It’s early Memorial Day weekend in my small space urban garden. My edible perennials are really taking off! As my berries and fruits trees are getting more established, they are now beginning to bear fruit! I continue to train plants to grow on a variety of trellis systems to increase plant density. Espalier pruning techniques have kept trees looking nice while remaining compact.
As many over-story plants are getting established, I continue to layer in some smaller, plants which include herbs, flowers, and fruit bearing ground covers. I’ve set up a few mini fruit tree guilds and other companion plantings.
In the one acidic loving fruit bed I have blueberries, lingonberries and wintergreen. These are all quite happy growing alongside each other. At the base of my 4-in-1 stone fruit multi-grafted tree (peach + apricot + plum + nectarine) I also have oregano, citronella balm and yarrow. In another edible landscaping bed I have an Asian persimmon, some honeyberries, Alpine strawberries and garlic chives.
The trellis systems are all in place. No doubt, the passion fruit will be an aggressive grower. My Chinese yam (air potato) is growing very well. And my hardy kiwi is already blooming and setting fruit!
There as for my annual veggies, some plants are growing in conventional raised beds. Others are benefiting from my self-watering beds. I have phased out my SIP totes and built a massive 4ft x 8ft wicking bed. I can’t wait to see how the plants respond!
These are the annual vegetables I’m growing this year:
CONVENTIONAL RAISED GARDEN BEDS:
– Garlic
– Onions
– Peas
– Green Beans
– Corn
– Strawberries
– Alpine Strawberries
SELF-WATERING BEDS:
– Snap Peas
– Lettuce
– Arugula
– Corn
– Zucchini
– Spaghetti Squash
– Cantaloupe
– Sweet Peppers
– Watermelon
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42 Comments
I'm in Central NY in zone 5b. I LOVE passion fruit. I didn't think you could grow them in colder climates? May I ask which variety you have, where you got them and how you take care of them please? I would Love, love LOVE to have them here since they are 2 for 5.00 at the grocery store.
Can I ask where you got the H. Yellow Gooseberry? I've been looking for that variety and can only find the red.
Hi, great garden, I just subscribed. Your grapevine, it looks like it's in part shade, does it produce grapes? I'm thinking of planting a grapevine in a part shade.
Great use of garden, very inspiring. thank you and happy gardening
Thanks for the tour. What kind of camera are you using. It looks great!
Albo, last year I built two 3' by 12' sub-irrigated beds. I followed your instructions to the T and had a great harvest. This year, I topped off the beds with more potting mix, but the crops have not done nearly as well. What organic fertilizers should I have used and in what quantities?
What a fantastic video! Thank you so much for sharing. I love your enthusiasm and your creativity.
Do you make your own planter boxes? How so?
Great tour of your garden. Smartly put together. You made mention of your good friend, climate change, and I am assuming you mean man-made climate change. Would you do a video to substaintiate your good friend, man-made climate change. Please touch on the archeological evidence of the massive changes in temperature pre-industrialized world, to include both ice ages. Touch on the temperature data that says there has been no significant "warming" in the last 20 years or so. Touch on the hystaria of global cooling of the early 1970's and touch on the direct correspondance of increased activity on the Sun parrallels increases of Earth's Temperature as well as the direct correspondence of lesser activbity to lower temperatures. This is a serious request, not tongue in cheeck. I think the garden is great!!!!
Can you go more depth about your carpenter bee house? Thank You
thank you for your tour. Never heard of Feverfew. How do you use it?
I doing the same to my courtyard, to start. What plant do you recommend for a spot in my courtyard that doesn't get that much sun? Thanks for sharing.
does the tree make big roots which may destroy your foundation?
Really nice garden. I am envious!! I have a half acre and am in Zone 5B, can't grow peaches easily here, but will try
Thanks for posting your beautiful garden. I just sub'd your site. All the best.
Frank
Magnificent and well-planned. You're growing more in your 1/13 acre than I am on my 1/2 acre!
Thank you for your great videos. After a March snowstorm, it's great to watch these videos and look forward to gardening season. Really love your creativity and hope to build some of your SIP raised beds this year.
I have done this! Thanks for the tour.
Beautiful garden. I love your edible landscape. I try to grow as much as possible each year as well. This year hoping to take it to a higher level.
Very impressive organized layout to show how much production one could get out of not a whole lot of space. Lead by example and others will likely recognize and emulate.
How did you do the ground prep b4 you started planting
I LOVE your tshirt lol…and.. Permaculture yeah?
where is this? i'm interested in growing natives
I'm curious about your results with thimbleberry, as I'm considering adding it to my garden.
You are an inspiration to me and I'm sure tons of other people. How long did it take you to get this whole garden in place? I'm going to look on your channel for videos about how you started. I fight with weeds all the time and I'm now trying to cover my planting area with wood chips. Keep up the good work! You present a way for people to be self-sustaining and self-sufficient, even in the face of climate change and other threats to our food supply.
Great tour, thanks 🍏🍎🍒🍋🍇
Holy Cow! You have to be retired or have lots of help to get that done. Awesome! I have 2 acres that I'm trying to turn into a food forest, plus chickens / bees/ etc…and I'm stuck working mandatory OT 6 days a week. I can't even figure out where I'm planting the 1000s of things I have coming/ growing in my basement. I think I surpassed crazy growing mode. Your YARD IS AMAZING!
Love the garden. We are just getting started on our own edible landscape in the Pittsburgh area. Can you recommend any good local resources for the area?
Do you ever have issues with neighbors or passersby picking things through the gates of your yard?
So excited to see your Asian pears!! I know I'm 2 years late seeing this but if you still see/answer comments could you let me know how the Asian pears did….love your unbelievable, beautiful, and edible landscaping!! Saw Kurt Reed's post….flowers are fabulous and can be incorporated into an edible landscape….had to throw my 2 cents in on that (:
Impressive!
Berry good
Impressive Asian Pears!!!
Looks great and organized, I've never grown so many strawberries before. I know what you like 🙂
Location, location, location! Where are you? What zone are you in? Most of this information is specific to climate, so viewers need to know where you are.
Awesome garden; it’s so clean & pretty to look at but edible too! Great job!
One of my favorite jams is the lingonberry jam. 😋
Thanks for sharing
I know time has passed. Just curious as to how the wild animals have been. I'm in zone 6A more urban/city open front yard space and worried about wild animals visiting, what's the input if you done mind answering. YT
I just subscribed to your channel 😁🤚🏽 🌿🍠🌱🍅😍
Wow I’ve never seen black currants, I want a gooseberry, but I don’t know how well it will grow here in the tropics 🌴☀️ , I recently bought a Star Gooseberry tree, but I can’t imagine they will be the same as gooseberries that grow on the ground, I last had them when I was 3, 51 years ago in England, I still remember them! Watching your lovely productive garden from Queensland Australia 🇦🇺
Where abouts are you? Gooseberries in England are green
White Strawberries- that’s odd I’ve never heard of them, I don’t think that would work in my brain..lol
What area of the country are you at? I'm trying to see if I can grow what you're growing, I'm in San Benito TX
Loved the garden tour, and the t-shirt! I’m currently relandscaping our front lawn into an edible perennial garden in zone 9b and found your charming garden very inspiring! Thank you for sharing it. 🌻
Blueberry bush here, strawberries there, kiwi over there 👉….brilliant!!
You have a beautiful garden!