Turning my backyard into a thriving edible paradise or food forest has been a very rewarding journey! What started as a bare grass paddock is now a food forest filled with fruit trees, berries, vines, and edible plantsβproviding fresh, organic food year-round.
In this video, I’ll take you through my garden and have a look at what’s been fruiting, what’s ripening on the fruit trees at the moment and have a bit of a look at the veggie garden, and talk about what’s been happening.
If youβre dreaming of growing your own food, whether itβs in a backyard, homestead, or urban garden, I hope this inspires you! π±πππ
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Hi, I’m Kalem, and this channel features all sorts of unusual and exotic fruiting plants with tips of how to successfully grow them. I’m interested in all things gardening and love growing my own food and all types of edible plants.
I live on a 2 acre piece of land in New Zealand where we are turning a grass paddock into and abundant, edible paradise and food forest! So come along on this journey with me as I experiment with growing, and try to push the limits of what I can grow. I’ll share with you my successes and failures so hopefully you’ll learn from them and have a go yourself! Come learn with me and Subscribe to join this awesome community π
0:00 From grass to food forest
0:42 Growing Loquats
1:54 Early Nectarines
3:10 Apricots
4:15 Japanese Wineberry
5:00 Elderflowers & Elderberries
6:17 Plums – 3 varieties
10:03 Keriberry (Rubus rugosus)
11:32 Unusual cape gooseberry
13:13 Subtropical fruits – Cherimoya, Tamarillo, Pepino
15:09 What’s coming soon on the fruit trees
16:23 Vegetable garden
18:50 Growing sweet corn
21:14 Sad news
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If you've just got a small area to work with or some containers, here's some fruits that you could try and grow! – https://youtu.be/BF2ZWVdUUkg?si=oRxDYHZ0o7F0NusS
Thanks for watching!
-Kalem
you cant have that in the Uk due to weather and lack of sun, what product do you use to prevent the fruit from having bugs/worms? and what you use in the soil ??
Monster Kholrabi
Save the seeds of the gooseberries and plant them. See if you can get doubles to grow again.
Have you ever thrown together a tier list of your favorite fruits?
How is it that you dont have pest problems?
amazing!
Amos 9:13-15…We're already practicing for a few years from now.
Rest in piece Baby Boy
I was so happy until the news at the end π’ i didn't follow you rising them but seeing the clips at the end broke me heart
You are incredibly fortunate to have such a nice piece of land to work with, and you've done an amazing job cultivating it. Sorry to hear about the loss of your turkey friend. Nature's possibly greatest cruelty is that our animal friends live for such a brief while.
I just love your little edible paradise. Itβs so inspiring.
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Very cool progress and my condolences.
All that work in the backyard turned YOU into an edible paradise π₯
I watched ur avocado video where u told us that the rumor that avocado seeds are bad aren't true and managed to sprout an avocado pit. π
I also have to say R.I.P Baby Boy
You have created such a beautiful garden. We need more people like you and more gardens like yours.
I have a question. How you fight bugs, are there any? How you manage to water all these?
Sorry to hear your bird is gone. He surely had the best life a turkey could ask for.
Liked and subscribed
What do you interplant with your fruit trees in the food forest? Native plants or perennials?
Your pure heart and loving nature shine through in everything you do! Iβve got tears rolling down my eyes for the love and caring shown to your turkey friend, and just how loved your garden and animals are π₯°π₯°π₯° Thank you, namaste ππ½
Too bad, those fruits are for the cold zone. Not growing in tropical clamate but I can grow Ceylon Gooseberry
you're living the dream, glad to see it, truly blessed!
Seems so easy to eat healthily when you have so much of that fruit and produce right there, but i know it took a lot of work to get there in the first place! and the arms look massive i can see why the keriberry gets at 'em!
I know that elderflowers are not poisonus but arent the elderberries poisonus??
This is absolutely beautiful… I'm buying land to organic farm just like this.Thanks for sharing.
As a southlander – I am jealous of your very sub tropical weather that allows you to grow those fruit trees!
Just discovered your channel, Iβm hooked! Youβve done an amazing job cultivating and caring for your edible garden and raising your pets – the enthusiasm and passion are plain to see and greatly appreciated. Just wanted to suggest if youβre able to grow a Cherimoya tree you should also be able to grow a Sapote tree – they are actually a bit more cold hardy than most tropical and exotic fruit trees. The fruit is incredible and almost impossible to describe itβs literally like eating natures own version of custard when ripe! Iβd highly recommend adding one to your already diverse selection, where Iβm from weβre pretty much only ever able to find the green skinned Vernon and Suebelle varieties but there are also Black Sapoteβs which when eaten is literally like eating chocolate pudding – happy gardening πͺ΄
6:06 This fruit Γ±ame maqui and are from chile
Cape gooseberries make the best jam..lightly mashed with equal parts sugar and a few small slices of lemon..scoop off the white bubbles while cooking to get rid of bitterness π
Baby Boy would've lived happily and I think that is more than most of us can say, good for him
I had a quad Cape gooseberry all joined the size of a small plum in Tassie
You should check out Food Forest Namibia for water harvesting ideas π‘
Would love a video on how you feed your fruit trees and also path maintenance and design. I'm In Nelson area and trying to do something similar. Great video π amazing what you have done and the success you have had.
IGOR & THOR
Look to be honest, I'm pretty distracted looking at you eating that fruit π
What part of the country are ya in bro? I'm guessing up north
Interestingly my Louisa Plum had normal intact seeds
Where abouts in NEW ZEALAND are you?
This man living his life in his own paradise.
what is your spray regime please
Beautiful
Literally me if I had a backyard.
In π¨π¦ we call the cape gooseberry, ground cherry
You are so handsome and cute
oups, sorry for your loss. i am born on 15/11 too
Nice to know… Jimmy's a naturalist