Productive /non-productive years may have something to do with fertilising, type of fertiliser used (compost, liquid seaweed...), watering and the seasonal temperature.... and everything else
WRT Fejoa giving variable yield year to year, in northern boreal and temperate areas it's the apple. With apples, one cannot guess what the harvest will be in any given year.
So cool. What I aspire to have. Be careful with the lemon balm in amongst your veggies, once it establishes and can pop up every where,very prolific and can become woody and hard to extract like rosemary. I won’t grow it any more, but still find baby plants come up in the path. 😊
The panache fig takes very long to ripen and is perfect for our long hot and dry summers in Perth. So be patient, the flavour is amazing, very different to other figs though.
Wonderful edible ways❕ Smiles to you from high altitude, snow country California🔆 Ahhh the thiught of growing quavas, etc...... You have a lovely approach to your garden, enjoy🔆
Wow, the number of fruit trees you have has absolutely exploded in the last year! It's so exciting to see your collection expanding. Thanks for sharing, Holly.
Oh my gosh. Love love your rain water bin. I also have lots of things out to collect rainwater. Then I just tip it into pots etc. but if they don’t need it then it just sits and gathers mosquitoes larvae. Brilliant idea. I’m getting a rainwater bin next week! We are up for a dry hot Summer. I’m hoping we can create some rain catching bins off our gutters. Great video. I love a tour. Could watch it every week. And the garden does change every week now 🌻
Good day Holly, I hope you are doing fine. I really like how you have structured your garden. Looking forward to see the fruit trees bear some fruit in the coming season. I hope you can continue with your live streams, I really enjoy them. Thanks for another excellent video. Have a wonderful day.
Regarding your rainwater collection system (😂), if you have an area of your house’s (or other structure) roof where rain runoff is concentrated, you could try installing a rain chain to channel water directly into your container. Rain chains can be expensive though. I’ve seen RU-vid videos of people using actual car-towing chains. I once had a very ugly DIY version using a tightly rolled section of chicken wire/fencing wedged between my metal patio cover/awning and my rain barrel and it worked marvelously. My patio cover had an internal gutter that channeled water to an opening spout, but didn’t have a down gutter, so water exited the spout like a fire hose. Once I installed the chicken wire at the spout so that water had to contact the wire as it moved downward, water moved gently from the awning down the fencing before pooling on top of the barrel’s mesh top and into the barrel. Make the surface tension of water work for you! At the very least, please look into mosquito dunks to prevent mosquitoes from reproducing in your various saucers.
Gardens looking great Holly, hey do you think you could do a video on hardwood & semi hardwood cuttings one day. I tried to propagate some lime , mandarin & fig cuttings last year but they didn't root & the ones that did (fig) didn't make it so have just done a different batch this year of apple plum & pears in Takaka river sand. Heres hoping , have you ever thought about growing coffee beans in that hot Perth climate.
Most citrus don’t do well from cuttings but figs taken in dormancy and kept nice and moist are much easier! Best to grow some citrus or apples from seed and then graft mature wood on to them. Definitely exploring air layering on all my guavas and feijoas too so 🤞🤞
Electroculture is something you may find worthwhile. Basically it's copper wire antennas placed in your garden beds and next to your trees. Bamboo sticks about 10mm thick and 400mm long are wrapped clockwise starting from the top of the stick by 1.5mm pure copper wire. Of course you can make the sticks and the wire as thick as you wish, but the dimensions mentioned here are perfectly sufficient to achieve the effect of bringing in the Natural Blessing. Aroha nui.
Just subbed. Your enthusiasm makes me smile😊. When you say 720 square metres do you mean the full size of your block or the growing area. I'm on the east coast ( Wollongong ) and have stop/started my garden several times over the years but hopefully this time I'll keep at it.
I used to watch your videos years ago when I lived in Victoria. Now I live here in Perth and I love getting ideas of what to grow over here in this new environment. Thanks!
One of the main things to remember here in Perth, full sun may not be all day full sun in our summers, it tends to 'cook our veggies and fruit trees here. I cover part of my garden with shade cloth in summer.
You're planting Passions are a plethora of a aplenty of Fantastic Future fruitfulness. So: much-❤ - for all the very inspiring results; resulting for & from your efforts. & Thanks for the share & your caring methods of your nurturing of the earth for a more sustainable provisioning method of creating more sustainable way of life example.
Living on Kapiti... one place that is on my bucket list. Maybe check out Huw Richards, UK grower who's climate zone is closer to your's than Holly's. Find a local "organic garden organisation"; a wealth of knowledge and a source of seeds that have been regrown over multuple seasons and are more adapted to your local invironment than the non-specific commercial offerings
Loved your tour❤thank you Are your trees growing fine in pots? I noticed your mulcher , I’m thinking of buying one . Can you recommend yours?? Thank you 🌱
I got mine free on marketplace and I love it!! Definitely doesn't like big branches but great for the stage I'm at now. Pots are a juggle here and dry out in summer and need good drainage in winter. Having a shade sail up for summer has been a life saver for my pots though
Q. Hi Holly. I have a strawberry guava too but I'm reading now I need 2 plants, a male and a female? What's your experience with yours? My tree is quite large, but it's new to me and it hasn't flowered yet.
As far as I know they are self fertile. mine cranked by itself. Also why they end up being invasive because they grow from seed so easily and birds spread them. Mine is just starting to flower now for the season. Is it getting plenty of sun?
@@SustainableHolly Thanks! It is getting plenty of sun. It's at least my height but still in the bag from the nursery I brought it home in a month ago. I'll repot and see how it goes.
Hey Holly! As you might remember, I have a food forest style garden myself and I have a mature macadamia as the top layer. After harvesting some more macadamias this last weekend, I noticed an online smoothie recipe based on macadamia milk. Since the macadamias are free, I decided to make some macadamia milk. Do you have any plans to have a nut tree in your garden and what exciting things would you make with it? Cheers!
I don’t have plans for nuts just yet but making but milk would be amazing!! You could make flour or use them in baking. I just made a chocolate tart base with walnuts and dates 🙌 also add flavours and make coated macadamias as gifts 🎁
@@SustainableHolly Thanks Holly! I actually watched your video twice, so please keep them coming! I was also thinking that a nut tree (doesn't have to be macadamia) would be great to provide shade in your front yard. Coincidentally, this is where my macadamia nut tree is in my food forest. Love your work and your garden. May I also suggest watching a Netflix documentary on Living to 100 - Blue Zones. It has a lot to say about gardeners and gardening around the world. Cheers!
Its always interesting to compare. We are on 660sqm, and are up to 80 fruit trees. But our whole front yard is one big food forest, with about 45 in it. Curious why you don't plant nz yams or oca in that shade spot?
@@SustainableHolly our side yard is our next target. I have a perfect English mulberry to espalier. Shame about the yams, was curious how they would do in WA. They grow well in Melbourne.
Oh my goodness, the bloody elderflower is beautiful, but what a nightmare plant. I did get elderberries from the elderflower. I would love yo get a real elderberry tree. Still looking for one, or even a cutting. I'm south of you... we should catch up
