Many commenters have take account my iterative design approach to nutrient forests , which focuses much more on growing a magnanimous ecosystem , then cut away what you do n’t like afterward .
you could see what I mean in this video :
“ I am an over planner by nature and we started our food timberland with diagrams and layouts. 😂 HAHA we get with CAD software . ( I ’m a graphic room decorator and my married man is a draughtsman ) It was structured and planned out . That apace go out the window lol . I still prove to maintain organized chaos , but we are just plant material at this point . ”-heartofedenfarmstead
“ You encourage me to get set about on my nutrient forest . I go and started on my Ananas comosus Guava in the front railway yard . I removed all the grass suffocating it . Then chopped and dropped some smoke from an unkept field of my 1000 . I also start clearing the basis in my backyard to start up discombobulate out a cum admixture . I already have figs from cutting in container , Cassava from a friend , Avocado from the store , and moringa a grew from seminal fluid . I grease one’s palms a net ton of cover crop seed a while back . It ’s like I ’ve been waiting for this video to inspire me . From one David to another . Thx . ”-TioDave
“ This is a liberating point of vista . I think that very thing has kept me from growing piles of thing for lots of days . Nowadays it ’s “ lease ’s just see what happens ” and translate it is n’t blend in to look like Charles Dowding and many others I do admire but can not emulate . More afraid of not try than failing these daylight . Youtube is swell for inspiration ( select channels , anyway ) but at some point you just have to go alfresco and do it . ”-sujo0603
“ Love the very introductory model that could be applied to any site . I ’m a retired life scientist , and I can assure that you are 100 % right that nature works in a standardised way . Also , I like your analogy of building island and expanding , connect to other islands . Hey , they may become continent 😅 You may call that “ plate plate tectonic theory gardening”Leo Miranda - Castro
“ David The Goods primary job on YouTube is to keep us all out of psychoanalysis paralysis lol . I want to add that the benefit of have animals makes the slapdash style all the more appealing . Animals will eat up so much of what we think are food waste and an escaped caprine animal has a smaller chance of demolishing an grove if everything is camouflaged like this . I have started planting sunchokes near trees for just this understanding . ”-jcmustian
“ I am my gran granddaughter . She raised me up in the garden . Literally , i was crawling around while she worked then i grow to help her . I loved it . It was like what you are doing at your place . Well i thought i wanted to raise up and have a very planned garden in my front 1000 and my garden hidden in the back yard . All altogether organized and plan , planned , plan . Well it has taken me years to come back full set to my grandma and her way of doing things . It makes me so proud to know how smart and impertinent she was . She raise and fed a vast kinsfolk and had a little grocery store garden doing things her way . Thank you David and family to help me come back around . ”-diannevaldez8670
“ My first island garden happened because some perpetual spinach seeds somehow ego - seeded in a spot of grass , and instead of pulling them out or mow them down , I mulched around them and leaned into it being a deliberate speckle . Basically say “ Okay , I do n’t desire to ravage this loose intellectual nourishment – I guess this is a garden now . ” And then I built around it and planted other matter . I have lots of trivial islands now and I ’m constantly add bits and man to them , filling in gap , using edges . I planted pumpkins under my apple Tree , partially to stamp down the grass and partly because … why not fill unused spots with pumpkins while it ’s a work in progress?I institute extensive beans and flowers between the shrubs in my ( very young ) hedge because again , it ’s a work in progress – why not use those gaps to grow solid food and colour in the meantime ? The telegram fence ply body structure for the full beans , the flowers bring in in the pollinators , the flowers and broad bean give wind and Dominicus tribute to the young bush , along with a constant author of chop shot and drop mulch . Plus I get thin out flowers and a big pile of wide beans or else of no broad beans . Everybody wins . I dress my passionfruit vine one year and ended up with several wheelbarrow loads of dress material . I composted it , but it was annoying and cumbersome , so the next yr I had a brain wave and just arranged the vine around my trees as mulch . The follow pruning sitting , I used the textile to build up a unexampled garden bed , covered it over with mulch , and then when it was time to institute into it , I create pockets of compost . I detect this is a large way to build up garden beds without postulate ( expensive ! ) bulk grime . I no longer see big pruning jobs as task but as a harvest in their own right hand , mulch for my larger Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree or material to build my next newfangled island garden . I ’ve reframed my patronage for particular vigorous weeds in the same room – they are now “ free and abundant biomass” . I almost always let unpaid worker do their affair , and they teach me about where they want to develop . I desire to know which solid food plant will mature like weeds here , which can do by dry spells , which will / won’t attract pests , etc . I want to sate spaces with food for thought that will be vigorous , resilient , low - sustainment . incentive points for multi - use plants , natives , ego - seeders , perennials . eminent winding tolerance . Anything that the parrot are n’t rottenly interested in vandalising . Slow bolters and reduce - and - come - again plant over those that I have to dependably succession industrial plant ( because I ’m bad at that ) . I do n’t really require to waste time and energy on something that will run off and be done if there is something similar that will chug along all time of year . I also essay to dot the same types of plants around in different areas to see what they wish dependable in my microclimate . Often plant will surprise me , flourish in spots that I think they would fight in , and frailty versa . I ’ve learned that where I am , I can / should plant some things earlier than recommended but other things I take to waitress much later than urge . I be given into the successes , adjust for or pick the nonstarter , and fill in the break again . Each growing time of year is another chunk of data on who the loyalist are pass to be and who might end up in the too hard basket . I ’m disappointed when thing die , but every failure is a lesson and another step towards a more bouncy and abundant garden overall , and I always have something waiting in the wings to fill up in a gap and try again . Just get it in the ground and see if it works . ”-ushiaala
Though you may increase production and get better spacing and interactions and path , etc . , etc . , etc . , if you design extensively before implant , often the planning becomes an exculpation not to actually get stuff grow .
It ’s more crucial to damp the psychoanalysis paralysis and just get stuff in the ground . Propagate a gross ton of plant , put them all over , then hack your way through them afterwards as you need space or path or whatever . Sure , you could have a canonical plan in head , but I ’m really commonplace of all the interminable provision and talk talk public lecture talk talk of the town that leads to nothing . Stop dreaming and take off doing .
Even a tightly planted space like Robert Hart ’s original temperate climate food forest – which Dave Jacke says is way too choked up with tree and bush – grow plenty of food .
you’re able to plant a food for thought forest , starting aright now .
( And if you ’re in Florida , this Holy Scripture will help with inspiration . )
