This MASSIVE Garden Expansion Was 6 Years In The Making!

In this video, I share every fruit tree I’m planting in my yard this winter! After the fruit tree planting is finished, my backyard food forest will be nearly complete! This massive garden expansion was 6 years in the making, and when it’s over, I’ll be growing 60 fruit trees on only 0.03 acres of space!

Learn how to plant a fruit tree here: https://youtu.be/gi1qiTECKHo?si=4yIpRwlq0jKbLUX0
Learn how to prune a fruit tree here: https://youtu.be/UKiDItwCR_o?si=5XVknkGUFcISm8py

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 My Big Food Forest Expansion
2:17 Planting Fruit Trees High Density
4:10 How To Dig A Planting Hole Correctly
6:29 How To Plant A Fruit Tree Correctly
7:29 How To Fertilize A Fruit Tree
10:05 Garden Tour After Planting
14:05 Adventures With Dale

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What’s growing on gardeners it’s Sunday February 18th and it is a freezing cold afternoon here on the Southeastern coast of North Carolina but this is the perfect weather to plant dormant be root fruit trees and on today’s video I’m going to take you into my backyard and

Show you my biggest fruit tree expansion ever I’m planting a ton of new fruit trees and I can’t wait to take you along for the ride if you’re new to the Channel Please Subscribe and hit the Bell to receive new video notifications and check out our Amazon store and

Spreadshop links in the video description for every everything I use in my garden an awesome custom designed apparel and other gear your support is greatly appreciated two weeks ago I showed you how I’m growing an incredible number of fruit trees in almost no space at all I am currently growing 40 fruit

Trees in 02 Acres not 2 Acres 0.2 acres and the way that I plant my fruit trees high density almost everybody can have a huge Food Forest even in the tiniest backyards my whole backyard is only about a quar of an acre and I’m going to

Have over 60 fruit trees when all is said and done only occupying 0.3 Acres of space after some manual labor over the last week and a half I have finally prepared most of my planting area for my bare root fruit trees and the good news is that most of

Them are already in I have four fruit trees that I’m going to plant in this video today sitting in this bucket and this is the All-In-One almond tree that I showed you how to plant a little over a week ago I’ll make sure to link to

That video below if you want to know how to plant a be root fruit tree and how you can cluster an enormous amount of food together in a very tiny backyard after you receive your be root fruit trees in the mail when it comes time to

Plant them you were going to want to soak them in a bucket of water so these be root fruit trees have been soaking for about an hour after 1 hour they will basically be ready to be planted in ground and here I have a fifth fruit tree I’m debating whether or not to

Plant this this is actually a pomegranate tree so it is not a as cold hearty as the other things that I’m planting although it still is fairly cold hearty the issue is it is beginning to Bud out you can see small buds forming so I’m debating whether or not

I’m going to plant it now or maybe I’ll keep it in my sun room for a month and then plant it in late March once the frost and freezes stop in summary the way that I plant as many fruit trees as possible taking up almost no space is to

Source all semi- dwarf or dwarf grafted varieties and then plant them around the perimeter fence in my yard that way I can have a huge number of fruit trees planted without taking up any space in the middle of my yard that is how I will get 60 fruit trees around without really

Anyone being the wiser so what I’m doing is I am planting all of my fruit trees 30 in off the back of my fence then I have to prune the backs of the trees every year to make sure they don’t interfere with a perimeter fence that’s no big deal now the overwhelming

Majority of my fruit trees will be spaced 7 ft apart I have just a few exceptions the exception that I showed you on my video two weeks ago was here is an olive tree and then next to that is an almond tree because they are two

Of the largest trees I will have in my yard they are spaced 9 ft apart but other than those two all these other fruit trees that you see delineated with staks are spaced exactly 7 ft apart so here is going to be a Pimon tree here is

Going to be a jujie tree then you were going to have another pmen followed by a plot a pler and then the pomegranate on the end and in the rear quarter back there I’m going to put an avocado tree and I cannot stress this enough it is so

Important that you have everything laid out before you start planting anything I have everything staked out and labeled so I know where everything is going to go and this is how you are going to know for certain that the spacing is going to work do not do this blind do not measure

As you go design everything in advance lay everything out that way there is no guessing and at the end of the day you don’t have a design that won’t fit once the trees are already planted okay now all of the holes have been dug for our

Be root fruit trees and the first thing that you need to understand is the size and the depth of the whole dug now here are our be root fruit tree roots that you see right here and you will clearly notice that the hole is at least twice

As wide and twice as deep as need be for the roots and we need to do this for two reasons the first reason is these trees are babies they have been uprooted and the roots are very young so because of that when they wake up in this planting

Hole they’re not going to have a lot of strength to them if the soil is really hard then these roots are going to struggle to grab hold and the trees are going to grow very slowly so the reason why we dig the hole at least twice as

Wide and twice as deep as need be is because we want to break up that soil as much as possible so it is nice and Light and lomy so when the trees wake up they can easily root throughout the soil so we want to dig the hole twice as deep

And then back fill it halfway so the tree actually winds up in the right spot relative to the final grade of the ground but we wanted to dig it twice as deep so we break everything up that’s below grade that way the soil will be nice and easy for the roots to Traverse

The second reason we need to dig our holes deeply is you will never know what you’ll find under the soil until you hit it now my first planting hole was nice and E easy it was in my nice native Carolina sandy soil but as you go back

In my backyard see all those trees well this whole lot used to be wooded and they clearcut it to build my house so as I started working my way into the back corner of the property I started finding all these old decaying tree roots about

18 in down as I started to dig had I not dug that deeply I would have just planted my tree and then they would have run into all of those roots as they tried to grow and that would have stunted the tree and it could have actually killed the tree because all of

That rotting root mass there well that holds a lot of moisture and rot causing bacteria as it decays underground so thankfully I dug down nice and deeply and I was able to remove these huge old chunks of wood so now I know all the way

Down there it is nice and free and clear for my trees to grow so because I put in the extra work they are going to grow so much more quickly because they’re not going to have to fight all of that nasty root now all of the fruit trees have been

Placed in the planting holes and they have been set to the proper depth and distance off the back of the fence and that piece of 4ft rebar that I have down there that delineates 30 in from the back of the fence so uh I wanted basically the trees to be resting right

Up against that and one thing that you will notice is that all of the roots are exposed that’s because I want all of these trees planted slightly high and I wanted to backfill them only halfway to lock them into place and then tie them to all of the staks that way I could

Assure that everything would be in the right position and everything would be tied off nice and neatly so I know everything is exactly where I want them to be before I lock them into position permanently now when I actually walk in line if I crouch down you will see that

Pretty much all of the fruit trees blend into one from side to side that is exactly what I want now I need to apply some ferti izer I’m going to amend all of the planting holes with an organic bone meal and an organic slow release fertilizer now bone meal is fantastic

For root development because it is an allnatural source of organic phosphorus and calcium it really helps build strong roots then this plant tone right here this is a 533 NPK fertilizer it doesn’t have to be this exact one anything close to a 555 NPK will be fine but if you

Want these exact products I will link to them directly directly down in the video description now it is okay to apply these fertilizers directly into the planting hole because in their Organic Raw form they are really precursors to fertilizer they need to be broken down and digested by the soil microbiome

Before they’re bioavailable so in this form they’re not technically fertilizer you wouldn’t want to do this with a water soluble fertilizer that could burn the roots but for these types of organic granulated types it is okay to do this so we’re going to put probably about 1/4

Cup in each planting hole and then we will do the same thing with the bone meal we will lightly dust all of the roots which will help them grow big and strong now we will backfill all of the native soil around the tree Once all the soil has been backfilled we will take

Our feet and lightly Tamp down the soil in a ring around the tree all the while holding the tree in place to make sure that we don’t push it deeper into the soil we want the roots of the tree to be slightly High then we will water in the

Tree which will complete the soil compaction process it will be very important that we keep this area moist until the tree begins to establish so you’ll want to water at least once or twice a week for the first few months of this tree’s life now the trees have been

Backfilled and watered in and you will notice that there is a little bit of exposed surface Roots I did that on purpose because I found over the years that when you plant your fruit trees a little bit high so the surface roots are exposed when you place compost around

Around them and cover the surface roots with the compost they grab hold much more quickly and they Thrive with the surface Roots rooting throughout the compost layer so I am going to cover those roots with a ring of compost 2 in thick I’m going to use an organic

Mushroom compost that you see right here but any kind of compost will do it can be a manure-based compost a homemade compost it’s okay just be sure that when you spread the compost you do not pile the compost around the trunk of the tree that can cause trunk rot make sure that

You leave a little space in between the trunk and the compost ring and now that everything is planted I’m going to take you through and show you all of my new varieties we will start off with the All-In-One almond tree that I planted on the video two weeks ago that showed you

Great depth as to how to plant a be root fruit tree next to that we have a new Asian pmen this variety is called Maru or Maru this is not the same as chocolate but it does turn turn brown like chocolate when it is pollin then we

Have a ga 866 jujie it’s partially self-fertile you do not need two jujuy trees in this case then next to it we have another Asian pmon this variety is called coffee cake this will pollenize the Maru pron that you see over there but I specifically put separation in

Case I don’t want them to pollenize because pollination makes them seedy I want wanted to be able to control the pollination then over here you see I have a tag for a plat I have not received my plat tree yet it is in transit I should receive it in a few

Days this is going to be a 3in1 multi-g grafted plot plats do require cross-pollination so this tree will be able to pollinate itself I have no idea what the varieties are going to be they come out of a list so I’m not sure the

Three I’m going to get next to it is the flavor punch pler the pler will get pollizi pomegranate goes once it warms up a little bit more I will transplant that the last steak over here will be reserved for a cold hearty avocado tree now I know many of you are wondering the

Variety I’m going to go with but they’re not in stock yet so I have a ranking as to what I want I’ll see what gets in stock and then I will make sure to let everybody know once I actually plant it I can’t believe I’m saying this but this

Whole planting is 6 years in the making I have been slowly planting out the entire perimeter of my yard and garden since I moved here 6 years ago so it’s it’s just incredible to me that I’m basically running out of room after this I will still have a few Choice locations

Here and there to install a tree or two and I am going to remove a couple of things that haven’t done well this summer and I will replace them with a couple more things but it just blows my mind to think that this is largely the

Completion of my vision that I started 6 years ago when I bought this property and moved into this house I just want to say thank you all so much who have followed me along this journey so much of what I’m doing the reason why I found

The time and strength and energy to do all of this is because of you that have been motivating me along the way all of you that have been appreciative of the videos that have thanked me and that have told me that I have motivated you to do something the same same I just

Cannot say thank you enough because without you all I probably wouldn’t be this far along this is the strength and motivation that I use and it’s really helped me build what I think will be an incredible property at the end of the day and on that note thank you all so

Much that have watched this video and have been following me for so long and for all of my new viewers that have started following me and will continue to in the future I appreciate it more than you know so everybody thank you so much for watching today’s video if you

Liked it please hit that like button subscribe to the channel and please ring that notification Bell so you’re notified when I release more videos like these if you have any questions about the different plants that I planted or varieties in this video please ask them down in the comment section and I will

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Video Dale what is it that you want show me you want to eat what do you walk what do you want to do do you want to walk or do you want to eat what do you want okay I I guess that’s clear all right buddy I’ll tell you what we go for

A walk and then when you come home we’ll eat how about that walk first then eat okay all right look at that tail D you’re going to you are going to take the paint off the door all right all right all right we’ll go okay Mr hands

And pants are you ready you’re all suited up ready and raring to go you want to go for a walk look at that excitement