Quit working so hard plant a food forest
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.yeah, have to agree. I have a food jungle/forest. It provides about 80% of our food much of the year. It is hard to keep under control, if left to its own devices it would be all passion fruit, grapes, pumpkin and raspberries. So they get cut back seasonally. Must be careful with permaculture if you are near pristine natural vegetation though. I do almost no yard maintenance near my jungle, the footpath/sidewalk looks so neat and "normal" by comparison.
Rugglesby
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Mar 28, 2018
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Like I said "Paradise, lad, Paradise".
@FrayedBear yeah, I am content, more space would be nice, we have rain now, so plants are much greener than they were when it was dry and I was using underground water. Would be more than decent down your way also I would think.
Iād love to see some pics of your food forest
@Rugglesby Just had the first? rain of the winter rain but the grass is still burnt. Lost a bit because of the dry and heat. Peach trees have survived but I think I've lost a citrus and a fejoa.
@FrayedBear have you ever had any fruit from the fejoa? My tree is coing well, great flowers, no fruit. I have been told that it needs a companion plant, though there is no mael or female plant as such. I have a Natal plum that is he same, sadly it is also night pollinated. Trials and errors.
@Rugglesby I was wondering. Had heaps of flowers last spring but they never fruited. Currently all the leaves are burnt pale brown/ fawn and it looks dead but will wait and see. Peaches, figs and citrus seem to do best down here.