Moringa PKM-1 Fedges Early Haircuts

You see two 9-foot fedges (food-hedges) that are a couple feet wide. In each of the two fedges, there are 22 Moringa Oliefera PKM-1 trees growing. Each group of 22 is in two parallel rows of 11, with each row staggered so that the two parallel rows aren't aligned row to row. Each row's plants are 5 inches apart. So, having 44 trees in 2 nine-feet beds is very compact. One can harvest a lot of leaves and pods when they are so closely planted. Also, with the sometimes 40 mph Phoenix winds, by growing so closely each group of 22 act as a stand. Like friends, relatives or colleagues, sometimes the group can withstand more than what the lone individual or plant can by itself. So, in other words, there's no need to pound support stakes and rods to keep them up, they help support each other with their interlocking branches.

Also in this video is the fedge effort to multiply the number of growths from each individual plant. When a plant gets to 30 inches high, it's cut to 8 inches. That first haircut turns one main shoot into two. When it grows back to about three feet, it's cut back to about 16 inches. After that, (and some growing time passes), the plant should have 4 main shoots coming up from it. In early August of each year, the Moringa gets a haircut. It doesn't matter if the plant is less than 3 months old - or 3 years old. But, once cut, other than feeding it and watering it, it's left alone through February when the pods are harvested and the fedges are given new haircuts. In the more recent videos of these same fedges, I cut the trees at about 5 feet high.

After the leaves and branches are harvested and washed outside we go into the kitchen, strip the leaves, bag them, wash them in the bags and then put them in the dehydrator for the final freezer-prep and storage.

Take a look at all of those greens that grew and were harvested well inside of 3 months. Lots of food.

For anyone living in a place that 240 days of 70+F degrees per year should have Moringa Oleifera PKM0-1 seeds growing in their yard, farm or greenhouse.

Why the PKM-1? Because it grows very fast (8 feet in six months) and flowers quickly. That means you'll have a better chance of producing viable seed pods before the ground freezes.

If you live in a place where the ground predictably freezes, after the first frost, cut the trees to 4 inches and then cover them with bales of hay to keep them and the ground around them insulated through winter. Then in the spring push the hay away and watch them come up once the nighttime lows are about 60.

Moringa is the answer to hunger, famine. and malnutrition. Grow some yourself and share the mature pods. Become the Moringa Johnny Appleseed in your community.

In a pinch, with lots of my bagged beans and garden-grown onions, with my Moringa trees, I could feed the neighborhood for a few weeks as long as they learned to love Moringa-Lentil-Onion Soup. It could keep people alive. Grow some today. It's a perennial. So, the only planting you'll need to do next year is for new plants.

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