Comments on: Create a Container Food Forest

By: Yard2Table

Yard2Table — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:45:34 +0000

Like the forest in a pot idea. I wonder if they could be connected to get the beneficial microbe/root exchanges – say if you connected a legumous shrub via soil filled “plumbing” to dwarf fruit trees, or maybe just using adjoining milk crates? Know anyone who’s tried this in containers?

By: Anni Kelsey

Anni Kelsey — Sat, 14 May 2011 08:43:47 +0000

I like this – I am doing something similar as an experiment. Have planted up some mixes of greens / beans / roots and will post the outcomes later in the year.

By: Joy

Joy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:36:07 +0000

I’ve been working with the canopy concept a bit in my container garden. I can’t grow trees, but I do have a mixed-planting bathub-sized container, and all the squash and melons are creating a HUGE canopy of leaves/shade for the other plants. Since these plants grew first/faster, they’re keeping my peppers, herbs and other plants from growing as fast, because they are now shaded too much by the huge leaves.
However, they have also shaded them from a record summer of intense sun and heat, so maybe I’ll get a late, small crop instead of nothing.

I’ve also stacked containers on top of 5-gallon rainwater collection buckets, to create a second tier, putting the full-sun plants on top, and partial-sun plants behind them on the ground, where they are now shaded. I also hang buckets from the railing with full-sun veggies in them, which brings them closer to the sun, and shades partial-sun veggies in containers under them on the ground.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:47:27 +0000

Thanks much Christy! Share photos/stories if you create one!

By: Christy

Christy — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:37:13 +0000

This is brilliant! Thanks for laying it out there for the rest of us It makes so much sense too.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:41:10 +0000

Thanks for the kind words Chris!

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By: Chris Byrne

Chris Byrne — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:40:53 +0000

Props and praise for a quintessential blog post, in this case the lay-down of a food forest, taken to another level with the container perspective. My imagination exploded with thoughts of balconies and rooftops and aquaponics and beekeeping and recycling the nutrients to the ecosystem of the urban environment, a component itself in a greater relationship of the neighborhood. Permaculture for
the city. Rawkon brother.