Early Spring Garden Tour - Peach Trees and Bluebonnets
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2024
- Greetings, I hope you enjoy this Early Spring Garden Tour of my backyard garden here in Austin Texas (now) Zone 9a!
My peach trees and the fig tree in my backyard orchard have come out of dormancy, and they are doing great. It looks like we will be getting a good peach harvest this summer!
This fall and winter I haven't had much time to garden, so I'm working with a neglect garden, but it has still been fruitful!
My raised bed is 60 square feet (20'x3') and about 2 feet high, I'm planning on propagating some thornless blackberry in it this spring, and discussing general preparations for spring, and the future of the channel.
No intro on this shorter garden tour, as I'm trying to avoid a copyright issue.
Video Chapter Timestamps
0:00 Intro and Backyard Peach Orchard
8:39 Raised Bed
10:50 Bluebonnets
11:40 Closing Thoughts
Thanks again for watching Austin Texas Gardening!
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I am READY for fresh peaches from our own backyard!! 🍑🍑🍑
Exciting!
We just cut back our stone fruit and Florida prince peach trees down 30%- removing the leader to encourage an open center and cutting any branches that are damaged, disease or dead. Good luck this season!! Much love from Georgetown TX❤
Very cool! Nice hair by the way!
Shout-out to a fellow Manorian!
Howdy Neighbor
Congrats on the 2nd kid with your grad-school goals & a tech job. Amazing backyard-lawn but I think you should cover all of the backyard-grass with some soft playground-mulch as an excuse to expand the gardening-hobby. I think the public park standards is 12 inches of soft wood-mulch to reduce injuries to falling children. Is grass really needed in the back yard... plus a mounded mulch yard would heat up due to the biomass unlike a somewhat narrow raised-bed. I'm about to order 20 cubic yards of mulch this year for my dozen large plants.
I will try to email you photos of my damaged peach tree, the base can heal & the tree can still get huge. My scarring from cranker is quite insane. Hopefully I get fruit this year but my trees are behind yours still, IDK why.
Howdy Bob! Hope youre doing well man! I'm planning on doing some mulch around the trees just to give the roots a break from the summer heat, probably not the whole yard for now
Looking forward to seeing your tree, hope you get fruit this year! I'm honestly surprised with my Tex Prince tree that flowered early, I expected it to drop all the fruit in the winter cold but its pulled through
I've avoided weedwhacker incidents by maintaining a good mulch layer around my trees.
I remove all the grass and weeds from the whole area first, then lay down some overlapped cardboard (all stickers and tape removed) then lay down a thick layer of mulch on top of that. Keeps the weeds down to nearly nothing so there's really nothing to whack. Anything that does manage to grow is easily pulled. Plus the moisture retention and root protection.
I'm only 1 year in, but this year I'm going a step further too and protecting my young trees with some organic tree paint to protect from sunscald. Found a brand called IV Organics that also offers some protection against pests with the inclusion of natural plant oils like clove, cinnamon, and mint.
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This is a good suggestion, thanks for the info!
You could air layer the damaged tree and then just replant it.😊
Yes but it’s grafted, and I’d loose the rootstock
Great to see you on here! I live in Round Rock and brand new to gardening with raised beds and a fig tree. I have a question or two about my fig tree. It was given to me and I put it into a big round barrel. The leaves are all coming out but my question is, do I need to cut off any branches - it has one growing at the base of the tree and one that is really tall a little bit higher?
Most of my fig varieties freeze down to the soil. I just wait until after April 1st to remove any branches that will not be continuing to grow. I'm zone 9b. Waiting for warmer weather allows for faster healing. I dream of the perfectly ripe brown turkey fig but they're rare so far, IDK how to pick them perfect yet or the birds take them. I'm now waiting on a VDB tasting. The beers-black variety fermented too easily as it is full of sweet-jam. My Chicago Hardy figs are kinda too small to enjoy. The Celeste are amazing but too sweet IMO as the brown-turkey is less-sweet with more fig flavor. My White Marseillas is huge, triple the size of the other fig plants & it never freezes ever, it just keeps growing.
if you find any branches that dont grow at all by april/may, I wouldnt prune anything else until it is at least 2-3 feet tall/around
my first fig tree from the 2020/2021 videos (2 feet tall when I planted it) is nearly 5 feet tall now. I wont film of course because it is at my old house.
Would you be willing to do a video for beginner gardeners in the Austin area?
Did one some years back
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Might do an updated one