John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to Los Angeles, California to visit a 1920's bungalow house on a small property that is growing a tropical fruit tree orchard in the front yard. In this episode, you will discover over a dozen different rare varieties of fruit trees you can grow if you live in Southern California to feed you and your family. After watching this episode, hopefully you will be inspired to grow some fruit trees and eat more fruit!

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shows you how you can ignore your baby plants and they will still thrive with the Orta Self Watering Terracotta Clay Seed Starter. In this episode you will learn how you will no longer have to remember to water to your newly planted seeds or seedlings by using a special ceramic self-watering container. After watching this episode you will for sure know how to make starting seeds and seedlings a breeze. To get the 15% off the 6 pack Self-Watering Seed Starter: FOR A LIMITED TIME: http://www.ortakitchengarden.com/sixie_GYG.html To learn more about the Orta Self-Watering Seed Starter and help fund their 12 pack version AND GET FREE GIFTS visit: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/770528270/the-self-watering-kitchen-garden

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how he eats his malabar spinach berries. You will learn if John believes the malabar spinach berries are edible or not. In this episode, John shows you the damage done to his garden due to the first frost. Including his damaged peppers, eggplants and the malabar spinach. In this episode, you will learn how John harvests his malabar spinach berries aka fruits to save time. The Red Stem Malabar spinach is also known as Basella rubra. or Rubra Spinach. You will learn how John extracts the nutrition out of the purple malabar spinach berries so he can get the nutrients . into him with minimal potential toxins and maximum amount of beneficial vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and phytochemicals. You will discover the special kitchen appliances that allow you to extract the highest level of nutrition out of your vegetable garden: The fruit and vegetable juicer. Finally, John will combine the not-so-sweet purple malabar spinach fruit juice fresh pressed sugar cane juice and let you know how it tastes. After watching this episode, you will know what do do after a light frost in your garden to save some of the crops you are growing. You will also learn if Malabar Spinach fruit is edible, and how to best extract the nutrition from the fruits and vegetables in your garden. Subscribe to GrowingYourGreens for more videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=growingyourgreens Follow John on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/growingyourgreens/ Support John by making your juicer purchase at: http://www.discountjuicers.com/

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to South West Florida to give you a tour of a front yard (and back yard) permaculture food forest that grows fruits and vegetable year round for the family. In this episode, John will give you a tour of this permaculture garden in the city. You will learn about the many different varieties of edible fruits and vegetables that you can grow in South Florida as well as other similar climates. You will discover some of the easiest to grow edible plants you can grow in your landscape or your garden. You will also see an excellent example of a 3 year establish food forest that is producing food year round. Finally, John will interview Alex Nikesch, Permaculture designer and instruction and you will discover the answers to the following questions: 41:47 Why did you get into permaculture and why do you grow food at your home? 43:00 Where do you get good quality compost in Ft Myers / Southwest Florida ? 44:25 What are the top 5 perennial greens and vegetables that will grow easily in South Florida? 46:12 Where can someone purchase these perennial vegetables? 48:36 What are some of the Edible Weeds that grow in South Florida? 49:26 What is the Edible Red Flower in your yard? 50:08 What are the native florida cocoplum? 50:38 What are some easy tropical fruit trees to grow in South Florida? 52:05 What are some benefits of living in SouthWest Florida to grow food year round? 53:42 What are some other gardening tips for beginners? 55:42 Why did you start a business to help people grow their food and design food forests? 57:20 How can someone get ahold of you to learn about your local 58:35 Any final words of Wisdom about gardening? After watching this episode, you will have a better understanding of growing a food forest in South Florida that you can eat from every day of the year. Subscribe to GrowingYourGreens for more videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=growingyourgreens Follow John on Instagram at: https://instagram.com/growingyourgreens/ Watch all 1200+ Episodes from GrowingYourGreens at https://www.youtube.com/user/growingyourgreens/videos Buy Seeds that John Grew at: http://growingyourgreens.ecwid.com/ Talk to John for 10 Minutes for Just $5 https://www.fiverr.com/groworganic/be-your-organic-gardening-coach-for-10-minutes Nikesch Permaculture Design http://www.edulisdesigns.com/ Southwest Florida Permaculture http://www.swflpermaculture.org/ Southwest Florida Permaculture Guild https://www.meetup.com/permies/ Southwest Florida Plant Swappers https://www.facebook.com/groups/swflplantswappers/?fth=1 How to tell if compost is good or not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFqV7ThF4TI