why I'm DIGGING OUT fruit trees..
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- I'm going rogue and removing some of my fruit trees...🎉🌳🥑
Over the last month or so I have been making some big edits to my garden. When you are limited on space it is necessary to reevaluate.
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Always so inspiring holly, removing the mulberry really opened up your backyard more for the banana and avocado. Love the front stone fruit garden, great idea with the arbor! Lots of great ideas for my garden. Thanks for sharing 💚
Thank you Karen! Excited for future harvests that's for sure 🥑🍌🥭🍑🍒
Nice to see you again. Great work on the trees and love the driveway patch 🌱😘🙏
Yay good to be back ☺️ 🌳🌱
Love the fruit trees at the front! I really want to grow cherries too! 😍🙌🍒
Thanks, Jackie! We shall see how the go 😄
Have you considered planting your fruit trees in ground but inside a rootpouch grow bag? (They’re used like this for big producers of trees so they can remove for sale or transplant much easier)
I haven't tried that! as I run out of space I'm forced to experiment more with pots. My ingroud gardens are where I put all my favs
Yes!!!Im admiring the colour of your soil!😍
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I love all your videos! 😊been watching them for a few years now. Using your garden as inspo for mine.
Thank you! I appreciate your support 🙏💚
Hey Holly good to see you. Looks awesome!
Thank you! 💚
I really like that machine at 7:18 but I can't seem to find anything like it. I like that it's electric and has a wide mouth compared to what I find here in the USA. It was nice seeing that removing the trees can be done without hiring a whole crew with heavy duty equipment. One of the reasons why I'm hesitant to do a garden like this is because I'm worried it will look so messy because I have no handy skills or feel comfortable with machines but seeing this video gives me confidence.
I just use what I have, including plenty of finds on marketplace 🤣
Amazing what you did with your soil. Ours is pure sand as well and I'm working hard on it to make it better.
Still alot of sand in other areas but I'd take that over clay!
Ive got 52 fruit trees/bushes among the ornamentals in my 1.5 acre garden but get alm NO fruit due to BLUDDY PARROTS!! Cockatoos are visible and noisy, but the greatest culprits are Rosellas. They weren't a problem when we moved here 12 years ago. Just became a menace about 5 years ago. Now most fruit trees arebutterly pointless😊
Aw nooo, that's so disheartening for you. Maybe you have to think about a netted orchard in the future. Even if it secures a partial harvest 💚🌳
@SustainableHolly they're MATURE trees (most 4-5m tall) spread over the whole 1.5 acres so really not nettable. I've tried netting individual branches and fruit but the parrots just rip the nets and bags, or bounce up and down until the fruit falls loose in the bag/net, and rots. Rosella's also just sit in the trees before the fruit is mature and 'snip' off whole fruit clusters and branch ends, and drop them on the ground. They don't even eat them. I hate parrots 🤬
Fantastic work. Ive just started my companion planting ❤
Amazing! 🌱🌱🌱🌱
Congrats to your healthy soil! Mine is just sand (Hamilton Hill) but got myself a mulcher as well and doing chop & drop 😊
What suburb are you in? The bird singing in the background don’t sound like Perth!!
Thank you 😊 I'm in the foothills 🌳 so much sand but I think I'd rather that then clay so won't complain!
Has been waiting for a update on your garden
Yay I know I've been too busy gardening to edit 😅🌳
@@SustainableHolly Holly, I don’t blame I understand sometimes we have to balance our life be make a living to get what we need, much love.
You should prune back hard to move these. They can be cut down almost to ground level and still regrow. Feijoas can have same treatment
Probably should have done that for the Mulberry but I liked the shape of the Guava after I pruned off half. It's growing nicely and is tall enough to provide good summer shade for my potted collection.
Congratulations on that spill colour and looseness.
A broadfork is excellent for transplanting small trees.
Thank you 🤗 I'm sure it won't be the last time I change my mind haha
Looking good 😀
Thanks 😁
SO inspirational, Holly. How are the kiwi vines going? Interested to know as I'm also in Perth and i hear they might be high chill plants?
Thank you! Very early days! My plan so far is to keep them alive over the summer at least haha. I like to try things or fail for myself 😅
Great removal techniques lol
Haha get it out one way or another 🌳🌳🌳
Hi, please tell me how old the pineapple guava is that you are pruning to half? I’ve had a small one in the ground for a couple of years and it’s not produced any flowers yet. I’m near the coast in the U.K. and it gets a lot of wind. I’ve read mixed reports about their wind hardiness. Thanks 👍
It's quite old now maybe 8 years. I started pruning heavy once it reached the height I wanted. It regrows back every summer
They can handle the wind to protect other plants but fruit much better when protected.
I love your mulcher..what type is it please?
😅 it's a freebie from marketplace...I think the brand is IKRA or something 🤔
I know different States have different garden shops but do you do it online to buy your fruit trees because I need dwarf trees that can go in pots?
I never really buy online. I also don't like dwarf citrus fruit trees. Semi dwarf citrus for pots they grow and fruit much faster than dwarf. Being in pots helps dwarf them further but at least they don't grow as slow as dwarf. I'm still experimenting with dwarf vs standard stonefruit fruit trees in pots
Hlly what is the mulcher you have im looking at getting one but need one that can handle the fruit trees.
I got it free from marketplace. Think it is called Ikra 🤔 I wouldn't say it can handle big branches or hardwood but works well for the stage my garden is at. Because I prune regularly, most of the branches are just one year old.
bad idea to plant fruit trees against a fence, for many reasons. in fact most privacy screen ideas are misguided altogether. if you have the space, plant out trees throughout backyard, which will soften views of neighbouring buildings from many angles.
a viable growing of some fruit trees/vines when a fence is not casting shade is espalier.
i grew a privacy screen against a back fence and have taken it out, as it just made for a darker area of garden that also required regular pruning.
gardening is an iterative process that takes a long time to learn from.
If I had room I would! But the small grass area is a compromise with my dog and partner 😆 I have planted out the full frontyard too. so i am using what I have and it has been working well for me with regular prining and some edits for the last 10 years 🌱
@@SustainableHolly : we finally find the root cause of your gardening troubles, your dog :)