Converting your entire property into a lush, edible landscape can be fun and rewarding. Of course, there may be design challenges to overcome. In this video, I show you some plants that I’ve placed on my small suburban lot in order to feature verdant greenery, while also creating some seclusion and privacy.
At least 90% of all plant species on my lot are edible or perhaps medicinal in some way. There are the usual berries and fruit trees, from Goumis to Persimmons. But also things that can be used as herbal medicine like St. John’s Wort and Yarrow. New Jersey Tea, Chamomile and Sweet Woodruff can be used in teas. Some things love full sun. But some fruit bearing plants actually do well in shade, such as Jostaberries, Gooseberries and Currants.
If you are serious about digging in, I encourage you to check out some of the books featured in this vid:
Lee Reich:
– Landscaping with Fruit: https://amzn.to/2lMCSqd
– Grow Fruit Naturally: https://amzn.to/2NdBidi
– The Pruning Book: https://amzn.to/2tLtuaB
Michael Judd:
– Edible Landscaping w/ Permaculture Twist: https://amzn.to/2KzBVzA
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Edible landscaping just makes good sense. And as you’ve seen in this video, it certainly melds well with conventional gardening techniques too. On my property I have 3 sub-irrigated (self watering) beds that are used for my annual vegetable production. And there are some nice raised beds too!
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35 Comments
Great video! Yours is the second one I’ve watched that mentions goumi berries. Where can I get one?
Amazing yard! I'm just starting to have my garden, thanks for sharing your videos!
I would love to grow all those berries. I have a few, but not enough room for as much as you have.
Very nice 👍🏻
Inspirational! Thanks for sharing
That is so beautiful and amazing. What a wonderful use of space! It sort of reminds me of my grandma Edith’s house. She had a little brick house with a small fenced-in yard smack-dab in the middle of the city limits but she made it like a farm, even had a little chicken coop with a couple hens (that would sit on her lap & watch TV with her at night LOL!). That was of course before it was a law to not have chickens if you live in the city limits. Anyways, this brought back some great memories & I love watching the progress of people’s gardens! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank you! Very informative!! What zone are you?
Impressive – so much to love. Resources/recommendations on how to espalier. The pear tree seems to be planted very close to the wall
Now that is totally inspiring! I am in a middle age spurt of energy in my own garden in Bavaria Germany – planting a bee annual flower garden, extra beds, maybe a new greenhouse, My garden has been in a kind of rut for years but this year my creativity is soaring! Thanks for new ideas!
On board with most everything, but please reconsider the Air Potato. It will reseed and take over property that is not yours, very invasive. A grape vine would do well on your stretch of naked fence at 9:30. Where are you located ?
Is all your plants perennials?
Beautiful garden!!🍅🌽🍆💕💕💕🌼🌺🌻HAPPY gardening!!
WOW🌲🌲🌲Absolutely stunning work🌲🌲🌲
You should be very proud of your family heritage❣️❣️❣️
You will cherish these videos of your Dad in years to come❤️❤️❤️
Loved the book list!
You certainly have unitized all your property well, the way issues have surfaced with chemicals used on our food you are doing yourself a big
favour. I have started but far from ours but learning to pay more attention to food source and less on my flowers. Can I ask what zone you are in?Thanks for sharing. 👍❤️😊
Just found your channel. Really cool. I love the edible landscape idea. Lots of great info. Thank you!!
How on earth do you water all of that?
What an excellent job you have done with your limited resources! Where are you at…climate wise?
Thank you for the tour of your amazing edible landscape. It completes all I need to know to transform my "yard" and complete the home of my dreams. I would add only one honorable mention to your fine video, that is the benefit to so much of the tiny ecosystem that makes it all possible. I can't wait to get started. I cannot afford custom raised beds and containers, so my plan is to repurpose anything that works for containers and focus on locating the plants correctly and ensuring water.
What zone are you in?
Hi. First time gardener here. I am currently planning to build a pair of your SIP grow boxes and noticed that its not in your garden anymore. Did you replace them in favor of the SIP raised beds? And if so, why? I kind of like the idea of growing at waist high and not having to worry about as much ground contact of the wood (just the legs). The only thing I can think of to worry about is temperature of a raised planter versus something much closer in the ground. I am in zone 8 (Texas) with very hard clay soil. Would you still recommend building the grow box planter, or would you recommend building a raised bed for me?
Please share tips on creating rich soil that must support your amazing plant collection. What do you use to fertilize or amend your soil?
Beautiful. And I think you like berry so much
Happy gardening indeed! God bless you
Fantastic video, thank you. This is the best video I've seen for showing how to build an edible landscape in the somewhat limited space you have around a house. I am still renting but have a lot of perennial edibles in pots and am looking forward to the day when I can give them a permanent home in the ground.
Oh my god 😍 im speechless this is so beautiful
Excellent work👍
What Zone pls?
I am just seeing this video and love it. I too live in zone 6 with a smaller yard and this inspired me. Great job!
This is absolutely beautiful! I love the functionality of all of your plants. I have been looking for edible plants that will tolerate a shady area of my Landscape And this was very helpful.
You gave me some great ideas!
Also have you tried going your corn the 3 sisters way? It’s how the native Americans grew corn, beans and squash. The corn serve as a trellis for the beans, the beans bring nitrogen into the soil for the corn, and the squash serves as a ground cover for the corn and beans.
How do you grow your Blueberries? Any recommendations? I have had much trouble growing blueberries
Great t-shirt!
Your set up is awesome, thanks for all of the inspiration.
Wow. I love this, but for a first time gardener, it seems almost overwhelming, especially thinking of the cost of all these plants. Could you do something on how to begin? How much would you start with the first year? What things should I pick?