I have over 50 fruit trees planted in my backyard, and thats not inculding all the other perrenials. Now that everything has gone dormant it is easier to see just how many things are planted in the food forest, and the kind of spacing I go by.
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You have nice rich soil buddy. Good work
James I live in Farmingdale, New York. Please let me know where I can buy good quality fruit trees and plants for my small garden. Please keep up the good work. I've been learning so much from you.
We started our food forest last Fall and I am so excited. I was wondering what books you recommend for pruning fruit trees? So far we have pears, cherry, and apricot.
Thanks for sharing James. Is there a particular way to plant fruit trees, so they won't fight for the sun?
How do you start this process with an established perennial flower garden?
Someone stop this madman
Im tired of annuals dude, so much work, I wont be forever young, thanks for the vid. Just pruning & fertilizing is so much eazier to grow food!
Do you buy your fruit trees or plant cuttings. They seem very expensive to me from nurseries. Thanks.
"No matter where I dig, there's life." Well said! Words to live by 🙂
VIP- check this out, why to grow 3 trees in one hole, and trim them well
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by the most serious fruit breeders
Hi James! I’ve really enjoyed your videos. We just moved to a 1/5 acre suburban property and I’ve been working hard to improve it. I’ve installed a hedgerow with edible, native, and medicinal plants. What is your long term plan for all the trees? Will you keep them pruned to stay smaller? Will you let some grow full size?
What do you do about cross pollination with all those different types of fruit tree so close in that one area? P.S. love how you use wood chips as a top layer.
I put a few passionfruit vines on a fence and now nothing else near them manages to grow because the passionfruit roots are so invasive. On the other hand my passionfruit vines are the only thing in the garden that manages to grow through Australia's extremely hot dry summers, so I should see the glass as half full.
We are trying to build a food forest quickly in our 1/4 acre zone 6b NJ suburban yard. Quickly because we are starting in our 60's and would like to benefit from it as soon as possible. I am a bit intimated by the care fruit trees seem to require. My main question is, do you adhere to a strict spray schedule? Do you spray at all? If any, what do you consider a "must-do" spray? Thank you for sharing your wealthy of knowledge with us so generously.
Good to know you wont have frozen ground with the mulch that's awesome
I have yet to find a video of yours, James, about potatoes, turnips and other tubers. Do you grow them?
I have yet to find a video of yours, James, about potatoes, turnips and other tubers. Do you grow them?
Thank you for sharing so much great content. Thoughts on using cardboard to kill grass in order to woodchip the lawn and start super soil for growing?
Stark Bros says 12'-15' spacing! 😀
who told you NOT do do THAT?!
Do you know of a website or other source that tells the root depth of plants, to use as a guide regarding the 7 layers of plants (or at least enough to get a newbie started)? You really should write a book – a food forest guide.
How large is your plot?
Do you leave the fallen leafs and other fallen organics on the ground and put wood chips on top of them or do you remove them before you add wood chips?
When you are first starting on a cleared property, should you apply wood chips a foot deep over entire backyard, then wait through winter and start with planting your tallest trees first? I want to start a food forest but don’t know where to start? Thanks for any advice.
Hi James, your yard and videos are amazing, thank you for sharing. I really appreciate the 3D approach to plants, from what space they take up in the air down to the different root systems.
How much money do you spend on your garden a year? (Not being nosy, wondering about costs, as someone interested in doing this.)
Trees – You mentioned you buy from nurseries, and that you're ok with the approach of planting 50 fruit trees to get 10 – but when I look up dwarf fruit trees on Stark Bros, they're $30 – $50 each. That's $2,500! (Or even if you just plant 10, that's $500) Or do you have a network of folks who will give you cuttings?
You also mentioned planting annuals each year, which add up. Purchased?
I'm guessing mulch/compost is all self created?
I mean as long as they are fruitless and ginormous trees you should be fine. I have to many useless trees that are preventing sun in my backyard.