00:08 This is a classic food forest planting aka edible landscaping
01:00 My Plum Tree guild plantings
01:37 Sometimes it can be overwhelming when considering all the possibilities and choices this is a good reason to PLAN SMALL
02:20 These are the plants in the fumigant category
03:04 These are the plants I have in the Insectary category
03:50 This is how I do my pest management
04:14 Attracting beneficial insects is not just about the flowers – here is an example
05:45 Self-seeding crops
06:40 Some plants for nitrogen fixation
08:00 OOOPS!
08:08 How the stone path is part of my design for a reason
08:56 How the Overstory Layer will help some of my cool loving plants
09:49 Sometimes my thought process is to design on paper and sometimes my thought process is just to go out into the garden and plant
10:00 My thought process about where to plant my nitrogen fixers and how these plants will look
11:00 A word about peanuts as nitrogen fixers
12:07 It is a really good idea to work on 4 or 5 square feet at a time
Edible Gardening
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I’m surprised at how everything bounced back after snowmageddon 2021. 💭
You have way too much bare woodchip showing for a permaculture food forest. You're ignoring the main point of having shrub, understory, climbing and ground cover which are the actual components of a permaculture food forest. You really should not be able to see the woodchips. I get you wanna step thru the garden and you still can even if it's dense. Also it's nice to check all the boxes regarding roles for plants but if youre not using em right or not using enough of em then you're simply checking boxes in your head. For example you can't scatter a few nitrogen fixers and call it a day. That's literally not how they work at all and not their purpose in the garden. Those crops are not set it and forget it. They are meant to be grown between crop cycles and culled In order to fix nitrogen. Much is misunderstood about how those nodules work in reality. So many ppl think they fix nitrogen while living or that they can harvest the crop and just leave the root nodes, but it isn't the case. Think of it this way, if I have a legume farm and I harvest the legumes then I have not added nitrogen to the soil I have reduced it. The nitrogen fixation occurs but the plant need to be culled where it stands for the nitrogen to go into the soil for a net positive. Those root nodes don't just add nitrogen to the surrounding soil or let other plants "feed" thru them
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Nice. Interesting video.