Paulo Explains his reasons for discovering temperate permaculture and gives a walk through of his own forest garden which is in its second year in Buckinghamshire in the UK. Paulo has a small homestead - urban farm which combines organic traditional vegetable gardening and Permaculture crop production! Please feel free to subscribe to the channel and comment if you have any suggestions for Paulo's permaculture garden! Please like and share to spread the word about the potential of urban farming and self sufficiency!
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Paulo Explains his reasons for discovering temperate permaculture and gives a walk through of his own forest garden which is in its second year in Buckinghamshire in the UK. Paulo has a small homestead - urban farm which combines organic traditional vegetable gardening and Permaculture crop production! Please feel free to subscribe to the channel and comment if you have any suggestions for Paulo's permaculture garden! Please like and share to spread the word about the potential of urban farming and self sufficiency!
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Paulo the Urban Farmer shows you that you can grow passion fruit in temperate climates as long as you use the micro climate of an urban situation or poly tunnel. The most common scenarios is people grow Passioflora for the flowers but never get any fruit. If you can provide a warm wall even better a polytunnel you can grow them for the fruit which can be used in flavourings or preserves. A great fruiting vine for the food forest or permaculture garden. Paulo explains the best ad easiest way to grow garlic at home or urban farm. Not only is garlic very easy to grow it takes very cold temperatures to get going. Garlic can also be grown for the leaves during late winter making it a great way to fill the hungry gap.
Traditionally Garlic is grown until mid summer when it dies back you can then pull them up to reveal the swollen bulbs. Bulbs are usually left I the hot sun for a couple of days to harden the outer shells to make storing easier, they can then be strung up in a cool airy place all winter for use in the urban farmers kitchen. Paulo explains how to grow grape vines for different scenario's such as for wine making or desert fruit. He discusses landscape design benefits of growing grapes such as screening and shade in summer. He discusses the benefits of growing grapes vertically in urban farming and agriculture and their uses in forest gardens and permaculture for maximum produce. Paulo explains some of the common problems when trying to make your own compost, he talks about the component parts of good compost making and how it is relevant to sustainable urban farming and future agriculture. In this video Paulo explains the benefits of growing Wasabi on your Urban farm or Homestead. He breaks down some of the myths of growing Wasabi and shows you a quick and easy way of growing them in pots. Step by step he shows you how he divides young plants and grows them on in the poly tunnel. Paulo stresses that it is more a great leaf and stalk crop which will grow in the shade which is essential for any temperate permaculture or forest garden design. I hope you enjoy the video please send me feed back from Paulo the Urban Farmer. Paulo explains why he likes growing Globe Artichokes and what conditions they like to grow in. Paulo prefers to start them early inside or in a greenhouse from seed. This ensures healthy young plants to plant in summer. Paulo explains how he uses Globe Artichokes in his permaculture planting schemes and edible food forest schemes. In forest garden projects this perennial vegetable will provide architectural form and silvery aesthetics. These attributes also make it a great candidate for urban farming and city farming allotments. As well as the flower buds being edible the leaf stems can also be cooked and eaten. Subscribe to the urban farmer Paulo's channel for more up and coming videos. Paulo explains how to grow Oregano but goes further into detail about the different aromas that oreganos have from different parts of Europe, the Mediterranean and Asia. Paulo talks about the pungent oregano from a particular part of Cyprus the north western village of Pomas where rare and endemic oregano from Cyprus, Oreganum Cordifolium grows. This is the Oregano he remembers when he was younger on his visits to Cyprus and is the jewel in the crown of local Cypriot cooking. Paulo has managed to germinate some local village oregano and is not sure if it is indeed Cordifolium or a mixture of Greek, Turkish and Middle Eastern Oregano and Cordifolium. For more information: http://kypros.org/Projects/Laona/cyprus_oregano.html http://www.the-urban-farmer.co.uk/ Paulo explains how to start your chillies from seed indoors. He advises to start them early in February to get them strong enough to crop quickly when the weather warms up. He advises growing them in a polytunnel in temperate climates and by keeping the plants on a sunny widow ledge during winter can keep chillies all year round as perennials and crop them early in late spring every year. Paulo explains how to grow Elephant garlic and how he uses it in the forest garden and permaculture beds of his homestead in the Chilterns near London |
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