Tragedy has struck the garden, and in this video, I share how I am going to recover from these losses. Due to weather events beyond my control, numerous fruit trees died and had to be removed, leaving big voids in my edible landscaping food forest. I discuss next steps, lessons learned, and how to avoid garden problems like these in the future.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 How My Fruit Trees Died
3:15 How I Am Rebuilding My Garden
5:23 Planting Trees In Poor Draining Soil
6:51 Lessons Learned
8:41 Importance Of Planting Diversity
11:20 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 How My Fruit Trees Died
3:15 How I Am Rebuilding My Garden
5:23 Planting Trees In Poor Draining Soil
6:51 Lessons Learned
8:41 Importance Of Planting Diversity
11:20 Adventures With Dale
I also learned this the hard way, i'm planting my trees in a big mount, it doesn't mater if it is too big, this has fix the issue for me
We don't practice until we get it right, we practice until we can't get it wrong.
Lost all my citrus trees to the blizzard 3 years ago and had to start over, the blizzard took out my protective coverings.
Both my persimmons died
I lost 2 apple tree
Great video. The thumbnail startled me because I thought you were talking about your orange and lemon trees. I lost my oldest peach tree this year. Bonus is there are several small babies coming up around it where peach pits fell previously. I also knew it was stressed and would soon be gone so I ordered 5 new bare root peach trees last March. Those are doing well and I cannot wait to see what they do the second year of planting. Next year I expect to have to do their shape pruning while they are young.
"Plant it high, so it won't die; plant it low and it won't grow." That's a quote from a friend.
Would love an update video on your giombo persimmons tree!!!
Bob Wells is an awesome nursery. I make the 90min drive just for their classes.
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I watched this video yesterday and fell in love with the statement that failure is the end result, so as long as you keep on going you haven´t failed. I talked about this with the kids at breakfast today. Keep on going and wish you success.
Where can I find the historical rain charts shown at 1:12 ? Thanks!
I am glad you did not lose more trees. I was worried maybe you lost all your citrus. Have a happy thanksgiving.
I've learned from losses to keep the root ball just above the surface of soil in my heavy clay and mulch over. Helps a bunch with waterlogged areas. I like to see mistakes and failures on YouTube to learn from them. Keep up the great content 🤙
Yes i really feel for you.
We have had real crazy weather this year too.
Topsy Turvey!
Here where we live in South Africa, we had very heavy snow, it is not normal in this town.
A lady told my husband, she has lived in this town for sixty three years, never in that time has it ever snowed. And to be so heavy.
I took videos and photos. The one wall by the washing line started to collapse from the weight of the heavy snow on the shade cloth.
They have had sleet but not snow. We have only been here 3 years come December.
The snow was so heavy that it destroyed our green house.
We were busy building another green house, the shade cloth was on the roof part. We were saving the money for the sides. The weight of the snow made it collapse too. 😭
Thank goodness the plants were ok.
So I understand your loss.
I love your amazing attitude.
I am not giving up, start again.
We have so much to be grateful for. We have had lovely crops of tomatoes, and this year the Zucchinis we are now havesting at present.
When we got here, there was only lawn. So we had to start from scratch.
Its very rewarding to get plants to fruit.
Still new to gardening.
Learning that the soil is the key to dense nutritional plants.
Thank you for sharing your video.
Love your dog Dale. He is such a lovely character.
I see how much you love him in that way you talk and play with him.
Much love from South Africa 🌍🇿🇦 🤗❤️🤗🌿💚🌿💚🌿
I'm so sorry. Your keep trying attitude is a great reminder to never give up. It's all a learning opportunity. Thanks!
Yes I agree 👍 I have learned a lot from my mistakes in the garden
Thanks for being honest. I've had many failures and learned a lot. Good recovery.
I live about an hour from Bob Wells and just love that place. Great people and nursery.
We finally got our first freeze night before last, it was supposed to be on October 30th but I asked God to not let it freeze yet so we didn't get it until Monday night/ Tuesday morning . Thankfully you didn't lose more than you did.
Here's one that you should really like probably more than your Owari Satsuma, Murcott(Heney) Tangerine, the are very sweet with a very nice flavor and they have a zipper skin like you like. You guys have an awesome Thanksgiving. .
Hello Millennial!
I love the fact that you show your mistakes because you learn so much from them – probably even more than successes. Failures really arent bad – they are just lessons.
You grow so much from failures – I have killed almost every single citrus tree that I have bought but I am still learning to try to have them survive the winter here in cold Sweden.
But I love that you share this with us 🙂
And when it comes to biodiversity – diversity really is a strength. There is no such thing as a monoculture in nature – you only find them in human-disturbed habitats such as plantations.
There are so many benefits with polyculture – one of them is protection from extreme weather events such as hurricanes or droughts. Which are going to become even more common and extreme in the near future. 🌳
I had one Jujube (GA-866) that struggled for two years. Everything pointed to it having died. Instead of tossing it in the burn pile, I moved it to a slightly shaded windbreak area. It’s growing better than ever. Once the Jujube appeared to have died, I bought two more. Maybe it just needed company. LOL.
Yay Bob Wells!! They are nearby and we love visiting a few times a year. Super nice family owns it ❤
These Crystal Balls just aren’t dependable anymore. 😂
Can you tell me what size is the tree jacket you use for your avocado tree please?
I have mostly natives in my garden so no issues here.
I also bought a Jiro persimmon tree this week…I already have a Rojo Briliante in the ground outside and a Fuyu in container, in the greenhouse…I love persimmons ❤ Zone 6
Appreciate you showing the " good & the bad" when gardening..
Your videos always cheer me up and encourage me. Keep up the great work! On Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for your content
In Europe we had a very hot dry summer, I lost some new plants because of that, could not keep up with the watering. Let's hope next season is more balanced for everyone around the world.
Going to be 35 degrees in Va. 11/30/24 When should I harvest my fall potatoes in 25gal grow bags.
So sorry! Gardening can be so up and down!
Mother Nature is the perpetual educator.
It's Biden's weather modification thats ruining all our gardens.
Where are you buying your trees? here in California, the land of no desantis or trump or all the bs from North Carolina and no storms there is a nursery called Armstrong nursery and they give you lifetime guarantee on all the plants you buy from them….I lost some plants and I don’t even need a receipt they have all the info in their computers…..they have nurseries all over the state so I can take the dead tree to any of their nurseries…
I always mound all my fruit trees. It really does make a difference. There’s been a couple times the water for sure would’ve killed them.
Weather patterns are changing, even at the nursery they don't know what to say. I lost a Japanese maple tree last summer and 8 plants of purple fountain grass during the last freeze in Texas
Bummer! Im sorry for your losses
You experienced a successful failure. You had no control over the storms. Plant on 👍
Sorry but some things we cannot control as you stated. Gardening is apart of my soul, so you have to keep going. Love your gardens and jeaulous of your citrus production! I would love to try lemon tree.
I'm in the NC Piedmont, so I can sympathize. It's been a terrible year for precipitation during the growing season–first not enough, then too much! Not to mention the army worm infestation. 😱 I had no luck whatsoever with my spring plantings; fall has been a little better, so far. I recently planted out some plum saplings, and plan to do some apples in the spring, so here's hoping next year's weather is more moderate! 😊
Thanks for sharing your experience! It happened to me too, I lost 5 bushes during the hurricane season (zone 8a Raleigh nc area)
Love the philosophy!!
MG
I have peas, kale, spinach, broccoli and lettuce planted in raised garden beds. One cold front end of last week, everything did well unprotected. This week the cold front moved through and the next one comes through Thursday night I think.
What needs the most protection? Low temp is expected at 18 degrees. It will be 8-10 hours below freezing.
I live in Central NC.
I'm surprised the pomegranate survived. I'm 9b and lost one that was 2 years old from too much rain in the winter. I guess it's probably because it was actively growing so it could tolerate that. I'm kind of surprised you are growing them in the first place because I believe you have wet summers correct? AFAIK that causes them to spoil.
– Bob wells is great, but pretty overpriced most of the time. Wish you success on the 2nd attempt.
– Any Florida vids coming soon?
Appreciating your comment about never giving up! You got all the rain we didn't get (100 miles north of you), so my coffee cake persimmon did fine even though I planted it in a potentially flood prone area. So much of it is luck really!
I love your videos! I’m going to look to see if you have any videos on citrus trees. I’m moving back to the panhandle of FL this summer. I’ve never tried to grow citrus trees before but I’m going to try! Thanks!
dang i wish i had half the problem you have, here in eastern Washington we are lucky if we get .5" of rain in august, most of our rain happens in fall and spring, this year we had like 3 drought weeks and had like .01" of rain in July and like .02" in August lol