9 Fruits That Grow Like Weeds in Subtropical Australia (Zero Maintenance Garden Tour)

What's up? Rupert here from Grounded Permaculture Action Party coming to you from the beautiful Numbumbar Valley and today I want to take you on a little walk around the place and show you a bunch of different foods that grow like weeds. Now if you're in subtropical east coast Australia you definitely want to get this stuff in your garden because they proliferate like weeds with very little maintenance. Let's go. All right check this out this is the first thing we found on our walk today passion fruit. This bush here planted itself this vine I should say planted itself it grows like a weed zero care and maintenance and all we have to do is just come back and harvest the fruit. The cool thing about passion fruit now passion fruit is a vine so it likes to grow up stuff and this vine has just naturally found itself in these macarangas and other early succession trees that are sitting under this brush box. Perfect for fence lines taking over hedges that you don't really want anymore. You could set up a trellis if you really wanted to but passion fruit is definitely one of those ones you want in your garden. We just found the next one ice cream bean. Now depending who you ask some people actually even classify this as a invasive pest invasive weed. Very easy to grow from seed usually there's a lot of seedlings growing under these you can see one up here look come have a look so this is all grown from seed it's just falling on the ground and naturally coming up by itself so if you can get your hands on some of this seed and kind of like the name suggests it just tastes like ice cream so the seed right there straight in the ground yeah it tastes like ice cream. Very prolific tree excellent producer of biomass and the kids love it. Ice cream bean while I'm munching on this ice cream bean a little side note using it for biomass you can see that the ice cream bean is cranked up in this system producing a lot of canopy but actually what we're aiming for is the jackfruit and so it's probably just about time to cut all of this ice cream bean back and down to feed this jackfruit which has already got a lot of banana already been fed a lot of banana and then that's just going to give space for the jackfruit to really express itself. All right I've just found the next fruit that grows like a weed and it's not what you would think pumpkins. Pumpkins are technically a fruit because they are pollinated by flowers and produce seeds we're just a little bit early in the season though it's a harvest you can see here we've got pumpkin coming on from the flower there's the flower and then it turns into the fruit none quite ready yet but this system was planted in October four months ago five months ago maybe and you can see that it's really growing like a weed excellent fruit that grows like a weed for a subtropical garden just find some seeds stick them in a pile of compost and let it take over. All right here's another one another fruit that grows like a weed in the subtropical climates and you can harvest now late summer we've got grapes now we're pretty much at the end of the harvest season for grapes these ones oh wow that's good when they get right quite purple are still quite sweet but this one we've got quite a few of them on the land they get no care love or attention and every year they just keep producing fruit. All right the next fruit I want to show you that grows like a weed is the cherry guava makes an excellent edible hedge now these were planted out at least 10 years ago but once they get established they're very prolific you can see they're all on the ground here and not that one that's a camphor but here here here all through here look at this little cluster they're all coming up from seed very very prolific plant very tasty this is a nice little cluster I want them red and firm but not soft because the fruit flow gets in there lays its eggs it's not going to kill you there's a bit of a funny feeling to eating maggots again this this whole section gets no love care or attention just keeps on growing keeps on producing keeps on proliferating everywhere all right so the next one I want to show you number six fruit number six is choco you can get white choco or green choco I've I prefer the white choco it's a bit sweeter in flavor you can see this choco vine there's probably actually a few choco vines here I planted one white choco about three years ago and every year new waves of choco come on take over this whole area it's a vine loves to grow and take over things it's a bit late in the season so we've they've already fruited this is only a very small one they've dropped and they're starting to grow again come and have a look we've got another one choco growing here over here here's a great example I'm not even going to pull it out because it's starting to root of the choco plant like self-sprouting it just keeps growing by itself more in here found one there's not many left because it's so late in the season you can see it's got this big seed in the middle that's went to sprout it didn't make it so we're going to eat it this is the green choco but again it's already already starting to sprout and grow for the next season all right the next fruit that I want to show you that grows like a weed is the beloved cherry tomato it's a fruit technically a fruit flowers seeds so sweet they usually just pop up out of your compost and just grow especially in disturbed soil anything that's kind of in that grassland stage but some cherry tomatoes love it and they're very tasty easy to grow very prolific all right the next one I want to show you is these bell peppers it's a perennial bell pepper it's like a capsicum if you just work with the outer edges like this tastes like a capsicum exactly like a capsicum and it's not very spicy but if you use any of the seed or any of this middle lining that's super hot not super hot it's got a bit of spice to it it's not too spicy oh yeah I got the spice on that one but look how prolific it is I just planted one stem of this from cutting maybe two years ago and this thing just I have to keep cutting it back because it's so prolific look at this it's actually ridiculous really good for subtropical climates where we are in the Numbambar valley we can't really grow the capsicums that you get in the store because it's just too wet in summer they kind of rot but these tough as nuts all right the last one the last fruit that grows like weeds that I want to show you today is the guava not quite ready in season yet there's a lot of varieties of guava they often grow by the roadside I think they're even classified as a as a pest or a weed by the government and even this one here you can see I could have waited for it to fruit if I wanted the fruit but we were just blitzing this orchard and it was getting up near the power line so I just cut it all back you can keep it like a very prolific great for biomass and quite tasty fruit especially when you can get like the there's like pineapple guavas lots of different varieties that are very very prolific all right there you have it that's nine fruits that grow like weeds in subtropical environment if you've got a brown thumb get these in your garden right now zero effort they will be and give you a bounty of abundance we've got passion fruit ice cream beans pumpkin which wasn't quite ready to fruit yet grapes cherry guavas white choco which is now coming towards the end of the season that's why I only got one the cherry tomatoes the bell peppers and the guavas which are not quite ready yet so if I've missed any let me know drop a comment below otherwise I'll see you in the next one