You may have seenthe Old videoon the South Florida nutrient forest project I ’ve been work on for the last couple of yr .
Though I make it sound like it ’s this unbelievable , unachievably awesome Work Of Science , it started as a few tropical plant life in the back yard of my parents ’ plate in Ft . Lauderdale .
The beginnings of a South Florida solid food forest
Long ago , when I first became concerned in gardening , myDad gave me a little 8′ x 8′ patch of dirtto work with in the backyard . There I embed a variety of matter over the years , go from radishes to cacti , to giant incursive pagoda flower George W. Bush to rambling cucumber vines . Then I move out , buy my own house and gardened across other yards …
… until I got obsessed with thefood forestconcept a few years ago ( and also set forth helping Mom with her garden ) . I asked if I could perhaps start a tropic island of works . Dad , being a forward thinker , basically told me I could take what I want of the yard , provided I told him what could be mowed , and what could n’t .
year ago , I planted a coconut back there which is now a lovely palm – and Mom had already planteda mangoand a Navel Orange River tree about 3 year ago ( the latter succumbed to the greening virus at a tender historic period ) … so I decided to impart a few more trees and somecassavato the commixture .
The beginnings of a South Florida food forest
Over consecutive sojourn , I bring a starfruit , a Libyan Fighting Group ( now gone ) , some bananas , a couplemoringaseedlings , a gamboge , a giant Thai variety of avocado , and a Key limequat . Then I put in a few support species likeTithonia diversifolia , coral beans , black bamboo , malanga , Senna alata and other routine and pieces . Dad and I piledcompost , yard waste , tree limbs , leaves and whatever constituent matter we could see around the plants , putting it on top of composition board to smother the locoweed and Gunter Grass and give the victuals a unspoilt head start .
When I visited a few week ago , most of the first round of golf of plants were looking great . Dad was game to append some more , so we hitSpyke ’s Grove Nurseryin Davie … a classic piazza to chance exotic plants in Southeast FL .
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Anyhow – that ’s enough of that . I ’m getting the fever again . There is n’t a nursery big enough in the world to fulfill my desire for plants ; though my wallet is another fib altogether …
Where was I ? Ah yes – hunt for tropical fruit trees with Dad .
We went to Spyke ’s and I had a few things in mind . I ’ve been obsessed withJaboticaba treesfor over a class , so we hunted down two of those ( one for Dad ’s cubic yard , and the other for my greenhouse ) . We also nail a grumichama tree , an surinam cherry cherry red , a cinnamon tree and a strawberry tree diagram ( that one ’s for my yard ) .
On this trip , I had also bring down with me a “ 6th Street ” Mulberry and a cattley guava from theEdible Plant Projectin Gainesville , along with another cassava motley to try out out .
Next post … I tell you what we did with them and share a few more word-painting .
A just - found grumichama tree . Wish I could grow these where I hold out …
See all the updates on The Great South Florida Food Forest Project HERE!
For more information on starting a food forest , check out my bookCreate Your Own Florida Food Forest .
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A just-planted grumichama tree. Wish I could grow these where I live…
