David write to ask about yam plant bulblet , then apportion pictures of his amazing Florida food timberland project .
“ I have a lot of bulbils hanging from my yam vine right now and I may be scram tropical storm winds in a couple of days . I do n’t require them spread around the neighborhood so If I peck the courteous sized bulbils while the vines are still riotous will they remain viable for a few months in the service department ?
Winged yam bulblet
By the fashion , thanks for your books “ make Your Own Florida Food Forest ” and “ Totally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening ” . They inspired me to produce a 5000 sf nutrient forest a few years ago and I now have plenty of nutrient uncommitted whatever bump . I have at least 1000 lbs of root like perfumed potatoes , yams , cassava starch , and malanga along with year round fruit and greens in South zone 9B thanks to you . ”
My response on the bulbil question :
“ Yes , they will . I ’ve overwinter bulbil by just filling up a bucket with them and throwing some damp sawdust on top . They often do n’t even need that , though . They are tough . It ’s belatedly enough in the season to break up them . Just try not to damage the skin when you peck , as that will permit in rot . ”
Winged yam bulbils
Then I asked if he would share some mental picture of his food timber and rent me post his email here .
That ’s when things get even coolheaded .
David’s Florida Food Forest
David writes further – and place film :
“ I have planted and grow fruit trees for my entire grownup life-time because I enjoyed the unceasing return of good fruit year after year so when I heard about repeated horticulture several year ago it appealed to me . I began explore on the internet and watched several of your youtube videos before adjudicate to buy three of your book to learn more .
I boughtTotally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening , Create Your Own Florida Food Forest , andCompost Everything .
I liked them all but it wasTotally Crazy Easy Florida Gardeningthat grab my attending and got me filch .
The idea of produce crops that like to grow in Florida made perfect signified and your chapter on desexualize Florida sand was great . I take the Scripture over and over and jump planning .
Our local landfill give away mulch from hurricane Irma and compost they made from yard waste . I checked the composting process to see if they keep out harmful product and it seemed just to me . I bought some fencing to keep cervid out and started cart compost and mulch on weekends . I chose a strip of land between two ditch to make my food for thought forest so that it would be well drained even in the summertime . The shit was mostly white sand and it was full of weeds . I threw down cardboard , put a duad inch of compost on top and covered that with four to six inches of wood mulch .
I started with about 1000 sf and started searching for the crops you distinguish about in your book . Every time I satiate the space up I bought more fencing and extended the garden .
Today it is 30′ wide and 170′ long .
It is full of self - seed everglades tomato and sweet potatoes that I let mature wherever they protrude up . I look over 25 tomato plant plants yesterday and I ’ll have tomatoes from now until July next year without doing anything except using Thuricide if I see caterpillar .
Brogdon avocado surrounded by Everglades tomato plants
Brogdon avocado surrounded by Everglades tomato plant
Sweet Irish potato are in about eight enceinte patches throughout the garden and a few small ones . We start harvesting them a month ago by digging up part of one eyepatch and getting 23 Sudanese pound .
In addition to the above the food forest has length of service Spinacia oleracea , 2 peach trees , various lettuces , Brassica oleracea italica , about 30 pineapples , two Ice cream banana bunches , two Namwa banana bunches , two Raja Puri banana bunch , two Goldfinger banana bunches , four Moringa tree , a Tanenashi persimmon tree tree , five pigeon peas , 18 Hawaiian Solo papaya plants , about ten cassava plant , two mulberry trees , five patch of dinero cane , four Malanga Lila plants , four Malanga Blanca plants , a Surinam Cherry , two Warner ’s Own figs , to Green Ischia figs , One Brown Turkey fig , about ten Mexican Sunflowers , 12 fakahatchee weed clump , about 20Dioscorea alata , five purple Ube Yams , one Ghana yam , a guava tree , two mango trees , one aguacate tree diagram , one Jamaican cherry tree tree , one Nopale cactus , a Sri Kembangan carambola , a Kari carambola , three kinds of Muscadine grape vine , two red dragon fruit , two yellow dragon yield , three Katuk , four Sissoo spinach , scarlet lime , chaya , cubic yard long noodle , and jalapeno peppers .
The Baroness Dudevant in the food forest has become disastrous territory over three year . Everything that is lop from the plants gets chop and drop .
Outside the nutrient timberland I have a Nam Doc Mai mango tree which produced 300 + mango this year , a Fuyugaki persimmon , a jaboticaba , two macadamia Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , a big patch of Mysore raspberries , more pineapple plant , six citrus trees , a Brogden avocado , and another Oliver loquat .
I have even compost a few foe along the way ( squirrels )
Most of this would not have happen if it had n’t been for your Holy Writ and videos so give thanks you David the Good . ”
nutrient forest gardens work astonishingly well in Florida when you use a combination of rich mulching with the plant recommendations in my books . It is exciting to see so much yield – and this garden is only a few years sure-enough . Wait until those fruit trees hit their full potential in a few more class !
majuscule work David – I am majestic of you . What an inspiration !
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