Finally got around to filming a backyard garden tour of my Tropical Fruit Forest 😀 Recorded over 40mins of footage so I’ve split the video’s into 3 parts to manage/edit/upload the gigantic 4K files easier…part 2/3 coming soon.
I’ve planted over 100 Rare Tropical Fruit Trees in ground around 1year ago in May 2020 (currently May 2021). Video includes some before and after’s of the transformation over the past year.
All work was designed and built by myself with the help of my partner and a couple friends. None of us have any formal training in landscape design / building. It was a labour of love learning how to execute the design and watching it growing to life has been really rewarding.
I used many regenerative permaculture principles in designing/building the forest layout. Water flows, Ground Level Contours, Sunlight direction was taken into account to create a low maintenance Fruit Food Forest ecosystem that only requires a minimal amount of weeding and pruning once every couple months. Because my suburban yard is only 605sq meters I have implemented a compact design, squeezing in as many fruit tree’s as I possible can, so constant pruning takes place with all leaves/branches composted back into the soil. Regenerative practices only – noting is thrown out.
Cardboard was laid on top of ground with about 1foot of mulch on top to supress weeds and create the base for mycorrhiza forest floor. All trees originally removed to create this system were mulched down and put back into the forest floor. Nothing has been removed from the ecosystem, including large logs which are slowly decaying, composting back into the soil and mulch.
I only use organic fertilisers and pest control management. No toxic chemicals are used whatsoever! When I had all the plants / fruit trees in pots I noticed different pests attacking leaves… Since planting them in ground, 99% of all pest issues are gone. I have the occasional leaf minor attacking my citrus trees, and the pesky possums eating young leaves, but all aphids / caterpillars / grasshoppers / and nutrient deficiencies have sort themselves out since being planted in ground. A harmonious organic ecosystem is what I planned to create and seems to be working beautifully 🙂
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5 Comments
Looking great Tim. You could not have timed all your planting better with all the rain we have had.
Very creative, very nice.
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Epic garden!
Your garden looks a lot like my food forest when I started it 20 years ago. If I could offer one piece of advice please: don't make the same mistake I made and not plant enough support trees. I saw 1 ice cream bean there but I would strongly suggest you plant a lot more nitrogen fixing trees to nurse your young fruit trees. Ice cream bean, cassia, pigeon pea, crotolaria, albizia would all work well in Brisbane. It's hard to overstate just how important these support trees are – it's something you need to experience to understand their importance.