Food Forest Transformation Underway and Other Garden Projects

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3 years ago, we bought this piece of bare land and we're continuing to expand the food forest and work on a bunch of other garden projects. Today I'll be sharing with you what we've been working on over the Winter and Spring as well as show you some of the rare fruit trees we've got growing. I'll also explain the methods we're using for the food forest expansion, show you the full process of growing a food garden for our animals and give you a look at the vegetable gardens, plus more!
We're gardening in a way to create a diverse system of edible plants, fruit trees, vegetables and a bunch of other useful and beneficial plants. Hope you enjoy! :)
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0:00 Intro
0:36 Food forest expansion
3:28 Vegetable Gardens
5:05 Rare & Unusual Fruit Trees
6:57 Growing food for animals
7:56 Propagating fruit trees
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10:11 Fruit trees in Spring
10:42 One of my favourite trees
11:32 Turkey gobble lol
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@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks heaps for coming along to see what we've been up to - I hope you enjoyed it! If you'd like to see more, feel free to check out the video I made of the land back in Summer which shows some of the other cool stuff we're growing :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ndGfnMZhlt2aoJ8.html

@Dang_Man 2 жыл бұрын

i have been growing a dragon fruit not grown I just put the seeds they haven't sprouted yet

@Gazzasore 2 жыл бұрын

Banana? avocados See my post below

@Poison.Ivy_ 2 жыл бұрын

Truly. When I watched this I thought (vegetable sky) from toriko

@riversdudley4650 2 жыл бұрын

Have you considered a "setting up the property " video discussing building yalls house and the start of the food forest ? I think it would be really interesting and help push more people into doing this sort of thing

@roommate2630 2 жыл бұрын

try mix plants " pumpkin root and watermelon top ' those watermelon will become so strong and big , start in spring time can harvest 3 to 4 time in summer.

@benny7257j 2 жыл бұрын

Many people still don't know the importance of native trees and plants and what role they play in local ecosystem and how many animal species are dependent on those native plants and trees, awesome video and nice updates 👍🏼.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Benny, definitely agree. Planting more native trees is something we're going to continue working on more and more. There's a real lack of them in the farmland that surrounds us unfortunately.

@klug_d 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower I can't wait for that! I am very interesting in New Zealandian flora 😊 though I am from Austria

@rickershomesteadahobbyfarm3291 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been planting native fruit trees on my property as well. I’ve been putting them close to my property line so the squirrels will spread the seeds to other properties. I planted 25 bare root pawpaw trees a couple months ago. I gathered wild persimmon seeds from a friends property to add to mine. I’m going to find spots in my woods that get sunlight and plant the seeds. Then I will let nature take its corse.

@deadtreebark 2 жыл бұрын

They attract natural wildlife and pollinators

@RichardColwell1 2 жыл бұрын

We really need a revolution in education…. I would like to know Americas educational system history and if nature based information was taught even 100-150 years ago… seems like reading writing arithmetic and history, social studies, and geography came eventually, but why is it that people don’t really learn about plants until college (horticulture, ecology, landscape architecture?)

@ednaofeliasabile5737 2 жыл бұрын

After 6 years of gardening I decided a no dig garden, we bought like 60 tones of compost so we can reduce weedings. I put the cardboard first then the compost. I cover weed mat to my tomato beds a 1 meter wide and 40 meters in length. This time the tomato got no weeds because I used a 1.83 wide weed mats but the walk way have some weeds. You inspired me with the no dig and I believed next season will be less work because after harvest this summer we will cover them with weed mat so next planting will just create the holes and plant our seedlings. Planning to cut trees to shredded so we create mulch for the walk way in winter.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Nice, definitely good idea to cover walkways with mulch, sounds good!

@Sh1roNekoshi 2 жыл бұрын

I adore birds, really. They're really something when you've raised them from the egg no matter what species it is! Loved the excited gobble in the end!

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Haha yea they're a lot of fun to raise and have as friends :)

@pacojuanrico7083 2 жыл бұрын

"Hey turkeys! Gobble gobble!"

@lee-rentiaarnoldus4500 2 жыл бұрын

The cardboard is a wonderful idea,the thought of weeds really put me off,thank you for that tip

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

No worries! So easy and works so well :)

@janinehenderson854 2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes we think back to what we’ve done over the past 5 or 10 years. And I’m amazed at what we got through. Doing a recap on how far you’ve come is amazing. Congrats on your progress. I still remember early days when the Feijoas went in.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Janine, yea it’s easy to get caught up in the things that need to be done and looking forward, so it’s good to be able to stop and reflect :)

@kiwitexan6022 2 жыл бұрын

I am at the exact point you were 3 years ago, building my food forest and veggie garden in Kaitaia. Thanks for being an inspiration! Hopefully my garden will look as amazing as yours in three years.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, exciting journey ahead! :)

@vancegilmore245 2 жыл бұрын

Kalem, you are a Zookeeper!! I am in deep awe of you. You are truly a holy man. May you live a very very long and lovely life. We need people like you in world leadership.

@haley5154 2 жыл бұрын

Just found your channel recently been binging all your vids. So jealous with your section and green fingers, veg patch and plant looks great. Would be keen to see what you plant in the summer :)

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks heaps, glad you like them. Will definitely share more and thanks for checking out all my other vids! :)

@joshendy 2 жыл бұрын

Wow it's really starting to look like a forest! I was gutted to see what happened to your cherimoya. I've got a grafted cherimoya down here in Wellington and I've been protecting it with my life! Looking forward to seeing how your food forest takes off this summer 😊

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear you’ve been protecting yours. I got a bit busy with other things and never really gave it what it needed, poor thing. Nevermind, lesson learnt!

@catherinegrace2366 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower sometimes you just get too tired

@ohseedeemunky 2 жыл бұрын

Loved the update. Can't wait to see more throughout spring and summer!

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Mike, glad you liked it!

@teashawnaperry5366 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower i love nature and i thank you for giving me need ideas for planting i love your fruit garden 😍♥️🇹🇹 i will love to see this garden in person so beautiful unique 😍😍😍

@sarahclemson7587 Жыл бұрын

Somehow, it was really fascinating seeing sheep eat bamboo of all things.

@kennedynthiwa5100 5 ай бұрын

You are building a natural world in your homestead while big corporations driven by greed and power are destroying the natural resources like forest in order to get rich. The guardians of the natural world salute your efforts. Whatever you are doing now will be celebrated and enjoyed by generations and generations to come. Please keep it up and God Bless

@bane5807 2 жыл бұрын

Dude you have the life I want to live damn it! Awesome stuff man, just getting into gardening and this is a great channel!

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers and glad you're getting into it! :)

@arieswildchild 2 жыл бұрын

Love to see how devoted are you to this garden, and it actually repays. Plants knows when you care well about them, it makes them grow healthy.

@catherinegrace2366 2 жыл бұрын

Love it! Food Forrest is what I’m going for on 1 acre here in Northern California. My plants made it through the summer of constant heat 110 - 120 so I am doing a happy dance. I mean a HAPPY dance! It was brutal. We are experiencing a mild fall so everything looks pretty good. I worked like a fool to stay ahead of the heat. I have chickens and a rabbit too. They had misters, shade, shade cloth, ice and a fan. It was still hotter than blazes but we made it!

@Irishjay-gu5pb 2 жыл бұрын

So thankful I caught your video!!! I'm taking my farm in the same direction, meaning creating a food forest. :) It's a beautiful way of gardening, very intuitive aa well. Thank you for the visuals! It's even more beautiful than I imagined! The bees and beneficial insects must be extremely happy as well! :)

@brendancull 2 жыл бұрын

You’ve got a beautiful plot of land! So nice to see the updates to your gardens. Thanks for sharing.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Brendan!

@mahmoudsharafan2934 2 жыл бұрын

Man I'm a City guy but damn you have a great place to live , Amazing job thanks for the update

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate! :)

@denisemarshall2432 6 ай бұрын

Thankyou so much for sharing your experience!! I swear most 'gardening books' and websites just cut and paste what has been written before. My mountain paw paw melted too, even though I planted it alongside a gabion wall (stone filled) that I had put in to help my avocados cope with winter in Dannevirke. I shall go out now and see if there is any sigh of life at the base!!

@121homestead9 2 жыл бұрын

My absolute favorite garden companion…..young turkeys. I trained mine to look for tomato horn worms. They are amazing at it, I tried teaching the geese and they will not cooperate.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

That's some well trained turkeys! :)

@121homestead9 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower I believe that they may know that this is the easiest way for them to get a treat, otherwise they have to fight the chickens, ducks, and the very entitled(in her own mind) female goose. Turkeys are not nearly as fast as the rest of them.

@MaxMustermann-cq8bl 2 жыл бұрын

Man, your videos are a huge help in getting my own little garden project to survive. Northern Germany has seen drought after drought in recent years and the parts of my backyard, that I don't water like every other day already are literally just dust for the first 20cm down which is insane for these parts. I've been trying to get a miniature version of how things looked around here like 200 years ago before agriculture sort of turned 80% of open space into farmland to take foot and even the plants, that should be absolutely A-OK with the sandy soils have struggled beyond believe. I mean, even the damn juniper I planted has. Mulching as much of the ground as I can to at least give the bigger plants a chance to establish themself has been a huge help because no way any sort of natural groundcover is going to survive without hundreds of liters of water every week for the whole summer and our well has been running dry cause groundwater levels are at an all time low, lmao

@enjoyyourlife3082 3 ай бұрын

You are living in heaven! Nature around you is amazing ❤️

@lolitabonita08 Жыл бұрын

someeee years agoooo i took a class of horticulture and I remember that the teacher spoke about a farmer that started to have issues with wild animals eating his crops...so he decided to plant half of acre at one corner of his property and he let the animals know that the food growing in that part of his property was only for them but he wanted them to stop eating his crops...long and behold...the wild animals ate from their garden and never bother the farmer's crops ever again...nice...and the story is real

@bethanyc5712 2 жыл бұрын

Oooh this is amazing! Absolutely love it! I'd love to have a huge food forest like this one day

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bethany! :)

@einosky 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see your patch of green amongst the farmlands, love it. Can't wait to see what it looks like in a few more years. Maybe start keeping your own bees ;)

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Charlie, hopefully one day it's completely consumed with trees haha. We've got a few hives here, have been beekeeping for around 3-4 years now :)

@TobyJin 2 жыл бұрын

Lots of progress since you first started, excited to see this place develop into the future.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Toby!

@mapd6831 2 жыл бұрын

It’s great to see just how much you’ve developed your property! Congrats mate

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks heaps!

@rachellewis6492 Жыл бұрын

Yours is the most beautiful vegetable garden I've ever seen, so inspiring

@Mowgi 2 жыл бұрын

I was just watching your first tour of the yard the other day, what an awesome garden you've created. Loved seeing the update!

@Mowgi 2 жыл бұрын

I have a couple of huge fig trees out the back. Don't usually harvest them, but the birds love them. Same with the nectarines.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Brodie! Thanks for watching

@markj1107 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Kalem! Its all looking really great. I look forward to seeing how things are progressing down the track and what you have planned for the summer veg garden. Cheers as usual from Oz!

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Mark, thanks heaps, look forward to sharing more as things continue to progress :)

@heinricheverson 2 жыл бұрын

Almost thought I spotted weed 😅. Love what you've done with your land with all the gardening and tree planting 😁

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks so much

@grouchPotato 2 жыл бұрын

One of the rare channels with no dislike! Weel deserved and more power!

@moonorchid9242 Жыл бұрын

Your property is like my absolute dream. I’m trying to do my best version of a food forest on my suburban houseblock in Australia. This year Im expanding into my front yard & putting in a bunch of trees which I’m going to grow in grow bags with raised beds in between each tree.

@littledotti6808 2 жыл бұрын

Taking tiny steps. So far my succulents haven't died, mind you, I had to replace a few before I knew what I was doing. So their thriving. My first attempt at growing something. I also planted spring onions, to my amazement they grew. Growing confident now. Next, more veges. Auckland weather is so dang unpredictable, so I'm more inclined to grow items in pots then the ground. Small steps.

@teresamexico309 2 жыл бұрын

"Labor of love" And there are many in the club :)

@tipiwhenuatanirau8105 2 жыл бұрын

this is so great , fantastic to see kiwis on here

@nateb9768 2 жыл бұрын

Hey man thanks for being so educational and broadening our horizons with exotic items. Don’t think I’d ever get to learn about this in college.

@janetbransdon3742 Жыл бұрын

This is a great way to garden. I am in the process of doing it this way. I have planted my trees and shrubs in different guilds and planted herbs, veges, flowers etc around the shrubs and trees. I have vines growing along the fences. A voulnteer choko is growing over one tree in my garden. I have other volunteers popping up everywhere, including sunflowers, wheat and corn in the chicken run from where I broadcast the seeds for the chickens lol. Love your garden. So inspirational.😁

@rickershomesteadahobbyfarm3291 2 жыл бұрын

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

That sounds awesome! What a cool thing to see take shape and a great legacy to leave

@thomaskrafft9890 Жыл бұрын

You and your videos inspire me in my own garden. Have you investigated the benefits of biochar? I never learned about in my Agronomy studies, but I now believe in it the emerging science. I love when age-old, low tech methods prove better than our chemical fixes. Thanks!

@listay1 2 жыл бұрын

Can't believe the changes in such a short time! We moved into our home 10 months ago and have set up a raised garden and lots of containers for our place. It's a tiny (in comparison) not quite 4m X 4m patch!

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Nice one Lisa, sounds like you're utilizing the space well!

@charlottehart311 2 жыл бұрын

How inspirational! I’ve been trying to get closer to the source of my food/eat more plant based, and your farm is my dream!

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Charlotte! Sounds good, a great goal to work towards :)

@matthewgoetzka8855 2 жыл бұрын

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@jefsimpson8129 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! The farm is looking great thanks to all the hard work you two put into it. I am really enjoying this gardening information. Thank you very much.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Jef! Glad you think so :)

@dougs_urbanfarm 2 жыл бұрын

It's great you show people how quick this can happen(with hard work of course). Guabiju are delicious, hoping my 3 year old tree fruits soon. Plus have 100 guabiju seedlings to deal with from fruit I ate last year

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks heaps. Man you’d make a fortune selling those if you were in NZ. Can’t wait to try the fruit!

@hanadebengek1629 2 жыл бұрын

The food forest is looking good. Keep up the good work.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Hana! :)

@simedinson984 2 жыл бұрын

Well you inspired me to plant some fruits from seeds even thou I live in an apartment in Sweden I have killed cacti by forgetting about watering them so seeing them sprout was a big step up

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Nice one! Hope they continue to thrive :)

@IdiotF0ol 2 жыл бұрын

Careful with that silverberry. We call it "Autumn Berry" in the U.S. and they're considered invasive in many areas. Apparently, it can get out of hand. Still, I had some on my previous property and I loved the fruit, but it is astringent and eating too many is similar to eating too much sour candy where your tongue, cheeks and roof of your mouth are impacted.

@charlotteking8123 2 жыл бұрын

Just found you, love your work! Great, simple explanation of the two types of lasangne gardening!

@awesomebro3659 2 жыл бұрын

I think I am falling in love with your food forest. I am planning on something simular in my garden.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks heaps, sounds cool! Good luck with it :)

@riversdudley4650 2 жыл бұрын

How much did it cost to fully build yalls house? I'd love to see a video on setting up your house and property for the food forest

@abro528 2 жыл бұрын

was browsing the video and saw an upload! been loving the videos man keep it up

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks heaps, glad you're enjoying them!

@ethanalkiny3452 2 жыл бұрын

Finally the garden! It's so beautiful

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ethan!

@ethanalkiny3452 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower I always wanted a farm. Maybe someday 😌

@chrrmin1979 2 жыл бұрын

After watching some of your videos i decided to sprout some seeds. So i took some potting soil out of a pot thats been sitting on my porch for about a decade, and planted some seeds to sprout. All of the sudden, peanuts that i didnt plant started popping out! I think i have a friendly farming squirrel / bird

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Haha that's awesome. Nice bonus lol

@zachmacleod1829 2 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the effort you've obviously put into your garden! You've given me the inspiration to try my hand at growing. For a point of reference, I'd love to know how often you tend to your plants.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Zach, thanks heaps. It varies, and I haven't really had the time over the last 6 months to do that much to be honest, even though it might look it. Most of the mulching was done in a few days during lockdown and aside from that it's just a bit here and there. Over Winter at times I often went 3 weeks or more without doing a single thing. So probably average an hour per week during Winter. Spring needs more time due to the change in season, and honestly I've been struggling a bit to keep up, as I work full time, plus do KZfaq which takes up pretty much all my time. It really depends on the size of your garden though, and in Summer watering can take a bit of time especially if you don't have irrigation set up (which we don't as we're on rain water here, so we have to be more precise with water use).

@zachmacleod1829 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower Awesome to hear from you, thank you for sharing your experience. Having a reference point will definitely help me design what scale I can commit to, I'll be sure to keep this in mind. I look forward to seeing more of your content in the future!

@poupoule54000 2 жыл бұрын

Great job! What a beautiful garden.

@wendyg8536 2 жыл бұрын

Love your channel :) ...cheers from the west coast

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Wendy! :)

@selvarasuyuvaraj4655 Жыл бұрын

Very nice...... And control of human fertility also very very importent, helping nature to recover itself.....

@MrCow579 2 жыл бұрын

I got recommended your channel at the same time a lot of others have, been hooked ever since! Your content is great! Can't wait to see what's to come :D

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, glad you like it!

@Maxi-cq9nq Жыл бұрын

Wow

@dvdpastor 2 жыл бұрын

Hi! Absolutely love the huge range of everything you have in there (specially the purple varieties, like them very much). I've heard you have quince tree/s. I have one but fruits are not very tasty (I love eating them raw) and some time ago I heard they can be grafted with pears or even apples, have you tried, perhaps? And great skills for turkeysitter or panda-style sheep-feeding... Best!

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Hey David, thanks heaps. Yep I've got 2 quince trees, the pineapple quince fruits really well and the other one is a young Chinese quince that hasn't fruited yet. You're keen eating them raw - they're very astringent I've found. Having them cooked is really delicious though! I haven't done any grafting with them, but strangely even loquats are compatible with quinces. Loquats are sometimes grafted onto quince rootstock to get a tree that doesn't grow so massive

@dvdpastor 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower Hi there. Thanks for the info... loquat on quince! That sounds bizarre but suggestive, and I think I'll have to do something with it, the fruits are not very tasty, (it's a French tree I bought online and fruits are big but tasteless). Raw quinces are very astringent, yes, but love them (two bites, one sip of water to avoid hiccup, that's true)... they're in season right now and I've already devoured a dozen! (and not so fan of cooked quince, you see...) Thanks again!

@l4te4oot91 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love seeing these updates brother. Hope to have fruits and veggies forest like yourself. Sooo gnarly

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers bro! I hope you can too :)

@Kai2z 2 жыл бұрын

Yay finally a new video 🎉

@mrpoohbearlvr 2 жыл бұрын

Lil' fat turkeys in time for Thanksgiving 😁 Terrific gardens, and an owner as cute as a box of puppies! A perfect Sunday morning 'wake me up'.👍 🇺🇲🇦🇺

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Marc, lucky for them they're safe on this farm :)

@mrpoohbearlvr 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower I kind of thought so. Just funny watching them ride on your shoulders. 👍

@vitorpacheco3519 2 жыл бұрын

What a joy to watch, I wish I had something like this.

@dannypaulsen4921 2 жыл бұрын

Nice bro your place is looking good. I am in the process of planting my place up with fruit veggies and native plants, it's good fun Love your videos to

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Danny, sounds awesome what you're doing. Good stuff!

@MB-co6qj 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing to see what you've turned that grassy piece of nothing into already 😍 and congratz on the HUGE x2 of subscribers mate! Cheers from 🇳🇱

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks heaps, and hi from NZ :)

@MotherBee 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could visit you once we finish this lockdown in Auckland

@icsouls Ай бұрын

Awesome video, 😀

@EndChineseGenocide 2 жыл бұрын

Have you found out if your animals can eat silverberries? If they are tart, or mostly seeds they could be a good crop to feed to the turkeys

@EnchWraits 2 жыл бұрын

6:17 they had me in the first half.

@alyoshakaramazov1537 2 жыл бұрын

When you hit max level on farmville and start a real life one 👍👌🙏

@SideshowBen206 Жыл бұрын

The turkeys at the end made me laugh 😂

@farmstrong5434 Жыл бұрын

Love what you've done! Taking it as inspiration to start my own on our farm. Love from Morocco 🇲🇦 !

@TheKiwiGrower Жыл бұрын

I’m so glad to hear 😊. Good luck with it and love from NZ

@AleshaOpry 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful garden👍🌺 Why do you need to cover it with a sheet of paper before pouring the soil?

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Without the cardboard the grass grows through which then competes with the other plants. The cardboard just blocks the grass from growing for long enough that it dies off. :)

@AleshaOpry 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower This is great new knowledge for me. Thank you🙏

@wendyburgess2962 Жыл бұрын

This is brilliant. I understand the concept of planting Canopy trees and really thinking of the Pathways.,. What a beautiful Food forest. My Ponies demolished my Broadbeans. They do a lot of pruning. Little rascals. I love the garden dedicated to animals. Amazing information.

@rajishmaharaj7552 2 жыл бұрын

Loved the food forest. Cant wait to see all tge growth in the coming year.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, same here!

@huntingwithgrandma 2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos. They fun entertaining and I learn heaps, keep up the good work

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot, glad you enjoy them!

@crochetingaroundnewzealand 2 жыл бұрын

It's looking fabulous! Well done!

@Scandic45 2 жыл бұрын

You should get some Lingoberry bushes and some Vaccinium myrtillus , blackberries , Fragaria vesca ,Rubus arcticus and finally the golden once Rubus chamaemorus (Cloudberry) maybe have a patch of edible mushrooms ?

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestions, always looking for more types of berries! And yes super keen to get into mushrooms at some point. Cheers :)

@Krfification101 2 жыл бұрын

You get a like just for the gobble-gobble at the very end.

@jocylenebrillo1756 2 жыл бұрын

💗💗💗 Watching from Philippines 🇵🇭

@lilspittin313 2 жыл бұрын

Wow the animals you have on thy land look so happy! :)

@kayvong6397 2 жыл бұрын

Omg! I want to live with you! You have my kind of garden ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ love your garden so much

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks Kay! :)

@Mehdzz 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome that you mentioned where you get your wacky trees from. I've been trying to find some interesting varieties in NZ too so I appreciate it. Which variety of Cherimoya do you grow mostly?

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what variety my seeds came from - it was a fruit from a fruit shop

@nbfarmandpets 2 жыл бұрын

Such a lovely place, so relaxing!

@Hopolangify 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful 👌🏾I am about to binge watch all your videos

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy :)

@acaciagrove4204 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job mate good to see fellow kiwis going down this path. I'll have to go check out marvelous fruits

@guilhermepossani4737 2 жыл бұрын

I'm happy to see how beautiful and diverse It's become. There's another Brasilian fruit of the same family of Guabiju you have to try, we called Jabuticaba (Plinia cauliflora), it's endemic from here and one of my favorites fruits.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I’ve made one video on growing Jabuticaba before, so I do have some small seedlings of them. They grow so slowly haha

@guilhermepossani4737 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower I didn't know about this video, just saw it. And yes they take like 15 years to fructify when are planted from seeds, but don't give up, it's very rewarding. Also they will need a lot of water and when become older a bunch of sunlight too.

@brendanpeck9780 2 жыл бұрын

Have you considered trying any sort of beekeeping? Whether it be a traditional style with the suits and gas and hand harvesting, or something "automatic" like the Flow Hive? I think that would be a cool addition- add a good home for pollinators, and a natural sweetener right in your backyard. Would also make for some awesome videos!

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Brendan, yup I've been beekeeping for around 3 or 4 years now. Have showed it briefly before in previous videos :)

@growfoodnotlawns5082 2 жыл бұрын

Great progress bro...

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks heaps :)

@catherinealderson1890 19 күн бұрын

Looooooove!!! Incredible mahi team

@m.m4776 2 жыл бұрын

You’ve done a great job! So inspiring! That’s what I want to do in the future. What would you recommend the better climate for food forest, north island or south island?

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

It depends what you want to grow but i would say North Island presents more fruit growing opportunities, particular the top half.

@Mi008 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent report. 👍 so much going on. In my garden only really hardy plants can persist during winter months, but climate change made better conditions for figs, persimmons and pomegranate. You are in a way better situation when it comes to exotics. Keep doing the job and I wish you all the best.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks heaps! Hoping to share more info on more hardy fruits etc in future as it seems like a lot of people have colder growing areas than here :) Cheers

@gazzabethyname 2 жыл бұрын

Hello from Eastern Bay of Plenty. Love the videos. Thanks for sharing 👊

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Hi from the upper Waikato :)

@JLFamilySong 2 жыл бұрын

Kalem, I have used newspaper before, and it didn't seem to break down well. I have used just mulch, but it didn't kill the weeds. I love the idea of the cardboard! That's pure genius!

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Joe, same here with newspaper, I've also found it takes much longer to break down. I guess with cardboard the corrugation allows water to soak through better and it can then break down much quicker.

@brentgreeff1115 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKiwiGrower - Seems like a great idea, but I was wondering what chemicals are used in the manufacture of cardboard. A quick google search seems to indicate that there are quite a few toxic chemicals involved. - I guess its all a matter of degrees.

@kelvinespinosa1430 2 жыл бұрын

wow man!. that is a wonderful work you have done in that time. your place looks so full of life and diversity. won't forget medicinal plants greenhouse!.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! :)

@vtecanddohc 2 жыл бұрын

You got me wanting to buy some land and start a farm

@KlausBioMadsen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! It'd be cool if you could talk a bit about the particularities of your site - where are you at in NZ? What's your climate like? What's your soil like - alkaline, neutral, acidic? Sand, silt, clay? Makes it easier for the viewer to understand the results :) Cheers!

@TheKiwiGrower 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! :)