Fruit trees that grow well in small back yards: zone 7a- Northern Virginia
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video I show you the fruit trees I have growing in my small urban backyard. I have many dwarf fruit trees that were planted only 2 years ago and they are already producing fruits. Some of them include: celeste fig, Chicago hardy, fuyu persimmon, dwarf white frost peach, gala apple, hosui Pear, rainier cherry, bing cherry, mulberry, salavatski pomegranate, crimson sky pomegranate, concord grapes, hardy kiwi anna, meadar hardy kiwi.
I'm hoping my backyard turns into a small food forest in the next few years. Join me on my journey as I turn my yard into a food forest
What type of trees do you have in your yard?
Gala and pawpaw need a pollinator. Mulberry gonna be large. Transplant away from green house and plant where its size and shadow won’t interfere with your efforts. Good luck from Shenandoah Valley, Va.
I'm your neighbor! Can you help me figure out what to plant in my yard?
howdy neighbor. You look so happy in your garden.
Hi! Yup- the garden is my happy place
Love the yard bro so nice I cant wait for my stuff to produce. Im on year 3 in my yard. Ive got 6 paw paw going some from seed and some cultivars can not wait.
That's so cool! I'm hoping to see flowers on the pawpaws this year but who knows! Good luck with yours
With that many pawpaws, surely you will get quite a harvest!
Thanks. They are all seedlings so I will take a few years
Amazing!
Central va here.
Have figs already
Planting a few different apple trees
Pears
Peaches
Blue berries
Raspberries
Strawberries
Persimmons
Nice! Hopefully your garden produces tons of harvests in the future
7a here but in middle Tennessee. We lost all of our figs - even Chicago Hardy - during the flash freeze of December '22. What we have left are our lemons and limes that require us to haul it in during the winter.
Ah man! Sorry to hear that. We got down to 7 degrees here. But mine trees are fairly protected by buildings and fences.
Sorry you lost yours. I'm 7a, as well. I've had my Chicago hardy for years and it never produced anything. It always died back to the ground every year. This past year, I wrapped them from a tutorial on TH-cam, and I finally have fruit. So maybe wrapping yours for the winter would help you, too.
@@kristenm7380 We actually do cut ours back in the fall, but the flash freeze simply wiped out half of everything that had survived previous cold spells, but not where the temp dropped 50 degrees in one day. BUT - in good news - the trees came back this year. No fruit, but fingers crossed for next year!!
@@stephaniegee227 Great! I'm so glad they came back!
That is so cool you're getting flowers on your trees! Thanks for sharing, it gives me hope to see them flowering in zone 7a. I've been wanting to get the Celeste fig and a couple PawPaws. How demanding have the Kiwis been? I'm tempted to order a few. Is your soil acidic or basic, I heard they want low pH like blueberries and my pH is too high for those.
I just have a plum for now, not sure what variety and it's lost most of its flowers due to a late freeze this year but I should get a couple. I'm hoping for more and planted a bunch of bare root plants last month. I put in: Bing and Ranier cherries, a Montmorency cherry, a 20th century Asian Pear, a Warren Pear, a maypop vine, the Brown Turkey fig, a Little Ruby Fig, two chestnut trees, two grape Vines, a couple of Jujubes, a mulberry, a Meader Persimmon, some raspberry and blackberry brambles, a bunch of strawberries, some honey berries, a gooseberry, some elderberries and currants.
It'll be so hard to wait.
You have an amazing selection of fruit trees. The kiwis are not very demanding. They just produce on their own. They do need a very sunny location. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we will get some fruits this year 😁
My fuyu persimmon died when it got to 7 degrees. I replaced them with a couple others, but then I realized the ones I bought were made for zone 8 :(
The local nurseries here don’t sell cold hardy trees often. Many of the trees they sell here only need 300 chill hours and we get 1200. They also sell too many zone 8 plants when we are zone 7
I hope you get some apples. This will be the first year I get apples I hope
I'm sorry to hear about your fuyu. Yea- you have to be careful buying trees from local nurseries. I buy most of my trees online. I buy in winter so they ship barefoot in early spring.
I have been researching pears and apparently (Orient) Is THE! pear to have from multiple sources. Need a cross pollinator cultivar. Im going to try (Warren) for disease resistance. We will see. North Carolina zone 7b here.
Thank you for the info. I will look into those varieties
Looks glorious! Thanks for all the varietal suggestions. Don't you need two pawpaws in order to get fruit? We just planted two here in zone 7b (put in native persimmons, elderberries, and a Celeste fig last fall!).
Thanks for watching Stephanie. Yes- You need two or more pawpaws for pollination. I actually have about 20 seedlings planted throughout my yard 😂. Hopefully they all flower at around the same time
@@GardenForaged Oh delightful--good luck!!
jujube is pretty hardy and easy to grow
I tried a few jujubes last year! I want to get a tree but they are pricey around here. Like $150 for one
Try( Bob Wells nursery) in Texas. I have 4 as of now. All doing great I wanted fresh eating variety so honeyjar and ga 866 are the best cultivars for this. Price is good and size is good happy planting dude@@GardenForaged
How old is the kiwi? I need to check mine
They are like 2 years old
Where did u get your cherry tree combo from and do u know how much was it?
I got it from Willis Orchard I believe. It was around $40 for a barefoot tree.
I have a Celeste from Home Depot and it has been in the ground for 6 years it is less than a foot tall. Fertilized, watered, just frozen in time, and I am about to pull it out. So, not the fastest growing tree for me.Zone 7 B Virginia
I have one like that too. But I think it's planted too close to another tree
Can I get some of your concord grape seeded cuttings?
Do you live in Northern Virginia?
@@GardenForaged no i can pay for shipping
To produce fruit, a pawpaw tree must receive pollen from flowers on another tree. They are self-incompatible.
I have about 20 pawpaw trees in my yard- hopefully they decide to bloom at the same time
Hello, I’ve heard that pawpaw trees release a chemical from their root system that will poison other plants and trees close to them, I think I heard an arborist on social media mention this but it may be an old wives tale!! Also, I’m in 7A myself.
Hi. I'm not an expert so I don't know- in the wild they grow in big colonies because they send out suckers. I'm assuming if you let them grow wild they might interfere with other trees. So far mine are growing great next to all of my other bushes.
Grafted trees produce fruit in two to three years, while seedling trees may take up to 10 years. to bear fruit.
Not totally true!!!
Depends on the tree variety, I’ve had peach trees grown from seed make fruit in 2-3 years!!
are you dave from zone 7a on houzz?
Lol 🤣 no but I would like to be on a gardening show
@@GardenForaged lol i'm trying to figure out this mystery Dave from 7a, he grows citrus in ground like a champ
@@Voujdjr no i need to see this. What is the name of the show?
Seeds please
Thank you 😊
Please send me a private message on Instagram (Garden Foraged) or Facebook (Elias Castillo) So I can arrange the seeds for you
Unless your PawPaw has male and female flower you won't get fruit ...
I have about 10 pawpaw trees around my yard. Some hopefully there is some cross pollination when they decide to flower.
Paw paw trees need a pollinator. If you only have one tree you will never get fruit.
Yup! I have about 20 trees planted in my yard