A beautifully messy South Florida food woods .
One of the interesting matter about creating a food forest and then not visiting it for over a yr is that you get to see it progress or devolve in jumps .
Yesterday I remark that some of the Tree and plants we added are now deceased – and we also saw many of the interesting “ weeds ” that have pop up to fill in the herbaceous bed .
That ’s the means a forest full treatment . If you do n’t fill up in all the disruption in your food forest , something else will . As you could see in the figure above , there ’s a mountain going on in the understory layers – most of which is not eatable . My chaya is search undecomposed though the manioc is not glad … and they ’re surrounded by some weird neighbor . Ferns , Spanish needle , light-green and purple wandering Jew , female parent - in - law of nature tongue , Surinam daisies … it ’s quite a pretty mess . You could believably start an decorative nursery with the cuttings from this patch of un - mown jungle .
To the left of the principal food timber isthe perennial salad gardenI create a duo of years ago . The survivor there include a flourishing katuk , a spindly monk ’s cap / Turk ’s jacket crown hibiscus and the length of service spinach .
Up above , the Cocos nucifera ribbon is bearing more kookie than it ever has :
A beautifully messy South Florida food forest.
I planted that tree when I was 15 . A couple of years ago Dad and I weeded out the asparagus fern from around its base and planted that salad garden . It really care being without the competition of those root - strangling edible asparagus ferns .
As does the Natal plum out front :
There were multiple fruit on this George Herbert Walker Bush when I present up . It used to wait really sad until we claim out the asparagus fern and give it a fresh lease on lifespan . Now it ’s cover with blooms and fruiting regularly . I ’m hoping to grow some of these up here in North Florida . Though it ’s a stint , I have seen one growing without frost protection in Citra . Definitely deserving trying .
A beautifully messy South Florida food forest.
Another happy Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is the Mangifera indica Mom planted out back 4 - 5 age ago .
The piles of mulch and deficiency of grass competition have made this Mangifera indica a leading manufacturer . It ’s easily 14′ tall right now and loaded – perfectly loaded – with yield .
If I had to think right now , I ’d say that this South Florida food for thought forest project is already ease up about 300 - 400lbs of nutrient every year , mostly thanks to the starfruit , the mangoes and the West Indian cherry cherry . One the deep brown pudding yield , avocado , tamarind , canistel tree and other trees kick in … it ’ll get ridiculous .
A beautifully messy South Florida food forest.
Tomorrow we ’ll take a look at the other tree we append last week .
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A beautifully messy South Florida food forest.
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