I found sage to be great for attracting bees in spring. And oregano for attracting bees in summer. I use them fresh or dried in my cooking, and I find their flowers really ornamental. They smell good, pollinators was love them, and they are pest free and disease free. Thyme is also good as a ground cover under grapes.
A useful bush/tree I would always put in is a nice culinary Bay tree. It's more like a bush but can grow tall if allowed to. Fresh bay is so good. Slightly lemony and with a warm woody scent. Also some fragrant fresh lavender. The grosso type has such a lovely scent.
Hibiscus trees...leaves are good for salads and flowers good for tea. May die back in winter unless in a green house. Pineapples you can grow in a pot and take in each winter..will still bear fruit.
Ur videos r really awesome. I really like to see ur videos again and again. I also love to grow my vagatables and fruits..... It's organic and so satisfying. This year I grow strawberries for the first time. Love ur tips... And also tried.
I couldn't believe how nicely that fresh strawberries smelled, when I visited an allotment, recently. I'm about 6ft and I could really smell them from just walking past! The difference between fresh, and shop bought strawberries is vast. There's nothing like fresh strawberries. I'm surprised that the birds haven't stolen yours though.
I won't mind seeing some dragon fruit and/or passion fruits. Watermelons, some brazil nuts and cashews are always welcome in my book. Last but not least, I HARDLY EVER see quinoa seeds planted.
Howdy James, I was happy to get a response from you last video! TH-cam really has helped connect permaculturalists all across the country/world. Please plant a couple Redbud trees in the new food forest, I promise you won't be disappointed. Justin Rhodes visited Stefan Sobkowiak's permaculture orchard and he plants nitrogen fixers and some nuts between his fruit trees, including Redbud. Stefan has a channel now too, you should check it out. Has some pretty inspirational things happening in his orchard. I still like your food forest more though! :D
okra, eggplants, melons! love the channel and thank you for asking for our feedback. so refreshing to have someone whos giving advice to occasionally ask for ours. God Bless
At first i thought you were a little out there, But after watching your videos, you make me want to try and start my own food forest. You have inspired me to get my butt outdoors and plant some stuff :)
Haha, I can’t blame you for initially thinking I’m a big crazy lol. But nothing makes me happier then hearing you are taking action and getting planting. Let’s Gooooooo!!!
Grow okra! It is really good raw or sliced up and seared in a hot pan. Eaten raw or fried on each side will both avoid the mucilage. Okra plants produce so much food! They will keep producing til frost if you cut them back when they get tall. They require little water, little car. They have beautiful flowers and the bugs leave them alone for the most part.
Growing up, my mother tried to fry okra and it was a gelatinous mess. She never made it again. Then I had okra in a soup and it was delicious! I also learned a dish or two watching Justin Wilson on PBS. Hoowee! I guarantee! I haven't plucked up the courage to grow it yet. Can it be canned?
I've been buying different harvesting time peaches, blueberries, ECT.. To get fruit a different times but never did I think bad harvest for one might be a good harvest for another...thanks for that tip
Cranberries! Ground cover perennial. Also there are a few perennial veggies like sunchokes and tree kale. You might also be able to grow cold hardy artichokes. They are a challenge in this zone.
I would try the moringa tree as a growth stimulant for other plants, chop and drop and also for the extremely nutrient dense edible leaves that grow on the tree. I used to grow it in Florida and it did extremely well year round their since the tree is indigenous to Africa and India. I am in Tennessee now it seems to do well here. You could start it indoors early on by a heat source and then once it’s in the 80’s plant it in your food forest. Definitely check it out, gram for gram the leaves hold an enormous amount of nutrition.
I had a bunch of strawberry runners that were spreading into a shared dirt road. I just let them root and then dug them up and planted in a new bed. Now those plants are spreading nicely and forming a ground cover on the new bed. Also, you might want to look into planting miners lettuce under your trees. Great self-seeding annual green that loves to grow in the shade. It is native to my area but grown throughout temperate regions as an easy shade loving salad green. I salvaged some plants from forests in my area but also got some seeds from Territorial Seed Company.
Actinidias as vines, few edible Loniceras as they give berries very early. Nasturitums (edible flowers), spinach, silverbeet anywhere, garlic, chives later under fruit trees. How about gooseberries? They should do very well in a mulched soil. Perrenial Rhubarbs are very popular in my home NEurope.
Would love to see more raspberries, blackberries, currants, elderberry, and lots of medicinal plants and other herbs like thyme, oregano, rosemary, and show us everything. I am wondering, can I grow the same types of fruit trees in central Ohio that you can grow in Jersey? I am moving just North-East of Columbus in late spring early summer and could use a lot of advice. Thanks for sharing with all of us. Blessings to you
Asparagus, rhubarb, herbs (perennials!), brussels sprouts, cabbage, corn, sweet potatoes (for roots and greens), and some conifer tree to light up during the holidays 😊
I love perennial herbs as an understory. I planted perennial sorrel which can be used in salads, smoothies and in cooking. On my wish list I have wild leeks (Allium tricoccum) and perennial spinach (Basel alba). I love this one seed company in my province that sell medicinal herb plants and seeds so I look out for neat greens that can diversify my kitchen experience. I love love the garden to kitchen to tummy experience :-) I also planted strawberries like you did. I bought my favourite varieties from a local nursery, picked the small plants out of a sandy soil mix. It took over two weeks until I had time to plant them so I grabbed a couple of 10 inch pots and some potting mix and planted 5-7 strawberry plants in those pots and kept them in full sun, well watered until I got to planting them. They are doing fabulous!
Off the top of my head and looking at the ideas below, what about a pollinator garden, bee hives, or I was even thinking of a sweet potato vine? Just some ideas.
Mache! Mild tasting green. It will often self sow. Mine survives zone 6b winters without cover and an escape chicken attack . Small plants. I just throw some in with some scrambled eggs or hash browns. Great raw with salads. Give it a try, I'm sure you'll like it. Great video once again.
Try planting sweet potatoes slips next spring. You'll get a nice harvest 4 or 5 months later as they like the hot weather. Patty pan squash is also nice and only takes 50 or 60 days to mature from seed. Okra is another hot weather lover. This is something different that I don't presently see in your garden.
Try some hazelnuts. They’re supposed to grow well under the bigger trees. There are supposedly some newer disease resistant varieties that grow in the east.
Are you familiar with wineberries? They are my favorite berry. I first encountered them in New Bedford, M. About 20 years ago. Now I'm in foothills/mountains of N C. They grow all over the place here. They are pretty too. Seem to be high in pectin too when I make jelly they set well...that means soft but no liquid! Delicioso!
I’m new to your channel but absolutely elated to have found it! Your content is incredibly inspirational. You make me believe I can truly turn our small grazing pasture into a small “food forest”. A little at a time, but totally achievable. Have you ever considered growing Actinidia arguta (I think you would call them hardy kiwis)? We call them Kiwi Berries, in Belgium, and there are plenty of delicious varieties to choose from: Ananasnaya, Bayern-kiwi, Geneva, Jumbo, Weiki en Ken’s Red. Because of you and the motivation I have from listening to you and seeing your successful food forest, kiwi berries are definitely on my plant list for the pasture.
HI James, I love your videos, educational, enthusiastic and entertaining. I think if you get some nasturtiums in amongst your greens and cole crops, they will act as an aphid trap and help you a bit. maybe ONE borage. Once you plant borage, be warned: you will have it forever, but the pollinators are mad crazy for it!
I love your strawberry forest. It's 11.19 PM here in Australia and I would like to jump out of bed and go outside to check my strawberries LOL Your videos are inpiring :)
James, how about focusing on only planting perennial vegetables, herbs and little known edible flowers this year, and more on Permaculture. Teaching us how to plant things under one another. Egyptian Walking Onions, Jerusalem Artichokes/Sunchokes, & show us how to grown in bottomless containers, submerged in the ground, to discourage having them take over your garden! You are an inspiration. Bless you.
When I grow sweet basil I would cut off half an inch of the new growth to encourage it to grow new leaves for bigger Harvest. Please note that if your sweet basil is trying to flower then it's much too late to try this method as when it's starts flowering then it stops growing
A little everyday and five months later I can't believe what it is looking like. The trees are small, but they are going strong. James you could do some nitrogen fixers. Maybe propagate some from the huge food forest.
Lady's Bedstraw. An herb that curdles milk in cheese making. A vegetarian alternative to rennet which does the same job but is some animal part, sheeps stomach? This herb also makes a fine yellow dye.
Blackberries in excess can be easily made into jam. In the '50s & '60s, a cherry plum tree produced about 200 lbs that ripened within a few weeks. Add frozen Myer's lemon juice (ripened in Jan. in Sacramento) to the pitted, mashed fruit = jam. If you need sugar, you're doing something wrong.
I still haven't gotten started. I had a tree company tell me they would drop off some wood chips, but they haven't come yet. I am thinking about renting a wood chipper and cleaning up around here. We have 5 acres and I know I can make a ton of my own wood chips. Just have to convince my husband to let me spread them around. He is a "naked" soil gardener. I would love to see some big blueberry bushes. I see some small ones, but I think they were in the old food forest. God bless you.
Another well done video James! I think I will check my strawberries in the am and do some work. Could you plant some borage, sunflower, dill, oregano etc? We have seven swallowtail butterflies in catapiller stage eating on a bird netted area of parsley! First time and looking forward to them hatching out. Keep up the great gardening tips my friend! There are over 80 kinds of pollinating bees so no need for hives, natural habitat. I used to have five hives and now support native pollinators which are better at it in my opinion. Keep growing!🌱
A few berries I've planted this year that I have high hopes for are gogi berry, silver berry, buffalo berry, and goose berry. If they grow in Utah I'll bet they do amazing any where else.
I would create a section for self sowing annuals, experiment to see what will self sow best and what you can establish like that? I have cilantro self sowing, it’s awesome 😎
It's time to start picking the blueberries. BUT... the birds have eaten them all. I love the birds. I don't mind sharing, BUT... did they have to eat them all? They did the same thing last year. I guess I need some netting?
for real :( ,try spraying the top and sides with cat piss, and cat fur tied to the branches at the top, and harvest early morning if you dont have money- i just looked for some bird netting at the store-waaaaaay to much
Same thing happened to me. I'm thinking of potting a few blueberries for my porch where I can keep a closer eye on them. I want at least a basket full each season. This year I got maybe 20. I'm going to let the blueberry patch in the field grow wild. Maybe if they get bushier the birds will save me some.
My neighbor used a trampoline frame and PVC along with netting to make a walk in blueberry forest. Looks funny in his yard, but he has loads of berries.
Hi James I love your videos and your passion for your food forest. I think you should try some green or pineapple tomatillos and some melons would be fun to see them grow around your new food forest.
Great upload. I like when other gardeners ask for suggestions. However, best if you can begin with noting what zone you live. I know you have snow from some of your videos, but the choices are extreme and in my personal garden, in spite of zone, I tend to push my limits with zone denial and micro zone plantings and even protection when absolutely necessary.
You never talked about having any aromatic herbs in your food forest. So If you don't have any, I think you should plant some; They'll certainly thrive in the food forest.
Hi James! Maybe you could plant some nitrogen fixers like Goumi and Siberian Pea Shrub. I think the Siberian Pea Shrub would work well in a sunny area, they make beautiful yellow pea flowers and you can eat the peas and pods. I don’t remember if you have either of these shrubs, so if not maybe you might like to try. Other than that I would just keep adding berries of all kinds. And maybe in that very sunny spot on the side of your house you could try some artichoke.😋
No problem! I'm building a food forest myself in Virginia. Also, I have a lot of family in Jersey, maybe I can come by sometime and volunteer for a day with you! Cheers! -Dave
Question on preparing cups for runners: do those plants need to get in the ground by this fall then they overwinter and begin to produce next spring and summer?
Hi James, I recently learned that several nut tree varieties grow in your zone. I live in as well in the Hudson Valley in NY not too far from Jersey. I planted some almond trees this spring in my new orchard at the homestead I am building on my channel, and I am thinking about adding hazelnuts. Maybe you want to give those a try? Do you have any paw paws growing there? That is another one on my list to get in next spring. Keep up the great work on your videos. Your enthusiasm and content are great!
Never heard of pruning tomato plants. Do you have a video on that? Also, what do you use to support your tomato plants/pepper plants to keep them from tipping over? Love your garden!
Love your videos - packed with info. How about trying some winter squash? I have some extra seeds I saved from a GIANT (6lb) butternut squash I got from an Amish Market in PA. I live 15 min from you in Bayville, I can drop them in the mail...
I found sage to be great for attracting bees in spring. And oregano for attracting bees in summer. I use them fresh or dried in my cooking, and I find their flowers really ornamental. They smell good, pollinators was love them, and they are pest free and disease free. Thyme is also good as a ground cover under grapes.
I love your videos. I learn sooo much and really enjoy the enthusiasm you have! Thanks so much. Pam in South Carolina 🤗
I highly recommend Goji Berries, easy to grow, purify the blood, beautiful purple flowers, propagate so easy from cuttings.
A useful bush/tree I would always put in is a nice culinary Bay tree. It's more like a bush but can grow tall if allowed to. Fresh bay is so good. Slightly lemony and with a warm woody scent. Also some fragrant fresh lavender. The grosso type has such a lovely scent.
Hibiscus trees...leaves are good for salads and flowers good for tea. May die back in winter unless in a green house. Pineapples you can grow in a pot and take in each winter..will still bear fruit.
It's what you do EVERY DAY that counts. Amen, brother
elderberries! We grow them as a medicine to use for tea, syrup, etc.
Ur videos r really awesome. I really like to see ur videos again and again. I also love to grow my vagatables and fruits..... It's organic and so satisfying. This year I grow strawberries for the first time. Love ur tips... And also tried.
I couldn't believe how nicely that fresh strawberries smelled, when I visited an allotment, recently.
I'm about 6ft and I could really smell them from just walking past!
The difference between fresh, and shop bought strawberries is vast. There's nothing like fresh strawberries. I'm surprised that the birds haven't stolen yours though.
I spotted Tuck.... he is SO CUTE Running around in the garden!
I won't mind seeing some dragon fruit and/or passion fruits. Watermelons, some brazil nuts and cashews are always welcome in my book. Last but not least, I HARDLY EVER see quinoa seeds planted.
Howdy James, I was happy to get a response from you last video! TH-cam really has helped connect permaculturalists all across the country/world. Please plant a couple Redbud trees in the new food forest, I promise you won't be disappointed. Justin Rhodes visited Stefan Sobkowiak's permaculture orchard and he plants nitrogen fixers and some nuts between his fruit trees, including Redbud. Stefan has a channel now too, you should check it out. Has some pretty inspirational things happening in his orchard. I still like your food forest more though! :D
okra, eggplants, melons! love the channel and thank you for asking for our feedback. so refreshing to have someone whos giving advice to occasionally ask for ours. God Bless
At first i thought you were a little out there, But after watching your videos, you make me want to try and start my own food forest. You have inspired me to get my butt outdoors and plant some stuff :)
Haha, I can’t blame you for initially thinking I’m a big crazy lol. But nothing makes me happier then hearing you are taking action and getting planting. Let’s Gooooooo!!!
Grow okra! It is really good raw or sliced up and seared in a hot pan. Eaten raw or fried on each side will both avoid the mucilage. Okra plants produce so much food! They will keep producing til frost if you cut them back when they get tall. They require little water, little car. They have beautiful flowers and the bugs leave them alone for the most part.
Georg Zimmer i think he mentioned in a video that even though he could grow ocra easily he just doesnt like the taste
Based on your enthusuastc info I just might try growing some. I try to be mostly raw foodist so good to know they don't have to be cooked.
ummm. okra is the best. i love the slimy texture. yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy
Growing up, my mother tried to fry okra and it was a gelatinous mess. She never made it again. Then I had okra in a soup and it was delicious! I also learned a dish or two watching Justin Wilson on PBS. Hoowee! I guarantee!
I haven't plucked up the courage to grow it yet. Can it be canned?
my mama grows like 1000 plants. for a market. i hate picking it but its sooo good. my favorite way is to saute it with some oyster sauce and soy sauce
I've been buying different harvesting time peaches, blueberries, ECT.. To get fruit a different times but never did I think bad harvest for one might be a good harvest for another...thanks for that tip
Cranberries! Ground cover perennial. Also there are a few perennial veggies like sunchokes and tree kale. You might also be able to grow cold hardy artichokes. They are a challenge in this zone.
Get a rainier cherry tree for sure and a nectarine tree
I would try the moringa tree as a growth stimulant for other plants, chop and drop and also for the extremely nutrient dense edible leaves that grow on the tree. I used to grow it in Florida and it did extremely well year round their since the tree is indigenous to Africa and India. I am in Tennessee now it seems to do well here. You could start it indoors early on by a heat source and then once it’s in the 80’s plant it in your food forest. Definitely check it out, gram for gram the leaves hold an enormous amount of nutrition.
You should definitely make a video that gives tips on spacing and intensive tree planting!
That’s a great idea! 💡
Thanks Steven 👌
Really cool video. It's great to show people how to grow strawberries from runners.
I had a bunch of strawberry runners that were spreading into a shared dirt road. I just let them root and then dug them up and planted in a new bed. Now those plants are spreading nicely and forming a ground cover on the new bed.
Also, you might want to look into planting miners lettuce under your trees. Great self-seeding annual green that loves to grow in the shade. It is native to my area but grown throughout temperate regions as an easy shade loving salad green. I salvaged some plants from forests in my area but also got some seeds from Territorial Seed Company.
Thanks for the info.
Actinidias as vines, few edible Loniceras as they give berries very early. Nasturitums (edible flowers), spinach, silverbeet anywhere, garlic, chives later under fruit trees. How about gooseberries? They should do very well in a mulched soil. Perrenial Rhubarbs are very popular in my home NEurope.
Would love to see more raspberries, blackberries, currants, elderberry, and lots of medicinal plants and other herbs like thyme, oregano, rosemary, and show us everything. I am wondering, can I grow the same types of fruit trees in central Ohio that you can grow in Jersey? I am moving just North-East of Columbus in late spring early summer and could use a lot of advice. Thanks for sharing with all of us. Blessings to you
Love it. Inspirational but also it spikes my own ambition.
Suggestion - loquat tree. Its an evergreen too.
Glad to hear that Melanie!
I will look into one, thanks for the suggestion ❤️👍
Asparagus, rhubarb, herbs (perennials!), brussels sprouts, cabbage, corn, sweet potatoes (for roots and greens), and some conifer tree to light up during the holidays 😊
I love perennial herbs as an understory. I planted perennial sorrel which can be used in salads, smoothies and in cooking. On my wish list I have wild leeks (Allium tricoccum) and perennial spinach (Basel alba). I love this one seed company in my province that sell medicinal herb plants and seeds so I look out for neat greens that can diversify my kitchen experience. I love love the garden to kitchen to tummy experience :-) I also planted strawberries like you did. I bought my favourite varieties from a local nursery, picked the small plants out of a sandy soil mix. It took over two weeks until I had time to plant them so I grabbed a couple of 10 inch pots and some potting mix and planted 5-7 strawberry plants in those pots and kept them in full sun, well watered until I got to planting them. They are doing fabulous!
Off the top of my head and looking at the ideas below, what about a pollinator garden, bee hives, or I was even thinking of a sweet potato vine? Just some ideas.
I’m a newbie and I wanna say you got me excited to start growing. You are a great instructor! Keep up the great content!
Mache! Mild tasting green. It will often self sow. Mine survives zone 6b winters without cover and an escape chicken attack . Small plants. I just throw some in with some scrambled eggs or hash browns. Great raw with salads. Give it a try, I'm sure you'll like it. Great video once again.
Try planting sweet potatoes slips next spring. You'll get a nice harvest 4 or 5 months later as they like the hot weather. Patty pan squash is also nice and only takes 50 or 60 days to mature from seed. Okra is another hot weather lover. This is something different that I don't presently see in your garden.
Try some hazelnuts. They’re supposed to grow well under the bigger trees. There are supposedly some newer disease resistant varieties that grow in the east.
Great video James, exciting days ahead, love from Ireland, God bless brother
Are you familiar with wineberries? They are my favorite berry. I first encountered them in New Bedford, M. About 20 years ago. Now I'm in foothills/mountains of N C. They grow all over the place here. They are pretty too. Seem to be high in pectin too when I make jelly they set well...that means soft but no liquid! Delicioso!
I’m new to your channel but absolutely elated to have found it! Your content is incredibly inspirational. You make me believe I can truly turn our small grazing pasture into a small “food forest”. A little at a time, but totally achievable. Have you ever considered growing Actinidia arguta (I think you would call them hardy kiwis)? We call them Kiwi Berries, in Belgium, and there are plenty of delicious varieties to choose from:
Ananasnaya, Bayern-kiwi, Geneva, Jumbo, Weiki en Ken’s Red. Because of you and the motivation I have from listening to you and seeing your successful food forest, kiwi berries are definitely on my plant list for the pasture.
HI James, I love your videos, educational, enthusiastic and entertaining. I think if you get some nasturtiums in amongst your greens and cole crops, they will act as an aphid trap and help you a bit. maybe ONE borage. Once you plant borage, be warned: you will have it forever, but the pollinators are mad crazy for it!
wow man, all your videos are soo cool and educational....thanks for sharing !!!
Your welcome Cavan!! I’m glad you enjoy them my friend 😁
Cool is the right word.
Your videos are very informative and inspiring. 💝💝💝 💘
goji berries and figs I have 4 fig trees now and one is huge, about 12 feet tall and 12 feet wide
I love your strawberry forest. It's 11.19 PM here in Australia and I would like to jump out of bed and go outside to check my strawberries LOL Your videos are inpiring :)
It’d be dope to see some perineal spinach or cranberry hibiscus and if possible tree collards if they can handle your winters
YOU HAVE AN EXCELLENT GREEN THUMB
Thank you my friend 😁👍
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James, how about focusing on only planting perennial vegetables, herbs and little known edible flowers this year, and more on Permaculture. Teaching us how to plant things under one another. Egyptian Walking Onions, Jerusalem Artichokes/Sunchokes, & show us how to grown in bottomless containers, submerged in the ground, to discourage having them take over your garden! You are an inspiration. Bless you.
you should plant some giant sunflowers, i'm curious how large they would get in woodchips...
When I grow sweet basil I would cut off half an inch of the new growth to encourage it to grow new leaves for bigger Harvest. Please note that if your sweet basil is trying to flower then it's much too late to try this method as when it's starts flowering then it stops growing
A little everyday and five months later I can't believe what it is looking like. The trees are small, but they are going strong. James you could do some nitrogen fixers. Maybe propagate some from the huge food forest.
Lady's Bedstraw. An herb that curdles milk in cheese making. A vegetarian alternative to rennet which does the same job but is some animal part, sheeps stomach? This herb also makes a fine yellow dye.
Blackberries in excess can be easily made into jam. In the '50s & '60s, a cherry plum tree produced about 200 lbs that ripened within a few weeks. Add frozen Myer's lemon juice (ripened in Jan. in Sacramento) to the pitted, mashed fruit = jam. If you need sugar, you're doing something wrong.
Im a big fun of your berries!
I still haven't gotten started. I had a tree company tell me they would drop off some wood chips, but they haven't come yet. I am thinking about renting a wood chipper and cleaning up around here. We have 5 acres and I know I can make a ton of my own wood chips. Just have to convince my husband to let me spread them around. He is a "naked" soil gardener.
I would love to see some big blueberry bushes. I see some small ones, but I think they were in the old food forest.
God bless you.
How far along are you now, Traddy Mom?
Awesome man!!! Beard is coming in well too. 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Thank you so much. Now I can move my plants in other areas of my garden. I wish I knew the variety of strawberries I have.
Another well done video James! I think I will check my strawberries in the am and do some work. Could you plant some borage, sunflower, dill, oregano etc? We have seven swallowtail butterflies in catapiller stage eating on a bird netted area of parsley! First time and looking forward to them hatching out. Keep up the great gardening tips my friend! There are over 80 kinds of pollinating bees so no need for hives, natural habitat. I used to have five hives and now support native pollinators which are better at it in my opinion. Keep growing!🌱
Hi James, you should try planting a sea berry, they grow well in sandy soil and fix nitrogen. They do need full sun though.
A few berries I've planted this year that I have high hopes for are gogi berry, silver berry, buffalo berry, and goose berry. If they grow in Utah I'll bet they do amazing any where else.
Jeremy Hill , do you think I can grow berries in south Texas?
And can I grow strawberries in full sun in very hot climate?
Bertha Perales, I'd say any of the berries I listed will do fine, Utah is arid in the summer and cold in winter, they are super hardy.
I would create a section for self sowing annuals, experiment to see what will self sow best and what you can establish like that? I have cilantro self sowing, it’s awesome 😎
In your thumbnail you have a pic of sliced strawberries to propagate? how about growing carrots, radishes, onions, goji berries, pomegranates!
It's time to start picking the blueberries. BUT... the birds have eaten them all. I love the birds. I don't mind sharing, BUT... did they have to eat them all? They did the same thing last year. I guess I need some netting?
for real :( ,try spraying the top and sides with cat piss, and cat fur tied to the branches at the top, and harvest early morning if you dont have money- i just looked for some bird netting at the store-waaaaaay to much
Same thing happened to me. I'm thinking of potting a few blueberries for my porch where I can keep a closer eye on them. I want at least a basket full each season. This year I got maybe 20. I'm going to let the blueberry patch in the field grow wild. Maybe if they get bushier the birds will save me some.
My neighbor used a trampoline frame and PVC along with netting to make a walk in blueberry forest. Looks funny in his yard, but he has loads of berries.
SandiRose27 definitely need netting
luke smith where on Earth do you get cat pee and cat fur????
Hi James. Wish you a happy summer. I always love to get the notification in `my` middle of the night.
Oh !I love strawberries😄🍓🍓🍓🍓
Me too Crystal!! I can never get enough 😂😋
I can’t wait to do all of this
It’s fun. Your smart to use this time to learn from others though. That will definitely help you once you get the chance. Then big things
amazing strawberries and forest
Thanks bro, I appreciate the encouragement Ben Majin, it means a lot 😁👍
I have blackberries and musket dines along with my Strawberries!
Me encanta tu huerto 🍅🍏🍓🥬🍏🍏🍏🍐🍋🍊🍈🍓🍇🥭
Pawpaw trees like some shade. Also hardy kiwi is my next planting. OKRA
Thanks I am making new ones for cups, but they are sure hard to keep alive with 100 chickens the see red and dinner as the same color
Fence your chickens out😳
Plants look really good,food forest is excellent
Thank you Simon 😁👍
Hi James I love your videos and your passion for your food forest. I think you should try some green or pineapple tomatillos and some melons would be fun to see them grow around your new food forest.
Great upload. I like when other gardeners ask for suggestions. However, best if you can begin with noting what zone you live. I know you have snow from some of your videos, but the choices are extreme and in my personal garden, in spite of zone, I tend to push my limits with zone denial and micro zone plantings and even protection when absolutely necessary.
Jujube tree, pomegranate, broccoli raab, figs.
Great ideas my friend!!! ❤️👍
great video! i might add strawberry plants to other parts of the garden rather having them in one patch.
Super Video.Danke!
Thanks bro 👊
Another great video James. I just keep learning 😊
Thanks Vicki!! Im so glad to hear you. I love sharing the videos and my experiences 😁👍
I would like to learn about growing potatoes and corn.
You never talked about having any aromatic herbs in your food forest. So If you don't have any, I think you should plant some; They'll certainly thrive in the food forest.
And yes James, you need a bee hive.
Get some more nut bushes or trees in great for protein and nutrients. Also peanuts or edamame beans
Great pro-tips, thanks for sharing, brother.
Your welcome Daniel, thanks for watching bro 👊😁
James got the best soil on the east coast!
Hi James! Maybe you could plant some nitrogen fixers like Goumi and Siberian Pea Shrub. I think the Siberian Pea Shrub would work well in a sunny area, they make beautiful yellow pea flowers and you can eat the peas and pods. I don’t remember if you have either of these shrubs, so if not maybe you might like to try. Other than that I would just keep adding berries of all kinds. And maybe in that very sunny spot on the side of your house you could try some artichoke.😋
Try jujubee and more persimmons!
chocolate persimmon looks cool, I have Nikita's Gift too!
Great ideas, thanks for the input 😁❤️
No problem! I'm building a food forest myself in Virginia. Also, I have a lot of family in Jersey, maybe I can come by sometime and volunteer for a day with you! Cheers! -Dave
So what do you do with your strawberry plants for winter do you cover them with the wood chips?
This is a really great video! And I love the philosophy. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it my friend. I appreciate the kind words
Would love to see the quick links from previous video highlighted so we can go back to reference videos missed.
I will have to add that in later today. Thanks Amy for the input, it is valued and appreciated 👌😁
Artichokes, different melons, and more herbs!
Ooooohh never though if artichokes, that’s a good idea Justin 💡
I would love to see you venture into a simple honey bee hive.
That would be fun, and I now own the property so I may have to do that
Congratulations! I know how huge that is.
Hell no way to dangerous
Question on preparing cups for runners: do those plants need to get in the ground by this fall then they overwinter and begin to produce next spring and summer?
James, great job! I recommend a couple different varieties of eggplant
Hardy kiwi and may pop passion fruit! Both are hardy plants
Do you get slugs and snails in your. Garden?
great video!!!!! ill be seeing you around james:)
Hi James, I recently learned that several nut tree varieties grow in your zone. I live in as well in the Hudson Valley in NY not too far from Jersey. I planted some almond trees this spring in my new orchard at the homestead I am building on my channel, and I am thinking about adding hazelnuts. Maybe you want to give those a try? Do you have any paw paws growing there? That is another one on my list to get in next spring. Keep up the great work on your videos. Your enthusiasm and content are great!
Hey my name is Ricky I will love some strawberry plants .I am form Jamaica
Never heard of pruning tomato plants. Do you have a video on that? Also, what do you use to support your tomato plants/pepper plants to keep them from tipping over? Love your garden!
You should look into fig and medlar tree's
Good ideas Riley! I have 2 figs in now, but none in the new food forest, and no medlars
Fig. Yumm
Love your videos - packed with info.
How about trying some winter squash? I have some extra seeds I saved from a GIANT (6lb) butternut squash I got from an Amish Market in PA. I live 15 min from you in Bayville, I can drop them in the mail...
Do you still have them?:)
Are you planting any peppers?
Dude put in a Pindo Palm! Its a palm that grows as low as zone 5 or 6 and puts out jelly fruits in clusters like dates.
You dont have a video about making compost tea right? Might be nice if you made one :)
Add some bee friendly plants and bee hives. Bzzz bzzz
That’s a good idea! Thanks Joe 😁
I was thinking that he needs bees.