Greetings fellow Steemians!!!! Click above....for the latest... FULL VIDEO TOUR!!! The wave of cherries....has begun! This week...our son...River... joins me for another quick tour around the food forest. In this tour...we show you some of the developing fruits...like the figs...and work our way....around the whole food forest and end in the greenhouse. The cherries are ripening in waves right now...and the pluots, pluerries, plums...almonds....and peaches.. aren't far behind. Next week's video I'm hoping to have someone hold the camera...so I can stand back...and just give the tour hands FREE!!!! Enjoy ya'll!!!! CHEERS TO GROWING FOOD FORESTS......WORLDWIDE!!!
We are growing a few different varieties of cherry...to assist each other in pollination. Currently..we are growing..Bing, Ranier, Van and Stella. mmmmmmmm!
We have many cherries growing...but there's an abundance of other fruit in this food forest. Asian pears, mulberries, apples, persmimmon, pluot, pluerry, plum, almonds, nectarine, peach, nectaplum....aprium...and many others! It's a full circle pathway...that leads ALL...the way around the house...so we can harvest as we walk.
Figs rise up...all around the greenhouse. We have black mission, katoda, black jack...and brown turkey currently residing here.
Each walkway...is a swale...that allows water to permeate and infiltrate deeply...and hold water for longer periods of time. Each section of this food forest is terraced...to allow deeper penetration.
As you walk away from the greenhouse and figs... toward the backyard...you enter a grove of apples. The apples are still a ways off from ripeness.....but the trees in the mean time offer us wonderful shade in this part of the forest.
Inside the geodesic greenhouse right now....we have many tropicals growing. We keep the pathways moistened and the wood mulch also. The added shade cloth on top of the greenhouse...and 1000 gallon fish pond inside the dome...keeps the climate very tropical. Transpiration from vine crops...like muskemelons will soon be assisting create this micro climate. Tobacco, nasturtium, lemongrass, aloe vera, shizandra, ginger, turmeric, melons, bamboo, papaya...white sapote...and many others tropicals and sub tropicals....hanging out in here together!
Here is a new cherimoya tree planted near the pond. She will create a beautiful canopy of shade over this pond! We have 3 other cherimoyas as well. Hand pollination in our future! :) Ginger and turmeric are coming up along the whole perimeter of the pond.
Here come the muskmelons on the east side of the growing dome. They will provide some nice shade...and transpiration.
Persimmon developing nicely! :)
Looking into the almond and peach grove/zone. SOON!!!!!!
Thanks for cruising a long...on this week's food forest VLOG and photo update. WE APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU!!!!! By next week's update...we should be munching figs!!!!
CHEERS STEEMIT FAMILY!