I love your garden and the open lawn view. The beautiful greenery of the lawn makes it even more lovely. It's a great place to entertain and for the children to run around. The view through that area to the water is spectacular.
This is soooo unreal to me!!! As someone who has only ever seen cold climates and just had -40F windchill... I just want this so badly! You guys are living the dream in some ways. I know that area isnt perfect and has the cons of storms and flooding but wow I hope to go there at some point! I can't believe the amount of things you can grow and that's just in the winter haha
It’s certainly a fun place to garden here! We have some challenges and we actually cannot grow most of what grows in northern vegetable gardens. Most everything that grows well and easily here is perennial. Winter is our only chance to grow any kinds of annual vegetables/fruits. I hope you can make it down here one day and enjoy some warmth. -40 sounds crazy, but I bet you have lots of wide open spaces where you live. Thanks for watching!
@@IslandsnHighlands Yeah I'm glad I found this channel cause you guys seem to be pretty efficient and focus on perennials. Yeah that cold snap broke some records for sure (and some pipes haha) but you're right I guess there are some benefits to gardening up here! Thanks and I hope I make it down there too!
I’ve been watching your videos all day and am taking lots of notes! I think I’m just down the road from you guys and I hope my garden will look like yours someday 🫶🏼 So glad I stumbled upon your channel!
Awesome- I assume yours is indoors right now? Yes they are very common- if you check out our "Plant Pirates" videos, we look for free plants on landscape debris pick-up day... There is often so many plumeria cuttings (sometimes piles) that we dont even grab them any more.
@@IslandsnHighlands I've been binge watching your Plant Pirates episodes. I love how you are teaching the kids history while plant hunting. I do, in fact, keep mine indoors for the winter. It drops all its leaves, then leafs out again in the spring. I keep it in my sunroom until it's past the danger of frost. I'm jealous of your free plants, though!!
Thank you! The plant pirates videos get us motivated to get out there and collect regularly. It’s just like thrift store shopping, the more you go the more you find:-) I bet your plumeria is beautiful! I love plumeria and we should talk more about it. It’s one of the easiest things to find in the trash here because they grow pretty fast and people cut them back when they lose their leaves. I would love to figure out a way to collect the scent from the flowers. The yellow ones have the best scent imo
When did you start planting your food forest? It looks AMAZING! We added a food forest to our garden last year and we cant wait until its as grown as yours!
Thanks! We moved into this place about 3 and a half years ago. We were lucky enough to already have growing in our yard a huge mulberry, two big mangoes, and a big Florida avocado tree. So we had a lot of beautiful trees to work with. But our front courtyard garden (other than the jasmine) everything is 3 years or less old. Bananas are a good one for quick food
Hey guys! Love your property! My family lives on Merritt Island in Florida. We are starting a food forest in our back yard! How would you suggest getting with local food forest growers to share or exchange cuttings? Our list is made, but it’s pretty long and some things I’m not sure we can find in the nurseries.
Awesome- Merritt Island is beautiful and prime for a food forest! Also a great place to get mangoes from roadside stands in late spring / summer! The Brevard Tropical Fruit Club I believe has a forum and meet-ups where people share / sell plants. We use Marketplace to find plants to buy or trade with other growers. A lot of times people selling will trade as well. Of course trading with neighbors and friends is great too. Pete Kanaris (Greendreams) and Nick (Nick's Edibles) both have great stuff for sale (Nick is closer to you). We are a registered FL Nursery, but do not currently sell. Having a food forest is a fun hobby with tangible rewards!
Thank you so much! I follow green dreams but didn’t know about Nick. I’ll definitely check him out! I just signed up with The Brevard Tropical Fruit Club! Thank you again! We are so excited to embark on this fruitful journey! 🌱
How did you plant the Areca cuttings? Are they just little clippings from existing plants? Did you use root hormone? The previous owner of my home planted arecas much too close to the house. I’m trying to figure out how to use them along my back property line. TIA for any advice!!! Love your videos!
My neighbor has a hedge of mature Arecas along our property line- I just waited until their Arecas dropped their fruit, the fruits sprouted in the ground where they fell, and I dug them up when they were approx 3''-6'' tall and potted them. Hope this helps!
What!! You can grow coconut in zone 10a?! I have to now! I’m from NZ but our people settled here 1000 years ago some canoes came just 600 years ago from the cook islands, samoa, French Polynesia etc yet our ancestors brought with them sweet potato from south America and not pacific coconuts or bananas! Perhaps it was colder back then🤷♀️ all i know now is that o have to grow coconuts in Tauranga (:
Its must have been too cold back then- I cant imagine any canoe-going society from the south Pacific traveling without coconuts. The coconut is literally the tree of life! I bet they did bring them, but they failed to thrive in NZ. You should definitely try to grow them!!! BTW NZ is top on our list of places we would love to visit one day!
@@IslandsnHighlands Nau mai haere mai (welcome!) I’m not from down south so I can’t speak to that but make sure when you come to the north island that you go to Te Rerenga-wairua (north cape) and the Hokianga heads and manea footprints of Kupe in Opononi, and Tane Mahuta tree in Waipoua forest and Ngawha hot springs near Kaikohe and then go to Tiritiri Matangi island reserve off Auckland and then drink some L&P in Paeroa and then come to Tauranga and go up Mauao and then go up Otanewainuku and then go to Rotorua to do the tourist stuff there and then go to Hatupatu’s rock and then Huka falls and then go to Taupo go up Tongariro and then you could go to mt Taranaki and then i think fly to Wellington make sure you visit Te Papa Tongarewa (national museum) and Zealandia eco sanctuary. Yeah that’s my take on the must dos, please visit i promise no one has ever regretted coming here
Wow! Thank you for all the great ideas of places to visit! This would be such a wonderful travel experience for us and we hope to make our way there one day! We need to travel more :-)
So we are in zone 9b in brevard Florida and plant two coconut palms last summer and the news says we can have record lowers what would you recommend cover or leave it and it should come back during spring ?
If they are small enough, and if your specific area will see prolonged temps close to or below freezing, you might consider covering them. If they are small enough, running irrigation during the coldest hours might help. We are pushing the limits of coconuts here in Brevard- any further north and they will almost certainly succumb to cold weather at some point in their lives.
We separate some of them to get them established in more areas and leave one on the fruiting tree to replace the one with fruit once it’s done. Once you harvest the bananas, you have to cut down the tree and start over. We put the cut up pieces of trunk back on the banana patch
A quick litmus test would be- are there established coconut palms near you? Or, when was the last time you got a freeze? We have only have one night where temps dipped below freeing in 10 years. I would say you are pushing the boundaries of 10a, but yes you should be able to grow 10a stuff beachside...
Hire a proper landscaping professional. Your plants, shrubs and trees are growing wild. There's no proper spacing considered as plants need to breathe. Do not brag on these wilderness.
