These 4 edible landscaping plants will make your yard a food oasis! These plants make growing food in even small yards easy, because they’re safe for foundation planting around your house and will even work in most Homeowner’s Associations as HOA Approved landscaping!
It’s becoming harder and more expensive to own land, and the typical residential plot is shrinking. Many homeowners think they don’t have the space to grow food, but that’s not true! There are many fruit trees that are perfect for foundation planting around your home that fit easily in small yards. With these 4 edible landscaping plants, you can turn your tiny yard into a food forest and eat your yard!
With rising food prices and skyrocketing inflation, having some food security is always a good thing. Swapping out useless landscaping for these plants not only adds a layer of food security, but they’re even more beautiful plants than most landscaping found around homes. Most of the fruit tree selections in this video are widely adaptable and can grow in most climates.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Growing Fruit Trees In Small Spaces And In HOA’s
1:45 Edible Landscaping Plant #1
3:06 Edible Landscaping Plant #2
4:16 Edible Landscaping Plant #3
6:02 Edible Landscaping Plant #4
9:05 Fence Line Planting Options
10:27 Adventures With Dale
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This is a great video
Thank you so much for another great video!
I can’t find a simple to read planting calendar for zone 8B (Texas) to download. Any help from the community would be greatly appreciated.
I love your videos. Learn so much
How much space do you leave between trees? I want to start planting fruit trees around my yard this rainy season. I prepared some of the beds last year near the perimeter wall of the yard. I need to add some mulch and manure though.
Where I live, on my street there are 5 homes with full vegetable gardens in the front and 1 one overgrown crap pile that they are calling a "wildlife garden".
I myself am growing honeyberry bushes in my front yard.
Can you grow blueberry bushes in a 15 gallon pot zone 9 ?🌱
At 6:05 I see a PVC structure for frost protection. What kind of PVC is it that can bend like that? Do you have a link to how you constructed it? Thank you!
Great ideas for zones 8 or warmer… sadly most of us aren't in those zones.
For those of us in the colder zones – perrenial herbs, blackberries, strawberries are a better bet.
can you add something about cascade blueberries? seems to be left out of your blueberry guide
Do any of these handle little sun?
Haha, rip out useless decorative bushes… while standing on a lawn… ouch 🤣
Sorry, just glad my HOA has lawn acreage maximums (250 sq ft IIRC). If your HOA isn't too bad to deal with, put in some semi dwarf fruit trees in landscaped beds with decorative (but useful…) plants. I did my entire front yard that way. Half native plants, about 6 fruiting shrubs and 6 fruit trees so far…and a garden bed. If you layer it well and have adequate screening, it'll look attractive AND be useful. Give your neighbors the extra fruit and they won't mind as much.
Tbh most of your options are a little too cold sensitive for most of the US, myself included. Really wish I could grow feijoa here. Just not hardy enough.
I am planting many of the same plants, although of more compact varieties due to my smaller backyard. I discovered that the Bushel and Berry brand is the commercialized product of the breeding program at the University of Georgia. Dr. NeSmith has had phenomenal success with developing compact varieties of blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and many more edible shrubs for limited space gardeners. I think this excellent plant breeding program is akin to the great LSU fig breeding program of by-gone years.
Dfw, TX in zone 8A here and citrus is practically impossible to plant in-ground. I wish I could plant citrus inground here but theres isnt one yard in this area with a citrus in-ground. Our Tx freeze kills them though. What do you suggest?
Have you tried growing hardy, Russian type pomegranates?
What variety of banana are you growing that’s giving you fruit?
New subscriber, and I found channel and was hearing it screaming my name. I am originally from Maine (love Dale), I hate seafood for eating, and live on a 1/4 acre lot in Anderson SC. No HOA here presently. I have had luck with white figs, have a fence line, and now want a banana tree so bad, I can taste it, lol. You have given me inspiration! THANK YOU sir. 👍🏻💕🐾🙏🎃
Where did you purchase the Feijoa? Thanks.
Something peculiar I noticed. I live in Belgrade, Serbia which would also be classified as USDA Zone 8a, but the average temperatures here are much lower and the winter is much longer than where you live. Yet none of the figs I see around have lost any of their leaves yet, while yours already have. Weird.
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I cannot seem to recall what variety of banana plant you are growing. Also how long did it take to fruit? I am in zone 8a as well in the Dallas area and learning to garden in this zone. I use to live in zone 5 so a huge change and opportunity to grow more stuff…
Great video! I'm in Central Minnesota Zone 4 and have had great success growing feijoas in containers. They grow really well in containers and getting the fruit to ripen is no issue. Anyway, I'm jealous of all the stuff you can grow outside. Keep up the good work👍
Where can i get your hardy frijoa tree please?
Edible ornamentals for cooler climates:
Kiwiberries (highly ornamental when well maintained, especially if you get a variegated pollinator)
Clove currants (fragrant yellow flowers in the spring and large blackcurrants in the fall)
Peaches (they stay relatively small, are very attractive when well maintained, and are self fertile)
Pomegranates (be careful about variety selection and planting site anywhere colder than zone 7)
Sand, Bush, or beach cherries (cute little bushes with fragrant flowers and good fruit for jam etc., good for hedges b/c they're not always self fertile)
Rugosa rose hybrids (heavy fragrance, edible fruit, and creates a very ornamental security system)
Japanese plums (smaller and more ornamental trees than European plums, but choose carefully because some require a pollinator)
It’s a good idea to actually read your HOA regs. I assumed that they would have a problem with me cutting down my maples and replacing with apples, but there was nothing in the regs about it. I decided to take the risk, assuming that I’d still have some angry random neighbor stop by to talk to me. One day after cutting the maples, I was out planting the apples and a neighbor I hadn’t met stopped by. They wanted to know who I used to get rid of the maples, because they wanted theirs done, too (roots were starting to touch their foundation)
What a great idea!
What does pineapple guava taste like?
4:43 banana flower that we can eat. It can make like a salad 🥗 and delicious 😋
do you have Deer in your area? I don't thin I can plant these because of Deer
WOW so cool. Im in charlotte, zone 8a. what NC city are you at? I gotta try some of these. I had no idea one could grow bannas and citrus here. I got 4 persimmon tress they are great! haven't had much luck with blueberries though. gotta read that guide you made. perhaps there are certain varieties that are best.
The fact that you can't grow what you want on your own land is absolutely ridiculous. No one as any moral right to decide what you can and can't do.
peach trees do well in your climate, you should try some.
Do you have advice on how to keep squirrels off your berry bushes?
Where would you buy these?
Love the Dale videos. We need a compilation video!
first off, never buy a hoa home.
Sooooo glad that I live on three acres out in the country. Although when SHTF happens, I'm where the city folk will be escaping to. I may have to learn guerrilla gardening as one YouTuber teaches so they'll pass me by.
Love this ❤️