Simple Living - Picking Pomegranates in the Old Jungle Garden

It's Pomegranate season again in my old Mediterranean jungle garden. It now thrives without any care. There are papayas, apricots, dates, pomegranates and grapes growing alongside wild and planted trees, herbs and shrubs that self-mulch the ground and feed the fruit-bearers for me. There are even self-seeded young pomegranate trees under the canopy that have never been watered or fed even once. Mulch can really do wonders.

The many date palms volunteered from seeds I spat out randomly years ago. They should be making their first crop next year.

It's somewhat of a guerrilla garden since I don't own the land it's on. It was a vacant lot no one was using behind my parent's house, that I decided to experiment with.

Initially the lot was covered with towering tumbleweeds on compacted and extremely saline soil, with big chunks of concrete and rebar sticking out of it. It's unrecognizable today.

There's an aviary hanging into the garden, and the bird manure falls into the garden, supplying even more nutrients.

Note that this video was made in early October.

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• jungle garden
• date palm
• mulch
• permaculture
• green manure
• harvest
• orchard
• fruit
• self sufficient
• self sustaining ecosystem
• mediterranean
• guerrilla gardening
• guerilla

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