this spring. My poor macrophylla hydrangea is crispy, wondering if I should let it be or cut out burnt leaves. ( Did a hard prune this spring so no blooms, thank goodness!) I’m worried that any new growth will just get burned later in July or August. Thoughts on that? Anyway, happy to have found you, subscribed, and look forward to checking out your channel.
Shade cloth. Used it in Tucson and now use it in Colorado.
Hey, hello from a fellow former Tucson resident too. It always baffles me why people from the SW make those comments about high temps...the SW and the PNW are very different biomes. Truthfully, the whole PNW is a mismash of biomes depending on prox to water/coast, altitude, what side of the Cascades you're on.
We moved to the PNW 25 years ago, currently live south of Seattle, and i can't believe how much the climate has changed in that short of time. Your garden and videos have been such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your talents here!
I'm a new subscriber to your channel but a long-time permaculture gardener myself (20+ years). I enjoy seeing how your garden is flourishing through the solutions you meticulously employ by observing and getting real about your circumstances. For me all of this has everything to do with being in touch with Truth that does set us free. On that subject, it may be better if you'd refer to 'climate change' also interchangeably with 'geo-engineering' that is deliberately done upon the earth in the name of 'science' that's causing the supposed climate change. We'll be literally taxed for it soon, if not already in some places!
In using the correct term we not only educate but also do not fault 'mother earth' for it but rather work with her through our own resilience in countering and recovering from any unnatural effects of geo-engineering. I experience daily how wonderfully robust creation is designed but nevertheless the battle is on between mama earth and mammon.
Thank you for sharing this. Radical climate swings have been on my mind as well. I'm in SW Portland and noticed the areas where I had planted densely, maintained the best health during the heat wave. While I typically mulch heavily, I also took your advice and mulched more, making sure I had no bare patched of earth before the heat came. I believe this really helped my fledgling veggie starts stay alive. Interestingly, this year, I ran out of room for my cucumbers and planted them in a spot in afternoon shade. Turned out to be quite helpful for this dry/warm weather. They are doing very well. Lots of small fruit on them. Also, I had improved the ground this spring where I planted my tomatoes and due to settling of the improved soil, the tomatoes are in a sunken area (not on purpose). They are now 5 feet tall with lots of fruit. I think being planted in a sunken area helped with saving water. Not sure this would work well in a regular rainy spring though?
Better Water Catchment: Good point! Erratic weather events are only going to get worse. We live in a similar climate to Portland. (Vancouver Island, BC) We get plenty of rain during the winter months, so now I'm thinking: Seasonal Ponds, Roof-runoff tanks, etc.
Yes I would love you to share more of your other skills, I have heard you talk about in your video's but not seen yet 😁
Hmm, let’s see. In the garden my mom took care of when I was a girl, the things that did the best had a living mulch shading the soil around them. We were in the Post Oak region of TX hardiness zone 8a.
We had a region of the garden heavily much with wood chips. The reflected heat from the wood chips really stressed all the plants out. The garden was in full sun, and you could see the heat waves between the plants. If you walked on that side of the garden barefoot you would burn your feet. In contrast, on the other side of the garden, where we would let the various cucurbits wander over everything, the ground was *cool* and I swear I could feel a cool breeze over there. The living mulch did not reflect the sunlight and heat up like the wood chips did. And the plants growing up out of the squashes, tasted sweeter and less spicy. They were less pest ridden as well.
My parents only had enough money to mulch 1/4 of the garden and put down soaker hose underneath. The other side they had to plant the ‘ traditional’ way around buried unglazed pots full of water. If you dug under the wood chip mulch the soil was like a steamed potato. The soil on other side shaded by all our squashes, sweet potatoes, and everything else there was not hot. If you dug even two feet from the buried pots, you would find moist soil which was cool. During the dry season, the clay soil would crack so badly your whole leg would fall through some places. The soil near the pots did not crack. I think the combination of the living mulch and buried pots really helped.
Plants growing in the wood chip mulch:
Various peppers - stressed, low yield, super spicy. Eggplant - stressed. Tomatoes - completely burned up. Rocket - super spicy. Chives seemed fine. Other thing that just died I can't remember.
The other side:
Many, many squashes, sweet potatoes, bush beans, pole beans, chards that lived for seven years and grew to 4 feet tall, mustard, rocket, sunflowers (lots of aphids, but did OK), Jerusalem artichoke, okra, asparagus, tall verbena, marigolds, cabbage, onions, chives, lots of peppers, lots of herbs that attracted parasitic wasps. My mom loved roses, there were lots of them.
Before the garden, on the side of a slope, my parents dug a ditch and planted a fig on one end, and a peach on the other end. Between them, in the ditch, they grew their blackberries. The ditch was to catch water and let it soak in. The garden was at the bottom of the slope for this reason: it’s where the water went. My parents didn’t know about Pirmaculture. This is just what they were able to figure out. Because my father could not make enough money for us to buy food always we had to figure out how to grow it.
One of my favorite things in our yard was the wild red buds. They would be absolutely covered with mason bees in the spring. I loved watching them. When my grandfather was alive, he would walk out and eat the flowers right off the trees in the spring. He taught us to harvest the beans the tree would make. He showed us lots of things.
I hope this was helpful for some people.
Bear in mind also that airports are paved heat islands. It should be cooler in green spaces.
Some of my perennial plants got burnt some
Its cooler and wetter here now in Ontario
Rain water catchment is a big thing for us because we don't like wasting chemical expensive tap water but we did use it by filling up the pond and rain barrel then letting it sit before adding it to your garden
Hi Angela Wonderful content as usual Your the best Thank you for this great video I so learn and enjoy .God Bless
Thank you. Very helpful for me....we are establishing a permaculture food forest on1/4 acre near Powell Butte in Portland. i was blown away by how well Serviceberries did. They were not irrigated and for the first 2 days of the heat there was only a little curling of leaves and the berries didnot shrivel. I watered late on the second hot day and that helped the leaves ,but a little of the fruit did shrivel a bit. It is a native variety ... do not know the name that i got at the east Mult. County soil and water conservation district plant sales. Ginkgo needs water. It had not been irrigated until i saw that and gave it a soak on the first hot day, and then it nostly bounced back but lost a few leaves. In full sun. Goumi needs water...... the large healthy ones at our community garden, in full sun, not mulched or irrigated, had some leaves shrivel, and the abundant fruit withered. Ours in shade with mulch, unirrigated, had some withering of fruit...less so. Sweet Cicely must!!!!! be irrigated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shade and deep mulch are not enough. Ground Elder, in shade, not irriagted....shallow mulch was not fazed....it is second only to nettles innutrients!!!!!!!! More than dandelion.....I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It spreads about 1 foot a year. Good!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nettles in shade, unirrigated, were not fazed. Lavendar, full sun unirrigated, not fazed. Oregano and Basil, full sun, unirrigated, loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Autumn Olive (not deemed invasive here) did ok unirrigated until the last day...full sun....then a tiny bit of leaf wilt until I gve them water. On the hottest day, day Lily flowers in full sun wilted!!!!!!!!! Currants need a lot of water. Mariomberries and black berries grew!!!!!!!!!!!! they loved it!!!! full sun, unirrigted. Hablitzia tamnoides in shade needed some water....mostly they were Ok...had not been irrigated. Fig needed irrigation. Honeyberries in community garden, unirrigated, full sun, deep ( 6 inch) wood chip mulch...not fazed. Ditto Aronia berries. In community garden, the plant that is a cross between currants and gooseberries...full sun, no mulch, unirrigated, unfazed. I also see this as a trend. :( We have been demoted in Portland from 8b to 9 :(
Part ofmy comment got cut off...... Good news....Moringa can overwinter in zone 9. We scrounged free food grade plastic 50 gallon rian barrles and 260 gallon ibc totes on craig’s list. Put together water catchment by wtching youtube vids. 1,000 gallons storage. In winter when the catchment storage fills, I run hoses out to the yard and put the excess there where it really upgrades the soil biology and helps mind bogglingly!!!! Perhaps analagous to your rain garden to some extent. Very worth doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In summer that amount of stored water does not go far. The plant that did fine, no mulch or irrigation..... in the community garden that is bred from currants nd gooseberries is Jostaberry. At One Green World. There will be lots less denial of climate change and lots more interest in permaculture. Many Thanks!! I learn a LOT from you :) All Blessings Always :)
Peace! New friend here! Your channel popped up on my CZcams feed and I'm so glad it did, because I'm really really really enjoying your content! You have such awesome information and content! I'm genuinely enjoying every bit of it! Blessings!
Thank you!!!
I am just getting started with permaculture, and I can see the benefit of taking notice of all the effects of the heat (or any other weather for that matter) on our plants to build resilience into our system. Thanks for showing us the nitty gritty of all the process stuff. I'm finding it very helpful as someone that's just getting started.
An Italian CZcamsr interviewed an expert who said that in order to lower C02 in the air and reduce the effects of climate change we need to plant at least 1.000.000.000.000 trees.
My red and black currants (berries and leaves) got sunburned severely during this heat wave.
I have found eastern/midwestern native Ribes more resistant to Continental heat than the (mostly Maritime) European ones. I highly recommend "Crandall" and other clove/buffalo currants. Prettier plants too.
Your garden is looking beautiful despite a few crispy leaves. As you say, managing soil moisture, protecting the soil with mulch, and layering plants is protective of the whole system, including all of the critters.
Water storage is an excellent idea. Whilst saving for tanks we have used large recycled pickle barrels (200L) as an inexpensive option for water collection from our shed and there are also lots of things online about setting up systems with recycled food grade plastic IBC’s (1000L). Sometimes it is just hard to avoid plastic. There are water dispersal fittings designed for low pressure.
I would love to see videos about how you use your produce and other self sufficiency activities. I continue to enjoy and appreciate the way in which you discuss permaculture principles and interweave them with practical advice. Our climates are very different (though maybe not so much given the heatwave) but I have gained a lot that I can apply to my situation by watching your presentations and much food for thought. And of course I love seeing your garden. Thank you Angela.
Thank you! Amazing to see the effect the trees have on the plants below. A year ago our garden was a plot of agricultural land with only gras and thistles. It's heavy clay soil. Our newly planted trees are still small and some strugle a lot with drought. (Fortunatly, after weeks without a drop, it's already raining a couple of days). I don't know if I want to water my plants... I want to have plants that are strong and can handle themselves.... But maybe I cannot expect this from such young and unprotected plants?
(I wish I could share pictures 😇).
The Netherlands (zone 7/8)
I love your content, thank you for filming it! Here in London UK our weather is as random as ever, but more extreme. Inappropriately hot in early spring, then a very cold stretch, then extended drought, then extended deluge. I've resigned myself to planting in broadest diversity, knowing that about half of them will hate that year's weather and half love it. Also growing more perennials that will be able to access deep water.
I’m a Michigander but I’ve spent much time throughout the years in the Vancouver, BC area. The total climate change y’all have experienced in the PNW is eye opening. I remember summers on Vancouver island with frequent rain and 70° weather. Now they can expect much more heat and drought every summer. Maybe it’s time for more figs haha.
I was able to find some free scrap wood at a home improvement store that I used combined with some large branches to build an a-frame for my cantaloupes. Should have enough to build another for my small watermelons, and maybe something for my winter squash too.
Anyways, it does feel weird that the Pacific Northwest is so much hotter than here in the Great Lakes. Usually it's here that it's hotter. So far our summer has been fairly average.
Thanks Angela, I appreciate your videos.I did get a little bit panicked during this one though, because I feel like we are now starting to go over the cliff and the effort to remain resilient just for a moment overwhelmed me.However I am going out to fill my rain barrels with town water because my rain water is finished.Gonna let that gas off and drench the plants to get through the weekend at least.I am in the south west of Ireland and it's as dry as a bone here and the heat continues... Daunting times.
Great video and lovely food forest you've created for your family you should be proud!
It's interesting to see what thrived for you through this! And this year's weather, well, it's been nuts! It's almost like your area and mine (SW Oklahoma) have swapped weather the past couple weeks. We've had 5 inches of rain this week. Eye-opening for our area was the big arctic freeze back in February. Many of us lost plants to that (my young pomegranate, for instance). We usually have a week or two of real cold, but not normally into negative temperatures.
Pallets are great free lumber, most businesses put them in the trash!
Your videos are really inspiring and I've been learning a lot from only watching a few of them
I'm so glad your garden faired so well! It is so helpful to see your design and how it worked for you during the intense heat. You mentioned water catchment. I am really curious to see what you will do. I'm wondering how much water you you will want to catch and how you determine that amount. What form of catchment that will be? I am hoping to stack the large blue drums and connect them together, collecting water off our house roof as well as my studio and use a gravaty system to deliver water, but need to delve into it with knowledgable people for feedback to hopefully avoid mistakes. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I have a living mulch of arugula and radish at the base of one of my trellis beds and they're doing a pretty good job of keeping the soil moist. The tall/vining plants there are sunflower, cucumber and pole beans. The radish are bolting and kinda inedible though so I might try exclusively arugula or maybe a different variety of radish next year or maybe something else like beets. I used Garden Giant radishes and I'm finding that French Breakfast hold up better in my heat (which is not that extreme - 75-90F). The ground has only started to get fully covered about 10 days ago though and we got a good amount of rain in that period, so the true test of my living mulch's effectiveness will be when we hit another dry spell.
I consider radish somewhat inedible (unless pickled) even under the best of conditions, but you can eat both flowers and young pods. In the Southeast, standard radish is purely a winter crop. We do have the lesser known rattail radish, grown solely for its pods, for the warm months.
@@erikjohnson9223 I was a fairly new gardener when I made that post. With an extra couple years of experience, I'd say it's tricky to manage a living mulch, trying to balance out the sunlight, space and season/temperature requirements of the different plants you're intercropping.
The easiest solution might just be mulch that's inoculated with winecap mushroom.
I have had bush beans do ok in partial shade of taller crops though, and produce a decent amount before getting crowded out by the tall crops. Corn salad also works during the cool temperatures as an edible ground-cover - winter in the SE US, spring in southern Canada (I'll be finishing harvesting them over the next week). Sorrel might work too, it mainly grows during cool weather and goes semi-dormant in the summer heat.
Once you're into summer though, I'd say the summer crops should be mature enough to shade out the ground pretty well. The purpose of the mulch would be more to reduce the drying effect of air flow at the ground surface than to shade out the sun.
I would love to know more about what specific changes you end up making as you reconfigure. I am in the E Vancouver area and just starting my food forest plan, so I’m now adding “plan for extreme climate events” to the list of things to consider as I work on my system.
Interesting, I’m in Beaverton and my feijoas got pretty burnt. I wonder if it’s because they’re young.
I have seen what looks like salt damage in more fertile soils. Never saw that in Florida (which is nearly pure sand).
I've never seen blueberries with sunburn. ☄️🔥☀️
Definitely a struggle. I plant for zone 4 on up as I live in "zone 5" but Temps can swing dramatically here in s. Michigan. We've been in a 6 month drought and last week it rained 1-2 inches every day to make up for it.
Thank you for sharing!
We are just starting out designing our gardens here in SW France. This year (as it is our first year having a large garden), we just planted a huge amount of annual veggies, while getting to know this land and planning for the future. A future with a foodforest hopefully. I am constantly learning from people all over the world. Climate change predictions for this region are in my mind all the time when we are planning/designing.
Have you grown fruit trees from seed? Or do you recommand buying trees? We are saving every seed from apples, cherries, peaches,…
The seeds of fruit trees are a way to get inexpensive rootstocks. However very few will come remotely similar from seed, and all will be much slower to bear than for grafted trees. If you have time and space to experiment with breeding new varieties, seed might be worthwhile. I would stick to plants (or buy lots of rootstocks and buy or beg scionwood).
I looked through your videos for something on irrigation and didn't see one. How do you water your garden, especially in the heat? Thanks!
I had no idea that you could grow Fijoa here! Our family fell in love with the fruit while we were in New Zealand. Can you please tell me what variety to get and where I can source them?
Yes! I got them at One Green World. They carry several named varieties and seedlings as well. I have a Mammoth, an Apollo and a seedling. They grow super slow here and benefit from a sheltered spot out of winter winds.
@@ParkrosePermaculture Thank you! I'll plan on adding them to our space in the fall or spring. So exciting!
@@ParkrosePermaculture I'm fascinated by the feijoas too - I live near Victoria BC (8a/b) and would love to grow one of these - a local nursery has them but says that they need to be hand pollinated because we lack the tropical birds that normally pollinate these plants....what do you do?
@@sailorssmallfarm1867 In FL, bumblebees and carpenter bees will visit them. Not enthusiastically, but enough for fruit set (if you have a self-fertle type, or multiple cultivars near each other). I also used to pick the petals as a sweet nibble, and if you do that (which is what the South American birds are doing), it is not much extra work to hand pollinate them as you harvest the petals.
What can you recommend for heat-tolerant canopy and understory trees in the pacific northwest?
Do you want them to produce food? Madrone is a wonderful native tree that can handle heat stress. Large canopy tree, but no food.
@@ParkrosePermaculture I have read they are used for honey, and that the berries are edible just not good.
Another great positive message but you look extraordinarily attractive and beautiful in this video. That roller derby background changed my observation of you 180. The divisive sign in your front yard must be some sort of camouflage...or the like. I just wanted to say you looked beautiful in today’s video...and your garden