Top 10 Edible Plants, Cactus, and Trees for the Arizona Desert!
In this video Jake Mace shows you his top 10 Edible Sonoran Desert Plants, Bushes, Cacti (Cactus), and Trees for the Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe Area! These edible plants, cactus, and trees can be a beautiful and delicious part of your home landscape!
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42 Comments
Your garden is beautiful its giving me so much inspiration ❤
Any of those plants attract hummingbirds?
I can confirm the power of aloe Vera as a burn treatment. I am a burn survivor, I was severely burned when I was young, and one of the things my parents used to treat my wounds was aloe. My wounds were dressed every 30 minutes. I was burned over most of my face and arms. But, I healed and survived when the doctors had sent me home to die.
More videos like this would be great. Thank you!
Two questions on the noplitos cacti, the fig seeds are really hard is there any value to trying to eat those or should they be strained out? Do you have problems with mealybugs? Mine recenlty picked up an infestation, any tips to preventing them?
Great video with tons of great info. I will share this with my friends. Thank you. I just subscribed .
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Oh thank you!!! I needed this information. I’m back to the desert after living in western Washington for a long time. I’m missing my gardening I did up there. This helps.
when I lived in Arizona my grandmother had a couple of big fig trees…don't know if they were native or not but they had some big juicy figs…
Omg, I love you..lol.. your tips are great and your choice in plants is fantastic !
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Do you have any problems with scorpions on your property with the greenery?
i love you how you outlined the negatives of the rocks … I live in southern California desert and people are going rock left and right
2021 still looking for information on edible plants because Covid-19…. First lol.
Anyway how is the garden doing Guy.
Food Forrest in Arizona? Brilliant!! Peace Love and Light to you 😉
Just found you and so happy I did.
I moved from Virginia Beach to Tucson September, 2019 and in the process of doing away with the horrible gravel..
So much great information. Thank you!
Peruvian apples taste very good (as I recall.) White inside with tiny black seeds throughout the flesh. Kind of like a pear? We've had one growing in our yard for a couple of decades. However, the birds ravage the fruit before it can even get ripe. Haven't been able to eat one for many, many years now. I pay for the water, they eat the spoils. Ants are another huge problem. Potato bugs, grasshoppers, some small yellow bugs that cover squashes. Now in recent years there is a red and black bug that came out of nowhere and is everywhere! I've pretty much given up growing my own organic foods via a home garden.
They will do much better with regular water.
Thank you so much. Would these plants tolerate the cold? Idaho has a desert climate and cold winters to zero degrees. Also want to say I loved the shot of the neighborhood and how alive your area looks. And the turtle too. So cute.
The only people that can eat the Saguaro fruit are from the Tohono O’odahm Nation. It is a federal crime to pick the fruit of the saguaro on any land other than your own.
I'm frustrated with my saguaro because it is thin at the bottom and fat on top. It doesn't have a body shape like this one and it's about the same height. It looks kinda ugly like a light bulb. It was the only one available at the time.
Do you know of Brad Lancaster’s work on rain water harvesting? He’s out of Tucson.
I have peruvian apple cactus cereus peruvianus growing in Greece, but it's hard to get it to fruit, any tips or tricks? is it pollination or the clima? it's in Attica near Athens.
Excellent video , thanks for sharing your desert wisdom here .
Thank you!!!
Dude you are awesome! Thank you so much for all of the information! I’m so glad to find someone who is passionate about native plants like I am!🙏🏻
Great video! Lots of inspiration for me.
One thing to note, I believe that you should collect the mesquite pods off the tree (or have something to capture them as they fall). They can carry disease once they are on the ground
Chupa Rosa in Spanish is “Hummingbird “
Saguaro Cactus
Net Leaf Hackberry
Ironwood Tree
Wolfberry
Chuparosa
Prickly Pear
Aloe Vera
Florida Blue Palo Verde
Peruvian Apple Cactus
Mesquite Tree
Awesome video I live in Phoenix Arizona and hung out at Tempe nightclubs for 2 years I'm originally from Florida I'm currently in Missouri but I liked your video good video! I am in to herbs and survival food kind of thing so thank you for your video!
Do you use a drip system for watering?
Cactuses ??
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Super useful. I live in the Mohave Desert region of AZ at 3,500' elevation in Zone 8B for plantings. On a quarter acre but a lot of that is septic field. I have been here 1-1/2 years and have some veggies in large containers in part of the yard. Will be doing some renovations on the yard so your tips are helpful. Thanks. Congratulations on your new Fatherhood! Will you be growing Moringa at your tropical homestead property with Nicolle? I am thinking of it myself.
Mesquite skeet skeeeet~~!!
Thank you for the info. 😉
Extremely useful video(s) !
Thanks for this video!! Saguaro cactus, Netleaf Hackberry, Ironwood tree, Wolfberry, Chupa Rosa, Prickly Pear (Indian Fig variety), Aloe Vera, Florida Blue Palo Verde, Peruvian Apple Cactus, Mesquite tree.
Gavin newson
Your front yard is like an oasis in the desert!
I live in az and its monsoon season I just found a mushroom growing in my garden its huge its growing under my pumpkin patch! I wanted to ask if it is safe to eat its white and has a very large top more than a foot wide is there a way to know if its safe to eat smells great lol😊
Great video. Love the way you showed native edible plants that don't take a lot of water in the desert! One suggestion: The best bet for mesquites is our native velvet mesquite – not to be confused with non-native Chilean mesquite trees that grow too quickly and have been known to fall over during a storm.