Grow Food in Your Front Yard || An Edible Landscape in the Making
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
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In this video you will see what plants I am growing in my front yard edible landscape! I recently began transforming this area so my edible landscape is not complete yet.
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Welcome to my channel, Our Tropical Soil, where you can learn how to grow food in the tropics!
Front yards are often not very useful. Most front yards do not have an edible landscape and instead have an ornamental landscape, but guess what? You can totally have both because many edibles plants are also beautiful. This is what I am hoping will become of my front yard. I envision an edible garden that blends in so well that no one will even notice anything different. Before I add any plants to this area I want to make sure they meet my three requirements so that I can achieve my edible landscape dream. The first would be that they have to be perennials. Perennial species are easy to care for and don't bolt and dry up, this ensures that the front garden will always stay tidy. The second is that they can't be obviously edible. I define an obviously edible plant or tree as a species that people will walk by and quickly know what you are growing. I do not want to plant anything obviously edible because I want to prevent people from stealing our harvest. Lastly, I want to make sure I am planting beautiful plants! I hope that my front yard edible landscape will one day serve as an example of what is possible. I know that we can have beautiful ornamental landscapes and eat them too!
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Fantastic! Thanks for the tour. We can't wait to see how the design evolves.👍🙏
I am glad you liked it :) It is going to be a long process but well worth it!
Stategically plant the lemongrass especially in your backyard to rid of mosquitoes.
I love peanut butter fruit. Yum!
Does the lemongrass work well for that? Mosquitos are mainly a problem in the summer when the sun is going down.
Our Tropical Soil Our Tropical Soil Lemongrass do stave off mosquitoes and other bugs since they have a similar scent as the Citronella candles sold at stores. The best plant to rid mosquitoes are citrosas. Other plants include lavender, marigolds, basils. To get the best out of its use and if you and the family are outside gardening, try cutting a few lemongrass leaves (aka blades) and crushing them up and put in your shirt pocket. That is what I do or just rub a little on my clothes and for extra measures keep a fabric softner in your shirt pocket as well.
The number one mosquito repellent plant is citrosa which I like alot. I grow alot of lemongrass only for cooking purposes.
@@Foodie_888 Interesting! Thank you, I am honestly not too familiar with the secondary uses of plants! I mostly only know of their edible qualities! I will try it out when the summer comes and the mosquitos are horrendous!
Our Tropical Soil Best of luck! I always enjoy seeing things grow after putting in so much hard work.
Foodie Best of luck to you too finding some delicious tropical fruit :)
How can I get some seeds from cachucha pepper from you???
I have look for it and I can’t find it any were that I can trust. My mon and my wife love it. We are originally from Cuba and back at home we had it in the patio. Thank you
I sell the aji cachucha seeds. Here is the link. I have it listed under Aji dulce. www.etsy.com/listing/688262745/aji-dulce-seeds-sweet-pepper-capsicum
I just bought it. A little to expensive with shipping, but my mom and wife will love it. I let you know next year when I plant it. I’m in Orlando and it is a little cold right now.
Also I wish you do more videos, I’m learning with permaculture, but you know is a long road. If you any other side with more information about your tropical plants please let me know. Ty
Thank you for purchasing from my shop. Some other channels about tropicals and permaculture that I like are Green Dreams with Pete Kanaris and David the Good