I'm planning to get both Romeo and Juliet for my new food forest, but after watching this video maybe I will do a year of soil work and get them next spring. I've been in a hurry to establish my food forest due to the world in general going to hell in a hand basket, but maybe I need to slow down a bit and let the wood chips start doing their work before I do too much planting. I've watched one of your more recent videos (2023) in which your bush cherries appear to be doing well, so it appears that you pulled them through. I'm in 6b in the mountains of VA, and am as yet unsure what fruit diseases I will have to contend with here. Having grown up in Oregon's WIllamette Valley and being a certified Master Gardener from OSU, I well know the myriad fruit tree diseases rampant in the area...although when I was a child (60+ years ago), we never had any of those problems with our trees -- decades of spraying orchards and killing off the beneficials have created quite a mess in the Willamette Valley. That being said, your food forest is amazingly healthy for not spraying at all in your area.
I live in SW Portland and have both the Romeo and Juliet. One is very green and healthy, with no fruit. The other has that brown rot in a few spots with just a few fruit. I also have converted my lawn to permaculture beds. The beds are only 2 years old and the bush cherries were just planted last year.
Thank you for sharing your struggles. I've been working on my front and backyard for 5 yrs now and sometimes get frustrated when plants have problems or I visit friends gardens which are 10 yrs or older and seem so nice. However, I'm learning to have more patience and understand that everyone struggles in their garden. Your yards though look more like mine than any TH-cam garden videos posted. So thanks again for sharing all that you do, I'm really appreciating it.
I really appreciate your follow-up videos that track plant progress and issues. Re cedar apple rust, we have very heavy pressure here in central Ohio, and I've had good luck with the OMRI bio-control spray Serenade. It's rather spendy and I wouldn't consider it for recurring spray regimes (like powdery mildew). But the cedar apple rust inoculation window in spring is short enough that one or two sprays can achieve good control, which is worth our minimal effort.
I am so grateful to hear you say that you had no topsoil there. Where I am there is none. NONE. It's just grass growing into bare clay so my first year beds barely limp along. Seeing your lush property makes me feel hopeful. Thank you!
I'm in Seattle and I have a wild garden as well. I am also a soil gardener as well. Your garden is lovely
I'm planning to get both Romeo and Juliet for my new food forest, but after watching this video maybe I will do a year of soil work and get them next spring. I've been in a hurry to establish my food forest due to the world in general going to hell in a hand basket, but maybe I need to slow down a bit and let the wood chips start doing their work before I do too much planting. I've watched one of your more recent videos (2023) in which your bush cherries appear to be doing well, so it appears that you pulled them through. I'm in 6b in the mountains of VA, and am as yet unsure what fruit diseases I will have to contend with here. Having grown up in Oregon's WIllamette Valley and being a certified Master Gardener from OSU, I well know the myriad fruit tree diseases rampant in the area...although when I was a child (60+ years ago), we never had any of those problems with our trees -- decades of spraying orchards and killing off the beneficials have created quite a mess in the Willamette Valley. That being said, your food forest is amazingly healthy for not spraying at all in your area.
I live in SW Portland and have both the Romeo and Juliet. One is very green and healthy, with no fruit. The other has that brown rot in a few spots with just a few fruit. I also have converted my lawn to permaculture beds. The beds are only 2 years old and the bush cherries were just planted last year.
Thank you for sharing your struggles. I've been working on my front and backyard for 5 yrs now and sometimes get frustrated when plants have problems or I visit friends gardens which are 10 yrs or older and seem so nice. However, I'm learning to have more patience and understand that everyone struggles in their garden.
Your yards though look more like mine than any TH-cam garden videos posted. So thanks again for sharing all that you do, I'm really appreciating it.
I really appreciate your follow-up videos that track plant progress and issues. Re cedar apple rust, we have very heavy pressure here in central Ohio, and I've had good luck with the OMRI bio-control spray Serenade. It's rather spendy and I wouldn't consider it for recurring spray regimes (like powdery mildew). But the cedar apple rust inoculation window in spring is short enough that one or two sprays can achieve good control, which is worth our minimal effort.
Hi! Love your channel. Would you be able to do a longer video where you do a full tour of allllllll the plants all in one go?
I am so grateful to hear you say that you had no topsoil there. Where I am there is none. NONE. It's just grass growing into bare clay so my first year beds barely limp along. Seeing your lush property makes me feel hopeful. Thank you!