This year, I moved into a house where the previous owner had planted an abundance of useful crops. I've been delighted to find peaches, lemon balm, mulberries, jerusalem artichoke, pecans, walnuts, and more, all growing feral even after a few years of abandonment and neglect. It's my pleasure to work off of this foundation and restore those plants to health as well as establishing more, even if I don't stay here for very long. Maybe I won't get to eat any strawberries myself, but I can plant them all around the house and know that the next resident will have the option to enjoy them. No one should be stopped by fear that the hard work will go to waste - some new owners will rip everything out, true, but some of us will take the head start gratefully and keep it producing.
I planted a fig from a cutting and in less than a year with organic fertilizer, I have figs (mulberries too as well as Papayas). So some people might say they are not living in their current residence foever, but this does not matter. Plant trees now.
@@baddriversofcolga The fig trees I have from cuttings, might be some fast-maturing variety or perhaps it was loads of organic matter I added to it, but I was surprised myself. They are smaller green figs and I am curious to see if they grow to full-size figs in less than a year.
@@MarkBiernat Very cool. I've got an LSU Purple and another one that I don't know as it was taken from someone else's tree but it's probably either a Celeste or Brown Turkey.
The support stick is for shipping from the distributors to the nurseries, and to protect the trees from wild ones running through the nursery without looking where they are going. That's how we make reservoirs for the tomatoes, with a circle of dirt, so we can fill it up and go to the next ones efficiently. When I was little I dug tunnels under fallen trees, and made pottery from the clay layer and filled them back into the dig site, and braided the lawn in the backyard into intricate mazes, and planted thousands of tops of plants in perfect rows and columns in the sand around the playground, and dammed up the gutter with dozens of dams that slowly filled up from a leaking pipe in the summer, breaking the top one and woooosh!~
I am lovin some fall tree planting as well DTG. I am planting multi-purpose trees for food for people and wildlife. Mulberry, persimmon,pawpaw,etc. You need a pew pew for deer season. Put some protein in the freezer.
I know you moved from your place in the tropics. Im in the Caribbean. We had the same weather patterns. We are getting a lot of rain this season. I cleared the back of the property planting avocados, breadfruit, sapodilla, suriname cherry, Barbados cherry, gut apple , pink grapefruit, egg fruit, achacha, jaboticaba, tangerine, limes, lemons ,orange, passionfruit on the fence, pigeon peas and guavas. Phew! Hope you have as much( and more) success where you are now. Stay safe and healthy.
I've found that I have to plant my fruit trees on mounds, rather than using burms in Houston, TX. Lots of clay, and lots of flooding. I've lost a few fruit trees to heavy flooding.
Funny you mentioned pear salsa, I made pear salsa for the first time this year with my very own pears from a tree I planted almost two years ago, it was so good! 🤣❤️
I'm surprised you're allowed to garden and plant trees on a rented property! Although I never understood why landlords would be opposed. You're basically paying them to improve their property and they'll end up with some lovely fruit for years to come!
Becca and I met Sam today, I got a grape vine for our fence, even though we may be moving...and I got a lemon thyme, as mine died, and a Rachel mulberry too! But those I plan on keeping in bigger pots, so if we move, I can take them with me : ) (Scrubland Farm, at the Friday Ocala Market at the McPherson complex). A good day so, great timing, on planting well for the fall, thank you!
I really want the mp3 of your Johnny Appleseed song at the end, so I can blast it across our yard to the neighbors while my 3- and 5-year-old help me dig a big hole to plant a tree. I mean, we can do it without musical accompaniment, no worries. But the song would make it EPIC.
Once again, I love it that you are doing hands on, show n tell in the video because I can see how you put the goodies in the bottom and then stirred it a lil, then added dirt, etc etc. I remember it so much better. Thank you!!!
I have 2 fruit trees I'm planting tomorrow. However, I have learned that my soil, isn't the WORST it can be, but is clay. The holes I dig become vessels when it rains. I dug the hole for one of them last week. It rained. It is STILL holding water. So, the solution I'm trying is to create a mini-good dirt biome for every tree I plant. I've made the holes MUCH larger than the root balls. I was basically sitting waist-deep in one of them. My plan is to make a salad for them below, where it will take years to get to yet. Large sticks at the bottom, mixed soil, oak leaves, some mucky stuff from my drainage ditch area( is this a terrible idea? I don't really have compost yet) and then once I've filled the holes, I'm making an above-ground berm with topsoil and pine bark mulch. I plan to use the clay dirt to surround the berm as a basin rim that will degrade over time. Am I going too far? I have fruit trees on the property that were there when I bought it last year, but some have died (peach) and all the surviving ones have trunks covered in lichen, which I understand indicates an issue. I'm guessing the issue is the difficulty the roots have getting through the clay.
My father gave me a tomato plant when I was 5 and he taught me how to care for it.....I guess my terrible manicure is his fault! David-I am planting 3 fruit trees this weekend ...some types of pear and apple from seeds. Who know what I will get. Love experiments.
Fire and remedy: 1 oz of pure orange oil mixed with 1 gallon of water, poured directly into their nasty little nest. The orange oil dissolves their exoskeletons, and they all die screaming. The water makes sure it gets down into their hill and gets the queen, too. It's truly a wonderful thing.
Thanks to you and other youtubers ive got a food forest growing up out back. Ive got mangos, lemons, papaya, guava, peach, avocados, loquat, and three different species of banana You rock man keep it up! Oh im in florida too.....our soil bro, what a blank canvas, as in devoid of everything useful, we have huh? Lol
Oh my goodness David that soil is horrible I thought mine was bad with two inches of topsoil and I just so happened to be in a riverbed so I've got like 3 inches of silt 3 inches of clay 3 inches of rock and then repeat
Would now be a good time to plant freshly rooted fig and mulberry cuttings in 8b? My landlord bulldozed all of my fruit trees to make room for his man cave and I took about 80 combined cuttings of everything. That was at the beginning of August, so everything that's going to root at this point has. Our winters are generally mild, but we have wicked wind, so I'm not sure if I should put off planting them for another year or so (or at least until spring) to let them develop more roots (not that I don't have more cuttings than I need, but I'm really good at killing potted plants over winter because I'm not in full-blown gardening mode and just don't think to check on them... I killed my pineapple guavas and persimmon last winter because I forgot about them.) We're really wet Fall through Spring with heavy soil, if you think that makes a difference.
Super cool. I love my florida king peaches! But the stink bugs love them more than I do, and poke little holes in every one. This leaves dimples and weird lumpy spots. Still taste good, however.
One thing I tried to do to help my trees out was use a spacing fork to essentially broad fork the bottom of the hole and loosen the soil similar to double digging. It was nice and mounded with the tree well above its previous level but it has since settled back down. What do you think? Waste of time or helpful? The trees seem to be doing well. Also do you think the embankment idea is good for heavy clay? I typically worry more about my trees getting soggy or rot.
I think the spading fork is a good idea. If you are planting at a wet time of year in soggy ground, no need for an embankment. You might even make mounds and plant a little higher.
I wish all the people thought and did like you David The Good, my aunt planted a Mandarin orange tree, and it grew well, reached a height of 8 ft. high, the first mandarins it gave her were so sour, but the next year and year after they were sweet n sour, she later rented to 2 tenants, she fell, broke her hip, wasn't able to tend to her Mandarin, you'd think the tenants couldn't had watered the tree, nope not happening, well the tree dried up, no more free mandarins. :( Peach trees and a Rachel Mulberry, hmm...that last tree was the Rachel Mulberry right? For a second its leaves looke kind of similar to the Catalpa's leaves. Thumbs up, thanks for sharing and greetings from Mexico! :)
For the fire ants “orange fuego”. It’s a mixture of orange oil and something else (I forget) which just basically melts their exoskeleton (insert meniacal laugh) 😈🔥
I bought a mango tree that was broken off to 4 inches. It has multiple sprouts coming off the broken main stem. How do I establish a main stem and when?
That looks like filler dirt with construction debris buried with it. Horrible stuff! The fire ants like the pots because it's higher ground! They don't drown during heavy rains.
Yes. Trees release more water into the air, improve soil fertility, help create breezes, change the fungal communities in the soil, make microclimates... lots of changes.
I'm guessing the reason for the fire ants is because it has great drainage. I notice one of the plants I was going to buy had them too. I picked another plant.
How do you protect your fruit trees? We live in an area with deer. Should I fence around the young trees, or would they be fine with just the trunk guards that go around them? I'm a newbie fruit tree grower.
We live in Brooksville, just north of Tampa. I was going wait until the spring, not wanting to have to protect the trees from potential frosts and fail, thereby losing the trees. Should I be worried? Or, just go for it?
If you are planting tropical trees or citrus, wait until spring. If you are planting temperate trees such as apple, persimmon, pear, peaches, plums, etc., you are fine planting now. No need to protect them.
Nice! I bought a few fruit trees too and live in n fla. I haven't put them in the ground yet. Should I put them in now or wait until it gets cooler out?
Big pot til they are at least 2 years old. I'm in south Georgia and doing this will avoid many problems with disease and stress, just baby them if you plant in ground .
Your videos are enjoyable and informative. I have a white Elderberry, do you know if its edible? High tall does Elderberry gets and can I prune it to keep it short? Thank you very much.
Thank you. According to PFAF: pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Sambucus+gaudichaudiana I am not sure how tall white elderberry gets or if it responds well to pruning - I have not ever seen one in the US.
David can grow anything anywhere... He's the Master G of pushing the Zone! As for myself and most others I know, UofF developed varieties prove most successful. (SWFL here) FlordaPrince, Flordaglo, TropicBeauty, TropicBeauty, and UFGold will likely produce best for you. 👍😁
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My mum said an avocado takes 9 years till it grows fruit, so I never planted one after 16 years living in my own home.I have a few that after I’ve eaten, I’m going to plant. In Australia they are $90 per plant from the nursery. Sorry mum but I wish I never listened to you....
