Starting Our Food Forest, Vege Gardens & MORE!

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Planting a food forest and starting vege gardens is an exciting part of developing our property. We're in the early stages and I'm excited to share with you the projects we've been working on so far and some of the rare fruit and other fruit trees we're growing. I'll also be sharing how we're working on turning our grass lawn into and abundance of fruit and vegetables! One step closer to becoming more self sufficient :).
I'll go through mulching with wood chips and cardboard, planting some cool fruit trees, nitrogen fixing trees and plants, growing in raised vegetable gardens, growing berries, our chicken run and some other stuff!
I hope you enjoy and let me know if there's a topic you want me to go more in depth on :)
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The Kiwi Grower is a channel featuring all sorts of unusual of often tropical fruiting plants with tips of how to successfully grow them. I'm interested in all things gardening and love growing edibles. While I'm not in a tropical climate I like pushing limits of what I can grow and sharing experiments with you all. Come learn with me and Subscribe! I have animal videos too :).
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@AmbrociousXP 2 года назад

When you say it's winter there and I see green grass...IM AMAZED. Winter here, everything is dead outside lol.

@ProximusCentauria 3 месяца назад

When it's winter here everything is dead.....from the heat.

@rodneylane7640 3 года назад

Your vegetable gardens look great. I would love to see a video where you harvest your dinner and see what ends up on your plate. Can you post a harvesting video sometime?

@gardener800 2 года назад

Few years later become real heaven😀

@DanielMintel 3 года назад

Great to see how your putting all that land to use, Cant wait to see how everything looks in a year or two from now.

@sutlucorek2434 11 месяцев назад

Senin tagasaste harika görünüyor 😮ona bayıldım MaşAllah ❤

@ferferiify 3 года назад

How beautiful nature. I enjoyed watching this piece of paradise.

@spakecdk 3 года назад

Gotta say, yours are the only videos on youtube I don't watch on increased speed and from start to finish!

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Thanks so much! 😊😎

@abelstropicalfruit8647 3 года назад

Nice forest 👌

@Carlymday 3 года назад

You guys have done an amazing job. It's going to be spectacular in a year or two!

@torts97torts93 3 года назад

Can’t wait to see how this turns out in a few years

@2BitSlow 2 года назад

Those are some big bees

@letsgowarrens1413 3 года назад

Awesome

@SustainableHolly 3 года назад

Vege beds are looking good! I do love a direct sow!

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Thanks! Yea definitely, makes things easy :)

@claralo111 3 года назад

Love your dog. Great video.

@jamestropicals8262 3 года назад

Nice!

@vincentliu7785 3 года назад

very noice !

@iedenchannel 3 года назад

Gorgeous dog! Mine is usually trying to eat my plants 😁

@darrenbell2133 Год назад

SO GLAD YOU MENTIONED THE DOG - NAME AS I SAW HER ON THE VIDEO ABOUT GRAFTING THE TOMATOES + POTATOES AND WONDERED HER BREED AS SHE REMINDS ME OF A STAFFORDSHIRE TERRIER BUT WONDERED MAYBE ABOUT A TOUCH OF GREYHOUND.

@greenhillsparadise 3 года назад

This is an awesome video to follow your journey with you!! I have planted some Tagasaste and can't believe how yours have grown!! I hope mine do this too in only a year. Fingers crossed.

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

I’m sure they’ll do great for you! Such cool trees :)

@TobyJin 3 года назад

Your property is looking pretty good, great potential for te years to come and most likely it will look spectacular in 10-20 years, interesting to see how your trees have already come out of dormancy as the same situation is happening in Australia and probably other parts of the world too.

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Yea some plants are definitely a little confused! My passionfruit is flowering and fruiting in opposite seasons

@RhyBeezy 3 года назад

Looks awesome man, we’ve got a feijoa hedge going and almond as well recently 👍

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Thanks man. Nice one - both of those can be super prolific too so a great choice :)

@robbiewallace9822 3 года назад

The ice cream bean should come away in spring, it grows very fast being nitrogen fixing. Interested to see what the blue sausage tree looks/tastes like !

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

I hope so. Thought it would be interesting to see if it does better / grows faster than ones I plant in spring. Will definitely update on the blue sausage tree sometime :)

@johnwilliams2711 3 года назад

Noice! 👍

@naumikaur7459 2 года назад

Another great video.Did you get any Almonds from your plant please.? Thanks

@tong2645 Год назад

Hi there I love your videos I had attempt to garden before complete failure it gives some motivation to start gardening so I was thinking of starting of with something simple like watermelon as that's one of my favourites fruit and in one of your videos you variety watermelon plants just wondering where could I get my hands on them

@sankawithanage7548 3 года назад

Hey bro! I'm big fan of you who discovered your channel a week ago. Im originally from Sri Lanka and moved to NZ last year Feb. I really like farming though I hve an accounting background. Good luck brother!

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

That’s awesome and hope your liking living in NZ! You must be able to grow some awesome tropical trees in Sri Lanka!

@brettaskew2616 Год назад

👍👍👍👍

@gabrieljswachter6361 3 года назад

Remember watching you when you only had 3 videos.

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Wow that was awhile ago! 😊

@effiekatrantzi2103 3 года назад

Same, I even tried to grow a coconut tree as in the video

@kindaeslam 3 года назад

😍😍😍👍👍👍

@soovy2903 3 года назад

Can u try to grow like, peanuts, lychee, mangoes, papaya? And how is ur chocolate pudding fruit plant going? And how’s your ice cream bean plant going? Well? Updates please!😃

@soovy2903 3 года назад

Btw I haven’t made up what profile pic I want so I may change it if I find a good one, but let u know, I am the same person!😄

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Hi there, yep will definitely look at growing those in future. Have grown all of those before except lychee but keen to do it again and makes some videos :). Cheers

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

The chocolate pudding fruit plants are still small as the video I made was not too long ago. I no longer have the original icecream bean plants from my video years ago but I have some more growing now that I’ll plant in the spring :)

@soovy2903 3 года назад

@@TheKiwiGrower hi thanks so much for replying! Did u Film growing peanuts, mango, and papaya? It will be great if you would link a video, so I can see your amazing planting videos! I loveee planting haha! It’s so great that u plant tropical stuff! Lucky your in a warm area! U can plant anything! I’m in a colder climate.. but I’m growing mango, trying lol..going well so far!

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

I didn’t make videos on those yet but have just experimented myself with growing them. Will look at making videos in future though. I’m actually not in that warm of an area, we get frosts and go to about -3 degrees C or so in Winter

@justryan2070 3 года назад

Ice Cream bean --> Guaba because that's the actual name and it tastes nothing like Ice Cream. It's more like milky fluff with a cotton candy consistency that you kind of just suck on and don't eat the actual fiber. Very mellow tasting sweetness to it.

@hannahr7068 3 года назад

wow amazing can't wait to see it all lush! Have you got any olive trees or going to get some? i ended up getting around 4 feijoa varieties probably 3 years back because i came across your videos and i'm so glad i did! i ended up making a hedge with olives and feijoas because of their similar foliage colour and i love it.

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

That’s so cool, never thought to combine the 2 but that’s an awesome idea :)

@ivankontenski4396 2 года назад

I'm curious, don't you have snow in the winter where you live? Because I had some little trees too, but last winter we had 180cm (roughly 6 feet) of snow at once, which obviously crushed all of them under its weight.

@tong2645 Год назад

Any chance you willing to give a away some of your watermelon plants seed's 😊

@diysnapdragn 2 года назад

What growing Zone are you in? At first I thought you where in a tropical area because of the types of trees you planted but you said it gets close to 0 C. Your planting trees that I have never seen before and wouldn't think to grow here but I might try it if our zones are similar.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 года назад

Our cold hardiness zone is roughly equivalent to 10a. Gets down to around -1 or -2c here :)

@imhumb1265 3 года назад

What happened to your coconut plant you grew 7 years ago? You have a beautiful property and lovely pets and plants!

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Hi there. Unfortunately I had to leave all my old plants with my parents when I moved to the city years ago and the coconut died sadly. Might have another go growing one at some stage though :). Have you tried growing one?

@henryandfaithvanheeswyck1237 2 года назад

are you in the north or south island?

@lisasanders9896 3 года назад

Hi great vlog just found your channel. What type of sleepers do you use for your garden beds? I'm trying to decide what I will use 🤔

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Hi Lisa, I’ve used red gum and white gum, which is quite a good long lasting option due to how hard and dense the wood is. People also commonly use macrocarpa sleepers :)

@lisasanders9896 3 года назад

@@TheKiwiGrower awesome thanks heaps,really enjoyed your 📹vlogs,great to see nz gardening RU-vid content out there that I can learn from 🤣 we are also from NZ.

@steevefruteau8639 3 года назад

Hello and thanks si much for your vidéos. I tried to polinise my apricot tree with a brush about 10 days ago but the frost came and flowers died. Do you think it s gunna work tho? Cheers from France

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Hey, sadly late frosts can be a real pain, and can potentially kill the flower and fruit depending on how cold it is. Just see how it goes :)

@MagnussonJulia1 2 года назад

Hiya! I was just wondering why you'd choose Lupin, a non-native invasive species, instead of a local alternative?

@TheKiwiGrower 2 года назад

I don’t know if any native alternatives like this that have all the qualities of lupins. I just use them as temporary plants to improve soil and provide other benefits to the permanent plants. They’re not invasive in a managed system either :). If some do go to seed they will grow again but in my context that’s helpful as I chop them out again when they’re a big plant, providing more nitrogen and biomass to the food forest

@MitchK_ 3 года назад

I really want to get that tree, so I can tell all my friends oh it's just an Old Man's Finger. 😉

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Haha definitely! A crack up talking point

@JJBclassic 2 года назад

where abouts are you in NZ bro? I'm in south island and wondering if your grows are north island weather (only kiwis know the difference lol )

@chrrmin1979 2 года назад

0:30 is it just me, or does the backgroud landscape make it look like theres a cut in middle of the screen?

@jens4697 2 года назад

Didn't you say it was winter?

@hollyday5643 3 года назад

Hey I just watched your growing kiwiberries from seed like 8 years ago! Haha I’m from Taranaki and have got some seedlings going that have been like two cm for months and don’t seem to be growing any bigger! Any tips?

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Yea I have the same thing happen as well, they can take a little while to get going but grow faster once they get a bit bigger. Maybe try some type of fertiliser now that it’s spring and see how they go

@hollyday5643 3 года назад

TheKiwiGrower ok great thanks for getting back to me fingers crossed!

@leavingitblank9363 3 года назад

You mentioned watering some of the plants, which made me wonder... How DO you water all that??? (Love the dramatic skies and beautiful countryside.)

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Only requires it for summer but just with a very long hose and sometimes buckets haha

@ruvzulu8849 2 года назад

What breed of dog is that

@nicholaskristoff8735 3 года назад

great channel! definitely something I would like to do in the future. I was wondering where you lived? I live in California and there is a lot of clay soil which makes it a little difficult to grow certain trees and plants. I was wondering if you knew a way that could help turn the clay soil into something better for fruit trees? thanks!

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Hi Nicholas, thanks for the comment. I’m in New Zealand. On my place we have only around 20cm of topsoil before hitting heavy clay. My fruit trees are doing well and my neighbour has the same soil and they still do great. One thing I’ve done in area where my topsoil is particularly thin or for trees that do better without clay below is to put in a mound of topsoil and plant on top of that. I’ve done this in dips as well which would otherwise collect water and flood the fruit trees too much. You can improve soil overtime with heavy mulching which is what I’m doing. As the mulch (wood chips etc) gets broken down by fungi and other microbes it’s turns into rich soil and improves soil immensely :). Hope that helps!

@veganchiefwarrior6444 3 года назад

i think buying bare land sorrounded by bare land was a great idea man, the possums here in tassie have no mercy lol

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Believe it or not, the surrounding farms are actually teaming with possums as there’s quite a few tree lines around. They’ve killed several of my little gum trees we planted...

@veganchiefwarrior6444 3 года назад

@@TheKiwiGrower oh man haha yea i used to feed em lots of fruit to see if i could use them to spread fruit trees through the bush but i havnt found a single fruit tree yet i swear the wallabees just eat all the seedlings that would have come up, they doom themselves really i was just tryna help em lol