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How to grow Egyptian Walking Onion Shhh…Here’s our little secret to the easiest onions to grow. Egyptian walking onions! With standard onions, you plant one seed…
Growing Comfrey and ways to use it You might have heard Comfrey being thrown around as a permaculture buzz word and as a free free fertiliser you…
Seed sowing guide 101 Why is seed sowing such a vital skill? Seeds are the essence of life and healthy, productive plants. Sowing seeds…
King White Mulberry (White Shahtoot Mulberry) Every backyard should have a mulberry tree. They are such wonderful fruits and stunning ornamental trees. If you only have…
How to grow Strawberry Guava Strawberry Guava is one of our favourite fruits to grow – it’s drought-tolerant, disease-resistant and delicious. One of the toughest…
How to grow Blueberries the easy way! Blueberries were one of the first fruits in our foodforest. They’re one of the reasons I became totally addicted to…
Dehydrating fruit and veg If you’d come by our house recently, you might have thought Christmas had come again, because there was a lot…
Vegepod 101 Growing Tips and Tricks 1. Construction of our Vegepod / Assembly / Unboxing 2. Vegepod: Spring Tour / Incredible Before & After 3. Vegepod:…
Easy veggie burger that doesn’t fall apart I have been searching for years for the perfect home-made vegan, veggie burger – one that not only tastes delicious,…
Tomato Garden Tour!!! Early Summer – 25 Varieties I’ve got an exciting one for you today for #tomatotuesday! Come take a walk with me through our garden, I…
10 Surprising Facts about Berries Since filling our foodforest with berries, I have learnt so much about berries I didn’t know before. Berries have a…
Our Top 5 Berries to Grow We grow over 80 varieties of fruits in our backyard foodforest, and berries are one of our favourite fruits to…
Puffing Amaranth for Sunday Granola / Muesli Did you know you can pop your own grains to make a delicious wholesome muesli with no added sugar or…
Making tofu with lego and lemon Did you know that you you can make your own tofu at home? Using simple objects around the house (Hint:…
Delicious plant-powered Bolognese Want to know the secret to a delicious, succulent AND healthy bolognese? One that’s meaty but without the meat. Well…

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Those of you who have followed us for a while know

Those of you who have followed us for a while know that we're all about low-fuss, easy to grow veggies that are prolific and multi-function. Nothing fits that bill better than Chayote or Choko. Every part of this incredible permaculture plant is edible, it is perennial and resprouts year after year and it is one of the most giving plants you can grow. Not only that, it is delicious and versatile.

On our channel tonight we introduce you to everything you need to know about Chayotes / Chokos. Learn how to sprout a Chayote / Choko, find out which part is the seed in this unusual fruit. Learn how to distinguish Chokos from a toxic look-a-like plant. I will show you how to plant one and we will take a tour of our Chayote vine + loads of growing tips and tricks!

Link here (paste into your browser) or head to our bio for the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96QfcrZZbq4&list=PLScmIYoPPMI7ZTEpiP-CUC_qNns1ND5eX&index=3

Shhh…Here's our little secret to the easiest & b

Shhh...Here's our little secret to the easiest & best onions to grow. You know how with normal onions, you plant 1 seed you get 1 onion. Well, with perennial onions, you plant 1 bulb = A lifetime supply of onions! Sound too good to be true? Well this is the reality with Egyptian Walking Onions (EWO).

New video tutorial (paste link here into your browser, or check out link in my bio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6MnRBPwLl4&list=PLScmIYoPPMI7ZTEpiP-CUC_qNns1ND5eX&index=35)

I love everything about them.

1. Firstly, they are perennial - I can't emphasise this enough, this means they grow back year after year. You don't need to replant. You don’t need to do anything. Who can bother resowing those tiny onion seeds each year? You'll never have to again! EWOs are an ideal vegetable for your perennial food forest.

2. Secondly, their scientific name is Allium Prolifium - this gives you a clue to how they behave. Believe me they are "prolific". EWOs keep multiplying under the ground to produce more onions, and produce baby bulbs on top, which literally 'walk' across your garden bed over the seasons.

3. Thirdly, they are wonderful spring onion substitute. Spring onions can be difficult and slow to grow. Well why bother when you can grow EWOs which double as an onion and spring onion with their lush ever-giving green tops.

Finally, who can resist their name! Onions that can walk? Yes please.

I’ve been testing these for years now, and they have the Melbourne Foodforest tick of approval for ease of growing, productiveness and fun!

As many of you know, citrus is a huge feature in

As many of you know, citrus is a huge feature in our foodforest every year and feeds us and our neighbourhood with an abundance of fruit. These are our top tips for an epic citrus harvest:

🍊 Citrus loves good drainage, so is one of the very few plants that grow with very little effort in our extremely sandy soil. If you have heavy clay soil you may need to plant in pots, or create a raised mound to plant on. Also ask your friends with sandy soil and do a soil swap - yes it's a real thing and it works!

🍊 We underplant all our citrus with a lush variety of plants as a living mulch to provide natural ground cover, including native violet, alpine strawberries, salvia, parsley and mint - which we then also chop and drop to feed our trees, permaculture style. Alternatively mulch heavily with pea straw, autumn leaves or lucerne. Citrus is shallow rooted and needs lots of insulation around its roots.

🍊 Don't overfetilise your citrus, or you will get all leafy growth and no fruit. Add loads of organic composts throughout the year. If you notice veining on the leaves, you will need to use a citrus fertiliser which has the right balance of all the nutrients citrus needs, without overloading it on nitrogen and will promote flowers and fruit. As a rule of thumb, fertilise once a year at the time of fruit set (usually around autumn). We use @lovethegarden_au Osmocote Citrus & Fruit slow release fertiliser, for an easy-no fuss fertiliser.

🍊 Yes citrus can be grown in shade ⛅ most of our trees are grown in full or part-shade and still fruit prolifically.

🍊 If you find your fruits with the peels chewed off but the inside left, most likely it is rats - go out with a torch at night and you'll see them. In our experience possums will not eat citrus unless there is literally nothing left to eat.

🍊 Citrus is an evergreen, so be careful where you plant it as it will shade out light for plants next to it year-round. Plant citrus on your southern border in the Southern Hemisphere so it doesn't shade out the rest of your garden.

If you haven't checked it out already, Part 2 of o

If you haven't checked it out already, Part 2 of our Foodforest tour has landed on our Youtube Channel. Link in our bio and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybUffHjb8hQ&list=PLScmIYoPPMI7ZTEpiP-CUC_qNns1ND5eX&index=30.

We tour our heaving Babaco tree (this mumma is laden with fruit even in winter!), blackberry, avocado trees, taro, tamarillo, mandarin, white shahtoot mulberry, cumquat (Marumi, Variegated and Nagami), Kangaroo apple, lemon, almond and loquat.

The key skills we cover include:
- creating a citrus 'arch'
- how to deal with root invasion from neighbouring trees
- how to use your fruit tree prunings
- varieties to grow to give you year-round fruit
- fruit selection
- pest management

Enjoy!

Here is one of our absolute favourite capsicums to

Here is one of our absolute favourite capsicums to grow! Look at the incredible colours she goes through. Her name is: Oda Pepper. Packed with antioxidants and flavour, this is a show-stopper capsicum to grow. Now is the time to sow your chilli and capsicum seeds indoors, we use a quality seed raising mix from @lovethegarden_au (Scott's Osmocote). We grow almost all our capsicum and chillis in pots.

Why?

1. This enables us to easily move the pot a sheltered location to overwinter, without having to disturb their roots. Overwinter = capsicum and chillis earlier in the season and bigger healthier plants in the second season!

2. Growing in a pot promotes a warmer root zone = happier capsicum / chillis and more fruit

3. Chillis don't have big roots so grow happily in a pot. This saves our bed space so we can grow our core summer produce that have deeper roots like tomatoes

How?

Plants grown in pots depend entirely on you for their nutrition. Therefore it is vital to start with a quality potting mix as your base. After trialing every potting mix on the shelf, we now only use Scotts Osmocote as our base (orange bag). This potting mix has fertiliser for 6 months already built in ✔️. We also mix in worm castings from our worm farm, compost and some rock dust to give our plants a boost - you won't need to fertilise again all summer.

It's been a while but we are back with a new video

It's been a while but we are back with a new video tour!!! Come join us on a walk through our winter foodforest, featuring these incredible Banana passionfruit, Mandarin, Grapefruit, Pepino, Strawberry guava, Kiwiberry, standard passionfruit, Banana and Raspberries. Link in our bio and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skUbXeyPSno&list=PLScmIYoPPMI6LjqXcgI8tBUyiZmOX186h&index=1&t=2s.

Some of the skills we cover include:
- Growing in shade, dealing with challenges of neighbouring trees
- Position and layout of our fruit trees
- Soil preparation in winter
- Underplanting fruit trees with a living mulch
- Creating warmth and microclimate over winter, using thermal mass
- Growing vertically
- Our approach to managing diseases
- Managing frost on tropics and sub-tropicals
- Raspberry cane pruning
- When to spray stone fruit

Enjoy!

Whiparound tour of a section of our winter foodfor

Whiparound tour of a section of our winter foodforest

Mandarin season is here in our foodforest! 🍊🍊🍊 On a windy winter day, with a backdrop of blue sky 💙