When I began my gardening journey, my backyard was nothing but a clear cut lot of sand, weeds and fire ants. In the last 7 years, I transformed my ordinary yard into a food forest overflowing with abundance, a Garden of Eden in the suburbs. In this video, I give you a tour of the hundreds of fruit trees and vegetables that make my yard a true food paradise and share how I brought so much abundance to a simple 8,000 sq ft backyard.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Intro & Maximizing Yard Space
2:39 Spring Garden Tour Begins With Figs
4:30 Planting Diversity With Persimmons
6:17 Zone Pushing With Citrus
9:07 Growing Avocados In North Carolina?
11:31 Apples, Peaches, Pears, Pawpaws
13:44 Experimental Fruit Trees
15:26 Grapes, Berries, Pineapple Guavas
18:06 Vegetable Garden Tour
23:26 Adventures With Dale
If you have any questions about transforming your backyard into a food paradise, 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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34.1°N Latitude
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If you enjoyed this video, please LIKE it and share it with family and friends to inspire them to grow bigger! Thanks for watching 🙂 TIMESTAMPS here:
0:00 Intro & Maximizing Yard Space
2:39 Spring Garden Tour Begins With Figs
4:30 Planting Diversity With Persimmons
6:17 Zone Pushing With Citrus
9:07 Growing Avocados In North Carolina?
11:31 Apples, Peaches, Pears, Pawpaws
13:44 Experimental Fruit Trees
15:26 Grapes, Berries, Pineapple Guavas
18:06 Vegetable Garden Tour
23:26 Adventures With Dale
I live in a suburb east of Raleigh. You're my go to for "can I grow this here?" And after this tour I'm even more inspired to expand into citrus and fruit trees in general. My backyard ends in forest, and I've found cultivating the ground gives me the edge over the forest reclaiming my yard, but it's a constant back and forth.
We are doing it the same chipping a way a few hours at a time, and due to my disability I have a carer/friend helping now and it’s spreading it up
This was so encouraging 😊
Love your mantra of one Saturday at a time!
So cool. Do you have any issues with Cats? Maybe not cuz of Dale?
You are SO helpful! I live in the Raeford/Fayetteville area of North Carolina. I am pursuing my first vegetable/fruit/flower garden in our first home! Plus improving landscaping and overall grass coverage. To quote my husband, we want the most “luscious lawn” in the neighborhood!
you might wan to research almonds planted with peaches. they can produce bitter almonds.
What direction is the avocado/citrus corner in the back facing?
I had the same, a blank canvas 4 years ago. Still not ready with planting. Everytime i learn more about fruits i did not know before. This friday 2 new figs are coming✌🏼 sad i can not show you a picture would be awsome to see from a lot of people from 0 till now
I really enjoy all your videos! You and Dale are a great team!
That is a TREMENDOUS amount of produce. I can't imagine you eat all of this. Do you preserve, sell or donate any that you don't eat???? Thanks.
You can do it put your back into it ! Lol Hats off to you for teaching many. Great content.
Plant Rambutan and Mangosteen, love from India
We have a 1 acre property, but it has very little flat land, almost all hills and slopes it makes it much more challenging.
Any tips on growing things on uneven surfaces like hills?
Can you give details of your irrigation work?
Thank you SO much for your citrus video. I'm in Raleigh so finding a great youtuber in a similar climate, you're a Godsend! 😀
I'm currently planning my own mini orchard, I wasn't going to add any citrus because I thought that wasn't possible, NOW I'm going to add some satsuma oranges as you suggested.
Mangos are my favorite. Have you ever tried to grow mangos in NC? They have the same minimum temp as most of the citrus. Would mangos work in our climate with the same measures as the citrus? Why or why not?
Wonderful!!!!
Very organized and looking beautiful! I thought I watched a video that you and your family had plans to move to Florida. Was that an old video perhaps? Thanks
Love your garden and videos, but I also love your speech pattern! You speak in the passive ('So exceptional is it, that..' and I just love it. Not many people speak like that, and it is very unique in today's world!! Also…. FIGS!!! you must be Fragile, I mean, Italian!!! lolol