Productive up-cycled food forest in suburban Sydney garden
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Owner: Nita Lo
Location: Middle Cove, Sydney, NSW
Climate Zone: Warm Temperate to Sub-Tropical
Garden established: 2016 - 2017
Style: Food forest style garden designed using permaculture principles, sustainable practices, and some self-preservation as well! Nita explains - “my garden is on a slope, quite a steep slope…. it’s a 7m cliff from the top section to the bottom area, so I have designed the garden so that I don’t have to carry mulch, plants and green waste up and down the stairs”. “When I first set the garden up I almost wore out my knees getting all the plants and mulch down here” she laughs “so I use design principles that mean less stairs for me!”.
Key Features:
Nita has created a garden overflowing with life and abundance - wicking beds, raised beds, worm farms, composting bays, an upcycled garden shed, recycled and reclaimed pots, swales, food forest, native bee hive and verge garden, complete with a Street Library. And then there is the banana circle - basically a circular swale that clever gardeners like Nita use to turn their green waste, organic matter and water runoff into delicious bananas, pawpaw’s and other incredible edibles. Sure, at first glance it might just look like a hole in the ground, and essentially it is - little more than a well-planned circular ring of soil surrounding a pile of compost, but for hungry, fast-growing edibles like bananas and paw paws, this is almost the perfect way to grow.
Nita had a great banana circle, but, some travel and a rogue brush turkey has it looking less than ‘a-peel-ing’, so this one needs a touch of magic from Costa to get it up and happening again. Nita explains why she installed the banana circle in the first place - “this is my self-sufficient zone of the garden, everything has to look after itself down here”. “The design of the banana circle makes use of excess water run-off, or if water is scarce, greywater can be directed to the circle so water is reused. On top of that, bananas grow well in a circle, and bear bunches on the outside, making it an incredibly efficient use of space. Planting in this way also helps to create an instant microclimate, and affords the plants a level of protection from winds and even frosts”.
Plants Featured:
Arrowroot - Maranta arundinacea
Pigeon Pea - Cajanus cajan
Pepino - Solanum muricatum
Choko - Sicyos edulis
This garden was going to be open as part of the Sydney Edible Garden Trail, 20 - 21st March 2020. The physical trail has been postponed but a virtual tour will go ahead with live feeds. Look out for Costa in those.
Details can be found here: sydneyediblegardentrail.com/
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What a friendly, upbeat personality she has and Costa, as always, so very natural and without fuss.
This is one of the best garden presenters I have seen! Have him in more shows please 😊 Even the music is nice and not all folksy, no ridiculous intro. Love that he actually helped instead of just asking questions, making comments
Agree!
Agree! He's great
So cool to see the structure and root system of a banana tree - living so far from anything like that!
I have a couple of doves who seem to have taken residence in my garden lately. The problem is they love munching on my beans seedlings. I just happened to have those wire baskets lying around so now I know what to do with them. Thanks for the ispiration
I love that the bush turkey helps pile up the compost LOL.
Nice see our native pea on an Australian television show. Pigeon peas are awesome as a soup with pumpkin and coconut milk with Asian coriander and oregano. Mmm
Incredibly beautiful and inspirational! Lovely to see the host helping Nita with her banana circle. One of my favourite childhood memories: visiting our family friends in their home in French's Forest, Sydney. They had an unbelievably amazing home on a large block with banana trees growing all around their house. Can't grow bananas, avacodos, mangos in Canberra. Was excited to learn from my brother that passionfruit and grape vines grow well in Canberra.
Thanks for sharing your story Emily - Glad you enjoyed our video!
I really envy anywhere that has a mild winter climate. My mama's guarden has to withstand -18℃ dry/freezing cold to 40℃ humid/burnin hot whether😂
Which country
I didn’t even knew minus temperature existed 😅
I just love watching these videos.Its nearly midnight and got the ego to go in my garden right now.😊
Nice garden, Nita! Love your thrifty repurposing too. I'm feeling inspired
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I didn't think bush turkeys lived in the suburbs of Sydney and only up in the tropics. Glad he's helping out in the garden!
Love the way she is gardening! Trying to do vertually the same at ours! Thanks guys!! Hey from the Sunny Coast Qld.
Fuzznutt
How is your garden going for you ?
Lovely and how special your positive energy has brought a beautiful native Brush Turkey to want to nest on your property ❤️🌳
I love how she uses everything that’s available
Costa just makes life better, met him once at southern cross station and he was super nice as you'd expect :)
Excellent episode 👍✌️
Love her passion & enthusiasm. 😎🌏
Survival of the Fittest ❤️ it 👏👏👏👏👏no pressure at all! 😂😂😂
So encouraging and uplifting!!
Fantastic garden!!!
Belinda Domingo isn’t it just full of beautiful surprises?! 👏
Cracking Costa! “You bloody beautiful... right where I wanted it!”
Great video garden Australia 😁👍🙌
Kristopher Vogt thank you 😍
Great inspiration - thank you!!
OMG I LOVE YOUR GARDEN!!!!! MY DREAM!!!!! WELL DONE
Wow😍 how I wish I could have a garden like her garden 😍👍
fabulous
Beautiful😁👍
Nice, awesome, fantastic, wonderful, amazing, cool... :)
Vry fun episode
Great garden, I see some of my favourite hardy plants. A couple of the scientific plant names given at start of video are not right (or renamed recently); the arrowroot shown is a canna species, the maranta species is a different plant used for arrowroot. I think the choko is also mislabelled.
Apparently the choko species given is a synonym of sechium edule, the name I am familiar with, so that one is ok.
Wow turkey on wiz
loved the background musics.. and how lovely the garden is... and she smiles perfectly ;)
Wow she really loves throwing the kitchen sink at it
What a beautiful food forest! I hope I have one in a few months too! Question: what’s the problem in bush turkeys nesting into the banana circle like this? Is it the mass they make? Or any other particular reason?
I WANT A PAIR OF THOSE OVERALLS!!!
wish I'd been more like her
You still can😄👍🏾
Maria Nkitu
Unfortunately not
was there any native bees in the hive she had up on the cliff there .
You walked past it at 3:20
I am a little bit confused...she uses the the run off from the balcony to water the plants...but its raining everything is getting wet anyway?
Nice garden with nice beard:D
東京40まいる 🌳🍌🧔🏻Emojis need to raise their beard game!
How long did it have ....6 weeks 🤔
Sorry but we never thin out the bananas. A waste of fruit. Sorry. I have grown bananas since birth, Caribbean girl here.
Do you get rid of suckers once they've fruited though?
@@MrRetiJunior we do. We also remover suckers and transplant them if we have too many at once. This is mostly to have more bananas or plantains. This way the location isn't filled too much, to increase airflow and u increase your harvest with new plants. The dried leaves work great for mulching. We use the leaves to make special meals like ayacas and tamales. Instead of using paper. We mostly only hear of disease if u are using the bananas with huge agriculture.
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There is 2 note lo's on utube money of them are her...does she have a utube ?:)
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