Do you want to grow more fruit at home?? Take a fruit tree tour of my Urban Permaculture Garden and see what I have growing on 720 sqm (with plenty of spare room!) in Perth, Australia. NOW more than ever having fresh fruit and growing your own food is so important. I love that by growing your own fruit the options open up to such a huge variety. Today I’m going o share with you the 25+ fruit trees I have here in my urban block and what I’m planning on getting next!
I love growing fruit trees because 1: I love fruit and 2: although they take a lot of patience they will reward you with more and more fruit each year! If you are new here my name is Holly and I am creating an urban permaculture garden in the suburbs of Perth Australia…and my soil is basically pure sand. Hit subscribe to join the journey and let’s create a more self-sufficient lifestyle together.
We get very hot dry summers with temperatures hitting into the 40s and quite mild winters so with a bit of creativity and creating microclimates I can grow a huge range of fruit trees including many tropical or subtropical varieties.
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What do you think I should grow in the gaps? 🌳 Watch this video on passionfruit 🤯https://youtu.be/DeF6beXiK4o
Gorgeous tour thanks for sharing
Awesome garden everything looks amazing
All this in 6-ish yrs, wow-ee girl. Well done😉
How did you bring your pomegranates back? I have bought a house with one that doesn't look great & produces 1 fruit.
Hi Holly, love your video. A month ago I also bought black nugget passion fruit. What is the distance between fruit trees? I can see you plant them quite near one another.
I can't wait to see what you decide to plant to complete your edible hedge! I'm looking into that myself at the moment.
Apart from some of the things you already have (like guava, feijoa, cumquat, pomegranate), there are some slightly less common options, like coffee arabica, macadamia, or lilly pilly.
Or for a shorter hedge: camellia sinensis or blueberries (there are some good low-chill varieties available).
You can never have enough fruit. I’ve started getting my fruit trees since I know they will take a few years to get fruit: 11 types of figs, 2 pineapple guavas, a Meyer lemon. For kicks, I’m trying to germinate some date seeds from dates my mom brought back from Israel. Also got a vanilla orchid and two macadamia nut seedlings.
Wow love your enthusiasm.its very ene😂rgising and infectious.look forward to your next video
I have just been given a passionfruit that when ripe is still green on outside not purple which seems weird.have you seen thm?
Fruit trees are seriously the best to grow and you can never have enough! Loved this tour Holly! 😍🙌🏻🍋
Amazing tour of your garden end of summer. I have to get a few more fruit tree. More guava in the gaps 🌳
Hey Holly! Love seeing tours of permie gardens! I am allergic to passionfruit, do you have any thoughts about what I can grow instead? I grow Nagami cumquat which is the best tasting in my opinion and also the variegated cumquat which is the prettiest. If I have shoots growing from below the graft point on citrus, can I strike them in a pot? I have mandarins growing below a graft point and Yuzu doing the same, so there is a lot of potential new plants if I can find out how to do it. I will have to seek out the Queensland Arrowroot. Thanks for the reminder to plant Lavender again this year. Currently, Curry leaf plant, camelias and chilies are coming into flower. I would love to grow a dwarf banana if I can find one. I am still looking for elderberry. Daley's is the nearest permie source for plants and seeds. Although I do order seeds from Diggers in Melbourne. I am also accidently following another permie technique called natural farming started by Masanobu Fukuoka in Japan. I recommend his book The One Straw Revolution. The proof it works happened only this morning when I picked the most fragrant and shiny coriander that I have ever plucked from my garden which grew from seeds fallen from a previous season's plant. This will go into Huevos Rancheros for lunch today. Cheers!
One more piece of advice in return for all of yours. You mentioned grapes were on your to plant list. Same here! Did you know that one of the Australian founders of permaculture (Bill Mollison) once said that Americans do not grow enough grapes. So put on your old McDonalds cap and get out into your garden and plant some grapes. My wife likes Thomson Seedless, so I will have to see whether they grow well in my subtropical garden. Cheers!
Thanks for being so inspiring. Brissy's been hot & you've inspired me that I can have more than QLD Bananas here😊
Do you use special potting mix? I have compost & I generally use that & soil from yard
hey holly impressive fruit trees love your layout and some varieties ive never heard of now im learning some different fruits very cool garden
I've been trying to grow Goji berries for months from seeds but they never come up 😢
What an enviable space. Thank you for sharing. Have you thought about adding avocados for your evergreen hedge? They can be pruned into a manageable size and might provide something different than what you already have growing.
Holly can you give more info on growing pinaple I tried 2 in my garden which have done nothing im wondering if too dry or hot any advice much appreciated. Also with fruit how do you control fruit fly and this year for the first time I've had something which I'm assuming is a rat eat through my exclusion bags.
Oh also I notice you have very tropical fruit no stone fruit
So many great fruit trees Holly! Amazing!
Love this video! Can't wait to move when we build our house so we can actually plant some trees in the ground. We have a few in pots now ready to go (including a feijoa as my partner is a kiwi too!).
One question – how do you find the malabar spinach? And any tips for how best to eat it? I just popped some seeds in but so many people tell me they don't like the taste so they pulled theirs out..
I didn't think I'd have enough room for all the fruit trees I'd like to grow, but this gives me hope. I have a 600 sqm block and 6 fruit trees (had 7 but one died). Also a raised bed with blueberry plants, one raspberry cane, hoping to get my black raspberry seeds to grow this year so I can have those too.