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It’s all too easy to overlook the edges of your garden as a place to grow food. But a garden’s boundary can be every bit as fruitful as its heart.
From wall-trained fruits and scrambling vines to an edible hedgerow brimming with berries and nuts, the options are many and totally delicious!
In this short video we share some creative ideas for making your garden’s boundary both attractive and productive.
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Quince make a good hedge if looked after.
Blueberries required acidic soil. My garden soil is not, but the solution was Saskatoon Berries. They are doing well and are a great blueberry substitute.
A "few" tips. Haha what an understatement. I don't know where to start when I actually get my garden! Thank for all the quality videos.
Elk would eat anything not inside a fence. My yard is fenced, but they can see where they can land and come on in.
Joel Evertson, the nursery man who sold me a blueberry bush told me to put coffee grounds on top of the soil to make it acidic. Works great!
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I have two blueberry bushes growing in half barrel planters. They are doing great!
pomegranates make a wonderful living fence around my small orchard!
I have 35 foot privacy hedge made up of Duke, Northern Crop, and Patriot blueberry bushes. I shudder to think of the day we will need to replace those 6' and 7' bushes. I have such a wealth of them that we sell, eat, can and freely share with the birds and chipmunks.
Any suggestion for a freestanding location. My house faces south and I'd love to start using the front yard a little more for edible things. It's a very small lot but the western side is where I'd love to put a border. My neighbor on that side has no grass just very large trees that drop 1000's of acorns on my yard each year. With that I'd love to put a natural border up to keep the leaves on his side of the line and if I'm going to do that why not make it edible. Don't want it too wide either.
every informative video, i definitely try it ,
Hey Guys,
I would love to hear your opinion on Quince. I have a shrub out front that was there when I bought the house. I noticed some fruit the first year but not since. It is very thorny and thick. I'm thinking I should thin the shrub for best productivity.
I do have one more question about Espalier that has several parts. I have 8 foot of space. I want to give it a try with a Belgian fence, using 5 trees. This would actually be against my house. Is that advisable? I have a concrete foundation with a basement that goes down about 6 feet below where I am planting the trees. From the little homework I have done to date, I will do a lot more, it looks like using dwarf trees is the way to go. I know that some apple trees need different species or varieties for best propagation. Could I put in 2 plum trees with 3 apple trees, using a different variety of apple for each? Or, should I just do apple trees? Do you have a suggestion for the variety of trees that are good for the Northeast US for a first-time fruit tree grower? I am in New Jersey and our climate zone has been changed from 6B to 7. I would still plant for 6B to be safe. As I said before, my house is cement. In order to create the structure of a Belgian fence, I thought I would anchor 2"x4" studs on the house and run a wire from the studs for controlling the shape. How much support will the trees need to get the desired effect? I apologize for the lengthy question.
I have eleven blueberry bushes growing in 16-inch diameter pots. They produce a lot of berries for me!
If doing espalier, should I face them East and West or North and South
Growing vegetables in the tropics can be a challenge but I like to try lots of plants in our 'winter' and 'spring' . The summers in the dry tropics can be a drought or a very humid climate. This is where the challenges lie due to unpredictable humidity.
What is the app you were showing in this video?
I tried Greengages from the supermarket for the first time last week. Very nice! Have you tried growing them? Good for a hedge?
Such clever garden design. I'm impatient and want a singular mature hawthorn shrub (without poaching) and those selling hedging on eBay are trying to talk me out of it once they realised I wanted it for eating, telling me they had no problem sourcing it but why do you bother with hawthorn, get blackthorn instead. I've met a lot of people who are convinced that our native hawthorn is worthless as an edible but I'm so glad you mentioned this very highly underrated plant. I've developed a VERY strong affinity for the flavour and the pectin content makes jam take practically 10 seconds and idiotproof. I LOVE it with Greek Yoghurt.
Great video and ideas
We just started planting a Haskap(Honeyberry) hedge all around our property.
Excellent information
Fuk the jab
Sea buckthorn. Edible, super nutritious berries, nitrogen fixer and tons of thorns that keep deer out