There is an epidemic in the United States: useless trees and bushes planted around homes and in yards taking up space, adding no value. We could be growing fruit trees, fruiting bushes and other edibles in those spaces! Instead of wasting space with ornamentals, we could be planting trees that are even more beautiful that will feed us and our families.
This video will teach you how to remove your worthless landscaping and replace it with something better! I explain why edible landscaping is superior, and I show you how I turned my yard into a beautiful food paradise that is even more eye catching than typical landscaping.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Why You Should Upgrade Your Landscaping!
2:15 My Replacement Tree And Where To Buy Trees
4:25 How To Prepare A Tree For Planting
5:05 How To Dig Up And Remove Trees
8:02 How To Plant A New Tree
11:14 Fruit Tree Progress After 7 Months
13:38 More Small Space Fruit Tree Ideas
15:49 Adventures With Dale
If you have any questions about how to grow more in less space, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and “how to” garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!
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0:00 Why You Should Upgrade Your Landscaping!
2:15 My Replacement Tree And Where To Buy Trees
4:25 How To Prepare A Tree For Planting
5:05 How To Dig Up And Remove Trees
8:02 How To Plant A New Tree
11:14 Fruit Tree Progress After 7 Months
13:38 More Small Space Fruit Tree Ideas
15:49 Adventures With Dale
Is it still early fall?
how do you get soil acidified enough that it doesn't kill your blueberries??? I have clay alkaline soil and I always put in new soil and larger than necessary holes… but they don't thrive. 🙁
You're AWESOME! <3
I also live in the southeast of North Carolina and I’m currently working on buying and planting a good variety of fruit trees, fruit bushes and a couple grape vines. I only have 0.59 acres so while I won’t have a huge variety I will still have a decent variety
I call it my “snack yard” bc everything in my backyard is edible.
I have recently brought 5 new dwarfs rootstock trees…. They known as patio trees here in the uk. I’m hoping to put them in the front garden that atm is just grass. I plan on strumming it then putting cardboard and wood chips around it. I just hope I can get help. Coz where I wanna do it I physically can’t. So I need to direct someone else to do it.
Got 2 apple a plum a pear and a cherry. All fruit producing trees. Just have to keep them alive. Lol
Great idea!
It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey😊🙏
Anything growing is not worthless if it’s producing oxygen. Not everyone wants to do the work required to grow a food garden and that’s okay.
I worked at a couple nurseries and lost a lot of respect for the general public because of how ignorant most people are in general plant care. This guy is recommending bare root trees which is not going to be beginner level experience and will most likely result in failure. You will want to quantify your videos with skill level to get more interest buddy.
Absolutely right!!!! Also consider valuable plants for pollinators!
So many have crabapple which look lovely, but then they never use the fruit. I love raiding the trees for hard cider, making liquor and jelly. Please don't tear out your crabapples!
I just ordered a dwarf orange tree and lemon tree. How are you all keeping yhem alive and healthy when growing in a grow bags?
Are there any food bushes that do well in shade?
Before I moved out to our 5 acres, I was in a 1/4 suburbs plot and got into gardening because we’d poured a concrete barrier around the inside of our backyard fence that made a 6-inch gap that I thought would make a perfect little garden bed. Most of the backyard was a giant pool, concrete surround, storage shed, drain field for French drains, but I started with flowers from Home Depot and ended up with tomatoes and watermelons grown from seeds trussed up over the fence! You can really do amazing stuff with a tiny space.
You are getting a lot of subscribers!! Congrats!
I like my ornamental landscaping for the shade, color and appeal. I don't need a backyard orchard or "fruit forest" when I know I can't eat all the fruit anyways. I have my three avocado trees, a star fruit, dwarf peach, two dwarf apple trees, dwarf palmer mango, an autaulfo mango tree, satsuma dwarf mandarin, raspberry bushes, generic seed grown mandarin and ice cream bamana. Thars all more than enough fruit for us. I'm also in the nothern California central valley. With our summers I want as many large shade trees as possible.
I am not a conspiracy guy but I feel like it has to be some sort of conspiracy to keep fruiting trees/shrubs at a minimum. I mean, why wouldn't there be more fruiting plants in yards or even forest in your town.
Just a tip, I bought a shovel that has sort of like sawblades in the sides that I bought to remove a rosebush from a families yard and it worked wonders for roots.
you are SO RIGHT
You ARE so correct. I hate boxwoods. 😝
I've been collecting plants to use to landscape my teeny .2 acre yard (apples, Catawba grapes, blueberries, blackberries, elderberry, strawberries) and now need to plant them. I love your espalier idea and interspersing with strawberries! Questions: 1) it looks like your fruit area by a fence isn't all that sunny. True? I have the same issue. 2) Would love some ideas re: ways to trellis blackberries and grapes. Maybe a future video? 3) your recos for Meyer Lemon and 2 lime plants – containers to avoid freezing temps or can they be planted? Your videos are so helpful – I'm also in NC Zone 8. Thanks!
Do you have septic lines? Do you suggest planting fruit trees around septic lines?
You are my brother by another mother!
15 years ago, I challenged the landscape architect associated with our home renovation to plant only useful vegetation: pollinators, fruit trees/fruit-bearing shrubs, or other vegetable/fruit beds. Then, I discovered your channel and have been growing only useful plants. There are so many “landscaping plants” that neither contribute to the ecosystem nor to the nourishment of my family. I don’t give them any of the valuable real estate in my yard.
This is the perfect YouTube video. I recently just pulled out five useless shrubs and it felt so good. It was a lot of work, but now I have room to plant something worthwhile and productive.
Gardening is like life- sometimes messy, sometimes hard, but always full of possibilities.
I share a raised bed community garden space. I want to plant a dwarf nectarine or peach tree in a pot. Can you suggest what species of fruit tree will works best in these conditions?
I’ve always had that idea about growing edible plants or fruit trees. But always thought the idea was out of norm. Thanks for promoting my point of view.
Your voice sounds like Flik from Disney's "A Bug's Life"
I would love a yard of crops. I live in the foothills where it gets a little tiny bit of snow sometimes in spring and very hot summers 100-110. The deer, rabbits and gophers are another crop buster. If you have any suggestions I’m all ears.
As the adage goes: "Best time to get a fruit tree was 7 years ago. The next best time is right now."
Raintree Nursery is a 2 1/2 hour scenic drive through the country side for me.
I was taught many decades ago that once you dig the hole, you put fertilizer at the bottom, cover it with some soil, and water the hole. Then you plant the tree at the correct height and do exactly as you explained. The reason for some fertilizer at the bottom is so the tree roots go downward for nutrition, growing a very stable tree. I would add that people need to know to remove any tags around the branches or trunks of the tree so that it doesn't grow around the tag. You can put the tag on the stake instead. I landscaped my front with perennials (I grew) plus some shrubs for winter interest and a chaste tree (the magnificent pine was kept). The back yard hosts my chicken coop, chicken run, tunnel and free range area, raised beds and in ground beds. I have a Comice pear, Red Fuji and Pink Lady apples (harvested 2 apples for the 1st time!), a Hardired nectarine, Rainier cherry (I have to replace my Utah Giant cherry), an All-in-One almond, and a pomegranate. I plan to also add an apricot. It's not difficult – you just have to want to do it! I have a small suburban lot.
If your house was built before the 90s, before you plant an edible plant, you may want to make sure the soil around your foundation doesn't contain Chlordane.
It was used in the past to prevent termites by putting it in the soil around the foundation.
I like the take you had here in this video. However I would say that I also enjoy flowering plants that don't fruit because I can't protect them. After the battle I had with birds/squirrels over my figs, I can't imagine ever getting any produce from anything I can't protect with a large fence. Deer, rabbits, squirrels, they would all gobble up the free fruit I'd provide. I've noticed that you have a nice fence around your property, but I think without some sort of deterrent, I'm not sure one would actually get any fruit for themselves. Even with your fence you had issues with possums and raccoons, but without it? Oof. I actually had to buy some metal spikes to attach to my fence to keep the squirrels from climbing my trellis to get over the fence.
I have many shrubs that grew like tall trees, they were put there as privacy shrubs , and there is no way in the world that we could dig up those roots. I am so bummed that I cannot do anything with that space. Yes I cut many of the trees down, but the big stems remain in the ground and you can actually see them. They are so large.
I’m recovering from surgery and I had to take a break from college. But it was a blessing in disguise. I asked myself why am I working? It’s so I can get money for food, water, clothing, and a house. But all of these needs are abundant and free in nature. Sadly my mother actively destroys my garden and blueberry bushes I planted, because she thinks it makes the backyard “ugly”. The older generations are truly brainwashed and pushing each generation to be more and more reliant on a slave system of exploitation.
Ok so I’m wondering about your peach espalier. My understanding is that peaches fruit only on 2nd year wood, thus the only way to train them to a flat structure is fan training, where you essentially replace the entire structure except a low y every year. Also that stone fruit should only be pruned in summer. My (Raintree) Redhaven peach is growing well but maintaining a fan is a LOT of work. Peaches are super abundant growers! If you have info about peaches as espaliers, I’d love to see it.
Nice presentation as always! We love Raintree!!!
Love your videos. Do you recommend a particular nursery for dwarf trees, for more of PNW area, but zone 6-7? Shipping Statewide is not a problem though unless you think it is. Thank you
I agree. Especially when the grocery store sells garlic with growth inhibitors, apples coated in wax, etc. That said, I can’t imagine a garden without some of my hardy palms, and water lilies in my pond!😊 Going to check out rain tree!
Here in Oklahoma, the builders surround your house with in-ground pesticide to kill termites. It lasts 10 years.
Doesn't that get taken up by any plantings against your house?
I have a mandarin tree on my patio. But my fruit is not turn yellow yet should I be worried
I like your thinking.
Love your videos and I look forward to seeing Dale.