Matthew's yard is small but his fruit tree selection and placement are impressive. Thank you Matthew for showing us we can grow fruit trees in small spaces.
I think we start with a little bit of plants. Then we end up trying to stuff all the plants that will fit in our yards over the years. I sure did. It gets addicting.
❤ The more I watch your videos, the more I want to move to Florida. My husband and I are in the military. We're both retired. Well, his last day is tomorrow. We live in central Texas. I love the idea of creating an oasis in my backyard with fruit trees. I was born in Trinindad, but I grew up in St. Vincent. We had fruit trees everywhere. I loved it. Our snacks growing up were fruit, not candy. Great video as usual. 😊❤🎉 Thanks for sharing.
She was really nice to show you around her place that was great, her pick your own fruit business sounds good to me, she should be fixed up good for food. Thanks
I had about 100 fruit trees planted in pots last time in my very small garden. 10x60 feet space. The problem with fungus and insects were crazy cause of how close they were planted and not much air flow. I had 70 fig trees of different varieties planted in 3 gallon grow bags back to back with each other so i cut all of them to single stems and got over 200 fruit in 4 months. They dont go dormant in my country so i get 3 crops of fig a year. Unfortunately because of the fungus and disease i had to throw 50 fig trees away and now i only keep 15. But i still have another 40 fruit trees. So now i have like 55 trees plus 20 jaboticabas which im planning to sell when they grow bigger
Wow! Your yard is beautiful! I am so envious, haha. I'm trying to get my yard fixed up. I got 3 mangoes and a white peach tree and some dragon fruits I bought. I'm in southern California, so it's a little trickier to grow them, I hear, but I think I can do it. Countless others do it. Anyways, though, beautiful yard!
Beautiful food forest. Thank you for sharing. If you add some natural hardwood mulch, grass clippings, leaf mulch, pine needles to build up your forest floor it will solve a lot of the watering shortage. Also if you add ALOT of flowerring plants to the underside, you will get better production/fruit take.
I love highlighting these smaller yards and what can be done in the space. I know many of us who live in south Florida know, a lot of our property sizes are very small, lucky if you have a 1/3rd acre lot for your house. Very relevant
Well done I have to cut my coconut tree to close to my avocado tree an taking all the nutrients it's about 5 yrs grafted an flowers once an never again
I wish i lived some place warmer. I have a 1 acre food forest i made but I'm in Nebraska so my options are limited. I have about 100 fruit trees, Apple, Pear, peach, plum, hazelnut, pawpaw, then about 200+ fruit bushes and vines around the borders of the yard and house. All of my cold hardy kiwi died this winter. Like 20 plants total. My Schisandra vines do great. Might replace the kiwi with some of those. If i lived some place more tropical i would grow so much more.
I would be interested in how you prune them to keep them smaller. I would like to hear what fruit the things are instead of the varieties cuz I have no clue what they are maybe if I lived in Florida. I would also like to know which things would be able to grow in which zones. But thank you for showing us your yard
I'll be visiting in the next few weeks and am looking to buy property and create a food forest. Any chance I could visit/tour? I don't have a RU-vid channel, I just want to learn and get some ideas 😊
30% wood chips, 30% peat, 30% sand and 10% biochar. You can make biochar by putting hardwood charcoal in a bucket and smashing into small pieces with a poece of wood(wear a mask). Then charge it wish nutrients, fish emulsion, worm castings, etc. Plenty of vids on making it. Good luck!
Very interesting and enjoyable. I love to grow pretty much anything, but I especially would like to be able to grow a variety of fruit trees. However, living in Kentucky my options are limited. I do grow indoors, and I have a options for outside, but not for what I'd like to be able to do, which are tropical fruits. It's amazing how many trees/plants Matt has there. I'd spend hours just sitting in the backyard. Thanks for the video, guys.
Kentucky has a great climate for paw paw trees(and they have a paw paw festival), persimmons, apples, peaches, pears, fig(take indoors or bury for winter) just to mention a few.
What is the ph on your soil? What do you feed your mango trees? Any tips for someone who has clay soil with 7ph soil. I am trying to lower ph and learning on what to give the mango trees.
I live in pompano Beach with a smaller yard and I’m working at getting my yard food forest to be tight like this. Any plant donations for local pickup welcome. I love the jungle forest feel and natural look.
That is way too close together. Anyone who has seen how big these trees get when they’re mature knows there’s no way they are going to fit there. Either they’ll shade each other out and not produce anything…or he’ll have to prune them extremely aggressively which will lead to very poor production as well. Also the rainbow eucalyptus will stunt all the trees around it. Hopefully I’m wrong, though, it’s a really nice fruit tree collection for sure and I hope he succeeds.
