10 Years Later, From Normal Backyard To Permaculture Garden (Unseen Footage)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- 10 years ago I started planting fruit trees and other fruiting perennials in my backyard garden. The goal at the time was to create a food forest garden that would be a mixture of both annual fruits and vegetables, and perennial fruits and vegetables. A permaculture garden is one that seeks to not only provide a good yield, but also aims to mimic nature and apply the patterns and examples from nature into the design of the garden. Gardening with permaculture principles in mind will ultimately lead to a bigger more sustainable yield for the current year, and years to come.
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This is what our entire country should be doing, and teaching this in all schools, the fact that we have hunger is totally unnecessary when we have a planet waiting to provide us with abundance if we care for her she cares for us, you have an awesome channel! Thank you!!
Exactly the city could be planting fruit trees in the parks for the homeless
yes...we should ditch the big lawns for food plants....
Yep! Community Gardens are great!
We’ll said!
@@leelaural Sure would be a lot less mowing and pollution.
Excellent posts, thanks for sharing!
Hello jeans iam watching you from USA NH Farmington every day
Those photos from back in the day are like a little Treasure Trove and to see how far you guys have come is just absolutely amazing. The garden you and Tuck have created is beautiful
Thanks! Yeah they bring back a lot of memories, I wonder where all the years went. Between my old photos and my old journal entries its fun to take a stroll through memory lane sometimes, so I can help appreciate where I am now.
Keep video s of my little garden at Bonnie s kitchen garden
@jamesprigioni would love to see what you do with all this food. I would assume by your abundance that you would possibly have more than you could eat during the season.
Really good seeing the old footage overlaid as a comparison. I wish I would've documented my yard better when it was just a grasshole. You can't beat that before-and-after effect. It's very uplifting to see how far things have come.
Here I am also in Jersey looking at my yard, sad face:( I grew up in the Caribbean, Barbados and my grandad had the entire property planted with fruit, vegetables and herbs. He used the water from the kitchen sink to water most of it and made a complex aqueduct-like complex of stone streams to water the rest. It was beautiful and delicious. I do not have a lot of fruits or veggies at home but I do have a plot in our town's community garden that is flourishing. One day James I will do as you have done, no grass period! At home I have planted lots of native pollinators and have a blast watching the birds, the bees and the butterflies feed.
You can do what I am doing, time and adding a little here and there makes a big difference
Your Grandfather's watering system and his garden sounds incredible. Do you share pictures anywhere?
THATS SO COOL!
Native pollinators are where it’s at, thank you! Lots of edible native plants that feed everyone- currants/ribes, raspberries/rubus, blueberries, huckleberries, cranberries, aronia (which i love the taste of)1- list goes on and on!
@HrhSophia TheFirst I would love to see how your Grandad's stone streams worked! Is there any way or place where we can earn about building them? TYVM!
God Bless us all
Your parents have to be proud of you, what you were able to achieve in less than ten year, truly I just enjoy your enthusiasm seeing you all ways happy and proud of your hard labor, I wish more people in this country would do the same things as you are doing.
Thanks Levon your words mean a lot to me and Tuck. My dad is proud, and me and Tuck wish there were more out there gardening, but that’s why we love making videos to try and encourage others to get growing 😁🐕❤️
@@jamesprigioni Joe, you and Tuck are always encouraging, and your joy is infectious :). Thank you for this great channel!
I have learned a lot from you :-)! God Bless you both :-)..
James, I love this videos! Please tell me, how do you preserve all this wonderful food? Canning, drying, freezing? I bet your neighbors are blessed with some. ❤️💕💓💞💚🧡 To you and the little boss. From Martinsburg WV.
Few questions…
1. What is the size of your garden?
2. That’s a lot of tomatoes and cucumbers. What do you do with them all?
Great stuff and love watching you and Tuck. Our bassets are going to be part of our garden.
Thank y’all for this incredible video! There are so many gardening videos online and so many new gardeners that it’s good to have videos like these showing that nothing happens overnight and it didn’t always look like this. I find myself getting discouraged quite often as well.
It’s easy to fall into the trap of negative self talk. Noticing what’s wrong is so much easier than giving credit for what’s right. Telling yourself you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s too hard, there is too much to learn, or the garden is not as good as everyone else’s and it’s time to just quit is a struggle. It’s easy to forget how our concept of time and how our environment’s concept of time are two opposing forces. The time that nature takes is much longer than ours.
I heard somewhere that the 3rd year is really when there’s a noticeable shift in the garden. After taking time to develop the soil and attract beneficial insects-which may not have been around in any big numbers to begin with-the microclimate established in the garden is really beginning to noticeably balance itself out around that time.
So again, thank you James and thank you Tuck! Keep growing on!!
Hello how are you doing?
Wow, this is so inspiring. I'm trying to convert my backyard into a food forest. It's a lot of hard work, cutting back all the overgrown hedges and vines, but I'm trying to do a bit every few days (takes a few days to recover in between). Definitely need to be fit and healthy to start a food forest garden from scratch, but hope to get there, eventually!
I'm very impressed. I am year one. Easy to be discouraged by pests, and yellow leaves and a tree that is shading and sucking away the moisture. But when I see your results, I will push on!
I started this journey myself a month ago, started by getting wooden pallets, making little planters and checking out videos about replanting store bought stuff. My arms are starting to beef up from trying to build things with only a hammer, handfull of nails and a crowbar.
I can tell ya though, the sweat you're putting in will have beautiful results! Good luck!
That's great! Happy planting, it's such a joy. I'm on the same conversion journey. Don't forget, healing your gut microbiome & building muscle is just as important for health as it is to build a healthy food forest soil!! 💪❤️
watched all your videos, its good to see the growth you made as a gardiner! thanks for inspiring and being so positive! i watch your videos with my nine year old daughter, shes a big fan of you and tuck!!!
Thanks! you words mean a lot to me and Tuck. That's awesome, hopefully we can subtly get her addicted to gardening so she can be growing you fresh veggies for the remainder of your life, sounds like a decent food insurance policy to me 🤣
Tuck doesn’t feel like hiring a cat as an employee just yet!! I love the respect shown to the little boss. What a team!
This has grown so much from the time it started. It is absolutely gorgeous. I also love "the boss". Love his being in the videos. You are a true inspiration to all of us and thank you for taking the time to make the videos for us. I found your channel by accident over a year ago and so glad I did. Much love to you and Tuck from Locust, North Carolina.
I’m from NC also! Wake Forest! 👍🏻
@@southerncharmed4118 We're neighbors. Nice to meet you!!! I would go to the Lawrence Joel coliseum every year for conventions.
Thank you for sharing what was and what can be! Wish I could give this more than one like!
Tuck in 2012 peeking out of the patch of clover is priceless.
What an amazing journey you've had together ❤🌻.
I would appreciate more info on how you got from lawn to food forest. Did you just put down wood chips? No compost or other amendments? What do you do annually now for the soil? Thanks. Your harvests are amazing.
Hey James! My determinant heirloom tomato plants have reached 6’ tall and 5’ wide full of fruit due to all the info I’ve got from your videos!! You are awesome!
Your thumb is so green James! Incredible! Beautiful garden! Love your videos, very inspiring 👏
👋Hello from Haddon Heights,NJ
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
I am 65, just retired from Maine to Alabama. I had my first garden this year. You think your first one was small…. my first one is only 6ft radius. Hopefully it will quadruple next year and I’m planting my first trees asap. Thanks to my daughter for showing me your food Forest. You sparked my interest and now I’m going to start my own food forest.
Amazing what you and Tuck have done with the garden. Astounding the amount of other people (and pups) you have inspired to do the same. Keep it up as long as you can you two.
James, thank you for sharing your gardening journey!! Totally understand your enthusiasm & energy as your garden grows into a backyard paradise!! KUDOS to you & Tuck !! 👩🦲🐕🍇🍅🥬🥒🥕🐝🐞🦋
Isn't his tomato alley strut hilarious? He just makes people happy to watch him n Tuck.
Absolutely gorgeous food forest. A lot of hard work I can tell but definitely worth it. Super Sweet 100s are my favorite cherry tomato, but will try Sungold next year
You’re incredible! You inspired me to grow a lemon tree from seed. It’s in a pot because we get freezes in north Texas. Hope it makes lemons next year
You have done an amazing job. It is impressive.
You certainly inspired me to get mine growing in Australia. I have specialised in rare fruits and herbs but have common ones too. Juniper berries, creeping thornless raspberries, cranberries, bill berry, gumbi gumbi, ginkgo and chaste tree berry are among the rare.
Your food forest is just insane. It seems to me that a lot of our generation has been brainwashed into expecting instant gratification and to discount long term accomplishments. It's good to see you promoting good vibes and values through gardening in a simple backyard that could be an any backyard in America. Keep up the good work!
Ha! I immediately thought of the movie James and The Giant Peach when you harvested that peach lol. The garden has come a long way after 10 years, huh? Good job, James!
Gives me hope as we continue transforming our yard into a food scape. Definitely made a bunch of mistakes but we’re making adjustments.
Between James’ enthusiasm and Gardner Scott’s knowledge of our unique CO challenges, I think we’re going to start seeing some good production next summer.
Side note- If anyone in the TR area fishes, hit me up. I’ll be in the Ortley surf and on the docks behind Stewart’s on 35 in a just a couple weeks.
James, absolutely love your garden. How big is your backyard (1/4 acre, 1/2 acre, 3/4 acre?) My backyard is only 60x70 feet. Plus I have 2 large trees which provide the only shade for my house, so I can't cut those down.
I just harvested my first dragons tongue beans in my first ever garden. Thanks for the recommendation and congrats on 10 years!
Let's Gooo Danielle! Know you know I wasn't kidding about how good they are, such a delicious fresh snack. If you have space I hope you planted some sun gold cherry tomatoes or some supersweet 100's those ones are candy flavored fruits HAHAH
This video is so inspiring James! Love seeing what you and Tucker have built and thank you for showing us what we can achieve also! 🙌🏻🍅🍓
Truly inspiring James! This really gives hope to so many aspirational gardeners. Thanks for sharing your journey and knowledge with us all!
I’m in the process of converting my all grass backyard into a garden as well, one raised bed at a time. I want to get rid of the grass between them like in your videos. Do you suggest a really low cut mow and then just cover with mulch, or is a fabric necessary. Love your videos!
I did some raised bed and some tilled mounds for root vegatables come fall
I am doing the same thing! My backyard is half garden now. Not raised beds though. What James did for some of it was put down contractor paper down right over the grass, I think in the fall. I did that this spring, and just mounded a combo of cheap topsoil, peat moss and compost over the top and planted my vine crops in it.
I think for the rest he used the wood chips.
He's got some videos on the conversion, the contractor paper vid was from this spring I am pretty sure. I've got some info on my channel, if interested in seeing my progress. I'm in South Dakota.
@@8thcelisabeth so impressive!
Sheet mulching is the answer
@@jeffreyatto2523 what is sheet mulching please?
This is the MOST inspirational video ... i just started a garden and have a long way to go. Love the before and after pictures which proves it can be done Thanks 😀😀😀
James, you and Tuck are such an inspiration to all gardeners everywhere. I have been gardening for many years, and I am still trying new foods in the garden because of you and Tuck. ❤️❤️❤️
Amen
It so incredible how much you have achieved in ten years, I loved watching this video tour, I think you had a nice breakfast as you made the video, I assume you are able to sell your produce , it’s so abundant , I love how Tuck is quality control testing the cucumbers, you are an amazing team thanks for sharing .
Thank you for the inspiration! Whenever I feel uninspired in my garden, I watch your videos. Love seeing Tuck grow in the garden as well 🧡
Love your channel!
How do you get apples to grow on such small trees? I have a tree that's about 5 years old, is much taller (yes, we prune), and is just now putting out a small amount of apples. I also have one beside it, much smaller due to more aggressive pruning, and still no apples. Both were planted at the same time.
Hello to Tuck!
🤷♂️ Total guess here but….something tells me you might also be a fellow ADHD person hahaha “over here, wait over here, hold wait now look at these!!” Hahaha the symbolism to my life is UNCANNY 😝😝😝😭
Uhhhhmmmm I am not sure never thought about it too much, but did you see those apples? Where did you say you were from by the way, sorry to cut you off? I just do what Tuck tells me to do 🤷♂️
Inspiring work and outstanding progress over 10 years. One question, though... how do you control ground pests? You mentioned the squirrels but do you have any issues with raccoons, mice, gophers, snakes, rabbits? I've had a heck of a time with rabbits, raccoons, and 'possums.
Your comment about Tuck not wanting to hire a cat just cracked us up! My partner Mike absolutely loves your videos. He discovered your channel this past winter and has gotten many great ideas from you. Keep up the good work!!
Hey, James, I'm in Delaware. What's your thought process when choosing trees for your area? I heard peaches need a lot of spraying? Don't know if I could keep up with it but I'd love to have one. Peaches in the store are bland or just end up rotting. It'd be a great video to help us newbies on how to think about choosing trees. Thanks!
Hey, I hope James sees your Q. and responds, too, but for now I thought I make a couple suggestions. i don't have much experience yet with fruit trees, but from what I've learned, the more healthy your soil is ( feed the soil life, don't hurt it by tilling or artificial fertilizers etc. - see more on this from Charles Dowding, the No-till growers & more) the more resistant to pests or diseases your plants will be. BUT it can help to buy trees from those also raising them naturally. Lastly, as one can, plants lots ( take cuttings off of or plant seeds from, a good one ) and lets the ones which aren't thrifty, die ( see vlog by Justin Rhodes interviewing Mark Sheppard called S.T.U.N. , it's super enlightening !). Do a 'net search for "permaculture ( or organic) fruit treee nursery near me" . Also check out Edible Acres Nursery and their list of other recommended growers/sellers ( most r in the NE part of USA, as he is). Lastly, there are some organic-approved products some still need to use, as James has in the past, using Koalin Clay as a spray to protect against something, 4get what.
I am so glad you showed your garden over a period of 10 years because I have to remind myself that it does take time and effort. I also keep reminding myself that you can’t buy food as good as you can grow. The work is well worth it.
I tried to grow two small tomato plants this year, and I have struggled so much with fungus. It has not been fun at all. Do you ever have problems in your garden? Everything in your garden seems to be perfect. I really enjoy your videos them, and even though I am a cat person, tuck is great!
I have a huge garden and it's just grass. I hate looking at all the grass!!! So watching you and other youtube gardeners has inspired me to get rid of the grass and go full permaculture. Ive already bought a polytunnel, planted 2 apple trees, 3 blackcurrant bushes, loganberries, tayberries, raspberries, gooseberries, and all kinds of vegetables in my new raised beds!! I have the most beautiful spaghetti squash thriving and producing so much food!
Let’s growwwwww!!! Summer 2022!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ tuck the boss and 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 James the king. Thanks for being such an inspiration!!!! God bless you 🙌
Tuck cracks me up, eating a cucumber. He is adorable. I planted three cherry trees this year and it seems so far from "forest" but i have a vision. Thanks for the encouragement, energy and inpiration.
Thanks for the wonderful garden tour. It's not good to keep your cell phone in your pocket as you show us around. It even says it in their warnings. Because of EMF's coming off cellphone, it may harm plants as well as you, pollinators, etc. Best to you and Tuck and your wonderful garden food forest, permaculture. Maybe you can have more water spigots and or bowls of fresh water around the yard. He sometimes looks dehydrated panting for water this mid summer. Thanks for your consideration
This makes me so happy @James Prigioni! You inspired me to change my attitude towards my garden which I am slowly turning into our own food forest! Thanks for all you and Tuck do and for your amazing camera guy! ❤️ from Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Since 2018, been building my homestead food forrest. Thanks for the continued inspiration. Thanks.
I really appreciate this. I'm starting again after being sick for four years, and although it's a tiny patch now, I'll be adding on every year until all 1/3 acre is covered with food. Thank you!
You and Tuck are a blessing! So inspirational!!
This was definitely encouraging to me. All my peaches disappeared and the deer have wrecked havoc on everything this year.
Really cool, and teaches us how to use what we have. Even in a suburban / urban setting. Takes work, learning, and drive, but that's no different than anything else.
Nice job.
Hi ! The family I work for just did two beds , but there is mosquitos , any idea why & how to keep them away ? Thank you !!! I love your channel , such an inspiration.
This garden has inspired me. Continue to add to the garden. It's peaceful. The work is worth the fresh food fruits and vegetables and having a food paradise.
Wow, I feel like a turtle compared to how you have progressed. I have been working in my garden for about ten years now and I didn't start my fruit trees until about five years ago. This year I lost three trees to peach leaf curl and my third Bing cherry. Yes, Bing cherries are suppose to be able to grow in Zone 7, but they won't grow in my back year. I guess they must hate my clay, hard , wet soil. Oh well, out with the dead trees and in with more pears. I finally have three apple trees that can deal with the cedar rust in my area. It has been a slow upward trip, but even with these problems and the Bermuda grass in my yard, I'm not giving up!! God bless y'all and keep growing!
Have you considered purchasing and applying predator pee to ward off the Squirrels? I bought some years ago at a garden center to address a skunk problem. Every garden critter has a natural predator. They have mail order places that sell it. It worked for me years ago.
James, you being excited gets me excited! Thank you for being such a wonderful guide and inspiration for us.
I just noticed that you finally hit 1 million followers! Congratulations!
Amazing James , a backyard paradise. Thank you for showing us. 💜👍
What a beautiful transformation of your yard to now your Food Forest!!
It show your drive and passion for growing. I'm impressed by what you've done in 10 years. Congratulations!! The garden brings such goodness into our lives. I wish more folks would try it. Have a great day. Thanks gir for sharing. ❤❤ 4 Tuck
I can't remember ever seeing a more amazing garden James. Thanks for sharing and please give Tuck a bark and a sniff from Ginger and Penny our two bosses. Great stuff James.
Food paradise! You said it! Bravo Man! I am on my way….One plant at a time. You are so inspiring. My dad passed 2 years ago, but before he died he had a yard that I grew up in , just like you. I am so so grateful for all the hard work he did. Just brilliant!
Great camera person! Slow and steady just like the garden :) well done James P !! You are my best inspiration. I will have a garden much like yours one day. Thank you !!!
Dude, you are the happiest person on planet earth. Thanks for sharing your positive joy and your garden. I just started turning my front and backyard into a garden and I’m looking forward towards the process and what will happen.
love watching your garden tours - so inspiring. The overlay of historical photos and footage - excellent.
Hi James,
Thanks for another awesome video. Although I've been creating my garden for about 13 years now, from total wild brushy area, and even some small wooded areas towards the back I am still inspired and motivated by your videos. Our gardens are quite similar in ways, and quite different in other ways, but they are years in the making, and ever changing. Keep doing a great job, and give Tuck a high five for me. I'd love to show you a drone shot of my garden if you would be interested. Let me know how I can send a picture to you. God Bless, Mike
Thank you for showing this. I really enjoyed it.
Glad to hear that Aribella, thanks for the kind words 🐕😁❤️
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I love your garden. It's amazing ❤️😍😍. I also wish to grow one day. Your garden is my dream too. I have seen your channel three days ago. I have seen lots of videos. I have seen how much you love your plants, harvest like a mother. Have a wonderful day ❤️❤️❤️.
You and Tucker make me happy. I wish i live in your neighborhood.
I love seeing how your food forest progressed. You have the best food forest ever. Thank you.
Just amazing what you've created in your backyard! Just love love love and look forward to watching you (& Tuck) go through your food forest, showing your viewers the incredible amount of fruits and vegetables you are growing. And sharing what the area looked like before and after is so inspiring. 👍😊❤️❤️❤️
I was thinking after your last video that it'd be cool to see what it was like before you started the garden and here you go and put out a video doing just that. I'm trying to get my own food forest started but the bunnies and deer are working against me, they're hungry now and don't want to wait a few years for the plants to produce food for them to eat. Hopefully new fencing in the garden area will help deter them.
I completely agree that this is what we should be doing as a nation. Here in my local community, we've decided not to mow our lawns or use Roundup or other pesticides. Instead, we're letting our lawns grow. So many edible weeds and plants you can grow in your own backyards. We're also letting the lawns grow in a couple of abandoned houses, to supplement our neighborhood stockpile and donate the surplus to local food banks and church pantries. Thank you so much for caring and for sharing the previously unseen footage.
This video put a smile on my face. I'm so happy for the squirrels. Who doesn't love fresh hazelnuts?
James, a couple of questions. Firstly, what inspired you to start the food forest and your channel? And, what do you do about watering please? From a fan in West Wales.
And yes, James and Tuck's garden is amazing and inspiring.
Thanks alot man, you've inspired me to start a little farm on my couple acres and going great. Keep up the teaching please :D
I have a lot of land that I have turned into a garden rather than a yard I do have a small area of grass to sit in and enjoy usually going over garden stuff. But I enjoy having my massive gardening area
James this is so awesome!! Love the video, thank you! How often do you have to put more woodchips down? When you reapply, how much do you do, and do you put them down everywhere (except the raised beds)? Thanks!
Hey James, you have come along way. Food Forest looks awesome. Where do you buy most of your stuff from? I'm located in North Jersey and want to start food forest.
Congratulations on 1000000 subscribers! I have been watching you and Tuck since you started
Thanks Sydney!! That means a lot to me and the little boss 🐕😁❤️
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Hi James
It's great to see how your food forest has developed through the years and it's given me inspiration to grow some of my own. Mainly it's fruit and a few tomatoes and herbs. Got blueberries, raspberries, loganberries, gooseberries, pink currants, blackcurrants, redcurrants, white currants, blackberries, plums, some apples and rhubarb.
Do you spend all of the days looking after your forest or do you work as well?
Carol
PS love Tuck
One thing I DID NOT learn from TH-cam gardening videos is about soil! I bought a garden blend, 70:30 topsoil/ compost blended. NOTHING grew in it! I did forget to add manure, and didn't have any home-made compost, but it didn't occur to me I'd get NOTHING growing! That soil cost me a lot! I finally sent some off for testing, and I experimented and put a few plants directly in the dirt, under the wood chips. I had growth finally. I checked for moisture in my big raised bed and the dirt was HOT! So, I figured I really should put up a 40% white shade cloth. I have DIRECT HOT sun all day. But under the wood chips I have cow manure/dirt (we used to have cows on this lot) and it was a much better temperature. Golly I thought I was ready to really get going on my garden. I'm 69 and I'm getting no where fast!! Then, the Chinese beetles came. And bagworms. Well, I know I don't want some senior apartment somewhere and be bored! What a life!! I'm still laughing though! PS: I've heard of the problems of tainted straw, dirt, etc from herbicides also that has wiped out gardens. That's not what happened to me. I just got no growth. (I put in seedlings and nursery starters) One TH-cam gardener bought soil in bags from a store. He got nothing to grow either. It's possible that some soil is 'sterilized' and maybe that's what happened to me. An old timer in Walmart told me about 'sterilized' soil. Maybe he meant there were just no nutrients. I don't have a good compost started yet, either. Haven't googled soil yet.
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@James…enjoying getting acquainted with your channel. Your excitement is infectious!! One quick question: when you first laid down wood chips and planted something in them, did you put down cardboard first or just super thick chips? I’m trying both ways in my yard. Thanks again!!
Hi James. Love your videos and food forest! I'm struggling with my garden. How often do you fertilize and what do you use?
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Absolutely amazing gardens!! I love it all!! Where did you get the fruit trees that you planted? That dwarf honey crisp is perfect. Your grapevines are phenomenal!! Its no wonder that Tuck loves the produce. 💜💜💜
Loved this video. Tell me about a Persemion, how do you eat them? Raw or cooked? Jelly? Not familiar with this at all. I live in the Texas Panhandle, we get all 4 seasons here 109 in the summer, -10 in winter that is an extreme for us. We have some snow and ice but not for days and days. Just here and there. I would love to grow a peach, plum, and a couple of small apple trees. A cherry would also be nice but space is limited. I would need dwarf. I live on a corner city lot. I also have 4 chickens! I have been gardening in Zone7b Any ideas? We are very windy and Arid here.
Great video comparison of then and now. Your information and enthusiasm is contagious. I am in my late 60s, still working full time,, in upstate NY and learn something from every video. I no longer can plant and maintain a large garden and have a small fenced raised bed area and expanded to buckets and planters on my deck. Because of you, I have successfully grown my favorite San Mariano plum tomato plants from seed-18 of them! And lettuce and Kirby cucumbers successfully for the first time.
What is the name of the long cucumbers?
I have had a problem with chipmunks, raccoons and a family of 3 woodchuck. Any advice? I put netting around the pots of squash,, pepper, and tomato plants on deck. Open at the top for pollinators.. I have an old apple tree for the deer to devour. I pick my fruits, cherries, blueberries, raspberries, apples, and plums, at a local pick your own farm that is well maintained. It is my favorite place to be in early morning on the weekend.
You and Tuck keep up the great work.
I've been following your channel for a while now. I think this video does a great job of showing the progress made in your food forest. Thanks for sharing this
Thanks Maxwell, and thanks for the continued support and encouragement 🐕😁❤️
Amazing 🤩 thanks for sharing, 🇺🇸👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Love this! I am slowly adding to my back yard. My problem is I am not very good with planning things out. Would love to see an overview(photo or drawing) to get an idea of where to plant things. This would be a cool thing to put in your shop. I would definitely pay to have your expertise! Love watching Tuck!
You inspired me to start my own rooftop garden, it's an amazing feeling when you simply pick a fruit or vegetable that you grew yourself..
Your garden is AMAZING! I am wondering did you put down wood chips down on the entire property or just in certain areas? I have a huge back yard and feel so overwhelmed with it BUT I would love to have a food forest like this! The dirt is not great so I would like to know how to make it better? Do you suggest putting down wood chips first? Tuck is a cutie 😊 I have a Yorkie too 🐶
Beautiful garden! I'm in NJ too & I would like to hear how you deal with cucumber beetles & squash bugs. You must be doing something as I see no damage to your plants. Thanks..
You are so talented and hard working! Its paid off big time in your food forest! You are very inspiring and my whole backyard is a food forest! I added two more fruit trees this year! I now have an apple,peach,lemon, lime, fig, orange and apricot! The citrus are producing but the others are still too small. Thank you for your videos. Can you please tell me what fertilizer you use? I feel like that would help alot.
James, Chris from the Isle of Wight UK. I have been greatly inspired by your gardening prowess. My wife Jenny and I moved to the house and garden we are in now last year and with 250 feet of garden and me reaching 70 I needed some guidance. You have been my inspiration and mentor as I’ve adopted many of your ideas. The best being the use of wood chips as a base. I had to clear a mountain of thumb nail size stones which was apparently used as a labor saving idea by the last occupants. Now the food forest is starting to take shape and I Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your wonderful ideas.