John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to Artist-Teacher-Gardener Jose Ramirez in Los Angeles zone 10 to show you how he created a food forest in his backyard by planting 200-300 fruit trees that conserve water. You will learn the techniques he uses to reduce his water usage and grow his fruit trees organically without the use of chemical pesticides and buying fertilizers from the store.
In this episode, you will get a tour of this unique southern California backyard where 200-300 low-water fruit trees are being grown that produce fruit year-round in Los Angeles in Southern California
First, John will take you on a tour of the backyard food forest of Jose Ramirez and show you how he is growing fruit trees as close as 3 to 5 feet apart in his residential property in Los Angeles. You will learn the specific techniques he uses to add fertility to his trees and conserve water.
You will learn about the specific fruit trees that he is growing, and how he uses rainwater as well as grey water to water his fruit trees. You will learn more about vegetable trees that grow edible leaves you an eat as vegetables.
You will discover why Jose no longer uses a compost tumbler but instead does pit composting so he creates instant fertilizer for the next fruit tree he will be planting.
You will also get to learn about the one fruit tree you should plant in Los Angeles if you live there as it can make fruit all year long.
Finally, John will share Jose’s art with you and interview Jose about the amazing food forest jungle he created in his backyard in Los Angeles, California.
Jump to the following parts of the Episode:
00:00 Episode Starts
00:44 300 Fruits Trees in his backyard
02:26 Backyard tour starts
02:48 Mulching Saves Water
03:35 PVC Pipe distributes Rain Water from the Roof
04:05 Fruit
04:52 You can grow these fruit trees in Los Angeles and Southern California
05:20 Easiest Fruit tree to grow in LA
05:40 some fruits are harder to grow than others
05:58 Why he doesn’t grow a lot of vegetables
06:33 Why he underwaters his tree
07:20 Trees Planted 5 Feet apart
07:40 Grow Vegetable Trees
08:30 Compost tumbler I recommend
08:47 The Easiest Way to Compost
09:47 Protect Your Fruit from Birds
10:44 The Tree Everybody should Grow in Los Angeles
11:49 Gardening Failures – It’s Ok
13:11 Using Greywater to water your trees
14:36 All the Fruit Trees he planted in the Garden
15:54 Garden inspired Art Work You Can Buy
17:36 Interview with Jose Ramirez
17:44 Why did you plant all these fruit trees in your backyard?
18:26 The most successful fruit trees to grow in Los Angeles?
20:40 Don’t Grow these fruit trees in LA
21:44 How Does Your Garden inspire your Art and Art inspire your garden?
22:38 How can someone buy your art?
23:20 What is the one thing every gardener should know?
24:00 What are some other trees that grow well with little water?
25:00 Agriculture Uses more Water than Residential Consumers
After watching this episode, you will learn the techniques you need to use to grow fruit trees successfully using low water. You will also discover the best way to compost and how you can conserve water to water your fruit trees by using rainwater as well as grey water. You will discover the best fruit trees to grow in Los Angeles and the surrounding Southern California areas.
Referenced/Related Episodes:
Urban Farm in Los Angeles
A farm that Grows on a Hillside in Los Angeles
This LA Farm grows food Fast
LA Garden grows food in a 6-foot-wide alley
The best Nursery in LA to buy Veggie plant starts
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LA Times Article about Jose Ramirez’s Backyard Fruit Tree Orchard
https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2022-08-18/planting-fruit-orchard-in-los-angeles-yard
21 Comments
John, happy thanksgiving!!! 2022. If I had that backyard , it would be thanksgiving everyday. My fig tree is loaded for the second time this year. My mother can’t understand why I’m digging up my trees and moving them with me but I know this tree is at least 8 years old and she does a good job! I also have loquats that have set and will be feeding us come March. My lichee and rambutan are only a foot tall. My bananas have babies but here in mobile, al it might get cold one night and snap my babies. Much love to growers who feed Mother Nature also.
God Bless you; for you cultivate and foster care of Gaia and how we can grow self sustainabke food.🌱🌾~ Namaste! 💚
What a awesome orchard!
That's badass!
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Inspiring to see a fellow Angeleo growing his own food and being creative!
Glad to see you on the road again visiting different Gardens
His property is going to be AWESOME years to come
Thank you John for showing this forest.
Thanks I plan on getting couple more trees
I am grateful to have the space I have to grow what I can in the sands of southeast Florida. Ever think about coming here to talk about the alternate reality of growing in sand and sunshine ….contact me! Happy Thanksgiving.
nice music
I've seen someone do something a lot like this in the arizona high desert his secret was lots of mulchy woodchips, which acted as insulation and reduced water evaporation.
Happy Thanksgiving John, hope you & your family is well. Thanks for the new video!
You guys are awesome!
Good tip! One way to learn how to grow food without water is to look up "dry farming" and look up the Hopi Indians farming methods without water which is to plant more seeds deeply and much father apart.
Great video John. You’re looking wonderful. I love this garden. It would be great if you had a little drone, id like to see the whole garden, because it’s a bit hard to imagine. Thanks this was awesome.
So cool to see our garden through a different lens. Hope you’re able to come back on a future visit to LA, perhaps in the spring!
Permaculture to save the world
I appreciate that man so much! He’s doing his part for the preservation of life.
Jose gay af