If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😀TIMESTAMPS here: 0:00 Starting A Food Forest 1:19 High Density Fruit Tree Growing 4:50 Preparing Soil For Planting Fruit Trees 6:48 How To Lay Out High Density Trees 9:22 How To Plant A Fruit Tree 14:17 How To Fertilize Fruit Trees 17:57 Staking Young Fruit Trees 20:25 My Future Food Forest Plan 23:40 Adventures With Dale
Is this a sensible buy (easy to root) for zone 8a Louisiana or should I get a grafted expensive tree? Thanks! >Stem Cuttings of Asian Shin Li Pear (Un-Rooted) - Chruncy Asian Pear Tree Cuttings (3 Cuttings)
Great tutorial! When I sold my property I had a nice sized garden and mature fruit trees. Later I found out the new owners cut down all the fruit trees and removed the garden. I was so sad 😞 I should have inquired what their plans were. I could have waited for a buyer that liked gardening 😒
That is really sad. One of the reasons why I'm planting them around the perimeter like I am is in hopes that they'll live on when I'm gone one day. I feel if I plant them out in the open, they'll be more likely to be cut down. It's wild to me that someone would remove something that gives them hundreds of pounds of free food better than anything in a grocery store and plant some ugly, ornamental shrub instead.
Same thing happened to my mom when she sold her house in San Diego. The new owners took down fruit trees that were over 30 yrs old. We didn't tell her because it would broke her heart. I'm sorry that happened to you. 😕
@@TheMillennialGardener I had almost 4 acres and it looked like a park. There was plenty of room for them to do what ever they wanted without cutting down the fruit trees and removing the garden. They planted grass. 🙄 Now I have my fruit trees in pots. I hope whoever buys your beautiful place at least likes fruit trees and gardening 🙏
I am so jealous of the soil you have!!! Any time I want to plant something, I need to get out a pick-axe, digging bar, a couple shovels, and about 30 mins of hard work. It's brutal
It's Southern Yellow Pine sand. Very common in the Southeast. It's easy to dig through (until you hit tree roots), but it's junk in terms of nutrients. You really have to add a lot of compost and mulch. It eventually transforms into something really nice, but I initially have to drop a good bit of money on compost, mulch and fertilizer to get everything going. After about 3-4 years, it becomes really nice and I have to fertilize a lot less.
I have 4 48"x48" sized bins (standard pallet size) to try to make my own compost in because my back yard is all clay. I'm keeping 1 bay open to turn the compost and I'm also trying to use a compost tumbler to see how it compares.
Same here. I have 4-6 inches of sand followed by a foot of compacted river rock that even Bermuda grass wasn't getting through. Lots of pick axing. And crow bars. I have to make a big hole for trees because otherwise they will never get through the rock. It takes me about 2 hours of hard digging per tree.
I love this. More people need to realize they don't need a ton of space to grow. My lot is 1/8th of an acre and most of the back is my septic and drain field. I have been planting fruit trees in a row along the side of my property, closer together like this. It's working out great! I have more fruit varieties than I ever thought possible on my tiny lot.
The key is annual pruning. If you're willing to stay on top of your trees every year and source the proper dwarf and semi-dwarf rootstock, you can easily plant fruit trees 5-7 feet apart. The key is putting the effort into the design phase. I don't buy big box store fruit trees. I research rootstock varieties to get the trees I want on the rootstock that sizes my tree so it'll fit. When you get the "right tree" and plan things out, it becomes easy, and the planning process is so much fun!
@@wildlifegardenssydney7492 I love it! I love growing my own food. The variety is great, they don't sell a lot of things I like to grow around where i live. My pink guava is now producing a ton of fruit, and I am going to harvest my first pineapple soon!
@@wildlifegardenssydney7492 Have you ever had an Acerola cherry!? So far, they are probably my favorite to grow. They remind me of fruit punch. If you live somewhere they can grow, get one!! Just let them get really ripe before eating.
I always produce a spring garden tour when things wake up and everything looks nice. I have all my past tours archived here if you want to take a look: th-cam.com/play/PL1gY7BoYBGIH9NUYAULtZRr4dqDGIo355.html&si=TTU58it7exh_aTH5
@@TheMillennialGardener awesome! What would you say the square footage is for the in-ground area? Both the growing space square footage and the general area itself. (I ask bc I have a 21’x21’ area I’m re-establishing with beds that will give me about 270 sq ft of in-ground growing space.
I am over in a neighboring island from you. I am almost up to 70 varieties of fruits on my 3/4 acres. I use many 5 in 1 trees to maximize my space. I do tropicals in pots like papaya and alike. I will begin next year with my dragon fruit and mango adventures. You have inspired me to do more citrus this year. I have a 10 x 16 greenhouse for growing through the winter and storing my tropical in pots.
That's outstanding! Dragonfruit is a new endeavor for me, as well. I have 4 varieties in a pot on my sunroom. I can't wait to move them outdoors once it warms up finally. You won't regret the citrus. I recommend taking the drive down to McKenzie Farms in Scranton, SC, and giving Stan a visit if you live near me. It's an easy 2 hour drive and worth the trip.
Before you decide on growing any specific variety of mango, please do see if you can get to taste some Indian varieties of mangoes like Alphonso or banganpalli. They are 100 times better than most mangoes I have eaten in the US. Then, if you like those, you might want to plant those varieties.
How is it that Americans manage to figure out metric conversions but if a metric user even hears imperial measurements they run to the comments to let everyone know that they use metric….
Nice to see youre making progress on your fruit growing program. I plan on adding fruit bearing bushes like bush cherries,honeyberries,goumi berries and blueberry bushes to my mini- fruit tree planting.These will give me an earlier fruit harvest while Im waiting for my dwarf and genetic fruit trees to reach bearing age.I hope you and others can utilize these quick growing bush fruits smaller sized homesteads. Coupled with genetic dwarf and dward fruit trees,they make an unbeatable fruit duo! Thanks M.Gardener for another helpful video!
Fantastic tutorial! I am in a Master Gardener class, and we learned about growing fruit trees, and you hit on all the key points very accurately. The only difference is they specifically say to remove the nursery stake and actually let the fruit tree stand up to wind, and that makes them much stronger. But maybe we don't have as strong winds here in California as the u have in North Carolina!
I believe the Master Gardener's of Maryland also told me the same thing and we get weather similar to the south east. I think people like to stake their trees like this guy so they can prune it a unique way and squeeze in more trees.
Great video! I did something very similar, but I didn't use dwarf varieties, my trees are on about 16 ft centers along my perimeter. I also put the citrus in locations to block neighbor's windows, and put deciduous trees where it didn't matter. I think my yard is smaller than yours. I have abut 20 fruit trees in the ground, plus blueberries and blackberries, and about 100 ft of 4 foot wide raised beds. The center of my yard is very open. We also have a garden area for butterflies and humming birds. I made my beds more free flowing with wavey edges so that I can fit some groups of native perennials in a middle row, with groups of colorful annuals in places. Unless you know fruit trees, you wouldn't guess that I have some many fruit trees. A few years back, before the winter storm, Uri, I got something edible from my yard every month for 18+ months. It was almost every week, but not quite. The loquat and Pakistani mulberry died in the freezer, and those were two trees that filled in with fruit when many other trees and the garden didn't. Perhaps termites aren't as much of an issue where you are, but near the Texas Gulf Coast they are very bad. If you pile your mulch up against your fence termites will quickly eat the fence. I learned that the hard way. On the new fence, I made some spacers and then stable gunned black plastic landscape edging a few inches away from the fence so the mulch never touches the wood. Your neighbors will thank you for doing this also. I will strongly second your recommendation to dig a square or ugly hole to plant your trees in. When my 15 year old citrus froze I removed the dead root balls. Back when I planted those trees I planted in holes that were about 3x the size of the potted root ball, but the holes were roundish. When I dug up the root balls after 15 years, most of the roots were still within the holes that I had dug. There were exceptions, but it looked to me like for the first few years the roots really didn't break out of the original holes. My trees were in raised beds with the crowns approximately 4 to 6 inches above grade. As I added more mulch and compost some large surface roots did spread out. For those watching, the suggestion was made to back fill to your hole ONLY with native soil. Only add compost and higher quality soil above grade. This is very important in many places because it you backfill with high quality, loamy soil, water will collect in the hole and rot your tree roots. Great tip to use a pipe to check your tree's root ball height to the nearby grade level on each side. I usually just eye ball it, but the pipe trick is one I'm going to use from now on!
Your channel has quickly become my absolute favorite gardening channel. Each video is jam-packed with valuable information. Thank you so much! Whoever eventually purchases your current property is going to have a treasure trove of plants in a well-designed space. p.s. Dale is a SERIOUS ball player :)
Hello from sunny and subtropical South Africa. Your technique and setup is amazing, I really like seeing an aspect of people's personality come out in the way they do their setups in their garden. Your methodical, practical and proffesional approach to the natural world is very unique and deserves to be cherished amongst the gardening communities, we all bring a very different style to what makes permaculture exciting. I'm also aware, as you mentioned that this is more of a temporary location, which could also be in part what is guiding your choices, none the less, absolutely informative, enjoyable and high-spirited video. Thank you for teaching us more and taking the effort to not only create such a beautiful garden but to put the effort into creating the content, stay safe out there, blessings from the earth upon you and your loved ones. - Guardian Prepping.
I just found your site. Love your vids! You are always very informative. I appreciate your taking the time to explain to us who are new to fruit tree gardening.
Love your videos! I have 7 varieties of jujube. Fabulous fruit. I also have 5 varieties of mulberries ,107 fig varieties, 2 olives and 8 varieties of citrus. All in my regular sized yard. Some are n ground but lots are in large containers. Blueberries and blackberries + my veggie garden. I’m in SE La and just changed to zone 10. I love to walk around my yard and eat.
I’m so happy that I started planting fruit trees 2 years ago as this year should be great for fruit! I pinched all blossoms for the last two years and will let them all fruit this year. If I have any regrets about what I did, I wish I had ordered bigger bareroot trees. I ordered the 1.5-3 ft from Stark and it’s taken 2 years for them to get to fruiting size. Versus the 4-5 and 5-6 ft trees I’ve ordered from them and started fruiting right away. Love your garden and videos!
Pinching blossoms is generally done to keep the tree from exerting too much energy into producing fruit when it's too young to be able to endure the strain of holding all that weight on its branches &/or the strain of supplying nutrients to all that fruit. My baby potted Meyer lemon tree had 120+ blossoms earlier (yes, I counted) this year, but no way it would have been able to have them all take. Just because the tree is "sexually mature" enough to flower, does NOT mean it's mature enough to take care of "it's offspring". Therefore, it's better to pinch the blossoms for a bit (1-3 yrs?) to let the tree focus on becoming strong enough first before letting it "raise any offspring".
We planted a fig tree three years ago. It wasn't doing well Early last year my son's dog came for a visit and chewed the branches off. I almost died I didn't have the heart to remove what was left. BUT now the tree is growing like crazy!😀 However, I'll be putting a barrier up to protect it from the little rascal!🐶
Thank you for the great video! I have a 3000sq foot backyard. Just started some figs indoors, have black Madeira, smith, Italian 258, violet de Bordeaux, col de dame gagantia. I plan on using your methods! I live in Arizona so I get plenty of sun. I can’t wait to get some citrus trees. Just hard because no one can ship them to Arizona.
Outstanding! I have all those figs, and they're all excellent. I would rate them I-258, Smith, Gegantina, Black Madeira and VdB. I'm curious what your ranking would be, but they're all great, so it's like splitting hairs. I-258 is a mind-blower if you let it get super soft. Check out Green Life by Shamus O Leary Tropicals for your fruit trees in Phoenix.
Bananas in Wilmington?? 😯 I'm at the Crystal Coast and have never considered I could grow bananas! I did find out recently we could grow citrus so I'm going to try that... I'd love more on the bananas, though!
Im about to move into a 1/4 acre lot. I wanted 1+ acres so I can have fruit trees, so I thought i had to give that up for my girls. You have given me inspiration and hope that I can still grow the trees I want, for that alone THANK YOU! Please make an updated video id love to see how they look in the future.
My yard is aprox 120 feet by 120 feet square. I already have an expanding vegetable garden. I will have at least 8 fig trees (they get large in Louisiana) by the end of this year, five dwarf everbearing mulberry trees, and I want pears so bad and some citrus. I don`t like mowing. The western side of my yard is a 10 ft wide, 120 feet long multi species wild blackberry patch. I will eventually start blueberries but need to learn more. My driveway is over 500 feet long so I plan to get fig and mulberry cuttings planted along it.
My strawberry plants arrive tomorrow and my first mulberry tree arrived yesterday and has a few tiny leaves. I have it under a proper light. Gonna wait until it warms back up to put it outside. My wild bunny friend worries me so I have to make a little fence around it. I got a 100 ft bunny fence that`s 4 feet high so I`m gonna trim it (it`s plastic) into two, 2 ft high, 100ft fences. I got 100 little pencil size 18 inch bamboo sticks to help hold the temporary fencing. Bunny likes 90% of what I like, especially lettuce, beets, amaranth, green beans, and corn. LOL!
Your chanel has gotten me obsessed with fruit trees and given me better knowledge in gardening!! Thank you! And you got me obsessed with persimmon trees, now i have 3 😅. Thanks for your fig videos too! I now have 4 fig veritys because of your amazingly informative videos! may the garden gods bless your harvest for many years! And thanks again for making these videos ❤.
Lol me too I been trying go grow citrus tree and thought I couldn’t do it because I’m in zone 6 A or B but watching his channel proved me wrong. No im trying to do an order from McKenzie Farm but it’s hard to reach them. But I’m obsessed on getting citrus , persimmon and Meyer lemon
Outstanding! Glad to help contribute to a healthy addiction! I'm adding 2 more persimmons, too. They just showed up in the mail. This is my favorite time of year. There's so many possibilities. I used to get really depressed entering Fall and Winter, but now with all these fruit trees, there's always something in season to be excited about and it's changed my perspective on life.
Wow, MG! Great selection of delish fruit!👍Super idea to plant the food forest on the border of your property.👍 You certainly make great use of every bit of your land. Dale's stripes are so cool! He's so beautiful!🐕💕
Thanks! I'll be interesting to see once it's all finally finished. Although I can't truly commit to ever stopping. I'll probably keep finding spots to stick new trees. Dale is a very handsome boy. He's filled out nicely since we adopted him. I wish I looked that good 😂
Please be sure to order NOW! Bare root tree sales are coming to an end. You really need to place your orders in November/December. In a couple weeks, sales will halt, because they break dormancy at that point. Please consult this video for a full list of where I order trees (timestamped in the chapters): th-cam.com/video/VPxfnDXYxUs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8PVKLkZIh5Qzi8q0 Four Winds Growers is clearing our their stock currently and have a coupon code on their site. In another 2-3 weeks, they'll be gone.
Thank you! I wish I could agree that a quarter acre is big. The funny thing about space is no matter what you have, you always wish there was more of it. You could give me 20 acres and it would feel small after awhile.
Thank you! Space efficiency is everything in a typical suburban yard. The closer you go, the more you can grow. You just have to maintain the trees well.
I bought a dozen bare root fruit trees this year for £6 each (about ~$7.50) and might even buy a dozen more. I can't wait to see if they fruit just as much as the fruit trees I paid £45 and I'll be buying dozens of them in future years!
Very nice! it inspires me to really take the time to well measure and design my garden. It looks so beautiful when it's carefully done! I'm looking forward to see everything thriving in that garden! 😄
Nice I'm doing a small fruit garden between my driveway and property line. I have 2 L shaped raised beds which will hose 3 raspberry plants each, inside the raised area will be strawberries and blueberries in ground. Then a trellis for 1 to 2 passion fruit vines. And then a plum and mandarin orange flanking both sides. Then I'm installing a weeping plum tree in the front yard for fruit and ornamental purposes, and putting a few different figs in containers. The goal for the figs is to plant 2 in the front yard and train them to be more bushy. I figure the live tissue plants will work out well for that purpose.
Sweet video, I’m getting so excited about planting all my fruit trees this year. I’ve just ordered two yuzu cold hardy citrus trees. Super excited and nervous to get them in the ground when they arrive.
Amazing information. All the videos are great, but this one is just remarkable for anyone wanting to get into fruit trees. Instead of digging up my lawn, I am going to plant fruit trees along the fence just like the video shows.
I just got a plum tree for a large pot but now considering putting it in the ground, also more intrigued to replace some small palm trees I have in the backyard with fruit trees 😮
Thank you for another well explained tutorial. You inspire and equip others to make the most of their small yards with smart designs that won’t likely upset HOA or city ordinances. Many, many thanks for your easy-to-follow instructions that don’t leave out important details.😁
Hi. Thank you for this video. I have bought 2 trees: apple and peach. I also watched your pruning videos. I bought dwarf trees and multiple varieties on the trees itself. When pruning the trees, I am hoping I will figure it out to do it right about the multiple varieties.. thank you for your videos. Have a great day! 🌻
@@TheMillennialGardener We found a small piece of land that might just do the trick! Once we get started (may still be a while) we'll send you some pics. :) kindest regards.
18:38 Placing the stake in the ground before the tree is a really good idea (wish I had heard that earlier) - prevents damaging the roots, helps to position the tree when planting, and makes it easier to get the correct planting depth
Lovely! Also here in NC - I and some friends have had vole damage in the past to new tree roots. I've started to use vole-bloc (sharp stones) mixed in when planting new trees to help protect roots. Some options are available right here in NC...
I recently learned a lot about planting a tree, as I have planted 8 trees. The planting hole shape does not matter. Think about how people want to shape the fruit to what they wanted; they put a cover/box to make the shape the same as the root. Now, the most essential thing about a plant tree, or any fruit tree, is the depth of the hole, the quality of the soil, or your original soil, and how deep you plant your tree. Sure, the insert control, etc. The usual depth of the fruit tree root is 2ft, and if your original soil quality is terrible, consider digging a deep hole and changing the whole soil in the hole. For fruit trees like jujube, the root system is even deeper than the usual fruit trees, but a 2ft hole is deep enough. The skill is called white lily, or white ellen something. The quality of the soil is also important as well. If you plant a blueberry, acidity-lover tree, you may want to modify the soil slightly. Now, one last thing about plant trees is the depth of the trunk. The "pencil" style is not good. The flare should be easily exposed to the surface of the soil line, meaning don't plant your fruit tree too deep. You may cover the tree with manure, mulch, etc. Tree roots need air.
Alright,,,, I just bout 2 jujuie trees. I live in a rv park in north Texas. I work here plus on aircraft sometimes. I'm turning part of this park into a food forest. I'm 65. My last gasp at life,lol.
Everything we plant will be here when we're gone. It's a way of leaving a little piece of us behind. By the time I quit, I hope to have a thousand offspring growing all over the place 😂
Love watching the videos of how you plant new trees and lay them out. I have four fruit trees arriving within a month and I'll be doing the same thing as you. Very helpful to see what you do with your bare root trees as my peach tree will be coming in that form. In your greens/veggie garden area, I noticed you had these brackets holding up wires around it. Is that an electric cable to power some stuff or something else? Thanks again for the great vid.
This was really fun to watch! I feel inspired by your creative ideas. I have a few questions though... One is, what benefits do you anticipate having in a future homestead planting space and why do you say you'd do it differently if you had more space? Second is, do you espalier all or only some of your fence-lined tress, and if only some, what goes into your decision on which are and aren't espaliered? Third is, do you think it's preferable to plant in the spring or the fall? I know a lot of trees go on sale in the fall, but I see that despite mentioning the expense, you are mail-ordering and planting in the spring. Fourth, I've always read to space even dwarf and semi-dwarf trees 10' apart; why do you space only 6'? If you were to do another row of trees, would you place the second row only 6' away as well? Thanks!
I'm jealous of your space! Our entire lot is .18 acre for the house, garage, driveway, sidewalk, my chicken pen and coop and my garden area! Most of my garden is either raised beds or hydroponics but I do hope to get one of your Meyer lemons and/or Owari Satsumas this spring. Want to plan that trip to visit Stan the Citrus Man and see his setup. It looks amazing just from the videos but don't know if I can walk the entire area. Thanks for all the videos. You are an inspiration and I gauge much of what I can grow weatherwise according to what you grow. I'm a novice but I'm trying (not bad for an old geezer who didn't start this until her 70s!
That's not that much smaller than mine. It's about 60% of the size. If you follow my design and I'm able to fit 60 trees around my plot's perimeter, I would think you could fit around 36 trees if you do the math...give or take. That's still a pretty good haul, and obviously, if you expand to more than the perimeter property line, more can fit. Whether you can walk Stan's farm will probably be based on how busy he is. If you go visit on a Saturday during this time of year, he'll probably be busy since this is when people buy fruit trees. Going on a weekday is probably slower, but you never know. He has a lot of new greenhouses full of stuff now.
@@TheMillennialGardener Hoping to visit Stan during the week (an advantage of being retired)! The space I gave you is the entire backyard area except the chicken pen and coop. I also have 12 raised beds out there, 11 of which are 1-1 1/2 feet off either the house or the fence. I also have 2 rain barrels out there (thanks for you YT on the downspout diverter). I will likely start my fruit trees in grow bags. I do have 20 feet of 6” gutter on the fence that has herbs planted in it and have ordered some bag planters to put some strawberries on the fence as well. I have 3 kiddie pools in the corners that are “compost bins”. I raid the chicken shavings every couple of months to “feed” my compost pools!
I like your square hole story! That's awesome! You know, back in the day, the wasnt a lot of printable info about things people just knew. 9 times outta ten it was word of mouth. Just knowledge gained from people who lived in a community and just knew the ways of the land.
I'm willing to bet that it was true in certain areas, especially in the "old country" where the soil was rocky and heavy and roots struggled to spread out well. I doubt in my Carolina beach sand soil the hole shape matters much, but you're digging the hole anyway, so why not square it up?
Dale puts a smile on my face. He’s such a good boy! Nice backyard. I planted 9 fruit trees last year in the backyard. We have 2 apples, 2 plums, 2 cherries and 3 peach trees mostly reachables or dwarf. I planted some in big pots to have more fruits. I hope they all will give us a good harvest this year or in the future. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Life is good! ❤️🙏
It might be worth mentioning that a soil analysis can save you a lot of headache later. They often will tell you what amendments to add and in what quantities. It is more difficult to get micronutrients into the soil after the planting. Natural lump charcoal is a great soil ammendment for very sandy soils. It is refered to as terra preta and helps to hold nutrients and water in the soil without encouraging rot. If you have clay soil and relatively flat ground, it helps to make your raised bed significantly higher.
You're so clear in your instructions. Thank you. I've had so many fruit trees die in my soil that I've become a little paranoid about planting them, lol. I have had some success the last few years with a plum, peach, almond and mulberry. I've got a couple of low chill cherries I'm going to try (for the third time) this year. They're in pots for now and are doing well. I've also bought a couple of dwarf peaches that I'm going to plant into an IBC tote that was cut in half for me. Another fun new experiment! Any suggestions what to plant in the same container with them?
@TheMillennialGardener so I've spent several days researching trees - I'm stuck. Where should I get my trees with good root stock? I'm lost! I'm in South Charlotte with lots of red clay. The tree sites I'm finding are saying it will take 7-10 years to fruit! I'd like to start now so as not to waste time, but I'm overwhelmed with what yo purchase. What supplier do you recommend where I can get mature grafted trees that are dwarf? Thanks ahead of time for your time! ❤
this works for me in zone 9a.... after germinating my seeds in doors , and after transplanting them into larger pots 3by3 for 'the most part' I move them out doors into my cold frame,, ' I made my cold frame large enough to accommodate for an oil lamp or candles for cooler nights say 32 degrees i ve been using this method for years and ever have lost a transplant. I have never seen any other gardeners doing this on you tube...
You make growing trees look so easy. The problem I have is that I have a sprinkler system and am afraid to dig in my yard too much. Do you think trees will do well in raised beds?
If this doesn’t convince people of the possibilities then I don’t know what will. Nicely done. I have 5 times the space and only 36 trees. I’ve got some catching up to do. I’ve recently started yanking up landscape trees and shrubs and replacing them with fruit trees. Two crepe Myrtle are now two Gold Nugget Manderines and a row of Ligustrum will soon be a hedge of dwarf mulberry.
I hope you're correct. My goal is to convince as many people to grow food as possible. Every house has some amount of landscaping around it - why not make it edible? Even if you have a small yard, it's incredible what you can fit if you're willing to prune everything back annually.
Have looked into Goumi Berry bushes? They are nitrogen fixers, disease & pest resistant, and look great in the front yard(HOA friendly). Also, look into Autumn Brilliance Service berry. These look great in the front yard as well. Cheers!
Thank you so much for this very informative and encouraging video this is excellent 🎉❤. We have 1 acre and I wanting this design too. So I have more room for our garden and our meat animals.
Good gracious, whomever buys this property after you is in for a treat! Tons of work getting established, and when you leave someone else will have a real treasure!!
One of my fears is that they won't "get it" and cut it down. I sure hope whoever inherits this one day understands the true value of what they'll have.
Great video - I just planted my first two saplings and plan on doing a few more similar to how you’ve done it around your fence. What direction does this line of trees face?
My yard is even smaller than yours. About a quarter of yours, and I have 2 plum trees, 1 peach tree, 5 blueberry trees, like 25 REAL wild raspberry plants with thorns, 2 store bought raspberry plants without thorns and a 5 in 1 apple tree. And a mini garden.
I have 14 fruit trees in pots and another 30 id like to get this year but itll probably be spread out between this year and next year because its over 2k in trees. Were on a 1/4 acre and we just closed on it in december. So although i plan to add a few trees in ground im going to keep most of them in pots till we get our forever house in the next 2 to 3 years. I buy all my trees as small as i can because i get them cheaper and they will fit in their pots for longer before getting too big. I purchased 2 fig starts that were maybe 2 inches tall. Spring 2023 i wasnt even sure they were alive they looked like 2 tiny sticks stuck in their pots. But they are alive and more than doubled in size before going dormant again. I have grape vines that look like small dead twigs as well lol but everything has tiny little buds on it so im pretty confident in it all. I also have a ton of raspberries blackberries blueberries and other fruiting plants in pots. They line all of our yard space. Also trying to talk my partner into letting me gut the front yard for more garden and tree space. Theres a large ornamental tree that was heavily neglected prior to us being here to the point we might have to remove it or at least cut it way back so it can grow back better and some grass that has been completely shaded out by the tree it needs a bunch of work to look appealing again and if i already have to put work in id rather put it into a useful growing space rather than unused basic lawn.
I love your videos! Ive got an orchard now too, but this is yr 3. Hope fruit comes this yr. None so far. Im going to run out and make sure my mulch isnt covering the grafts tho!!! Good learning video as always.
Interesting. Year 3 is often "the year" for a light harvest if you don't get too greedy. Exceptions are pawpaw's. Boy, do they take forever. I'm in Year 4 and I'm *finally* seeing flowers. They're like watching molasses flow uphill. If your trees fruit, don't let them over-fruit, or you may throw them into an alternate bearing cycle and get little to nothing the next year.
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If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😀TIMESTAMPS here:
0:00 Starting A Food Forest
1:19 High Density Fruit Tree Growing
4:50 Preparing Soil For Planting Fruit Trees
6:48 How To Lay Out High Density Trees
9:22 How To Plant A Fruit Tree
14:17 How To Fertilize Fruit Trees
17:57 Staking Young Fruit Trees
20:25 My Future Food Forest Plan
23:40 Adventures With Dale
Is this a sensible buy (easy to root) for zone 8a Louisiana or should I get a grafted expensive tree? Thanks! >Stem Cuttings of Asian Shin Li Pear (Un-Rooted) - Chruncy Asian Pear Tree Cuttings (3 Cuttings)
Where do you buy your trees from. Amazing video by the way.
Great tutorial! When I sold my property I had a nice sized garden and mature fruit trees. Later I found out the new owners cut down all the fruit trees and removed the garden. I was so sad 😞 I should have inquired what their plans were. I could have waited for a buyer that liked gardening 😒
That is really sad. One of the reasons why I'm planting them around the perimeter like I am is in hopes that they'll live on when I'm gone one day. I feel if I plant them out in the open, they'll be more likely to be cut down. It's wild to me that someone would remove something that gives them hundreds of pounds of free food better than anything in a grocery store and plant some ugly, ornamental shrub instead.
Same thing happened to my mom when she sold her house in San Diego. The new owners took down fruit trees that were over 30 yrs old. We didn't tell her because it would broke her heart. I'm sorry that happened to you. 😕
@@BigMama2022 Thank you 😊
@@TheMillennialGardener I had almost 4 acres and it looked like a park. There was plenty of room for them to do what ever they wanted without cutting down the fruit trees and removing the garden. They planted grass. 🙄
Now I have my fruit trees in pots. I hope whoever buys your beautiful place at least likes fruit trees and gardening 🙏
That's sad
I am so jealous of the soil you have!!! Any time I want to plant something, I need to get out a pick-axe, digging bar, a couple shovels, and about 30 mins of hard work. It's brutal
Google "lasagna Permaculture method tree" for lots of guides. You'll only need to dig deep for the taproot of each tree.
It's Southern Yellow Pine sand. Very common in the Southeast. It's easy to dig through (until you hit tree roots), but it's junk in terms of nutrients. You really have to add a lot of compost and mulch. It eventually transforms into something really nice, but I initially have to drop a good bit of money on compost, mulch and fertilizer to get everything going. After about 3-4 years, it becomes really nice and I have to fertilize a lot less.
I suppose we can't have it all haha @@TheMillennialGardener
I have 4 48"x48" sized bins (standard pallet size) to try to make my own compost in because my back yard is all clay. I'm keeping 1 bay open to turn the compost and I'm also trying to use a compost tumbler to see how it compares.
Same here. I have 4-6 inches of sand followed by a foot of compacted river rock that even Bermuda grass wasn't getting through.
Lots of pick axing. And crow bars. I have to make a big hole for trees because otherwise they will never get through the rock.
It takes me about 2 hours of hard digging per tree.
I love this. More people need to realize they don't need a ton of space to grow. My lot is 1/8th of an acre and most of the back is my septic and drain field. I have been planting fruit trees in a row along the side of my property, closer together like this. It's working out great! I have more fruit varieties than I ever thought possible on my tiny lot.
The key is annual pruning. If you're willing to stay on top of your trees every year and source the proper dwarf and semi-dwarf rootstock, you can easily plant fruit trees 5-7 feet apart. The key is putting the effort into the design phase. I don't buy big box store fruit trees. I research rootstock varieties to get the trees I want on the rootstock that sizes my tree so it'll fit. When you get the "right tree" and plan things out, it becomes easy, and the planning process is so much fun!
So wonderful…. well done. I imagine you are delighted when you eat your own fruit.
@@wildlifegardenssydney7492 I love it! I love growing my own food. The variety is great, they don't sell a lot of things I like to grow around where i live. My pink guava is now producing a ton of fruit, and I am going to harvest my first pineapple soon!
@@wildlifegardenssydney7492 Have you ever had an Acerola cherry!? So far, they are probably my favorite to grow. They remind me of fruit punch. If you live somewhere they can grow, get one!! Just let them get really ripe before eating.
Please do an overview video of your garden space! The orchard is awesome, but I’d love to learn more about your veg garden space layout too 🤩
I always produce a spring garden tour when things wake up and everything looks nice. I have all my past tours archived here if you want to take a look: th-cam.com/play/PL1gY7BoYBGIH9NUYAULtZRr4dqDGIo355.html&si=TTU58it7exh_aTH5
@@TheMillennialGardener awesome! What would you say the square footage is for the in-ground area? Both the growing space square footage and the general area itself. (I ask bc I have a 21’x21’ area I’m re-establishing with beds that will give me about 270 sq ft of in-ground growing space.
This is great! I just planted 13 fruit trees in my front yard.
Awesome! Congrats!
Good luck! I have around 10.
I am over in a neighboring island from you. I am almost up to 70 varieties of fruits on my 3/4 acres. I use many 5 in 1 trees to maximize my space. I do tropicals in pots like papaya and alike. I will begin next year with my dragon fruit and mango adventures. You have inspired me to do more citrus this year. I have a 10 x 16 greenhouse for growing through the winter and storing my tropical in pots.
That's outstanding! Dragonfruit is a new endeavor for me, as well. I have 4 varieties in a pot on my sunroom. I can't wait to move them outdoors once it warms up finally. You won't regret the citrus. I recommend taking the drive down to McKenzie Farms in Scranton, SC, and giving Stan a visit if you live near me. It's an easy 2 hour drive and worth the trip.
@@TheMillennialGardener I bought all my citrus trees from Mckenzie Farms per your recommendation. Have you grown any mango?
Before you decide on growing any specific variety of mango, please do see if you can get to taste some Indian varieties of mangoes like Alphonso or banganpalli. They are 100 times better than most mangoes I have eaten in the US. Then, if you like those, you might want to plant those varieties.
That is fantastic…..well done!
I’m making an apple hedge by espaliering several dwarf varieties, thanks for the great planting tips.
I'm doing that as well with my apples. They espalier nicely.
i cannot wait to have my own food forest as well
The Weedy Garden channel has great examples of different digging methods for trees.
Thanks for providing the conversion for us metric-minded people.
You're welcome! I try to make the videos for everyone in the world.
How is it that Americans manage to figure out metric conversions but if a metric user even hears imperial measurements they run to the comments to let everyone know that they use metric….
Dale just looks like such a happy dog. I live that!
He is. We spoil him rotten, but we also challenge him a lot, so he stays pretty engaged. He's got it made.
Nice to see youre making progress on your fruit growing program. I plan on adding fruit bearing bushes like bush cherries,honeyberries,goumi berries and blueberry bushes to my mini- fruit tree planting.These will give me an earlier fruit harvest while Im waiting for my dwarf and genetic fruit trees to reach bearing age.I hope you and others can utilize these quick growing bush fruits smaller sized homesteads. Coupled with genetic dwarf and dward fruit trees,they make an unbeatable fruit duo! Thanks M.Gardener for another helpful video!
Fantastic tutorial! I am in a Master Gardener class, and we learned about growing fruit trees, and you hit on all the key points very accurately. The only difference is they specifically say to remove the nursery stake and actually let the fruit tree stand up to wind, and that makes them much stronger. But maybe we don't have as strong winds here in California as the u have in North Carolina!
I believe the Master Gardener's of Maryland also told me the same thing and we get weather similar to the south east. I think people like to stake their trees like this guy so they can prune it a unique way and squeeze in more trees.
I like your videos not only with excellent info and advices on gardening but how you finishing with your dog..so sweet 👍
I appreciate it! I'm glad you're enjoying them.
These channels are really important thanks for your teachings
You're very welcome! I'm glad I could help.
We live in southeast Texas, 9a. My great grandmother always said to plant trees in months that end in “er”
Great video! I did something very similar, but I didn't use dwarf varieties, my trees are on about 16 ft centers along my perimeter. I also put the citrus in locations to block neighbor's windows, and put deciduous trees where it didn't matter. I think my yard is smaller than yours. I have abut 20 fruit trees in the ground, plus blueberries and blackberries, and about 100 ft of 4 foot wide raised beds. The center of my yard is very open. We also have a garden area for butterflies and humming birds. I made my beds more free flowing with wavey edges so that I can fit some groups of native perennials in a middle row, with groups of colorful annuals in places. Unless you know fruit trees, you wouldn't guess that I have some many fruit trees.
A few years back, before the winter storm, Uri, I got something edible from my yard every month for 18+ months. It was almost every week, but not quite. The loquat and Pakistani mulberry died in the freezer, and those were two trees that filled in with fruit when many other trees and the garden didn't.
Perhaps termites aren't as much of an issue where you are, but near the Texas Gulf Coast they are very bad. If you pile your mulch up against your fence termites will quickly eat the fence. I learned that the hard way. On the new fence, I made some spacers and then stable gunned black plastic landscape edging a few inches away from the fence so the mulch never touches the wood. Your neighbors will thank you for doing this also.
I will strongly second your recommendation to dig a square or ugly hole to plant your trees in. When my 15 year old citrus froze I removed the dead root balls. Back when I planted those trees I planted in holes that were about 3x the size of the potted root ball, but the holes were roundish. When I dug up the root balls after 15 years, most of the roots were still within the holes that I had dug. There were exceptions, but it looked to me like for the first few years the roots really didn't break out of the original holes. My trees were in raised beds with the crowns approximately 4 to 6 inches above grade. As I added more mulch and compost some large surface roots did spread out.
For those watching, the suggestion was made to back fill to your hole ONLY with native soil. Only add compost and higher quality soil above grade. This is very important in many places because it you backfill with high quality, loamy soil, water will collect in the hole and rot your tree roots.
Great tip to use a pipe to check your tree's root ball height to the nearby grade level on each side. I usually just eye ball it, but the pipe trick is one I'm going to use from now on!
Mate, you're a blessing! Thank you so much for these videos-they're so clear and concise. Can't wait to start growing my own food!
You're welcome! I'm glad to hear they're helping!
Your channel has quickly become my absolute favorite gardening channel. Each video is jam-packed with valuable information. Thank you so much! Whoever eventually purchases your current property is going to have a treasure trove of plants in a well-designed space.
p.s. Dale is a SERIOUS ball player :)
Hello from sunny and subtropical South Africa. Your technique and setup is amazing, I really like seeing an aspect of people's personality come out in the way they do their setups in their garden. Your methodical, practical and proffesional approach to the natural world is very unique and deserves to be cherished amongst the gardening communities, we all bring a very different style to what makes permaculture exciting. I'm also aware, as you mentioned that this is more of a temporary location, which could also be in part what is guiding your choices, none the less, absolutely informative, enjoyable and high-spirited video. Thank you for teaching us more and taking the effort to not only create such a beautiful garden but to put the effort into creating the content, stay safe out there, blessings from the earth upon you and your loved ones. - Guardian Prepping.
Very beautiful layout. I love the design. Great job.❤🎉😊
Thank you!
I just found your site. Love your vids! You are always very informative. I appreciate your taking the time to explain to us who are new to fruit tree gardening.
Love your videos! I have 7 varieties of jujube. Fabulous fruit. I also have 5 varieties of mulberries ,107 fig varieties, 2 olives and 8 varieties of citrus. All in my regular sized yard. Some are n ground but lots are in large containers. Blueberries and blackberries + my veggie garden. I’m in SE La and just changed to zone 10. I love to walk around my yard and eat.
Wonderful and delicious
I’m so happy that I started planting fruit trees 2 years ago as this year should be great for fruit! I pinched all blossoms for the last two years and will let them all fruit this year. If I have any regrets about what I did, I wish I had ordered bigger bareroot trees. I ordered the 1.5-3 ft from Stark and it’s taken 2 years for them to get to fruiting size. Versus the 4-5 and 5-6 ft trees I’ve ordered from them and started fruiting right away. Love your garden and videos!
My trees are first year for me, but clearly larger. Should I pinch my blossoms? They were planted last September/August...
They are showing signs of excitement...😊
Pinching blossoms is generally done to keep the tree from exerting too much energy into producing fruit when it's too young to be able to endure the strain of holding all that weight on its branches &/or the strain of supplying nutrients to all that fruit. My baby potted Meyer lemon tree had 120+ blossoms earlier (yes, I counted) this year, but no way it would have been able to have them all take. Just because the tree is "sexually mature" enough to flower, does NOT mean it's mature enough to take care of "it's offspring". Therefore, it's better to pinch the blossoms for a bit (1-3 yrs?) to let the tree focus on becoming strong enough first before letting it "raise any offspring".
Just as good as the pruning last time. Thank you so much again. Very detailed✌🏼👍🏼
I am glad that I found you. Very good information.
We planted a fig tree three years ago. It wasn't doing well Early last year my son's dog came for a visit and chewed the branches off. I almost died I didn't have the heart to remove what was left. BUT now the tree is growing like crazy!😀 However, I'll be putting a barrier up to protect it from the little rascal!🐶
I got a Westie to protect my garden from critters and she ate most of my asparagus plants😄
Thank you for the great video! I have a 3000sq foot backyard. Just started some figs indoors, have black Madeira, smith, Italian 258, violet de Bordeaux, col de dame gagantia. I plan on using your methods! I live in Arizona so I get plenty of sun. I can’t wait to get some citrus trees. Just hard because no one can ship them to Arizona.
Outstanding! I have all those figs, and they're all excellent. I would rate them I-258, Smith, Gegantina, Black Madeira and VdB. I'm curious what your ranking would be, but they're all great, so it's like splitting hairs. I-258 is a mind-blower if you let it get super soft. Check out Green Life by Shamus O Leary Tropicals for your fruit trees in Phoenix.
@@TheMillennialGardener you were definitely the biggest influence on picking those figs! Thanks for the great TH-cam content
Bananas in Wilmington?? 😯 I'm at the Crystal Coast and have never considered I could grow bananas! I did find out recently we could grow citrus so I'm going to try that... I'd love more on the bananas, though!
Sure. Bananas are challenging, but you can make it work. Citrus is pretty easy. I have many videos on citrus.
Im about to move into a 1/4 acre lot. I wanted 1+ acres so I can have fruit trees, so I thought i had to give that up for my girls. You have given me inspiration and hope that I can still grow the trees I want, for that alone THANK YOU! Please make an updated video id love to see how they look in the future.
I first read the title and said to myself : "02 acres? 40 trees? this guy can't do math." Mea Culpa. Well done, sir!
It actually surprised me when I did the math, too. I triple checked myself, but it is true.
My yard is aprox 120 feet by 120 feet square. I already have an expanding vegetable garden. I will have at least 8 fig trees (they get large in Louisiana) by the end of this year, five dwarf everbearing mulberry trees, and I want pears so bad and some citrus. I don`t like mowing. The western side of my yard is a 10 ft wide, 120 feet long multi species wild blackberry patch. I will eventually start blueberries but need to learn more. My driveway is over 500 feet long so I plan to get fig and mulberry cuttings planted along it.
My strawberry plants arrive tomorrow and my first mulberry tree arrived yesterday and has a few tiny leaves. I have it under a proper light. Gonna wait until it warms back up to put it outside. My wild bunny friend worries me so I have to make a little fence around it. I got a 100 ft bunny fence that`s 4 feet high so I`m gonna trim it (it`s plastic) into two, 2 ft high, 100ft fences. I got 100 little pencil size 18 inch bamboo sticks to help hold the temporary fencing. Bunny likes 90% of what I like, especially lettuce, beets, amaranth, green beans, and corn. LOL!
@@baneverything5580 if you just grow things that the bunny likes but you don’t then you won’t have to worry
Your chanel has gotten me obsessed with fruit trees and given me better knowledge in gardening!! Thank you! And you got me obsessed with persimmon trees, now i have 3 😅. Thanks for your fig videos too! I now have 4 fig veritys because of your amazingly informative videos! may the garden gods bless your harvest for many years! And thanks again for making these videos ❤.
Lol me too I been trying go grow citrus tree and thought I couldn’t do it because I’m in zone 6 A or B but watching his channel proved me wrong. No im trying to do an order from McKenzie Farm but it’s hard to reach them. But I’m obsessed on getting citrus , persimmon and Meyer lemon
Outstanding! Glad to help contribute to a healthy addiction! I'm adding 2 more persimmons, too. They just showed up in the mail. This is my favorite time of year. There's so many possibilities. I used to get really depressed entering Fall and Winter, but now with all these fruit trees, there's always something in season to be excited about and it's changed my perspective on life.
Wow, MG! Great selection of delish fruit!👍Super idea to plant the food forest on the border of your property.👍 You certainly make great use of every bit of your land.
Dale's stripes are so cool! He's so beautiful!🐕💕
Thanks! I'll be interesting to see once it's all finally finished. Although I can't truly commit to ever stopping. I'll probably keep finding spots to stick new trees. Dale is a very handsome boy. He's filled out nicely since we adopted him. I wish I looked that good 😂
Love watching your videos. I learn so much from you. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼
I set aside about 1/2 acre for my food forest. I started out planning for about 30 trees, now I’m up to 45.
Excellent work!
Smart man’ I like that style of gardening. And yes, buying dozens at a time is the way to go. I’ve done something similar
The best time is always 10 years ago. The sooner you can get them in, the better!
I really appreciate the step by step approach. I’m hoping to get some fruit trees in this spring when the ground here thaws and this is super helpful.
Please be sure to order NOW! Bare root tree sales are coming to an end. You really need to place your orders in November/December. In a couple weeks, sales will halt, because they break dormancy at that point. Please consult this video for a full list of where I order trees (timestamped in the chapters): th-cam.com/video/VPxfnDXYxUs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8PVKLkZIh5Qzi8q0
Four Winds Growers is clearing our their stock currently and have a coupon code on their site. In another 2-3 weeks, they'll be gone.
I love your videos and this one was right on time. You are a very good and accurate teacher. And yes your yard is big.
Thank you! I wish I could agree that a quarter acre is big. The funny thing about space is no matter what you have, you always wish there was more of it. You could give me 20 acres and it would feel small after awhile.
Those are great border blocks. I use the same and they are easy to install and look great. 👍
You must be an engineer! Very impressive.
Yes, I'm an EE that practices in the civil discipline. Everything boils down to design and sticking to the design.
Nice job as usual! I'm inspired by your overall plan and attention to detail!
Thank you! Space efficiency is everything in a typical suburban yard. The closer you go, the more you can grow. You just have to maintain the trees well.
I bought a dozen bare root fruit trees this year for £6 each (about ~$7.50) and might even buy a dozen more.
I can't wait to see if they fruit just as much as the fruit trees I paid £45 and I'll be buying dozens of them in future years!
Excited to see what avocado tree you go with. Just finished grafting a couple of my little ones with the bacon variety
🥓 🥑
So am I. I'm anxiously checking stock daily. Nothing happening, yet. I hope they have plenty of grafts for what I want...
@@TheMillennialGardenerWhich one are you looking to get?
Very nice! it inspires me to really take the time to well measure and design my garden. It looks so beautiful when it's carefully done! I'm looking forward to see everything thriving in that garden! 😄
Excellent tutorial. I learn so much from you! Thank you.
Nice I'm doing a small fruit garden between my driveway and property line. I have 2 L shaped raised beds which will hose 3 raspberry plants each, inside the raised area will be strawberries and blueberries in ground. Then a trellis for 1 to 2 passion fruit vines. And then a plum and mandarin orange flanking both sides.
Then I'm installing a weeping plum tree in the front yard for fruit and ornamental purposes, and putting a few different figs in containers. The goal for the figs is to plant 2 in the front yard and train them to be more bushy. I figure the live tissue plants will work out well for that purpose.
Sweet video, I’m getting so excited about planting all my fruit trees this year. I’ve just ordered two yuzu cold hardy citrus trees. Super excited and nervous to get them in the ground when they arrive.
Popping seeds to graft onto. 🎉🎉 happy season and harvest 🎉
Amazing information. All the videos are great, but this one is just remarkable for anyone wanting to get into fruit trees. Instead of digging up my lawn, I am going to plant fruit trees along the fence just like the video shows.
I enjoyed this video and learned a lot. Thanks for the information. Look forward to your next video.
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
I just got a plum tree for a large pot but now considering putting it in the ground, also more intrigued to replace some small palm trees I have in the backyard with fruit trees 😮
Great tutorial! Thank you for sharing!
This should be spread to everybody
Thank you for another well explained tutorial. You inspire and equip others to make the most of their small yards with smart designs that won’t likely upset HOA or city ordinances. Many, many thanks for your easy-to-follow instructions that don’t leave out important details.😁
Another really educational video. Learning so much from your videos. Gives me lots of ideas. Thanks for sharing.
Hi. Thank you for this video. I have bought 2 trees: apple and peach. I also watched your pruning videos. I bought dwarf trees and multiple varieties on the trees itself. When pruning the trees, I am hoping I will figure it out to do it right about the multiple varieties.. thank you for your videos. Have a great day! 🌻
Wilmington NC is a great place to garden. I’m in an HOA but I put in a pool, so I can have a small farm. It’s fun for my future retirement!
Amazing! Gonna be doing this in our garden here in Portugal.
Your climate is a dream for fruit trees. You can grow a Garden of Eden.
@@TheMillennialGardener We found a small piece of land that might just do the trick! Once we get started (may still be a while) we'll send you some pics. :) kindest regards.
Thank you for the great video MG😊👍👍
You’re welcome!
Tractor Supply has fruit trees out now. They actually have a good selection this year.
Those trees r often very generic varieties that may not have the rootstock for ur area. Plus most a standard full size at maturity.
@beverlyboyce1041 I check them, they are legit this year.
18:38 Placing the stake in the ground before the tree is a really good idea (wish I had heard that earlier) - prevents damaging the roots, helps to position the tree when planting, and makes it easier to get the correct planting depth
Lovely! Also here in NC - I and some friends have had vole damage in the past to new tree roots. I've started to use vole-bloc (sharp stones) mixed in when planting new trees to help protect roots. Some options are available right here in NC...
Thanks so much for making this video.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
I recently learned a lot about planting a tree, as I have planted 8 trees. The planting hole shape does not matter. Think about how people want to shape the fruit to what they wanted; they put a cover/box to make the shape the same as the root. Now, the most essential thing about a plant tree, or any fruit tree, is the depth of the hole, the quality of the soil, or your original soil, and how deep you plant your tree. Sure, the insert control, etc. The usual depth of the fruit tree root is 2ft, and if your original soil quality is terrible, consider digging a deep hole and changing the whole soil in the hole. For fruit trees like jujube, the root system is even deeper than the usual fruit trees, but a 2ft hole is deep enough. The skill is called white lily, or white ellen something. The quality of the soil is also important as well. If you plant a blueberry, acidity-lover tree, you may want to modify the soil slightly. Now, one last thing about plant trees is the depth of the trunk. The "pencil" style is not good. The flare should be easily exposed to the surface of the soil line, meaning don't plant your fruit tree too deep. You may cover the tree with manure, mulch, etc. Tree roots need air.
Alright,,,, I just bout 2 jujuie trees. I live in a rv park in north Texas. I work here plus on aircraft sometimes. I'm turning part of this park into a food forest. I'm 65. My last gasp at life,lol.
Everything we plant will be here when we're gone. It's a way of leaving a little piece of us behind. By the time I quit, I hope to have a thousand offspring growing all over the place 😂
Well done…that will be wonderful
Love watching the videos of how you plant new trees and lay them out. I have four fruit trees arriving within a month and I'll be doing the same thing as you. Very helpful to see what you do with your bare root trees as my peach tree will be coming in that form. In your greens/veggie garden area, I noticed you had these brackets holding up wires around it. Is that an electric cable to power some stuff or something else? Thanks again for the great vid.
Vinyl expanding tape.... Aka. "Marker tape" used for marking trails, and in land surveying.
This was really fun to watch! I feel inspired by your creative ideas. I have a few questions though... One is, what benefits do you anticipate having in a future homestead planting space and why do you say you'd do it differently if you had more space? Second is, do you espalier all or only some of your fence-lined tress, and if only some, what goes into your decision on which are and aren't espaliered? Third is, do you think it's preferable to plant in the spring or the fall? I know a lot of trees go on sale in the fall, but I see that despite mentioning the expense, you are mail-ordering and planting in the spring. Fourth, I've always read to space even dwarf and semi-dwarf trees 10' apart; why do you space only 6'? If you were to do another row of trees, would you place the second row only 6' away as well? Thanks!
I'm jealous of your space! Our entire lot is .18 acre for the house, garage, driveway, sidewalk, my chicken pen and coop and my garden area! Most of my garden is either raised beds or hydroponics but I do hope to get one of your Meyer lemons and/or Owari Satsumas this spring. Want to plan that trip to visit Stan the Citrus Man and see his setup. It looks amazing just from the videos but don't know if I can walk the entire area. Thanks for all the videos. You are an inspiration and I gauge much of what I can grow weatherwise according to what you grow. I'm a novice but I'm trying (not bad for an old geezer who didn't start this until her 70s!
That's not that much smaller than mine. It's about 60% of the size. If you follow my design and I'm able to fit 60 trees around my plot's perimeter, I would think you could fit around 36 trees if you do the math...give or take. That's still a pretty good haul, and obviously, if you expand to more than the perimeter property line, more can fit.
Whether you can walk Stan's farm will probably be based on how busy he is. If you go visit on a Saturday during this time of year, he'll probably be busy since this is when people buy fruit trees. Going on a weekday is probably slower, but you never know. He has a lot of new greenhouses full of stuff now.
@@TheMillennialGardener Hoping to visit Stan during the week (an advantage of being retired)! The space I gave you is the entire backyard area except the chicken pen and coop. I also have 12 raised beds out there, 11 of which are 1-1 1/2 feet off either the house or the fence. I also have 2 rain barrels out there (thanks for you YT on the downspout diverter). I will likely start my fruit trees in grow bags. I do have 20 feet of 6” gutter on the fence that has herbs planted in it and have ordered some bag planters to put some strawberries on the fence as well. I have 3 kiddie pools in the corners that are “compost bins”. I raid the chicken shavings every couple of months to “feed” my compost pools!
I like your square hole story! That's awesome! You know, back in the day, the wasnt a lot of printable info about things people just knew. 9 times outta ten it was word of mouth. Just knowledge gained from people who lived in a community and just knew the ways of the land.
I'm willing to bet that it was true in certain areas, especially in the "old country" where the soil was rocky and heavy and roots struggled to spread out well. I doubt in my Carolina beach sand soil the hole shape matters much, but you're digging the hole anyway, so why not square it up?
@@TheMillennialGardener it would be an interesting experiment!
Thank you very much for all the information , Sir. Love from Sri Lanka.
Thanks for watching! I appreciate it!
Dale puts a smile on my face. He’s such a good boy! Nice backyard. I planted 9 fruit trees last year in the backyard. We have 2 apples, 2 plums, 2 cherries and 3 peach trees mostly reachables or dwarf. I planted some in big pots to have more fruits. I hope they all will give us a good harvest this year or in the future. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Life is good! ❤️🙏
Great video, thanks for sharing it. I'm up to 28 fruit and 9 citrus so far and will need to espalier if I want anymore at this point.
Great video, I love planting fruit trees
Thank you! It's very rewarding to plant something new.
As usual, I love your videos! Even though I am in 6b with less than 2000 sq. Ft of grow-space, I make it work!
thanks a lot for all your hard work :)
You're welcome!
It might be worth mentioning that a soil analysis can save you a lot of headache later. They often will tell you what amendments to add and in what quantities. It is more difficult to get micronutrients into the soil after the planting.
Natural lump charcoal is a great soil ammendment for very sandy soils. It is refered to as terra preta and helps to hold nutrients and water in the soil without encouraging rot.
If you have clay soil and relatively flat ground, it helps to make your raised bed significantly higher.
Great advice!
Awesome work
Thank you!
Great tutorial
You're so clear in your instructions. Thank you.
I've had so many fruit trees die in my soil that I've become a little paranoid about planting them, lol. I have had some success the last few years with a plum, peach, almond and mulberry. I've got a couple of low chill cherries I'm going to try (for the third time) this year. They're in pots for now and are doing well.
I've also bought a couple of dwarf peaches that I'm going to plant into an IBC tote that was cut in half for me. Another fun new experiment! Any suggestions what to plant in the same container with them?
Thank you so much for all this information!!!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
@TheMillennialGardener so I've spent several days researching trees - I'm stuck. Where should I get my trees with good root stock? I'm lost! I'm in South Charlotte with lots of red clay. The tree sites I'm finding are saying it will take 7-10 years to fruit! I'd like to start now so as not to waste time, but I'm overwhelmed with what yo purchase. What supplier do you recommend where I can get mature grafted trees that are dwarf? Thanks ahead of time for your time! ❤
this works for me in zone 9a.... after germinating my seeds in doors , and after transplanting them into larger pots 3by3 for 'the most part' I move them out doors into my cold frame,, ' I made my cold frame large enough to accommodate for an oil lamp or candles for cooler nights say 32 degrees i ve been using this method for years and ever have lost a transplant. I have never seen any other gardeners doing this on you tube...
You make growing trees look so easy. The problem I have is that I have a sprinkler system and am afraid to dig in my yard too much. Do you think trees will do well in raised beds?
Go Dale!
Love it bro! keep up the good work.
Thank you!
Thank you for another good and informative video.
You're welcome!
It's the What's growing on that keeps us coming back.
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
If this doesn’t convince people of the possibilities then I don’t know what will. Nicely done. I have 5 times the space and only 36 trees. I’ve got some catching up to do. I’ve recently started yanking up landscape trees and shrubs and replacing them with fruit trees. Two crepe Myrtle are now two Gold Nugget Manderines and a row of Ligustrum will soon be a hedge of dwarf mulberry.
I hope you're correct. My goal is to convince as many people to grow food as possible. Every house has some amount of landscaping around it - why not make it edible? Even if you have a small yard, it's incredible what you can fit if you're willing to prune everything back annually.
Did you say you were a engineer you could be a architect as well as you have everything layed out awesome
Yes, I'm an engineer. EE degree, but I practice civil, so I have a lot of cross-discipline training. It's really messy in my brain 😆
Excellent video Boss. If you fail to plan... You plan to fail.... Howdy from Texas 🤠
Exactly. The best garden begins in design. Stick to the plan!
Have looked into Goumi Berry bushes? They are nitrogen fixers, disease & pest resistant, and look great in the front yard(HOA friendly). Also, look into Autumn Brilliance Service berry. These look great in the front yard as well. Cheers!
I haven't tasted the fruit, so I haven't really considered them. I've mostly planted out the landscaping around my house at this point.
Thank you so much for this very informative and encouraging video this is excellent 🎉❤. We have 1 acre and I wanting this design too. So I have more room for our garden and our meat animals.
Good gracious, whomever buys this property after you is in for a treat! Tons of work getting established, and when you leave someone else will have a real treasure!!
One of my fears is that they won't "get it" and cut it down. I sure hope whoever inherits this one day understands the true value of what they'll have.
Great video - I just planted my first two saplings and plan on doing a few more similar to how you’ve done it around your fence. What direction does this line of trees face?
My yard is even smaller than yours. About a quarter of yours, and I have 2 plum trees, 1 peach tree, 5 blueberry trees, like 25 REAL wild raspberry plants with thorns, 2 store bought raspberry plants without thorns and a 5 in 1 apple tree. And a mini garden.
I have 14 fruit trees in pots and another 30 id like to get this year but itll probably be spread out between this year and next year because its over 2k in trees. Were on a 1/4 acre and we just closed on it in december. So although i plan to add a few trees in ground im going to keep most of them in pots till we get our forever house in the next 2 to 3 years. I buy all my trees as small as i can because i get them cheaper and they will fit in their pots for longer before getting too big. I purchased 2 fig starts that were maybe 2 inches tall. Spring 2023 i wasnt even sure they were alive they looked like 2 tiny sticks stuck in their pots. But they are alive and more than doubled in size before going dormant again. I have grape vines that look like small dead twigs as well lol but everything has tiny little buds on it so im pretty confident in it all. I also have a ton of raspberries blackberries blueberries and other fruiting plants in pots. They line all of our yard space. Also trying to talk my partner into letting me gut the front yard for more garden and tree space. Theres a large ornamental tree that was heavily neglected prior to us being here to the point we might have to remove it or at least cut it way back so it can grow back better and some grass that has been completely shaded out by the tree it needs a bunch of work to look appealing again and if i already have to put work in id rather put it into a useful growing space rather than unused basic lawn.
I love your videos! Ive got an orchard now too, but this is yr 3. Hope fruit comes this yr. None so far. Im going to run out and make sure my mulch isnt covering the grafts tho!!! Good learning video as always.
Interesting. Year 3 is often "the year" for a light harvest if you don't get too greedy. Exceptions are pawpaw's. Boy, do they take forever. I'm in Year 4 and I'm *finally* seeing flowers. They're like watching molasses flow uphill. If your trees fruit, don't let them over-fruit, or you may throw them into an alternate bearing cycle and get little to nothing the next year.
Im on .5 acre and I have almost 50...4 more on the way!...I love growing fruit trees more than vegetables..lol
Outstanding work! Fruit trees are certainly a lot easier. You only have to plant them once.
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