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Our last planting of the food forest was held on the 4th August 2010. Since then we have had a very wet winter and spring this year in the lead up to the wet season in Queensland. So our food forest in now on its own and thriving.
All up, out of the 50 support species and 12 fruit trees we plant, we have had a 99% strike rate for the trees surviving. We lost only one of the support trees and the garden has had 0% vandalism. To give you an idea of the tuff location the garden is in, it lies 150m from the beach, 300m to Coolangatta International airport runway (must say it’s nice to watch the planes come in) and 50m to a skateboard park for which most people thought would be the biggest battle since we elected not to put up a 2m chain wire fence surrounding the garden site and padlock on the gate for which quite a few of the community gardens are doing on the Gold Coast.
I’m putting the success down to the planting methodology shared by a good friend and college of mine, Matt Kilby from www.globallandrepair.com.au. Matt has been researching and refining this methodology over many years.
It’s not what you plant but how you plant it. And in my own experience over the years in the Landscape industry, where we must have planted hundreds of thousands of tube stock trees over 12 years, we could only manage an 85% strike rate on mass plant outs.
Support species taken out of the guards and left to grow on their own
The approach that Matt Kilby has been mastering looks at preparation as one of the keys to mastering tree planting and the high survival rates, as well as biological planting methods used.
At the community garden we didn’t have the chance to get much preparation done, like deep ripping on contour with a Yeomans Keyline Plow 12 months before planting. Instead we had to look and really concentrating on the soil (or sand in our case) and what we could do to improve it and what biological methods could we look at.
Below I have listed the steps that Southern Beaches Community Garden adapted from Matt’s methodology to produce these successful results:
Our last planting of the food forest was held on the 4th August 2010. Since then we have had a very wet winter and spring this year in the lead up to the wet season in Queensland. So our food forest in now on its own and thriving.
All up, out of the 50 support species and 12 fruit trees we plant, we have had a 99% strike rate for the trees surviving. We lost only one of the support trees and the garden has had 0% vandalism. To give you an idea of the tuff location the garden is in, it lies 150m from the beach, 300m to Coolangatta International airport runway (must say it’s nice to watch the planes come in) and 50m to a skateboard park for which most people thought would be the biggest battle since we elected not to put up a 2m chain wire fence surrounding the garden site and padlock on the gate for which quite a few of the community gardens are doing on the Gold Coast.
I’m putting the success down to the planting methodology shared by a good friend and college of mine, Matt Kilby from www.globallandrepair.com.au. Matt has been researching and refining this methodology over many years.
It’s not what you plant but how you plant it. And in my own experience over the years in the Landscape industry, where we must have planted hundreds of thousands of tube stock trees over 12 years, we could only manage an 85% strike rate on mass plant outs.
Support species taken out of the guards and left to grow on their own
The approach that Matt Kilby has been mastering looks at preparation as one of the keys to mastering tree planting and the high survival rates, as well as biological planting methods used.
At the community garden we didn’t have the chance to get much preparation done, like deep ripping on contour with a Yeomans Keyline Plow 12 months before planting. Instead we had to look and really concentrating on the soil (or sand in our case) and what we could do to improve it and what biological methods could we look at.
Below I have listed the steps that Southern Beaches Community Garden adapted from Matt’s methodology to produce these successful results: