You don’t need to have a big yard to grow big fruit. In this video, I share 6 tiny fruit trees that make huge harvests in small yards! These dwarf fruit trees are so small they can fit almost anywhere, are affordable, readily available and bear full size, top quality fruits. Growing fruit trees has never been this easy!
• How To Prune Fruit Trees: https://youtu.be/UKiDItwCR_o?si=p7SHxGcY80H-VBUa
• 12 Cold Hardy Citrus Trees: https://youtu.be/A_GnOUAXd70?si=siyZjazlr5qgIpWF
• Most fruit tree varieties in this video are cold hardy, but if you want to push your hardiness zone like I do, this will teach you how to protect fruit trees from cold: https://youtu.be/rKeaOcXtubY?si=tOou8hBr3dA_p9Wl
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction
0:35 Growing 54 Fruit Trees On 0.04 Acres!
1:51 Small Fruit Tree #1 (Zone 6+)
4:52 Small Fruit Tree #2 (Zone 6+)
6:39 Small Fruit Tree #3 (Zone 5+)
10:10 Small Fruit Tree #4 (Zone 7+)
14:34 Small Fruit Tree #5 (Zone 7+)
16:51 Small Fruit Tree #6 (Zone 7+)
19:36 Final Fruit Tree Tips
21:10 Adventures With Dale
If you have any questions about how to grow fruit trees in small yards, or the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, please ask in the Comments below!
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0:00 Introduction
0:35 Growing 54 Fruit Trees On 0.04 Acres!
1:51 Small Fruit Tree #1 (Zone 6+)
4:52 Small Fruit Tree #2 (Zone 6+)
6:39 Small Fruit Tree #3 (Zone 5+)
10:10 Small Fruit Tree #4 (Zone 7+)
14:34 Small Fruit Tree #5 (Zone 7+)
16:51 Small Fruit Tree #6 (Zone 7+)
19:36 Final Fruit Tree Tips
21:10 Adventures With Dale
This video gave me some quiet motivation. I ended up thinking about my own garden while watching.
nice. im also growing pomegranates in zone 8a. this is my second year.. will see how it goes
That's allot of fig, what's this guy doing w the hundreds of pounds of fig
What fruit can you grow in a shaded area?
Zone 8a Atlanta, GA – I bought a Bonanza Peach spring of 2024 after watching one of your videos (had 1 peach 2024 which was a wonderful surprise).
It’s in a very large planter on wheels. 2025 I rolled it in and out of garage when temps were below 32. It had tons of buds, but dropped all of them, no fruit. I didn’t know it needs chill hours.
Should I leave it out regardless of temp this winter? Being in a pot, I’m afraid it will freeze and kill it. Lows are in mid 20’s this week.
THANK YOU for ALL you do! I’ve learned SO MUCH from you!!
I've bought my pineapple guava's and citrus trees from Stan McKenzie and am very pleased! This will be my third year so hoping for some fruit soon!
i have:
– Pineapple Guava
– Meyer Lemon
– Blueberry bushes
– Pomegranate
– Blood Orange
– Fantasia Nectarine
– Strawberry Guava
– Gala and Fuji Apple
– Persimmon Jiro
– Forelle Pear
– Peach Tree
– Clementine Tree
– Yuzu tree (mandarin, grapefruit, and lemon citrus hybrid)
All of them are in 50-liter fabric pots with good drainage, good soil, and plenty of mulch in spring/summer.
My favorites are the Meyer lemon, the pineapple guava, and the persimmon Jiro.
In AZ don't get trifoliate. The one farmer i know says don't but citrus in AZ unless it comes from Sunset nurseries. They are the commercial growers of citrus in AZ that almost every local nursery will but their fruit from. I tried getting a Texas root stock and it died fairly quickly. But the Orange on Sunsets specific rootstock just produced for the first time and grows great. So look for a tag that says Sunset.
How far do you recommend gardens and fruit trees be from a septic leach field?
When do we need to plant these?
I have a pineapple guava here in south Raleigh area. Durable tree! Evergreen. Really likes a hard cutback. The flowers are pretty and the PETALS are edible — they are light-pink, succulent and taste melon-like. I’ve not noticed their perfume. The hens and I vie for snacking those petals. 🐓🐓. I have a ‘Wonderful”’pomegranate and it’s planted in too much shade…sigh. The flowers alone were magnificent— but I’ve had no fruit.
i was literally just thinking about what dwarf fruit trees i should grow for our small family in our new house!
How do you keep squirrels and wildlife out of your yard
Thats not a small spave or small yard you have. How about 3 ft by 15 ft for every plant veggie garden and fruit to go in
What can you grow in containers
How do you keep your dog from eating your bone meal after you fertilize
He's Adorable 🥰 more video of Dale 💖🐕
Good video!
Where do you purchase you citrus trees from?
Cold hardy down to zone 6? LOL. Talk to me when you have fruit trees down to zone 4. I keep hoping that I’ll see trees for that zone.
I’m curious about your opinion on my peach tree… it’s probably about 20 yrs old. About 20’ tall. I pruned it last year, always get lots of fruit that the squirrels/deer/bear/birds get to eat. It’s so tall I can’t spray it, reach most of the fruits/or bag the fruits. Every time I prune it (1/3 of its growth) it shoots right back to the 20’ growth with lots of water canes. I REALLY want to give it a VERY hard prune down to the size that I can reach to pick the fruits. (I’m 5’2) I’m willing to forfeit the fruit for a year if need be. I’mz8a.. what do you think? Thanks so much 🍑
I'm surprised you haven't covered three in one hole. I'm right there with you 40 trees in about the same square footage
Amazing and instructive video.
Do you have any recommendations for citrus vendors in California? Im trying to find a Satsuma
That's not a small yard for suburbia. That's medium, at least.
I have a well established pineapple guava but unfortunately I rarely get my harvest. Darn squirrels. And they are delicious.
I'm in the UK with a garden that's 16x32ft. I have 18 trees 🙂 3 apples, 2 pears, 2 cherries, 2 almonds, 2 plums, 2 greengages, 2 cherry plums, 2 nectarines (+ 1 ornamental cherry). And that doesn't include my 2 juneberry bushes, 8 blueberries, 8 raspberries, 3 currants… the list goes on, and I still have a lawn!
I have two 20x2ft beds – one for veg, and one for fruit and flowers – 7 of my trees are in the fruit bed and kept dwarf, the rest are in pots in other areas and corners. It still looks like a 'normal' garden – but that's what I'm most proud of. You wouldn't nessesarily realise it was a kitchen garden.
awesome!!
Pineapple Guava is an absolutely gem.
Thanks for the great videos. Doing it this year and planting out the yard
I need this for zone 10a lol
I have a pineapple guava tree and i have to fight the squirrels for the fruit
I have a sloped yard so i have a wet area that stays wet for days or weeks if we get heavy rains. I also have rocky ground and some clay. I'm in Arkansas zone 8A
I wouldn't keep the asian persimmon tree from grasshoppers that ate up all the leaves and the trees died subsequently
It's a wonder that HOA hasn't started to fine you and begin to take your home for growing clean food
My yard is 12×20 lol I’m thinking I should only have 2 or 3 and save the space for other stuff
Weirdly, figs are the one thing that won't grow well in my property. Everyone says they're so easy, but mine won't get over like 2 feet tall.
Thank you for your informative video! I am definitely will buy a couple of fruit trees this summer.
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You explaining the taste of a soft persimmon is worth the price of admission each and every time…
Thankyou
I’ve had two persimmons in my life and when I hear you talk about them, it makes me want one so bad!
One heck of a dog donut!
Chad Midgley grows citrus in the ground in northern Utah, zone 6… Cheaply. With greenhouse plastic, mulch, & compost (leaf bags)
I bought a couple pounds of pineapple guavas this year so that I could get a whole bunch of seed, I'm in zone 6A, and I'm hoping to try to grow a whole bunch on the south side of my house hoping that maybe one will survive… I had got a bunch of seeds from a guy in New Zealand, who had a really rough winter and all of his that he bought from the store died, and everything he started from seed survived… So he sent me some seeds to test… I had never started perennials and did not give them enough space for the tap root, and lost my first wave, and currently in my second wave, only one of them has survived. I'm hoping to get lucky and find a zone 6A or 6B variety by starting from seed.
Do you have any resources for growing dwarf fruit trees in pots on a west-facing exterior wall? I'm a little stuck on what side of my apartment building I can grow stuff, just got my balcony and a couple of windows lol.