Documenting my life and the process of transforming my backyard into a Tropical Fruit Forest. Currently growing over 140 varieties of fruit trees, with and affinity for rare fruits :D
Videos showing a little bit of building, growing, fruiting, harvesting, maintaining, eating, traveling and cooking.
I am gonna start this project soon. What size of double and single cinderblock you've used? I have at my local store double 8 in. x 8 in. x 16 in. Concrete Block and single 8 in. x 8 in. x 8 in. TIA!!!
Lovely! Thanks for sharing. I found your channel while looking to see if other people are growing mangosteens well in Aust (away from tropical areas). I am a fruit nut too :-) Miss amazing tropical fruits in my birth place Sri Lanka after living in Aust for over 30 yr. Even moved to Brisb in 2009 with the hope of making a small private tropical botanic garden with lots of fruit trees but that plan didn't work out unfortunately and even later because I had to take up a big public health protection campaign which drew a lot of energy and time. A fruit lover friend living on Sunshine coast picked some tiny guavas from an elderly neighbour who boasted that his good health must be due to fresh guavas from that bush over the years. I have never seen that variety anywhere else in Aust (it is not the common cherry guava) and it is hard to even find it in Sri Lanka now. It was such a delight. Do you have Panama berry? They are tiny but such a lovely taste. When I lived in Brisb I was looking to find a plant but couldn't. Then a couple of years ago, while visiting Brisb from Syd, I walked into Bunnings at Carseldine and there was one pot right at the front of the gardening section. I brought it back to Syd and it had done OK. Would love to visit you when in Brisb next. Pls PM me on FB if you don't mind Dr Pri B
Thanks for sharing. I am a fruit nut too :-) Miss amazing tropical fruits in my birth place Sri Lanka after living in Aust for over 30 yr. Even moved to Brisb in 2009 with the hope of making a small private tropical botanic garden with lots of fruit trees but that plan didn't work out unfortunately. A fruit lover friend living on Sunshine coast picked some tiny guavas from an elderly neighbour who boasted that his good health must be due to fresh guavas from that bush over the years. I have never seen that variety anywhere else in Aust (it is not the common cherry guava) and it is hard to even find it in Sri Lanka now. It was such a delight. Do you have Panama berry? They are tiny but such a lovely taste.
Thank you for your video's. We are also in Brisbane and are just beginning our food forest. I wanted to ask, how much space have you allowed between your fruit trees? they seem really close. Finding info on tree spacing is tricky so Interesting to see what you have done.
THIS IS NOTHING COMPARE TO MY PHILIPPINE JACKFRUIT. THE BEST SNACK FRUIT IN THE WORLD UNIVERSE. PERIOD. I WISH THEY CAN GROW IT HERE IN AMERICA, BUT IT'S TOO DAMN COLD HERE AND THIS ONLY GREW IN A HOT ASIAN CLIMATE.
I watched her another video that said you can calibrate it. I wonder if that would help annihilate those bigger chunks in your video, but still it seems to work pretty well I was extremely disappointed with the wood chipper I bought from Amazon, it's an orange gas powered shredder for 476$ and it wasn't getting the right fuel oxygen ration when I got it, it kept dying, 1" thick vine-like brush would tangle in the blades and full them. One of the screws holding the blades is now stripped because they used a strong lock-tite. And it's non refundable after you put fuel in it.
Yes, yes, yes, good description of what the mountain soursop tastes like. I'm in the Caribbean .. bought it for the first time yesterday .. initially thinking it was the Custard Apple (the seller did correct me and said it's mountain sop). I was so disappointed this morning when I tasted it 😢 .. I found your video because I came looking to learn more about it .. was wondering if I got a bad one .. lol. It's something one would have to get accustomed to ... because the taste is not encouraging at all 😊. That said, when there are nutritional benefits, that's encouragement enough for me .. I love fruits.
I have not tasted all of them yet, Lucs, Russel Sweet next on my list. I think the Purple and Achacha are pretty equal. Maybe leaning towards Achacha because it's much easier to grow and the tea from the skins is amazing as well 😀
Highly recommend not only safety glasses but also a safety mask, as said in the manual, because within 10 seconds I had 2 branches whipping me in the face (happy I had my safety mask on).
lol my son came over last night while I was making the tea out of dried leaves ,he said what is that smell he thought the dogs pooped in the house .. 😂
Be sure to look up dosages for this tea. It can be toxic if you take too much and affect your kidneys. If you have kidney problems you should talk to a doctor for sure before using! ❤
Our home in the Marshall Islands is packed with PANDANAS. They can spread by floating over the ocean to Islands, which is ideal for a nation made of atolls. Second only to the coconut, pandanas are essential to life on these resource poor Islands as they can provide for so many of our needs. I lived in a thatch house made of pandanas for a while which stayed cool in the summer and warm in the winter by "breathing" with the weather around us. It was also a work of art, looking at how it was stitched together was mesmerizing. As to the issue with eating the fruit, you can gnaw on the individual grenades when they are hard and unforgiving and are guaranteed to give you furry teeth . Or you can throw them in a pot of water and boil them. For many of the children in this region, including my own, boiled böb which had its soft flesh scraped out, ate this pudding like food as their first baby food after nursing. Very nutritious and high in vitamins C&E particularly . I honestly miss this lovely plant
Thanks for sharing your experience. This is first time I heard of this plant. I'm staying in Malaysia 🇲🇾, country full of many types of fruits. Including some rare fruits like Durian. I wish one can try this Hala Fruit.
I tried a green Elephant Mango from an Asian super market. It was a green unripe fruit, A one pound mango. It was a bit crunchy but slightly sweet . And no tartness at all. Have you tried it? I aim to sprout the seed. They say if the fruit has an "S" shape then it has a poly embeyonic seed. Meaning if it germinates, it might be able to produce the exact same characteristic fruit. Can hardly wait.🥱
Yes I have a couple times. They are in the 'savoury' box not sweet and not bitter. Great if you want to pickle or put them in salads. They're also a bit expensive compared to the sweeter smaller varieties so I over look them a little. Good luck on the germination, I did not know about the S shape theory, let me know how it goes :)
I start drinking this juice and making it because I have a problem in sleeping walls for 2 days straight that am drinking am sleeping like a baby now thank you God 🙏🏽
