Florida Organic Edible / Tropical Garden Food Forest Tour | April Zone 10a

Florida Organic Edible / Tropical Garden Food Forest Tour | April Zone 10a coastal central Florida. Enjoy!
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[Music] Welcome back, y’all. We just did we just finished doing a whole bunch of work in our uh Florida organic tropical garden slash food forest. Um I don’t know/edible landscaping. Uh we we just Anyways, we just finished doing a whole bunch of work here. Uh we thought we’d uh take a minute to give everybody a tour. Um if you’re new to the channel, uh we live in Central Florida, zone 10A. Uh we are organic gardeners that collect uh plants uh edible plants and also tropical ornamental plants. Most of the tropical ornamental plants that we have, let’s see, like these tea plants. Oh, no. Most of the the plants we’re going to show you here today, Teddy and I got from doing a series of videos called the plant pirates. Yes. Where we go around every week and search through people’s landscape debris piles looking for free plants. Um, so if you’re if you’re subscribed to our channel for our plant pirates videos, um, you’re going to see here today what we do with all the plants. In fact, I think we have a selection of them um over there from this week’s Plant Pirate Adventures that we haven’t planted yet. So, but really we are I would say we’re first and foremost into um edible stuff, right? Like what kind of edible stuff do we have? Um, well, just right here we have pineapples, bananas, we have a big banana collection. Um uh we have um several fruit trees. Starf fruit. Starf fruit. Mango’s improved my lemon. So I mean I think I counted we might have 40 pineapples planted just in this garden right here. We try and pepper stuff in. Uh we try and pepper ornamental stuff in with the edible stuff. We like them both. The ornamental stuff is pretty and it attracts pollinators. Um and then of course the edible stuff gives us food. Yeah. So, let’s get let’s get started. Which where do you want to start? Um, we can start with the star fruit. The three chem bangan uh starf fruit um is looking good. The the trunk is getting nice and thick. It’s getting big. Um we’ll probably keep it somewhat small because it’s in our front garden. Yeah. By this by the roof here. Yeah. But um will you think this has been in the ground three years? Maybe two years. I think it’s on its third year. Okay. Um you can see it’s got a whole bunch of new growth on it. That’s one thing I mentioned uh when we started here that we just finished doing a whole bunch of work in the garden. Uh we got um a massive amount of compost delivered uh 22 yards I think. Um and then yeah, right. And then we spent the next uh four three or four days moving it around, spreading it everywhere. So everything just got freshly composted. Um he mostly the stuff that gave us food that gives us food got heavily comp got the most compost. So, um, and now it’s starting, that was probably two weeks ago and everything’s starting to show signs from it. So, yeah, absolutely. It also, um, it’s a big deal cuz we haven’t really done a great deal of that yet. And so, I feel like, um, I feel like it’s going to really improve. Yeah, we basically have, I would say, spot composted before. Bought bags of it here and there, but we literally composted everything. And like we throw banana peels and stuff around the bananas and stuff like that, but um yeah, we never really um added like a whole bunch of compost like what we just did. And then we put a fresh layer of mulch on most of the areas, but we still have some more to go. Mulched everything. You can see we have these uh vinkas peppered in with bmilads. And so I I mean we probably have I mean you we could probably show you I mean thousands of bermilads, but at least 50 varieties. We’ll try and I’ll try and point the camera at at everyone that I go past today. Here’s a burmill right here that gives us food. The only one these pineapples I think there’s a couple thousand different varieties and the pineapples is the only one that gives us Yeah, I think there’s I think I read 4,000. I think that’s our best pineapple right here. Right there. Then I’ve always loved this one. We’ve gotten this one. We’ve This is the second generation of this one. It’s always been like huge. I don’t know why. I think they might get smaller as the generations come. They they shrink down. We don’t even really separate them. I think after like that one fruited, we just left it there and then it shot up a pup and now there’s the next pineapple. We definitely get them quicker um in the second and third uh generations. But right here, let’s see. This is our meer lemon. We got a little lemons on it right now. Here’s a pretty one. They’re getting there. Um this is I think the Mona Lisa banana. All of our bananas. We’re coming off of a long cold winter, so all of our bananas are looking pretty sorry, but they just got heavily mulched. Um compost. I mean, got a heavy load of compost. This one is the uh this is the ice cream banana. Yeah. Um or the blue java. Um so both of these are given to us by both of these are mediumsized banana. They’ll get about twice as tall as they are right now. Right. Right back here we have the praying hands. And that one gets super tall. No, the leaves are like 7 feet long. These This is a sturdy tall banana. Like I would say like it’s really cool the way that the bananas are fused together on the praying hands. It’s totally unique compared to any other banana. Yeah. They’re like this. Yeah. Um and they’re square. Um and it’s kind of a pain when you peel them because sometimes you peel the one next to it when you’re peeling one once they get soft. But I would say for a tall banana, not these never fall over. They’re so sturdy. Um, and they’re so magnificent. I think this is one of my favorites just because of the way that they look. They’re great. All right, we got some more. We got some Denas and tea plants mixed in here. Again, these are ones that Teddy and I just got as cutings off the side of the road. Um, I don’t know if this this beonia, where did that come from? Did we buy that? From Florida and Tropicals. Okay, so we bought that. I’m right next to it there. Yeah, it is right next to it there. Uh, we got a sugar apple that’s that was in a pot for years and we just planted it and it just fell. It’s like going crazy since we did that. So, this one I have to hand pollinate. Never pollinated on its own. Here’s another vermilion. It’s 100% successful whenever I’ve done it. They’re not quite The flowers aren’t quite there to where I can do it. They have to be open and they’re not quite big enough. Yeah. Mhm. So, we just ripped out a ton of stuff. This was like an overgrown jungle uh I don’t know, a couple weeks ago, and we just ripped a bunch of stuff out. Uh some of these pineapples removed from other locations. Um they were getting some kind of brown fungus on them, black fungus on them that we washed off for the most part. Um and then, uh plant replanted them and they’re they’re starting to come back to life there. They’re under this beauty berry right here. It doesn’t have any flowers or berries on it right now, does it? usually almost always has something going on. It looks like it’s about to do something though. We just opened up a lot of under under brush. There was vermillions and a whole bunch of stuff in here that we just kind of pulled out. We also had the Oronogo. What’s that? Look at that. There’s our youngest son right there. All right. What’s up? We had oronoos right here um that were always in our way walking um to the sideyard. So um we moved those over here. Um we had dwarf cavendish growing here um before we pulled those out um because they were too low. Dwarf Cavendish are like really small and also they’re not like a special variety. You can get them at Home Depot and Lowe’s basically anytime you want to. So the Oronokos are here because we love the Oronokos. It’s a plantain type of a banana. So you eat it more like a potato, but they also taste really good um if you let them ripen. They’re just like a big banana. It’s a big bite, but um they’re delicious. I love those. We can see we have all different colors of Incas down here. Um then we have some edible What is this? Like black uh chives or what we have? This is the black garlic chives. Black garlic. Yeah. And then you have another patch of them over here, right? I just took a little bit out of it and put it over here. And And then we have Look at the um desert rose. That was just a stick that we planted in the ground. Yep. planted. Another one we got from the plant pirates. Yeah, we also have this pubid oregano. There’s another one we use in the kitchen. We cut back we cut back a lot of this. This is one that dies uh way quicker or uh sooner than everything else uh in the cold. I mean, it gets mid30s and that’s that’s dead. Yeah. Like brown spots all over it. And it gets kind of like woody looking too over time. So, you kind of have to like clear out a lot of it and kind of like let it come back a little bit. All right. I think these are the uh mysore bananas. We got some tea plants mixed in here, too. This one just flowered. It’s green tea plant. All the gingers are flowering right now. We got some gorgeous ginger flowers. Yeah. Um let’s see back here. We Let’s see. We just planted some more papayas. We got this one and another one up front. Red Lady. Oh, we’re down to our last little sprig of um this uh Oh, no. African African blue basil. It’s still alive. That’s one that you have to plant from cutings. And we used to have this planted everywhere and it all died this winter except for that. So, we still have it, but we definitely need We have to bring it back to life. I definitely Yeah, we need to bring it back to life and then start spreading it around everywhere. So, we got some green onions that are still left. Those are just from kitchen scraps. And then we have a variegated cassava right here. Tapioca. You um you know, you can eat the potato like roots. Got more pineapples here. You’ll see pineapples mixed in everywhere. We got like I said, I think there’s like I think we have 40 pineapples or 50 pineapples just planted in this this one garden area. What’s up? What you got over here? This is the Grand Nane banana. Not much to look at right now. Um yeah, this one’s never really done a lot, but it might be maybe because the acidity of the lemongrass, maybe. I don’t know. Um, but we just added a bunch of compost, so hopefully it’ll Um, and then this is the coral tree. It looks like it’s getting lots of new growth off the vent edge. See down here? Probably need to cut it soon. All right. I’m more excited about what’s behind the coral tree. Yeah, this is this is an arkin carbola. Yeah. And it’s finally starting to get something. I think that um the gangle ginger was kind of encroaching in its face and slowing down the growth. So we Yeah, this stuff is this stuff grows real thick and it was all in this area. It was starting to spread this way. We also had a huge thing of some burmilads back there. Like a massive thing of burmilads behind this. We just had the house painted. So I’m trying to get it We had a lot of mildew up under the house. I’m trying to get the air flow better around the house and have the jungle going. So it’s kind of a kind of hard. Yeah. And we’re also we also try to clear around all of our fruit trees and banana trees just so that um we had like a little maybe too much growing around the bases of them taking nutrition from them. So um this is a miracle tree. It has a little bit miracle fruit. Yeah, it does have little flowers. I noticed earlier little teeny little berries. These don’t look like they got pollinated, but some of them This one you got some little green ones. There we go. Oh, that’s a little flower. Yeah, that’s a flower. No, I’m saying. Oh, the actual fruit. Yeah. I don’t know. We get fruit on this several times a year. I love this. It’s very odd if you’ve never tried it. Yeah. You eat it and then you drink lemon juice and it’s like super sweet. Yeah. It’s turns sour into sweet. Changes the shape of your taste buds when you eat it. So, it’ be real weird with fish or something. So, we got more vermilads. Let’s see. There’s a burmilad. We got some of these. Some of these need to be separated. Uh, they flowered and we need to pull the old ones off and um just put the little pups back in place. We got a whole collection of vermilions over here. Oh, there’s some more purple ones. Well, we used to have a bigger collection here. I guess these purple ones are taking over. Uhhuh. They’re under this uh guava tree here. Shady, too, from Oh, there’s a guava right here. Yeah, there’s one guava. We have one right there. Guava. I think that this one should start flowering. So, this tree right here, believe it or not, is only three years old. And it and it was about as big as the miracle fruit tree when we planted it. It just took off. It’s one of the fastest growing fruit trees. Must be. I mean, and it’s in the um what family is it in? It’s in the crepe myrtle family. Look at the bark. The bark looks like a crepe myrtle tree. Super cool. You can see it’s reaching for the light here. It’s going that way. It’s really a gorgeous tree, though. I mean, like the bark, um the shape, the leaves. Um, we did have a little trouble when it was younger. It would get that black sy mold on it, um, that we would have to treat and scrub the leaves. But it seems like once they get old enough that seems to break through that problem. All right, we got more vermilads along here and more vermilads along the pathway here. Got a couple more varieties of I think this is a blue javas couple more varieties of bananas. Yeah, this little stand of blue javas right here. Um, I think that’s the Mexican Mexican sunflower right there. Is that um nitrogen fixer? Oh, we’ve got Rain’s favorite, the Okanow. No, that’s the longevity spinach. This stuff is so good. Oh, yeah. Our youngest son loves loves it. He comes out here and eats it all the time. Mhm. And then this is really delicious, too. The kuk. Yeah. It’s not as good as the longevity berries are. The fresh leaves. I love this kook will get real big. We just chopped it back. Mhm. I mean, it’ll get up to the almost up to the roof there. And it gets little white berries on it that taste like peas, too, which are really yummy. Um I recently planted some oak and almond spinach. Yep. So, they don’t look right, but they’ll they’ll start growing. And then, um I got uh cranberry hibiscus growing, too, to add to our greens. And you can’t forget this uh moringa. Minga. Yeah. So, we’ve been trying to be better with our maringa. You can see at one point uh it turned into a real tree and got taller than way taller than the garage and flowered and had seed pods and everything else. And we’re trying to keep it cut more frequently now cuz it’s easier to harvest everything and it grows back real quick, too. Um it would probably like more sunlight than it has right there. But um it’s an easy one to plant, you know, cutting of and get it going somewhere else. All right, we got our lemongrass here that needs to be cut back. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and I think we have this is a black cernom cherry hiding behind it. I think we have another one of those in another spot. Prickly pear. Yeah, there’s a prickly pear. It had some flowers on it. I wouldn’t go near that thing. That thing shoots spikes. Yeah. Not even joking. I got spikes through gloves on plant the other day and when we took a bite of some of it cuz we felt there was no spikes. Oh man. Yeah, it’s bad. It has really pretty yellow flowers on it right now. Bad. All right, I think that’s about everything in this garden. We have the Confederate jasmine that’s in bloom right now. It smells just amazing. Yeah. Um I think that’s everything in this area. Let’s move to another area and um show everybody what we got going on. Yeah. All right. So, we’re leaving our front garden there. Uh we just planted this galangle ginger here. I think we used to have a tea plant here, right? Mhm. Yeah. We’re trying to have we’re trying to have a bunch of just different tropical stuff like like weeping into the path here. So, we have a whole variety of a whole assortment of like vermilads and and some Dcina here. Tea plants. Another one. This is a great tea plant. We should spread this one around more. That’s the one we just put around the pool pump. Oh, good. Wonderful. Excellent. I think this is a shell ginger down here that’s going to get much taller than that. Looks cool at the base of the tea plant. It does. Looks like it’s like a double plant. It’s not going to It’s going to get way taller. Oh, I know. tea plant at the base of the tree. Oh, that’s what smells right here. Yeah, look at that. This is like the most fragrant. It smells better than the jasmine. It does. It does for real. Look at that flower. I know. It’s killer. It really is. I don’t think people give these plants justice. I wonder if does anyone have one of these as a house plant that flowers frequently or every year? I mean, I have one as a house plant and never saw a flower, right? enough flowers, but you know, we probably That was up in North Georgia. Great care of it either. Yeah. So, we got Let’s see. We’re still going through the path here. Oh, I got to show this tea plant. This is a real special one. I don’t know what variety it is. But darker and smaller leaves. Yeah, that one is cool. And then we have these hedges of chef on both sides. Then we’re entering the side, one of our side uh gardens here. Um we got several different things going on here. Maybe we should start up here and work our way down. Sure. We used to have nothing. There was nothing planted here at all. There was just these two cabbage palms. So, uh again, we we tried to make another little tropical pathway here. Um some bayonet yucka. What else? What else we got? Um the parrot parrot helicon. Parrot. Is there any flowers on it anywhere? There isn’t, is there? Bummer. I think that it’s about done their time. There’s an old flower right there. Um, we’ve got some chili pepper uh tea plant. That’s a cool one. This is a cool one. Um, it’s like the red sister but with smaller leaves. There’s shell ginger. This is a Oh, there’s a nice flower. We have a Oh, yeah. We got better ones than that up front. Oh, yeah. Sorry, what were you saying? The This is a um a pure white uh plumeriia. The plumeriia that blooms doesn’t even have leaves on it. That’s the start blooms right there. Yeah, they bloom. That’s why they get the leaves. They do. Yeah. There’s a little black magic tea plant. It looks like Yeah, those were cool. And then these were the bermilads we had up in our front garden by that cara that we moved. They like just turn into like a big clump. Yeah. I mean, we put like one of them there. Some old flowers in here. We need to We really need to thin this out. I think I’ve noticed I feel like the more colorful the burilia, the less cool the flowers. The more colorful the leaves. Yeah. No, the more colorful the leaves, the plant, the less colorful the flowers. Gotcha. So, except for one, we have an orange one that was cool. There’s so many varieties of them. I love the orange vermilion. They’re my favorite. All right. We got a pretty sorry dragon fruit here. Nothing much to look at. We got some better dragon fruit um elsewhere. What’s this banana Teddy standing behind? This is a tall mama. Okay. And um this is the Rajauri. Yeah, this is the Rajauri. Might be one of the only ones that we have fruit going off right now. And this is a good time uh for for it to flower. A lot of ours flowered over the winter and then it didn’t really do much. We didn’t get a lot of rain and we had a long cold winter. So, um, these are the tall oronos here. They are a consistent fruit for us. They give us they grow fast. They give us huge bunches of big bananas. They fall fast. They They lean over. I have a big pole somewhere. I use this. This is the only banana that we prop. But I use this big pole. I don’t know what it is. Maybe like pool equipment something. But anyways, I saved that. Um, and I’ll use it to prop it. We’ll take this spot right here, and you want to put it like right up on the crown where all the leaves are. Um, if you try and prop your banana from down here on the trunk somewhere, it’ll just split in half and fall over once the the rack gets real heavy. So, uh, you want to prop it kind of from the crown up there where the leaves are coming out. Kind of where the flower comes out. Yeah, you could prop it from the flower. Yeah, I think that’s the best. Yeah. All right. What’s behind Teddy there? It’s one of our prize for trees. Yes. And I think we have little ones on there, right? Somewhere. Oh, here’s some. You got some good ones over there. They’re not teeny tiny. They’re teeny teeny tiny. There we go. There’s some teeny tiny ones. Uh this tree uh we got probably four years ago um in a little pot 5 years ago and it did nothing for a while and then it just exploded in the last year or two. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and it’s just all I got some fruit all in here where right up in here. There’s one. Nice. There’s one. Oh, yeah. There’s all over the place. Tiny little one. Looks pretty healthy. There’s a little bit of this black on it, but that seems to be a common problem with the young trees. Hopefully, it’ll work its way. Oh, we just passed Here’s our other black cernom cherry. I think this one has this one has fruit on it, right? It does. They’re not ripe yet, but No, but there’s some big ones. Yeah. Look at this one right here. Or you got some more down here. Yeah. This one’s big. Teddy’s got some there. The flowers are so pretty. Get a picture of this flower right here. Look at that. Like little fireworks. And then we’ve mixed in some more tea plants. Again, tea plants and denas. And usually we’ll have some vermilads at the base here. I just I just thinned all that out and put some compost on it. So these berries look so pretty, don’t they? Yeah, they do. They’re so they’re like little, you know, we never have tea plants shoot up from the berries though. No. Yeah, you’re right. Most of the when we spread our tea plants around, we just take cutings and stick them in the ground. I I I never find them. They grow from the clump. They do. I never find them like, you know, like the these are palms back here have huge berry clusters. And uh in fact, I can show you like grass. Yeah, I can show you some cuz I saw some pop up right here. They pop up all over the place when they drop berries. Side of the wall like right here. Right down there is are little baby or palms. Why is this here? Is this for the Hawaiian variegated ginger? Yeah, the Hawaiian variegated. It hasn’t come up yet. Yeah, that dies back every winter. Goes on the ground. I saw that our is blooming. Um I saw that the other one was um but I didn’t realize that the variegated one was also blooming. There we go. I like that plant. Yeah, this is a super red plantain. The b the banana. Yeah. And this probably isn’t ideal. This this Song of India is pretty close to my little banana patch here. Yeah. Uh I’ll probably have these bananas migrate a little bit more here towards the middle or maybe just move the Song of India all together. But it’s doing so good right there. That wall there. wall seems to like radiate heat and make plants just love it because everything multiplies so fast and does well. I mean, even look, this is the plumeriia. Look how much further ahead this plumeriia is than the other ones we’ve seen. And I I’m sure it’s because of the the heat on the wall. I think that’s everything back here. What is this? This is the um the banana. This is the um lacatan lacatan banana over here. And then this is the the blood banana, which is a little ornamental banana. I think Teddy and I found that on the side of the road. You guys found that one. You’ll have to excuse the mess here. We had a blowout with one of our sprinklers and sort of flood. I kind of fixed it. I I actually fixed it. It’s done. I just haven’t tested it and rearied it. I don’t know why I haven’t done that yet. That’s the most gratifying part. But I I’ll do that today. I promise. We got a little green tea plant. Just pop all these tropicals in. More. Here’s more. Vermilads. They need This bed needs to be cleaned up pretty pretty badly. I think I want to move it all away from the house, too. These windows get real mild dewy and stuff. I think we’re going to make boat storage here. Yeah, I think that’s cuz the river’s right down there. The kids can just drag the boats down there. And believe it or not, the water the water during a storm comes up. I mean, right up to where those canoes are. So, we got to really keep everything up higher up here. So, all right. Well, I think that’s everything on the sideyard here. I think we skipped the front yard. Let’s go to the front yard before we head uh to the back. All right. All right. So, we’re up here in the front yard through the gate. There is the front garden where we started. Um I’ll just do a quick little circle here and then we’ll show you show you around, show you everything we got going on. I think we’ll start with I just noticed when I was panning around here. Let’s start with the pile we have going over here. Yeah. Um we have it looks like a little tropical nursery going on over here because this is some of this is a kind of a sampling of what Teddy and I find on the side of the road every week um while we’re doing our Plant Pirates episodes. If you haven’t if you haven’t watched any of them, we have over a hundred episodes right now. So you I mean if you like them, you have like days and days of binge watching me and Teddy going through people’s trash. Um, yeah, I think that came out of the garden. Actually, we didn’t find that one. Some of this stuff came out of the garden, too, because we were trying to clear up around the house and around the fruit trees and stuff. Um, I think this these are the last two cans Teddy and I got uh this week, couple days ago. So, this is just an example. We have a giant kryinum lily here. Um, we have a couple tea plant cutings. This looks like a red sister. Mhm. Um, and we have some uh we showed you that variegated song of India. Here’s a green. Just a solid green song of India. I like that one. Just just flowered. Yeah, we actually find this one less than the variegated kind. It’s like paos. Here’s some chefa. This is an easy one to plant from cutings. Really when Teddy and I are searching um through people’s uh landscape piles. Um we have to find stuff we can either one plant from cutings or two has roots like this fiddle leaf fig right here. This is the best of both cuz if you planted from cutings but it has roots and I have the perfect pot for this one. You can see it probably came out of a pot. Oh yeah. Someone got tired of it. But um so some of this stuff like the bmilads we can just throw on the ground right here and and literally leave them for weeks or months and they’ll be fine. We don’t have to do anything. And we can come through here and decide which ones we want to pick to use throughout the garden and just leave them sitting here. Some of the more Sorry. Same with the yakas, the um and the marginas. They seem like they can last a while. And the snake plant. Yes. Yeah. Um the the tea plants can’t. You got to get them going. Um we sometimes get real special stuff like these desert roses right here. And um these were too special to just we didn’t know what we were going to do with them all. Believe it or not, we have like six more of those that we found on the side of the road. So, we put those in pots with nice potting soil because these were just too special to I mean, how many times have we found some of these on the side of the road, Ted? Twice, three times. Like a little cutting, not a 10year-old plant. Yeah. So, I had to pot those up. Um, then I have these agave here that Teddy and I found. And I if I don’t know what to do with them, I just throw them in the ground right here. So, you can see I have an assortment of random agave just in the ground. And when we have a good place for one of these, we’ll just dig it up and go can go move it. So, it’s really been um it’s really awesome. It’s a fun the the Plant Pirates adventures or episodes that Teddy and I do are fun. Um we have to get up early to do it. That’s the one bummer about it. But other than that, we get lots of good stuff and we can constantly be moving adding new plants to our yard. I mean, and you could probably collect in the evening, the night before. The night before. You’re right. Still. Yeah. If I’m being honest, we do it early in the morning because um I’m recording and I uh just like to just have us on the street with nobody else out there. Don’t like people might think it’s weird if you’re ramen ramen trash, right? Well, now Yeah. So, we’ll only go through some first. We only do it during the day when the light when it’s light outside. We only do it trash cans at the end of the road or piles at the end of the road. I mean, we’re not entering people’s properties or anything like that. It’s clearly trash. We’ve never had anybody. In fact, we have people that stop us and point us in the direction of other good plants. Yeah. We’ve never had anyone say, “Don’t take that plant from my pile.” So, all right. You want to start with this bed right here? Got more vermilions. An ornamental bed. Oh, it is. Do we have anything that’s edible in this? Dragon fruit. Um, where’s this? There is dragon fruit. We have the noble cactus. What is that? Like a uh the prickulus. The the spineless. Spineless. bindless. So, you can definitely eat that. Teddy’s right though. We have some good dragon fruit. Hold on. Going up these trees back here. Well, while I’m on my way around, I’ll also point out our little orchid collection here. I think you have one down here, too, right? Yeah. It just flowered, didn’t it, a couple weeks ago? Also, you have a coconut, too. Yeah. I don’t know if it’s edible, but there’s a coconut. Yeah. So, we we line our beds with um with coconut coconuts. I mean, we’ll show you when we get to the backyard. We probably have 30 coconut palms. And then our next door neighbor probably has 30,000 coconut palms. So, he’s always putting coconuts out and we have coconuts. We line our beds with the coconuts and um eventually some of them sprout. So, you’ll start to see all around our beds when we start getting through here. Lots of sprouted coconuts. And we’re not going to let that coconut sit there. We’re going to have to rip it up and give it away or like Teddy said, eat the uh the queen’s bread, the coconut apple. Bread is long gone. You really want a small little It probably is gone. Literally now that tree is getting all of its nutrients from from the ground. The queen spread, if you’ve never seen it before, it’s like a little white ball uh that forms inside of a sprouted coconut. It’s like what the coconut needs to live until it gets sprouted and stir. It’s like an apple inside of the coconut. This is also edible, the monstera. Yep. We have some good fruits on one of them. We’ll show everybody in just a minute here. But I’m going to go around here because Teddy is right. We have a couple varieties of dragon fruit right here. Uh there’s one over here. Yep. This one’s already getting terminal ends coming down, too. And then we have uh two more varieties over here. Here’s one right here. Oh, yeah. These might be too shady, though. It might be. I agree. Fruit. Yeah. Flowers. This one’s growing out of the pot. Yeah, they all are. We had them. This was kind of a This is more plant pirate stuff that Teddy and I found and we potted up for one reason or another. I don’t know why we have a bunch of aloe plants like travel out of the pot. They’ve been Yeah, we have like this zigzag plant. This pot fell over and now it’s traveling. Look at this um dragon fruit. It’s like going off. It’s traveling. It’s traveling up here. I see it’s your foot. That’s something we don’t want to travel. Yeah, the mother of thousands. That’s mother of millions. Uh is it mother of millions? Mother of thousands. That one is mother of millions. If you grab it at this point, it’s okay. Yeah, we want to get rid of that. Yeah. Yeah. This will like you’ll have thousands and thousands. You will like literally millions. All right. Here’s some more agave that I have in pots. We a lot of times just give these plants away to to neighbors and friends. I there’s only so many plants. Teddy and I get so many plants every week. I mean, look, we got I mean, that’s we had those two bins of plants this week and we passed up. That’s just I mean, we could have grabbed a truckload of plants, right? There’s four bins of Song of India, right? I mean, how many of those giant crime liies were there? Like three or four of them. Yeah. You guys showed these flowers here. Oh, yeah. So beautiful. These are my I think this is my favorite flower that we grow. I don’t know. There’s another ginger. That’s really cool. Look at this one. This is beautiful. Nice. And then right behind Teddy there is a Saul palmetto. And that’ll give us some looks like it just flowered right here. So it’ll get berries all over it. And then you’ll see around Fourth of July, there’ll be people, poachers that will come along. You’re wondering what people are cutting off these plants. Uh the berries are highly sought after. They’re illegal to harvest unless you have a permit. They’re illegal for us to harvest and bring off our property unless we have a permit. Uh because they’re um so highly uh prized and poached, I guess. Um Well, they’re expensive. They are. Yeah. The people use them for all sorts of health uh health concoctions, including bald Yeah. baldness. Maybe I should give that a try. All right, we got more bermilads, more tea plants. We need to clean this up, don’t we? This is a mess here. Yes, it is a little bit. This is a mess, too. Um, but these these giant orange bermilads just they’re so beautiful. Give good flowers. They do. And they they I mean, these cabbage palms suck up a lot of the nutrients right there. If you try and dig around the base of a cabbage palm, it’s nothing but a root ball. Um, so the fact that they can live there like that and add a little interest is pretty cool. It seems like some plants thrive at the base of them and some die. So, all right. Sorry y’all. The battery died and we’re using our backup camera. This camera has a built-in battery, so I can’t switch it out. So, we had to go charge it again, I think. But, I think this is about where we left off. I was about to show this mango tree here. This teeny little mango tree. There’s two mangoes. It does have two mangoes. Yes. This is one that you and me found on the side of the road. Yep. Oh, three. Where? Oh, yep. So, we found this on the side of the road. Um I had no clue if it was even going to give us fruit, if it was just a sprouted, you know, seed that popped up in someone’s yard, but it did. And we we’ve only tried one of them, but there I haven’t. It was so good. It was like a It was like mango jelly. It was so good. It had a weird texture to it, but the mangoes were just so good. So, I’m hoping that we’ll get at least these three this year. And you can see I’ve um it’s kind of in the jungle here, but I did cut back a lot of stuff. I cut back this white bird of paradise. Wow, look at those flowers. Yeah, look at the flowers on the white bird of paradise while we’re here. But I had to cut that back and tuck it on the other side of this gumbo limbo um to open up some light for this. We actually just planted or I planted a couple years ago this this hedge of palms um because they’re building this big giant house next door. I wanted to block that out. So, um it’s uh it’s added some shade over here, but uh and these are going to get even bigger. So, hopefully this mango will outgrow the oras and start to reach this way for some sunlight. So, all right. Well, let’s keep going, kiddo. We missed this little weird Is this the the candin? Look how weird that is. It is. Yeah. This banana fell down. Uh but we left it in the ground because they always shoot up pups. So, um this whole area, I think I’m going to redo this whole area. It’s kind of a pain to mow through here. I think I’m going to relocate that banana and just relocate all these tropical stuff. We should fill this all in. Just fill it all in. Yeah. Where Teddy’s standing. Yeah, we’ll do that. All right. So, we’ll walk through here. I don’t think we have we don’t have a lot of edible stuff here. We have a a pretty pathetic passion fruit vine at the base of that cabbage palm. Um this is kind of a a wild area right here. The road um the neighborhood road is right there. So, we’ve kind of left this wild to give us some privacy. Um, but I know we have, let’s see, we have a couple bananas planted here. Um, there’s really not much else. I know we got a couple good things over here. Fact, we got something really good over there, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Let’s show I guess we’ll do this. We’ll do this little bed first. Um, here’s another one of these desert roses that Teddy and I found. That’s a beautiful one. And we found this uh this spineless uh ornamental uh pineapple. Pineapple. What’s it called? Uh, red red spineless pineapple. Red spineless pineapple. Yeah. So, this is this is another bermilad. It will shoot up a teeny little red pineapple, but it’s not edible. It’s teeny tiny. It’s like about this big. We have one by our pool. We do. Yeah. A little pineapple. And then look what I just noticed popped up. Just popped up right behind that pineapple there. The variegated The variegated ginger. Yep. The variegated Hawaiian shampoo ginger. Yep. So that dies back every winter, but now it’s starting to pop up again. So it’s a really slow growing ginger compared to our other gingers, but it’s beautiful. All right, let’s skip over here. We got some interesting stuff in this bed right here. We just composted this bed. It’s real heavy. Um, we have the I think that’s a Saba banana. So that one gets to be like 20 feet tall. Um, in fact, I just cut the the uh one a big one down and we did some chop and drop here around the base. Um, then we have this uh the black the Thai black banana. Um, it’s one of the only I believe one of the only seeded varieties of bananas and I believe it needs to be hand pollinated because it got fruit and it only had male. Gotcha. Um, I I did plant um I just planted some vinkas in here. Um I think there’s another one over there by Teddy. Um we have some exoras back here. That’s what these They’re not doing great. I’m hoping that they’ll take off with all the uh compost and mulch we just put in here. We just planted the red lady papaya. Yep. Another little papaya. Papaya wants just like all this stuff, papaya wants full full full sun. Um the thing about papaya though is that if you plant it on the edge over here and it starts to reach for full sun, it’ll eventually get big and heavy and just snap in half. So you really want it to be reaching straight up. uh unlike, you know, a fruit tree, you could plant an avocado or a mango tree on the edge and it’ll reach out in to the yard just like we showed you earlier with that pink guava. It’ll reach for the sun. But if this papaya starts to reach for the sun, it’ll snap in half. So, I tried to give it, you can see a pretty open um so it can grow straight area. That’s the dragon fruit. Yeah, this dragon fruit’s starting to run up cabbage palm there. And we’ve got I love this this. It’s a strawberry strawberry tree. Yep. Here’s the little flowers on it. Oh, we got some little fruit starting on it. Yeah. So, this this will give us fruit uh constantly from about this month when these little fruits get ripe. They’re little red berries. Um till about December, right? Yep. And then and then it shuts off until again about March or April. So, we need to go through and trim this. It’s got some little Yeah. Dead branches on it. Yeah. Don’t be careful. I’ll do it with Yeah. Yeah. I’ll do it with uh some cutters. some cutters. All right. This is what I was talking about, though. This is the most magnificent. Yeah. Our big huge magnificent monstera here is just loaded with fruit. And it seems like it always has fruit now, does it not? Yeah. It took a while. Seems like we get about six fruits a year. Yeah. It took a while to get fruits on it, but now there still haven’t always fruit on it. Yeah. We keep missing it. You got to wait for them to be ripe, a certain type of ripeness. And it seems like right when they get ripe, um, the animals come and get them or something. I don’t know what happens to them. They fall off, they disappear. I don’t know. We got a maybe we have a monster fruit burglar in our neighborhood. We’re We know our neighbors pretty well. I’m I’m pretty sure they’re not coming over here and stealing our fruit, but I don’t know. We have one or two people in this neighborhood that I mean, no, I’m just We’re friends with everybody in our neighborhood. We have a small, tight-knit uh little neighborhood here. I shouldn’t say we’re friends with everybody. Sorry. I I I hate to keep interrupting. There’s There is one or two people I could do without in the neighborhood, but there always is. There always is. All right. Well, now I wonder if we cut it. We should try cutting one prematurely cuz last year we were trying to wait for it to ripen on the vine. Um because I was worried that if we didn’t that it would be like, you know, cuz if you eat it prematurely, it’s supposed to be really gross and be like eating fiberglass apparently is what I’ve heard. We’ve had a lot of warnings about it. We we have never tried it, but I wonder if we cut it prematurely if it would ripen on its own in the house and then we could at least try it. All right, somebody Yeah, somebody post down below. Give us some advice on what we should do here because we keep getting fruit. We have no problem getting the fruits. It’s just we can’t we haven’t tried one yet. So, and this one just got a bunch of compost, too. So, it should be good. It looks like it’s already gotten new growth back here um since we put the compost down. All right. So, if you’re wondering what this beautiful wall is of of uh of tropical palms right here, these are palms. These are full grown palms. So, I just showed you my hedge over there um along that house. Those are, you know, kind of teenager or palms. My neighbor planted these 20 years ago. And the these are full grown and it’s like having a curtain of palm trees on either side of our property. I really love it. And they make a really nice rustling sound in the wind. Yeah, they’re great. They’re great. They have a lot of berries. the the they’re not native. They are not native, but um and I think that you can’t Are they in the date palm family? Are you sure about that? I’m pretty sure I would think they’d have spiky. My neighbor ate the seeds. They were edible because she tried one of them and she said they were real sweet. Um and then I looked it up and it said that they’re in the date palm family. Got some giant cryamoleies here. We planted these. We tried to plant them along here to fill the gaps in the um they’ve taken a long time to grow, but it’s worth like full sun. They’re going to look killer once I mean look, this is full shade here and this one’s gotten nice and big. Yeah. Just took four years. If you plant these these are so fast growing. If you planted one of these in full sun, you’d get a plant like that in two years. You know Oh, here’s what I’m talking about. All the sprouted coconuts. Uhhuh. So, these are not where we want coconut palms right here. We’ll have to move them or give them away. Um, and then just re redo these these bed the bed lining with new kind of after this specific coconut. If you can see, these are green and this one’s golden. So, this is a king coconut and these get better coconut water in my opinion than the green. I would say we usually harvest our coconuts green. We like the water. We don’t we rarely let them go brown to get the the, you know, the flesh out of them. Uh, cuz we like the water. I don’t know what they’re saying. And these coconuts are yellow. They’re yellowower, which is kind of cool. It’s just different. And we don’t have a lot of them. So, all right. Well, I think that’s that’s everything up here. Well, I guess I got a couple little things in here, right? We got another variety of banana. Do you remember? Is this the candarin or the No, no, no. This is the cocapo. Coco. Cocoapo. Cocoa. Um, shell around here. Not exactly sure what variety that is. It’s not candarin. And it’s not cocao. This one is um venty coho. Oh, okay. This is vinty coho. Yeah. So, we just put a bunch of compost on it, too. And then right here, I guess here’s one that I want to show everybody of my natal plum here. Only plant with spikes that we have. Yeah, we’ve we’ve eradicated every plant on this property that has spikes cuz we’re usually barefoot. Um, but I had to have this one cuz this one gives us such yummy uh red fruits. Uh, but I have yet to get it to fruit for me. It will flower, but it won’t fruit. Anybody has any tips? I I suspect that it’s needs more sun. Um, these are some serious spikes, though, I must say. Yeah. Don’t pick any of that off and drop it. Look, they’re like double ended. Oh, yeah. Be careful. They’re like, I bet they carry poison like those other spikes. They do. And they’re woody, so they’re hard. All right. Well, I think that’s everything up here. More burmilads. These giant burmilads. Uh, we got some bermilads here. Some more sprouted coconuts. Another random boat. We have lots of You’ll see there’s lots of boats laying around. What’s that in the pot back there? That um um what’s that called? This right here is Me and Teddy found that on the side of the road. We did. Yes, we did. Wow. That’s I don’t know what that is. I’d have to look. Has those crazy fruits on it. Oh, no. That’s I think that’s a different plant. That’s the um I think it’s the same one. Okay, I’ll think of it. Yeah, I’ll think of it. All right. I think that’s it, though. I can’t think of anything else up here. Let’s uh Yeah, Teddy and I did find that stagghorn fern on the side of the road. That was a prize. And we just stuck it up there. I don’t know if that’s super good for that tree or not, but tree is already dying. Yeah, this tree is not great. What they call them? Torture screw palm. Screw palm. Screw palm. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, let’s go. I tell you what, let’s go check out the backyard. Yeah. Show Show everybody what we got going on back there. All right. So, we’re entering the backyard here. I guess I have to turn around first, though, and point out this magnificent coconut palm we got here. And this one is one of our younger coconut palms. This is only the second year we’ve gotten coconuts off of it. You can see it is just loaded loaded with coconuts. And this is probably as close as we’ll ever have a coconut palm to our house. Like I said, my neighbor over here has about 30,000 coconut palms, and he’s got a metal roof. And I’ve said this before on the channel, but occasionally, um, one will fall and hit his metal roof, and it sounds like someone’s shooting a shotgun over there. It is incredibly loud. I mean, I mean, yes, falling coconuts are no joke. So, these will not fall on our house, luckily. You can see how just huge, how massive each frond is. I mean, they’re just massive. And you can see how it’s dangerous to stand underneath them. Yeah. I mean, no joke. If this just popped down, I mean, yeah. No, that’s that’s a healthy bunch right there. That’s not going to just fall over. But yes, if it did, you would be you’d be in big trouble. There’s no doubt about it. But, um, so we got that coconut palm there. I actually think that it grew on top of one of my sprinkler heads, too. I think there’s a sprinkler head like way up under there. Oh, yeah. What a what a beefy what a cool What a cool tree. They used to build ships out of the trunks. I’m sure they used the wood. Yeah. All right. Well, let’s uh All right. So, we got a Let’s see. We’ll start here. We got a lot of ornamental stuff. Where do you want to start, babe? Should we go on this side? Let’s go on this side. All right. We got this green chronomey. We got some more Denas. Um we have a little uh I think this is a Is this a It says right there. Hold on. It says it right there. Carry. This is the carry. So, it’s another starf fruit or carbola. It needs some more sun, but we just heavily won’t get there. Yeah. But we heavily composted it and mulched it and it does have a a spot to grow here. So, um, it’ll get to the sun. It’ll get some more sunlight. This must be the chili pepper here. This is the chili pepper. Yeah. I love this one. Oh, man. It’s not as full as some of the other ones. Still really What do you have here? Are these the candle? This is the apple. The apple. Okay. Yeah. We used to have a rhino horn banana. That one died. Um, maybe it wasn’t meant for our climate, you know. Um, also everything else we we get a lot of wind off the water here. So the these bananas don’t do as well as the ones up front do unfortunately. We just lost a huge tree over here of the chaya. So which one is this babe? Is this the That’s the dwarf nam. This is a nice stout one. I love um it’s not looking again it’s we’re coming out of winter. It’s not looking great. Um but it will it’s not but it will. This one’s this is a real hardy one. Um it never tips over. It’s a good height. It’s not I’m not a big fan of the real short one. I like them to be like the medium height. I like them to be like 6 feet. Yeah, at least. Uhhuh. And then just more ornamentals. We got again denas. Denas, tea plants, vermilads. It’s kind of a combo we do. I do a lot around here. And uh this is more this got knocked over in the wind. Yeah. So, this one you can plant from cutings. Um you know, this got totally uprooted and all she did was just prop it back up and stick it in the ground. It’ll it’ll totally rejuvenate. That is a like a weed basically. Yeah, we got a we got an avocado here behind Teddy. Frogged an avocado. Uh it’s again we’re coming out of winter so it’s not looking great, but if you look closely it’s got new growth like all over it. Starting I mean all over it. Little leaves right there. Yeah, it’s definitely a lot better looking. It’s about I mean there’s just little growth that’s starting everywhere on it. So it’s about to just This will be a probably in two weeks this will be a nice big full tree right here. You can see the gumbo limos. They’re at about the same stage, too. It’s beautiful gumbo gumbo limos we have here. Forest tree because it’s peely skin like when like a sunburnt tourist. Yeah. Kids like climbing in those. We have another just massive stagghorn fern right here. That was here when we moved in. Yeah. Yeah, it was. So cool. All right. I guess before we get all the way down there, we have some more stuff right here. Yeah, we have a lot of stuff in here, actually. We just redid this bed. We are actually able to get the mulch to kind of come here, but this is where our mulch ended. Real quick, the It looks the grass looks terrible here cuz we had a uh trampoline here for probably 3 years that we just got rid of. And so now we we’re slowly trying to get our grass back. I don’t We should sprinkle some compost on this area though to like desend it some because I feel like before we had the trampoline, it we were still kind of struggling growing grass in this spot. It’s kind of like a sand pit. I don’t put any chemicals on the lawn. All we do is mow it and use uh irrigation. So, you know, this is going to this will grow back, but I’m not going to uh hit it with a bunch of stuff. We’re just going to let Yeah, but I think if you sprinkled some compost on this that it would help. All right, I’m going to start over here because we just got all sorts of stuff. All we got, again, more bermilads. I I told you we had at least 50 varieties of bermilads and I’m I mean I I’m sure that we do. One, two, three, four. Oh, I didn’t know I had another one of this little tea plant. Oh, wa. I must have We must have cut it from the other one. Oh, look. It’s got another one next to it. Yeah, it looks dead. It does, but it there’s some growth coming out of it. I think it’s fine. I don’t know about that. Caribbean agave. Uh, it’s probably would like more sun. That’s a great thing about bmilads. The bermilads, you can just do them in full sun or full shade or not. They’re different colors even when you put them in different spots. Got a new purple passion flower. Yeah, we just got the new purple passion fruit. Stoked about that. That’s probably one of my favorite fruits. And don’t judge it by Look, it looks like throw up. Yeah, it does. But and we we planted it here specifically cuz we used to have one planted over here by the fence. I We wanted it to take over this fence, but it just jumped right over the fence and went up these three cabbage palms and then gave us 10,000 million passion fruit for what, 2 years? And you know what’s awesome about and then died. What’s awesome about it? You don’t have to harvest it. It just falls just falls to the ground when it’s ready. Yeah. So, we’re hoping it’ll run back up these cabbage palms again. We also have dragon fruit uh that we’ve run up these cabbage palms. Um now we got to get it to weep over and and flower for us. Um we need we need another variety of the dragon fruit to flower cuz I think you need to pollinate the dragon fruit here. I think I think I have two varieties there. I think that one and that one or I think there’s two. Yeah. This is This is um fuchsia with fuchsia flesh. And this one’s golden with white flesh. Oh, those are the best. Yeah. Yeah. The golden is the fuchsia ones are the prettiest. The golden ones are the best. Yeah, they are. The golden ones are so much sweeter and tastier. The also cassava. Cassava. Oh, this is an real nice agave under here, too. It’ll get huge. Beautiful. Yeah, we got all these again. We got all this stuff on the side of the road. Teddy and I did. Even this big scary apple cactus we got on the side of the road. This this will give you fruit to eat as well. Um we got more pineapples. This is the guava. When I was remember earlier I was saying how um when the guava tree that we had over there was young, it had some of the sy mold issue. Yeah. So this is a younger one. So you can kind of see, you know, you got to kind of baby these along a little bit. So you can wash this stuff right off. And this tree looks terrible, but it’s we just we just did a lot to it. We just pruned it, moved a lot of stuff out from under here to give it more airflow. And you can see, look at all the the new growth coming out of it now. So, it looks terrible right now, but these leaves will just fall off. And also, I didn’t wash all the leaves cuz I was just quickly doing it, but I did wash a lot of them. Like, you can see these I was able to get the syess off of. I don’t even think it matters, honestly. It’s about to explode with new growth. Yeah, I mean there was so much stuff jumbled up under here. There wasn’t enough air flow. Um the the palm frrons were blocking some of the light. We did a lot of per we did a lot in this garden in the past two weeks. We had a lot of pineapples growing in here and they all got the sy mold from being back here all jumbled in here. So we moved them all around um and and got them out of here. We got put a couple back. I think there’s a couple. Here’s another little sugar apple. Um, and then I think we have some okanow and spinach and some kuk back here. Where’s the ok flower? Oh, yeah. Watch out. Let me see. I got it. Look at that. Never seen it flower. I don’t think I have. This is so good. This is another one that’s just so good to eat like right off the plant. So good. And we saw this for sale at Lowe’s the other day. Yeah, I know. How crazy is that? Kuk and Okon spinach at Lowe’s, which is I think is awesome. that people are wanting that in. All right, we got a whole bunch of tropical stuff right here. We got some beautiful uh um plumeriia that just went off up there. I can’t even reach the camera up there. Plumeriia is getting huge. Uh we have this uh sweetheart. We have a sweetheart banana. So that’s the only edible thing. Well, no. I guess we got pineapples in here, too. Lots of pineapples. Pineapples. And then we got some of the lobster claw. Your favorite. There’s a pretty one back there. Where is it? Can I get to it? Yeah. There’s one right there. Looks so pretty with the um three sisters plant. Yeah. Where’s the Yeah, right here. Yeah. Come on. Just the red and the fuchsia. The red sister tea plant. So beautiful. And then we got some more beautiful ginger blooms. Oh yeah. Shell ginger. I mean look, they’re so pretty. My favorite flowers. Lowquat coming out the the top up here. Yeah. Some more plumeriia. More burmillads. millions of bermillions and we had a lot of ginger kind of choking out this lowquat that Brent cleared around. I think I still want to migrate the ginger that way a little bit away from the lowquat. The the lowquat needs it needs to stand on its own. Here’s some of the pineapples um that we moved from over there to right here. You can see the black kind of city mold. This stuff will we wash most of it off, but they’ll rejuvenate from that. Um then we got the orange bird of paradise. Oh, it just started flowering. Oh, wow. Nice. That wasn’t there like two days ago. Yeah, I think it it’s from all this compost. Everything’s really waking up. So, let’s see. I’m going to stand right here and just point out some stuff. This giant tree right here is some variety of avocado. It’s It’s the big avocados. Um, we think maybe it’s a choet. Yeah. But we’re not quite sure because I don’t I don’t know. Yeah, we’re not quite sure. Um, these are sea grapes. Uh, these will actually give you little fruits, little grapes. Uh we might have some on one of the trees back down there. Um they’re huge seeds with not a lot of flesh, but um they’re still good. People make jellies and jams out of them. Um we got this giant, we’ll walk over and look at it. We got this giant common mulberry right here. It’s got mulberries all over it uh next to the kids fort there in between the cabbage palms. Um we have two varieties of mangoes right here that aren’t doing great. You can see there’s a mango up at the top there. We should probably cut these trees like way way back. They they were this big when we when we bought this place a half a decade ago and there they are. They’re still there. So, they could use some more. We did heavily compost them though this year along with the mulberry and the avocado. Um you should we go look for some mulberries while we’re here. I don’t know if the avocados we haven’t been able to spot any yet on this tree. They’re hard to to find. They’re green and they look just like the leaves. So, I’m not going to spend a lot of time looking for them right now, but I know we got mulberries. I found one. Yeah, I know. There’s Huh. Let me see. Let me at least show everyone before you eat it. That one could go a little longer, I think. I’m going to eat it. No, it’s going to be sour, but go for it. All right, let’s see. There’s got to be Oh, here we go. One right here. Here we go. It’s half white, but boom. Look at that. They are so good. Teddy can’t reach these. Yes, I can. Oh, yeah. He’s like almost as tall as me now. Oh, man. They’re good. Did you get a good one? Yeah, there’s a little white on it. Still good though. That’s not a good one. Oh, look at that one up there. Oh man. Hit it with the camera. Can I get it? Oh man, look at that. I can’t reach it and hold this camera. You want me to hold this down? Oh, look at this one. Oh, man. These are so good. They’re so good. They’re my favorite berry. I guess they are so good. So juicy. They are just so good. But I’m going to We might have to just put the camera down for a little bit cuz Teddy’s going to get them all if I don’t. Look, he just got another one. So, I need to I might need to put the camera Oh, I didn’t get it. There we go. Oh, they’re so good. They make a mess. Move it. That’s another thing. We’ll have like um three or four of their friends over and they’ll all be playing down here in the backyard, which is great. As parents, you look out the window and see all the kids running around having fun. But we also have white carpet inside. And yeah, show them. Do you have any on your feet yet? You Yeah, he’s got a little bit. You walk around under this tree for not too long. And it looks like you I don’t know. Stepped on a dead animal or something. Yeah. But Oh, they’re so good. We could probably This tree could use some major pruning, too. You can see there’s all sorts of deadly. Yeah. From all the storms and stuff that we get. Um it’s it’s a mess. It is. All right. Do you want to What are we doing? Should we we’ll just walk down here real quick and look at the coconut palms. We just have a collection of cabbage palms in here. Basically, we planted a couple coconut palms over here uh in front of my neighbor, my new neighbor’s. Um and then we have, you know, I don’t know, like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 or 16 coconut palms right there. There’s one on the corner over there. There’s three in here. And like I said, Teddy and I probably planted three or four there. So, we have to have at least 20 coconut palms back here, I would say. And they’re just loaded with coconuts. We need to start harvesting these a little quicker. There’s a bunch I could cut out. Sweet. Yeah. All right, let’s go see. Let’s go give the water a little. Yeah, we just got hit by a whole bunch of seaweed. went away for a couple days without Yeah. surprised it doesn’t smell worse. Here it got a beating from the storms last. Yeah, it did. Yeah. You can see our grass looks terrible because uh this is about a foot deep. Yeah. Sometime some parts of the year there’s just water like I mean the the water comes up to the top of our seaw wall here and so basically that’s the water table. So you know I mean if the river is that high so is the water under our grass which is why the dock got messed up. Yeah. Oh, there is. Yeah, the dock got messed up. Our dock got blown out in the last hurricane, and I have yet to fix it. We’ve called a couple people uh to put it. All I need is one more piling, and I can fix it myself. Oh, look at this. The seaweed’s almost gone. Yeah. Looking nice and clear. It’s looking nice and clear. Over there, right at our property line is where all the seaweed starts. Oh, yeah. Interesting. One property. It left us and went over there. Let’s see if we can see anything good in here. We saw some snook this morning. Did you? Mhm. We walking the dogs. Yeah. There’s some bait fish just The wind’s kind of blocking our view. Wow. That’s real clear. There we go. There’s some fish over there. Some mullet. Yep. There’s some There’s our boy clam beds. Yep. So, for a while, um, our family, uh, was volunteers for the Restore Our Shores Foundation in the Bvard County Zoo. And we would raise, if you check out our other videos, we made a bunch of videos. We would raise oysters and clams on our dock here. Um, the oysters, uh, wait a sec. I always get them mixed up. The clams are down in the sand right now. The oysters, the oysters we used to grow in cages that we would just have hanging in the water off our dock and then once they got to a certain maturity, uh the foundation would come and take them from us and plant them on in artificial reefs around the Indian River Lagoon to help you know with rebuild the ecosystem uh here in the lagoon. But we don’t do the oysters anymore. or the clams. It’s kind of hard to see because of the texture from the wind and from the glare on the water, but you can actually I don’t know if you can see it or not, but this is like um they planted these a couple years ago on this side and there is seaggrass everywhere. So, the clams really hold the seaggrass roots in. Look at that. And so, when the when the um when the clams were overh harvested in the 80s, you know, a lot of the seaggrass, it’s ripped out was ripped out with them. So that’s, you know, now we have starving manatees. Yeah. Yeah. Manatee. We see we see amazing stuff here. Manatees, eagle rays, all sorts of stuff. But the manatees need to eat the seagrass and and they’re for a long time. I mean, look, it’s coming back. You can see it in here. Yeah. Um but for a long time, this is new to us, the seagrass right here. This is all new. Probably new this year. Like we just had a sandy bottom when we moved in. Probably new this year. Like we just had a sandy bottom when we moved in. Oh, here we go. Here’s a nice little pot of bait fish going in a line here. Yep. The look shells. It is just nice and clear today. Go snorkeling today. Well, look at those little fish. Look at all these little fish. Nice. All right. And then let’s see. So, this this coconut palm right here uh is some sort of like semi- dwarf variety. Uh it’s been that size the whole time we’ve owned this house. And at least 40 years. Yeah, the uh we were friends with the family that we bought the house from and he said that it’s been this size like since they I mean I think he planted it in the early 80s and and that’s as big as it got which is great cuz it makes harvesting the coconuts. Look at those coconut super easy. And then you know Yeah. Let’s talk about these coconuts. Sorry, real quick. You’re pointing at the the big ones. So these all look they’re they both look green if you can see that on the camera. But these are mature coconuts right here. Like these are these will give you good water and they’ll be real easy to open. These right here have matured and they’re the ones that have the the flesh on the inside and everything, but they’re way harder to get into. They have little brown coconut on the Yes, exactly. The cartoon. Oh, sick. Right behind you. Oh, wow. Look at that. Wow. Black racer. Uh-huh. What was he doing? He was like right behind you. Did we just walk up on him or We must have, I guess. Must have been under the dock or something in the shade. All right. Cool. What? I’m sorry. What were you gonna say, babe? I was just gonna say um we don’t drink or use any of these because we’re trying to to get um sprouts from all of them because if we’re going to grow any more um coconuts, we want this kind. Yeah. Yeah. And these are really sought after, too. All right, let’s let’s walk back up here. We have a couple more plants up here. Um we have some more coconuts. Yeah, these Yeah, these are the ones Teddy and I planted maybe last year. I did plant a malberry right there, but this the water table again is too high most of the year for that. We have this magnificent uh strangler fig right here. It’s mostly on my neighbor’s property, but it’s just a magnificent huge tree. We’re so lucky they kept it. Yeah, we were like when we bought this house, there was just there was just a jungle between us and that house over there, and it was real nice for about 6 months, and then they came and cut everything down and built their house there. It’s not my property, so I can’t really complain. But it was nice to have There’s no doubt it was nice to have Woods as a neighbor. It was Anyways. All right. Well, let’s We got some coconuts. Yeah, we got some coconuts. Yep. We got Yep. How many shade? Yeah, that’s probably not They’re going to have to find their way over here or they’re not going to do very well. Like that one right there is leaning the wrong way. It needs to lean this way. Uhhuh. Um, they’re all looking for the light cuz this is just this tree is going to block it out big time. All right, so let’s see. We got our mulberry tree here. We got the kids fort right here. We got killer fort. Yeah, it is a killer fort. We have some plants by We do. Just some more Denas and a a sad sad um Do you even remember which one was it? No, mysore. I think it was a Mysore. Yeah, mysore. Let’s see. We got This one was supposed to be a super red or something. Supposed to be the dwarf red. Golden. Yeah. But it wasn’t showing. Definitely not red. Wasn’t showing the characteristics of a dwarf red. So, but it’s still a real healthy variety of banana that gives us lots of fruit. So, we’re going to leave it there. Then back there, those two little ones, that’s the Goldfinger. Yep. Um just again just composted everything. I think is the dwarf red. I think these two are the same. Yeah. Yep. Here’s some more my hedge right here. It’s this doing great back here. Yeah. These are toonokos. Um here’s another spinach tree. It’s doing pretty good in this. This is our original patch of Oh yeah, we got the button ginger. Button ginger. Oh, it has some a little flower coming out. So you can eat Teddy just picked it there. You can eat No, it’s fine. You these little flowers that come out, you can pick that out and eat them. And they are so good. They are so good. This plant I pruned it I think too heavily or at the wrong time or something and it’s not looking great right now. But no, I think you need when you trim this one, you need to just trim each piece down to the ground because if you trim them halfway, it kills the whole stuff. Yeah. You can see I like came through here after it flowered one time and just like we trimmed it. Yeah. Cut all the dead flowers off and that’s not what it wanted. So I think they’re supposed to snap them off. Maybe. Oh, I guess we didn’t clean this up before our tour here. Here’s some here’s some bermilads that we’ve So, this one here’s another example. This one flowered right here and shot off these two and it was a huge clump right here that was getting in the way of the walkway. So, we moved it. We’re going to separate these pups. We decided we wanted taller stuff kind of blocking the the pool equipment out. So, yeah, this doesn’t look great cuz we just did this. Yeah. Um, a lot of these tea plant cutings that Anna Lisa put in came from this tea plant right over here. A nice bushy one. Yeah. And it’s a nice bushy tea plant that’s going to uh definitely cover up the the pool equipment. We got a lot of nice just stuff peppered in here. This used to be the area where we would just plop the stuff in the ground and we didn’t know what to do with it. Now we have no place. Yeah. Over here. Oh, sorry. We y’all we had our h like I said, our house just got painted and I need to still clean up a couple things. This is probably the best tea plant we got. Don’t you think? Pink diamonds. Yeah, the pink diamond. We definitely need to cut some of this off and plant it somewhere else. Yeah, it got painted on on a little bit. Well, that looks cool kind of. Got another green tea plant there. Tons of different vermilads in here. All different kinds. They take on different shades, too, depending on the the light they get and stuff. This elephant ear gets huge. It’s just a little one right now. It popped over here. It was closer to the house. Yeah. Um so that’ll be better. But I think that might be it. Yeah. Um I think that’s it. This is Oh, I guess this one banana. Yeah, the dwarf pazilian. This is I got I We can’t leave this out. The number one banana. Yeah, it’s a good last It’s a good thing to end on. This is our number one favorite banana. Good size. Nice big racks of bananas. Yummy bananas. Uh fast fruit. Can’t recommend that one enough. It’s probably my our all-time favorite, right? Yeah. Yeah. I love this. I like the And it’s a mediumsized banana. So, it’s like the my bananas. You got to eat like five or six of them. I like the my That’s cuz Teddy doesn’t like bananas. I don’t like the storebought ones that are this long. Yeah. He likes the littlest kind. Yeah. But these are like medium. They’re like that big. Yeah, they’re good. Cool. All right, y’all. Well, I hoped you enjoyed our tour here. If you have any questions or comments about any of the the tropical ornamentals or the tropical edible plants that we have uh growing on our property, uh just post down below. If you have any comments or suggestions for other kinds of plants, I’m sure we’ve missed some stuff that we have growing. Um I’m sure we have I’m sure there’s something we didn’t show, but we’re especially interested in edible stuff. So, we’re in zone 10A. If you have something that we haven’t like, what’s some stuff that we should be growing? Um uh I mean we definitely need a low I mean uh we need a what’s it called? We had one. Well, we just got the papayas. I felt like that. Yeah, we were missing those for years. Fruit so fast. We had them before. Yeah. And the passion fruit vine. Like those we just added back. I mean there’s tons of fruit trees though. We had lost Oh yeah. I mean like I want more mangoes. Um a luchi. A luchi. That’s what I was thinking. Yeah. I mean, there’s tons of them. The black the black uh um sour sap. Yeah, we have a sour um black sapote. Black want that one. That’s delicious. It’s like the black pudding. What are the ones called? You might have mentioned it with the little like fruits on the stock. Oh. Um Oh, the japotic. Yeah, that’s another one. I really want those. We bought little ones of those before. We ate like one this time, but we didn’t baby it enough. Apparently the bigger the plant, the bigger the fruit. So like some could be baseball size. Yeah. All right. Well, obviously there’s a lot more that we can we should plant. But if you have some suggestions of something we’re just totally missing out on. Uh please post down below cuz we always we’re always uh looking to add more stuff to the to the landscape. But anyways y’all, thanks for uh thanks for hanging in with us here. Um if you did enjoy our tour, maybe you consider subscribing to our family’s YouTube channel. And if they don’t, what’s going to happen, bud? You’ll get hit by a truck. You’ll get hit by a truck. What? Teddy, come on. I’m just joking. All right. Well, you don’t want that to happen. So, Oh, look. Here’s another corn plant that’s flowering. So, maybe uh just consider subscribing to our family’s YouTube channel. Till next time, everybody out there. Take care. Bye. [Music]