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Welcome to our site! We are here to help you create your own flourishing foodforest - no matter how big or small your space.

Here you'll find detailed articles with tips and tricks for beginners through to green thumbs, organic heirloom seeds tested in the toughest conditions and our favourite products to help you grow, eat and live sustainably.

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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…
Myth-busting – Coffee grounds in the garden: Friend or foe? A question I am often asked by new gardeners is: Is it safe to use coffee grounds in my garden?…
Tomato awards: Our must-grow cherry tomatoes While you all know I have a soft spot for giant beefcake tomatoes, there is also something enchanting, irresistible and…

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Glass Gem Corn

Fabric Grow Bags

Vegepod Wicking Bed – Medium

Vegepod Wicking Bed – Large

Fruit Protection Bags

Seed Raising Heat Mat (for propagation and germination)

Soil pH Test Kit (check your soil acidity and alkalinity)

Molly’s Zebra Bean

Lazy Housewife Bean

Black turtle beans (Dwarf)

Edamame soy bean grow your own

Edamame / soy bean (Dwarf)

Giant sunflower seed

Sunflower seed Mix

Indestructible garden tools

Indestructible garden tools

Dehydrate your own produce with the best dehydrator on the market Excalibur

Excalibur Dehydrator

Compost caddy stainless steel

The cutest compost caddy

Large bird netting for fruit trees and berries

Bird netting for trees, veggies and berries (Medium / Large)

Wide Brimmed Hemp Gardening Hat

Organic Canvas Apron for Tools and Harvests

Fig Leaf Gourd

Subpod (Worm Farm + Garden Bed All-in-one)

Frost Bean

Mini Blue Corn

Oxacan Green Corn

White Glutinous Corn

Cranberry Bean

Purple King Bean

Madagascar Bean

Glass Gem Corn (Pink Hues)

Broadbean (Dwarf, No Staking)

Dwarf Self-climbing Pea

Hollyhock (Mixed)

Butter Bean (Dwarf)

Sweet Pea (Pinks and Purples)

Lodge 3 Litre Cast Iron Combo Cooker

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Highly productive urban farm / Sustainable garden / Permaculture / Edible beauty / Fruit & Veggies

King White Mulberry – Foodforest tour | White Shahtoot Mulberry | The biggest and sweetest Mulberry!

How to grow Strawberry Guava + Taste test | Backyard Foodforest | Delicious, hardy and disease-free!

How to grow blueberries the easy way! PH testing, soil, repotting, our fav varieties to grow

Late Summer tour of the fruits, vegetables, flowers of our Urban Food forest | Ideals & inspiration

Our Large Vegepod Wicking bed! Is about to explode, check out our insane harvest | Tips on pests

An abundant Permaculture Garden in a small space | Raised beds brick keyhole | Dealing with pests

Growing Choko Chayote | Permaculture plant with many uses | Delicious dish feat choko, pumpkin vine

Greenhouse Growing Basics 101 | For beginners and intermediate | Design, Pros and cons, Quirks, Tips

Beautiful and productive raised keyhole bed | Garden Tour | Heirloom veggies, flowers | Urban Farm

An Easy No-Knead Sourdough Bread Loaf | French Country | Pain de Campagne | Rye, Wholemeal

Easiest tomatoes to grow | Great for small spaces, beginners | Compact, neat and productive

How to dehydrate fruit vegetables | 101 Guide | Citrus banana mango kiwi apple | Onion celery powder

How to Grow Amazing, Chilli, Bell Pepper, Capsicum | Garden Tour | Rare Unusual Varieties | Guide

Sourdough Crumpet recipe | Delicious and easy | Bubbly and light, crispy & fluffy – Never rubbery

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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 💙

GROW YOUR OWN SALAD BAR With lettuce prices going

GROW YOUR OWN SALAD BAR

With lettuce prices going through the roof, it's never been a better time to grow your own. One of the things we never have to buy again since growing our own food is leafy greens. They are one of the easiest things you can grow and are a great beginners veggie. There are so many different types of leafy greens you can grow, swipe left to see our favs.
Here are our top tips to grow your own salad bar:
- Pot or garden bed: Lettuce and most leafy greens grow happily in a pot or a garden bed. If using a pot, ensure you use a top quality potting mix - our go to mix is @lovethegarden_au Scotts Osmocote Orange bag potting mix.
- Soil: All leafy greens like lettuce enjoy a nitrogen rich soil. Enrich your soil with worm castings, compost or well rotted manure for large crispy leaves.
- Light/Heat: Leafy greens and lettuce grow best in the cooler weather, so now is the ideal time to plant. In winter, they will happily grow in full sun or shade. In warmer climates or over summer choose a shady spot as it tends to bolt to seed in hot weather.
- Seed or seedlings? We prefer to grow them from seed as it's quick to germinate and it doesn't mind being transplanted. You can sow a small pinch of seeds in a punnet, and transplant into a pot or your veggie patch once they have developed a good root zone. Growing from seed gives you a continuous year-round supply if you sow seed every 3 months.
- Varieties: Growing from seed gives you access to hundreds of heirloom varieties. We like the open leafed lettuces, as they are great for impatient gardeners - you harvest outer leaves as you need them and don't need to wait for the whole head to form. Our favourites for a garden salad mix are Little Gem, Australian Heirloom Yellow Leaf, Lettuce All Year Round and try other leafy salad greens like red mizuna, tatsoi, mibuna, and tokyo bekana.

We're back!!! You might have noticed we've been a

We're back!!!

You might have noticed we've been a bit quiet on our social channels in the past few months. Just like our garden and our soil takes a break over winter, we have taken a much-needed hiatus from our screens and channels to take care of ourselves physically and mentally, and of course look after the garden. It's been a tough year, with too many deaths in the family including one recently quite tragically and too early, that hit me hard, and has really put things into perspective.

I want to say a big thank you for all your love and support over on Channel 31 for all those in Melbourne, on our Youtube Channel, and all the orders and kind messages we've received on our website 💚💚💚 This break means that we have loads of tutorials and content banked up ready to be released!! yay! 🎉

To whet your appetite, here's a snippet of one section of our food forest I haven't shared before. I always get lots of questions about what I underplant our fruit trees with, here are some ideas of living mulches and companion plants you can layer with, this is an example under our spectacular grapefruit tree - on which we harvest hundreds of grapefruit each year. Rather than planting a single tree in this spot, we have many layers of plants growing in harmony in a living 'plant guild'. As always, tweak to your individual circumstances (climate, aspect and soil type as well as what you enjoy eating)!

The fiery colours of winter, grown in @lovethegard

The fiery colours of winter, grown in @lovethegarden_au Scotts Osmocote potting mix.

Farewelling the last of our eggplants from our @ve

Farewelling the last of our eggplants from our @vegepod and time to clear out our summer produce, it's time to rejuvenate the soil. It's been such a successful harvest over summer, the craziest eggplants we've ever grown! Just like we need a break to recharge, so does our soil. In a closed system like the Vegepod, it's even more important to continually think about soil nutrition. With each harvest, we are drawing organic matter from the soil; what we take out we need to add back.

We will be chopping and dropping the plants in our Vegepod, to add nutrients onto our soil and letting the soil rest before a winter planting. Spent plants, mulch, compost, worm castings, green fertilisers we grow and manure are all ways we continually add life back into our soil. Anything that was once living, is food for a new generation of plants.

Over winter, our garden becomes shrouded in shade, and some of our man veggie beds we simply let rest. We don't plant anything in them, and we simply pile on the organic matter and let it break down ready for spring.

Our first harvest of Jerusalem artichokes for this

Our first harvest of Jerusalem artichokes for this season, with another 4 batches to go! These have in recent years started appearing on fancy restaurant menus. Fortunately, they are so easy to grow and top our easiest veggies list. They are generally disease and pest free and tolerate extremely poor soils (like our horrible sandy soil!) and even do well in drought - ours don't get any supplemental watering and still produce insanely.

Being related to sunflowers, their tops are stunning 3m tall multi-headed sunflowers which make a wonderful summer hedge. The tubers, which we've harvested here are knobbly and look very much like ginger. Plant one tuber and harvest kilos, nothing's quite this productive!

They have an interesting earthy and nutty taste which is great for roasting, but our favourite way to have them is fermented in brine, or even straight into soy sauce. They make a delicious pickle that goes with every meal.

Harvested gently with our favourite indestructible garden tools, buy once have them for life. Made right here in Australia. Use our discount code "MFF" for 10% off. More details on our website: https://melbournefoodforest.com.au/product/our-favourite-garden-tool-set/.

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