Edible Landscape Update, Spring 2024

My front yard looks entirely different than my back yard, I am trying to tastefully landscape my front yard with edibles to avoid anyone suspecting what is going on and maximize yield.

what is going on Garden fans welcome back to the permaculture Homestead I at the home site today and with permaculture Homestead Jr and we’re going to take a trip to the front yard to show you how I’m using Edibles to landscape my property looks a lot different up there than it does back here come on back and check it [Music] out all right Garden fans as you can see I live in suburban small town America USA and in an effort to maximize food produ uction I’m doing my best to incorporate edible plants into my front yard landscape and I’m trying to do it as Tastefully as possible um certainly I’m not going to have a wild unkempt Food Forest like in my backyard here in my front yard that would just upset the neighbor so I’m doing my best to incorporate food items into my food Forest little by little now everybody has a septic access here in their front yard you’ll see the white top septic access there so first off I’m trying to grow things here that do not have a deep tap rout pineapple guava and Elderberry are those two items plus mint spear mint as a ground cover under these things so I don’t want to grow something with a deep tap rot that’s going to get into my septic system so I have some shallow rooted plants I love the pineapple guava uh because it is Evergreen so it never drops its leaves and it definitely gives me a bit of a privacy hedge here on the front of my house you can’t really see what’s going on on the front door uh pineapple guava at this time time of year is starting to Bud up we’re going to have some flowers coming on very shortly and then the Elderberry behind it is already starting to get a bit tall I’m very aggressive with my pruning on the Elderberry you can see right here how I prune them at least once a year down to about 4 feet tall and they will always come back thicker and more dense and more productive than ever so Elderberry pineapple guava and mint seems to be a good companion mix here for my front yard uh septic take and then for the rest of that house let’s talk about it I got this holly bush here that’s been pruned and shaped up at some point I’m going to take that out and add a fruit tree right next to that is an IL Agnus multif Floria gomy Berry and then another one of those pineapple guava now at some point in the future this is also flowering at some point in the future this pineapple guava is going to get large and bushy and it’ll kind of take up most of the space here by that point what I’ll do is trim that hel Agnus all the way down to the ground and we’ll just have one big Central pineapple Grava shrub I also have some useless old boxwoods here a future project is to believe it or not pull these out and then put another combination of pineapple guava and IL Agnus right next to it for the time being the boxwoods that are here are actually housing a wild blackberries so the blackberry vines are covered over this they’re on top of it they’re over it they’re under it we got blackberries all over the place so I’ve turned a nonproductive shrub into a productive fruit bearing shove but right now it does look a bit unkempt a bit messy my future goal is to just wipe this all the way out and add another pairing of once again pineapple guava and IL Agnes shaping them like everybody else does in the yard now the center piece of this whole thing is the fruit tree this is an apricot tree it’s got some bulbs growing underneath it daffodils um and this apricot is producing this year this is a fairly new addition to the yard this is the first first year it’s actually started setting fruit and we’ve got quite a few apricot on this tree for the first time since it’s been in um it is the center piece it’s the focal point it has like I said these bulbs these daffodils underneath it and then also I’ve got this thick dense uh oregano growing as a ground cover kind of to help suppress the weeds right next to the tree we have a shrub and this is a pomegranate it is going to FL I have another pomegranate in my backyard that this gets cross-pollination with so definitely these get cross-pollinated I don’t just have the one and I do try to shape and prune this guy as we go throughout the year and then on the very back side we have another small bit of Elderberry same story with the pruning I chop them till about four or 5T tall every year very aggressive with the pruning and they will always come back taller and more productive so ultimately I’ve got the tallest shrub species On The Backs side I’ve got the smaller shrub next to it and then the tree to book end it right there now amongst all this what you probably can’t see is the nitrogen fixing IL Agnus that’s right we got an IL Agnus hiding back here this is my chop and drop sacrificial species at some point it’s going to be chopped all the way down to the ground and that nitrogen and The Roots will become bioavailable to the plants nearby so it’s basically a fertilizer plant and at some point I might move it or just chop it all the way down and put another IL Agnus right here next to the apricot tree and then another pineapple guava shrub so that’s it Garden fans this is my front yard Food Forest I’m doing the best I can to grow food as Tastefully as possible here in the suburbs um without pissing off my neighbor so you got any questions about anything just ask uh please like share and subscribe as always thanks for coming out to check it out God bless