James, I hope you know you're a very important person. Even if only one other person adopts your concept and vision, you've made the world a more beautiful, healthy, peaceful place 💚🌎💚
One thing in all my years is that I’m a great judge of character. Not only are you a great farmer but I know you are the type of person who would give the shirt off your back to help others. Never change!!
karlynne langerak yes I am also very observant and we can learn a lot about ppl and the way the treat their pets. Tuck is family! Not saying most people aren’t good to their pets but some people are outstanding. Putting others including their pets first. No doubt in some kind of crisis James would be looking out for his pet’s even if that meant putting his own life in danger. I can’t say enough great things about him. We sure can learn so much more than growing from him. This has become one, if not my favorite UA-cam channel.
The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni all the thanks goes to you. Keep up the great work. I’m trying here in NYC to start a rooftop garden. So much red tape but I’ve been relentless in trying to show them the benefits. I want to have all the kids learning at an early age. I have found kids will eat healthy, when including them in the kitchen. Now include them in the growing process too and no veggie will be safe. I want to collect rain water and even have bees showing and teaching the whole ecosystem. Sustainable change is what I feel can and will change the world. Like the old saying feed a man a fish he eats today. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Which immediately makes me think of aquaponics but that is for another day and topic. I’ll keep trying.
Book suggestion: “Grow a Little Fruit Tree” by Ann Ralph. Simple pruning techniques for small-space, easy-harvest fruit trees. It’s about keeping fruit trees small and manageable.
Just a heads up that the trick to hazelnut harvest is to pick them 2-3 weeks before they’re ripe. They’re edible in any stage of nut formation. Then bake them in the oven for a little while for that delicious, crispy nut experience. I live in Washington where we have amazing wild hazelnuts everywhere, but no one harvests them because the squirrels get them all early. So I spent one summer figuring out how to beat the squirrels, and that’s what I learned. Take the green fuzzies off the tree way early and bake them. Btw, they taste decent raw and immature without baking- similar to coconut. I’m glad to see another fan of the hazelnuts, as I haven’t seen any other youtuber gardeners trying to do them.
I like hazelnuts. I never knew that they grew in my area (I"m in Pennsylvania next to Jersey). My buddy's father grew filberts which I didn't know grew here either. It's just tough growing such things where I am because I' pretty much in the woods.
I did the same thing 3 years ago. Now I am getting disease resistant ones and ones specifically for my zone. I love your energy and learning new things. We are doing a food forest on my land. We have existing pecan orchard so I am learning how to get healthy pecans. I so appreciate your channel!🌱🌻💜Thank you
we are getting philosophical yet STILL PRACTICAL... I like the way you relate the cutting of an apple tree to somethings that we have to CUT from our LIVES... Thank you!
James, thanks for your enthusiastic videos. You are an inspiration to many, I’m sure. I keep watching your dog and he is the cutest, little guy! Keep enjoying your garden and stay as positive as you are. 😊
Something to consider in the future… If you were to cut a tree like that in late February, leaving some of the low branches alone, then you could utilize the root system, and graft on a variety you like, and re-train it upwards. I have done that with some of the wild apple trees that I have on the property I have. In the woods, there are a handful of established trees, with garbage fruit. With some deliberate grafting, the strong root systems and naturally beneficial placement brought the trees into a beneficial status, and I didn’t need to cut then replace them.
You remind me so much of Jerry Baker, the first gardening book I ever read, Talk to Your Plants. Changed my life. Like Jerry, so in tuned with real nature. Keep on the path, my friend, and all of us will be richly rewarded from your work!💕
James you are simply awesome. Thank you for your endlessly positive enthusiasm and your super practical teaching and wisdom. You rock! And thanks for spreading the word on permaculture. 👏🏽👍🏽
Thanks so much for all the knowledge big dawg✊🏾. Starting tomorrow morning and I couldn’t be more excited. Your channel has truly been a blessing. I had no idea that randomly buying a pack of seeds in April just messing around would take me on this journey. I thank God for it and I thank Him you! May He continue to bless you and bring you joy!
you have to make sure you have a pollinator for apple trees. red delicious is a pollinator for honey crisp. so, if you ditch it, your HC might not get fruit. They also need to flow at the same time. Good vid. I am 47 and been gardening since 27. I wish I had as big a garden as you. keep it up. great.
I bought 24 fruit trees since last year and discovered that they were not growing well, so I dug them up to check the roots. Sadly a lot of them have been bound with plastic ties :( I'm now digging up trees, grape vines and berry bushes. I've been putting them in water to remove the dirt from the roots and planting them again. I'm really worried about killing them with shock... I'm overwhelmed and feeling discouraged. I watch whatever videos pop up on my home page and yours usually pop up there everyday. Watching you with such good spirits and so much knowledge always gives me hope. Thanks for sharing your journey James. I appreciate all your years and time you have shared. I didn't know that trees are not supposed to touch each other either! Thanks
Today, after researching varieties that will do well in my zone 9b climate, I ordered an avocado tree and 2 Rabbiteye blueberries for my food forest. That avocado has been my dream for many years now and I'm ecstatic to plant it, watch it grow and reap the harvests. The blueberries will be propagated like crazy via cuttings and the plan is to make a hedge of them, a slice of blueberry heaven. Thanks for the inspiration James and Happy Gardening🌱
Good stuff Liliya, sounds like you are taking the right approach to avoid future issues. A hedge of blueberries sounds like an excellent idea, blueberry heaven is right. Happy gardening my friend
@@liliyasgardenchannel8876 Im also in zone 9b. If you are looking for a variety of blackberries that thrive here, check out Rosborough. Ive been growing them for over 15 years. They are hardy and very productive.
Cool thing about apples is if you have the wrong variety for your area, you can cut it down below the graft and graft the right variety onto the root stock. Nice video, James, thanks!
Hey James, I just retired and want you to know how much your videos are influencing me to garden. I think I have watched, liked, and subscribed to all of your videos. I love tuck. He is so sweet how he looks at you and waits for your attention. Thank you.
I know u weren’t to concerned about the apple trees roots. But if you hadn’t of cut the main trunk down with the chainsaw. You can easily rock the trunk back and forth and it exposes a couple of roots , you cut one or two with the hand saw and continue rocking the tree and it will come out. I’ve taken many trees out this size by rocking them back and forth particularly if you wet the ground. I usually have the trees out in under 10 minutes. Most people don’t believe me until they try it
I feel for ya man, I had to cut down 5 of my tree's due to the boring beetle. I had tears in my eyes when I did it. I had a Nectaplum, all in one Almond that was beautiful, a Fuerte avocado, a peach tree, and an apricot. I live in so cal just so you all know.
Hi JP. I bought a house and the first thing I was looking for was a yard. Not just for me to lounge, PS. IM in but for my dogs , but most importantly...The Food Forest.!!!!! Your videos have not only showed me a bunch of knowledge, but Im totally stoked on growing my own food. Who doesnt like vegetable soup ?? Or fresh fruit from the garden, herbs, all that good stuff that my body craves, it actually thanks me when Im eating good. And I love the clinics you give, so much knowledge. Thank You JP!!!!!
Thank you for sharing! Excellent point on growing pest- / disease-resistant varieties suitable for your region. Might want to consider soil type, too. I recommend prepping the ground correctly first and buying only healthy trees from reputable nurseries. Also, if you or your neighbors have a walnut tree, be careful what you grow, especially in terms of fruit trees. Walnut mulch might not be too bad; but I think walnut roots can release a toxin for some plants like apples and tomatoes.
Red delicious apples picked fresh off the tree are my favorite apple. I grew up surrounded by miles & miles of orchards in the Okanagan Valley in BC: apples, cherries, peaches, apricots, plums, pears.... many varieties of each.... just outside my backdoor. It was wonderful, most of those orchards have been turned into suburbs now. The delicious apple trees were enormous & the apples huge, up to 5 lbs, the size of a small pumpkin.
Hi James, I just love how you ALWAYS tell us what you have learned by mistakes it really helps so many of us. I’ve just got my new garden going, I’m a sm home grower and I’m 70 just moved from PNW to hot humid VA and whole new learning process. Ty so much I come to your channel so much!
ok I love that you just randomly mention you closed the fence so that Tuck can't get in while you're using the power saw because yes, that is important information to your viewers ty
You’ve got a tropical paradise in your backyard.,I love listening to you when I’m out tending to my own. Just moved to 3.5 acres with lots of fruit trees already growing and I brought my own gingers and bananas. I just need more cardboard and mulch to get rid of so much grass. Keep growing! I got box turtles eating my fallen persimmons. They are quite delicious.
You got me started on my food forest. 2 or 3 years ago. I didn't know where to start and you said I have to just jump in. Well I did. I'm in west central Florida and it's like a dang jungle. I love it. I've made pockets of semi-tropical and tropical plants and eating pretty well.
Love that you are fron Jersey and you are repping how to do it here specifically. Bought a house two years ago and have a long 60 foot garden fenced in with the typical stuff, but fruit trees are next. Very helpful and much appreciated. My Tucker says 👋 to your Tucker.
That is such excellent advice for new gardeners or people moving into unfamiliar territory - I'm very much guilty of planting things I love, which isn't always such a good idea as they might not love where I plant them! I'm sharing this with my young nieces & nephews who have gardens now. Cheers. 👍🐾🐅🙃
One of my BEST and most prolific apple tree came from a local, organic apple seed- This tree is SOO prolific year after year- only cost me the price of the organic apple.
@@crhu319 Perhaps nurture it along a little better in the very beginning- as you are competing with the birds/ mice and rats for that seed. Put a seed in a container- water it, care for it- then put it out in the yard.
That's the great thing about gardening James, You get to learn from your mistakes, there is always tomorrow and It allows you to take the lessons learned and make improvements in mark 2, mark 3 and so on. Fail to plan, plan to fail. Great video mate love it
I like my pear trees but also love the quince trees.| SO many trees- like the stone fruits, apples, quince, goji, pomegranate, mulberry, will grow a whole 'nuther tree if you just cut a small branch off and stick it in the ground. ,
I’ve always dreamt of having a food forest in my backyard here in NYC although I didn’t know to call it that at the time. So I started researching on the internet and James Prigioni popped up. It was almost like God sending a prophet to guide and inspire me. I just want to tell you that you and this channel are the reason I have started my food forest project in my tiny backyard. I don’t want to get into it but after breaking ground to plant my fruit trees I found garbage underneath my yard. I really feel that your incredible and inspirational positivity is what is getting me through this long and arduous process to dig up my whole backyard to remove all this garbage so I can realize my dream like you have. Thank you for this channel and I will be buying a few T’s to show my support. Keep up the good work bro.
I’ve made a lot of mistakes! I have a 6th of a acre! Like you said and I believe that working with your county extension service to help make better decisions for planting plants that take little to no chemicals! I love yellow delicious apples but here in eastern Missouri they have a problem. Same with Bradford pear! Some plants in a area have special needs that the soil and environment make it hard on them! Grow, eat and enjoy gardening! It good for you and very enjoyable! My daughter is growing the curly variety of hazelnut! I have a small ditch I want to grow hazelnuts in to slow the runoff! Love the curly variety for walking sticks💞❤️ Thank you for your show!
I'm really enjoying your videos. I'm a North Coast gardener and we have many of the same climate issues you do in New Jersey (humidity, roughly equivalent growing season, etc). Your food forest take on things is very new and very different to me and I'm learning a lot and getting inspired to try new things. Quick thought on chainsaws: I use an electric chainsaw and they are much, much less hassle than the gas-powered ones. Since you're in your back yard running an extension chord is no big deal. Borrow one from a friend and give it a try - you'll love it.
Thanks for all the great ideas! Gardening is such a fun and interesting pastime! I always enjoy your videos and find them inspirational and informative! Thank for sharing!
This video popped up at the right time for me! I've been saving every fruit wood we trim, especially our oldest precious Apricot whom we have to do the same as you did with the Red Delish. The wood is amazing in color, will be beautiful to burn in winter stove and it will make great mulch when we chop it. Our inherited orchard is overgrown and its hard taking stuff out but as you helped me understand, it is for the greater good of the forest. Thank you for the inspirational videos you continue to share with us!
Thank you for the informative videos.I started gardening at around 5yrs.old many yrs.ago.My Dad&Grandma taught me and gave me the love of gardening and growing our own food&hvng great tasting fruits and vegs.to share with friends. I've learned alot already just from watching a few of your videos and I can see your very passionate about growing your own foods as well.That's awesome! I'm not sure if your pup is a Yorkie,but it looks alot like one.That is the most mellow and well behaved little dog I've seen! I'd certainly love to know your secret for growing a little dog like that as well? I'm a new subscriber,&I thank you for your helpful and interesting informational videos. One thing I discovered several yrs.ago is that many fruit trees grow very well near the coast in sand or sandy soils.According to what will grow in the temperatures you live in,peaches&apples should grow very well in NJ. No matter where you live in NJ,you can't be too far from the coast and the weather and temps.there are very similar to where I live in Indiana,so I know those fruit trees as well as Cherry trees and Pear trees shld grow and produce very well in NJ. You're growing many of the same vegetables and fruits there we grow here,&you do very well with the things you grow. If your soil is sandy there,you shld try some Watermelon,Cantaloupe,&Honey Dew Melon if you enjoy any of those.They shld grow very well in your climate in sandy soil.Our soil here is so full of clay that we dnt hv much fortune in growing melons which is a shame bcs.I love a good melon of abt any kind. I'm sure you know about not growing certain veggies next to others,&that some will actually help others and help each other grow well.Tomatoes nxt to peppers is a bad idea as you get the pepper flavor in your tomatoes.There are several other examples but I usually have to look them up while drawing up planting plans each year. Take care,&God bless you. Thanks again for the great tips and good gardening wisdom!
You will want to reconsider your decision on not wanting to take the roots out. The main ones near the surface should come out or they will all send up suckers of new growth, they will be what ever the root stock is.
Good going on the food forest. We also have issues with squirrels so you might want to consider some netting to put over those hazelnut trees for protection. We've done that with success on some of our berry plants.
The federal government doesn't want people to grow their foods. The government wants you to buy food from the grocery store which comes from Mexico. The plants you buy at the big box stores will not grow anything. These plants are offshoots of hybrid plants and are created so as to grow little or nothing. All are no good. from Tomato plants to apple tree plants and everything in between. Don't waste your time trying to grow a garden. I grew gardens for many years and would get 30 or 40 tomatoes from each plant. Now I grow great looking plants and only get one or two tomatoes or one or two peppers or one or two watermelon.
@@louiekidd251 Then stop growing plants from a store, conspiracy over!! People are just lazy, mindless robots and want all the benefits of growing food with little to no work. Every where I travel to its the same old thing, the cost of living is so high, people dont have the time or energy to grow food for themselves, thats the real conspiracy MAN jk.
fully agree the tree needed to go, but where is your safety gear, i suggest you wear an eye patch for a week and put a splint on 1 leg to find out if you would miss them if you got injured.
When you have a fruit tree you don’t like why not cut some branches and graft on one you like. Just remember apple trees with apple, peach with peach, plum and nectarine. Your variety will double and triple. Good luck!
We moved into a house five years ago that had a golden delicious tree. The fruit on it tastes amazing however was not super healthy in the tree is dying because of lack of care from previous owners. Is also been attacked my bugs in the dying branches. Last year I was able to acquire several good new root systems from Air layering in this year I cut off a bunch of cuttings to propagate in hopes that they will grow. I'm maybe able to get one more year out of it just for that purpose and then it will be cut. I was also able to propagate several pear trees come to existing trees on my property. I took a few branches as I was pruning the pear trees last fall and just stuck them randomly in the wooded area in back of my property. I just went through yesterday and found that they are growing very well, between 7 and 8 feet tall and even flowering.
Grow some Clumping bamboo!! There’s lots of types of running and clumping that will grow there. The bamboo leaves and shoots are edible, also, the culms might have a few cups of water in each section
Great Video! I am prone to purchasing "cheap stuff" vs. higher quality so can relate to mistakes. I chose less expensive soil which has plagued me for years! Now I buy only best quality soil and make heaps of compost. Also, my Danish relatives make hazelnut snaps by soaking the nuts in vodka for a while (like months) and it is delicious! You can use various fruit and nuts for this and great to share with friends. The older it gets the better. Thanks for sharing!
now this is what I've been looking for, real Farmers with real world knowledge. If you are gardening and are not learning from your plants haw to approach life, you are doing it wrong. MUCH PROPS TO YOU AND YOUR FARM💪✊🙌
Great video! I just ordered 2 apples, a pie cherry, a peach, a fig, an Asian persimmon, and a plum. 1 of the apples is a liberty and the other is a wolf river apple. I'm excited to add these to my wild homestead! :)
Love your videos. You might be seeing seckle pear trees. The fruit has a rosy blush. They do very very well here in NY. I think that they are much more delicious than bartlet.
Red Delicious. That is the bottom of the barrel apple. I am glad you have figured it out. I hate taking out trees. I get invested in them and don't want to get rid of them even if they are just not working out. So it is very important that I plant what works.
Like removing a bad relationship from your life that you invested time in and envisioned growing into something positive - but which only brought shade into your life.
He always turns me on to some sweet funky music! That was great advice too! I’m in south eastern Michigan. It had never occurred to me to see which fruit trees are best for my USDA zone. I’m glad I saw this. In the spring, I had just planned to plant a pear, apple and peach tree.
Thanks Michael, yeah it’s always tough to cut down a tree you watched grow well. But I’m happy I learned the lesson and could apply it to the new forest. How’s your food forest looking this fall? Any ideas for spring too?
James, I hope you know you're a very important person. Even if only one other person adopts your concept and vision, you've made the world a more beautiful, healthy, peaceful place 💚🌎💚
“Every mistake brings with it the seed of an equivalent benefit”. I like it, not just for gardening, but for life.
Napoleon Hill has a lot of great quotes on success.
One thing in all my years is that I’m a great judge of character.
Not only are you a great farmer but I know you are the type of person who would give the shirt off your back to help others.
Never change!!
You r so right. I'm retired from a vets office. I love how he treats Tuck. Did u see him givin' Tuck a drink? He's very kind & conciderate.
You're too kind my friend, thank you for those words. Me and Tuck appreciate them
karlynne langerak yes I am also very observant and we can learn a lot about ppl and the way the treat their pets.
Tuck is family!
Not saying most people aren’t good to their pets but some people are outstanding. Putting others including their pets first.
No doubt in some kind of crisis James would be looking out for his pet’s even if that meant putting his own life in danger.
I can’t say enough great things about him. We sure can learn so much more than growing from him. This has become one, if not my favorite UA-cam channel.
The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni all the thanks goes to you. Keep up the great work.
I’m trying here in NYC to start a rooftop garden. So much red tape but I’ve been relentless in trying to show them the benefits.
I want to have all the kids learning at an early age. I have found kids will eat healthy, when including them in the kitchen. Now include them in the growing process too and no veggie will be safe.
I want to collect rain water and even have bees showing and teaching the whole ecosystem.
Sustainable change is what I feel can and will change the world.
Like the old saying feed a man a fish he eats today. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Which immediately makes me think of aquaponics but that is for another day and topic.
I’ll keep trying.
Sorry for the edits. Darn autocorrect lol 😂
WAS HAVING A ROUGH START THIS MORNING CLICKED ON YOUR VIDEO AND YOUR ENTHUSIASTIC GOOD ENERGY HELPED CHANGE THINGS AROUND, THANK YOU BRO
You’re welcome my friend, I hope the rest of your day is great! 😁😁
You inspire me not only in the garden, but in my daily life. Thank you.
Awe you're sweet Anna. Thank you for your kindness
Hello Anna...he's truly an inspirational person, full of knowledge after all these years.....Thomas, Denmark
@@jamesprigioni did you get your hazelnut tree from arbor day foundation? Or have you gotten any trees from them?
Book suggestion: “Grow a Little Fruit Tree” by Ann Ralph. Simple pruning techniques for small-space, easy-harvest fruit trees. It’s about keeping fruit trees small and manageable.
Just a heads up that the trick to hazelnut harvest is to pick them 2-3 weeks before they’re ripe. They’re edible in any stage of nut formation. Then bake them in the oven for a little while for that delicious, crispy nut experience. I live in Washington where we have amazing wild hazelnuts everywhere, but no one harvests them because the squirrels get them all early. So I spent one summer figuring out how to beat the squirrels, and that’s what I learned. Take the green fuzzies off the tree way early and bake them. Btw, they taste decent raw and immature without baking- similar to coconut. I’m glad to see another fan of the hazelnuts, as I haven’t seen any other youtuber gardeners trying to do them.
I like hazelnuts. I never knew that they grew in my area (I"m in Pennsylvania next to Jersey). My buddy's father grew filberts which I didn't know grew here either. It's just tough growing such things where I am because I' pretty much in the woods.
James you are one smart young man . Thanks for sharing what you have learned. Blessings
I did the same thing 3 years ago. Now I am getting disease resistant ones and ones specifically for my zone. I love your energy and learning new things. We are doing a food forest on my land. We have existing pecan orchard so I am learning how to get healthy pecans. I so appreciate your channel!🌱🌻💜Thank you
we are getting philosophical yet STILL PRACTICAL... I like the way you relate the cutting of an apple tree to somethings that we have to CUT from our LIVES... Thank you!
James, thanks for your enthusiastic videos. You are an inspiration to many, I’m sure. I keep watching your dog and he is the cutest, little guy! Keep enjoying your garden and stay as positive as you are. 😊
Something to consider in the future… If you were to cut a tree like that in late February, leaving some of the low branches alone, then you could utilize the root system, and graft on a variety you like, and re-train it upwards. I have done that with some of the wild apple trees that I have on the property I have. In the woods, there are a handful of established trees, with garbage fruit. With some deliberate grafting, the strong root systems and naturally beneficial placement brought the trees into a beneficial status, and I didn’t need to cut then replace them.
You remind me so much of Jerry Baker, the first gardening book I ever read, Talk to Your Plants. Changed my life. Like Jerry, so in tuned with real nature. Keep on the path, my friend, and all of us will be richly rewarded from your work!💕
Thank you for your education and guidance. Bought a shirt to support what you are doing.
Applewood smoked, pecan encrusted, rainbow trout.
Amen to having the courage to create a breath of fresh air in our lives...
your intro always makes me giggle and smile, thanks James for your enthusiasm.
James you are simply awesome. Thank you for your endlessly positive enthusiasm and your super practical teaching and wisdom. You rock! And thanks for spreading the word on permaculture. 👏🏽👍🏽
THE MORE YOU KNOW........ THE MORE YOU GROW !!!! love it ! Thanks James !
Yup, that one came to me being inspired by Bill Mollison quote I mention at the end how "yield is based on information"
Brilliant because it's true! 😆👍
With each of your videos James, I learn a ton. Planning on getting trees at some point and this was super helpful!
Love the energy! Love the wisdom! Such a blessing to see you do your thing. Thanks for another video!
💝💝💝 my day starts at its best when I watch your videos!! Education instead of motivation!! I greatly appreciate your quotes!!! You are awesome!
Thanks so much for all the knowledge big dawg✊🏾. Starting tomorrow morning and I couldn’t be more excited. Your channel has truly been a blessing. I had no idea that randomly buying a pack of seeds in April just messing around would take me on this journey. I thank God for it and I thank Him you! May He continue to bless you and bring you joy!
I really needed to hear that pruning analogy for life today. Thanks man, made me realise I can see the positive in my life if I cut back a bit ❤️
Great example of how gardening is constantly learning, growing, and adapting. Great videos James! You are the man! (And Tuck of course!)😊
Tuck is the best companion. I enjoy seeing him.
you have to make sure you have a pollinator for apple trees. red delicious is a pollinator for honey crisp. so, if you ditch it, your HC might not get fruit. They also need to flow at the same time. Good vid. I am 47 and been gardening since 27. I wish I had as big a garden as you. keep it up. great.
I bought 24 fruit trees since last year and discovered that they were not growing well, so I dug them up to check the roots. Sadly a lot of them have been bound with plastic ties :( I'm now digging up trees, grape vines and berry bushes. I've been putting them in water to remove the dirt from the roots and planting them again. I'm really worried about killing them with shock... I'm overwhelmed and feeling discouraged. I watch whatever videos pop up on my home page and yours usually pop up there everyday. Watching you with such good spirits and so much knowledge always gives me hope. Thanks for sharing your journey James. I appreciate all your years and time you have shared. I didn't know that trees are not supposed to touch each other either! Thanks
So satisfying to see you remove that apple tree. You do things right. I really appreciate watching your videos. Thank you!
I so appreciate your clear information that saves us time, money, and mistakes. And your mood is catching! Have a great day!
Today, after researching varieties that will do well in my zone 9b climate, I ordered an avocado tree and 2 Rabbiteye blueberries for my food forest. That avocado has been my dream for many years now and I'm ecstatic to plant it, watch it grow and reap the harvests. The blueberries will be propagated like crazy via cuttings and the plan is to make a hedge of them, a slice of blueberry heaven. Thanks for the inspiration James and Happy Gardening🌱
Good stuff Liliya, sounds like you are taking the right approach to avoid future issues. A hedge of blueberries sounds like an excellent idea, blueberry heaven is right. Happy gardening my friend
Hey for good pollination you have to plant 2/3 different types of blueberries
@@Realatmx Rabbiteye blueberries aren't self fertile so I got 2 different varieties: Premier and Climax:)
@@liliyasgardenchannel8876 that's 😁great
@@liliyasgardenchannel8876 Im also in zone 9b. If you are looking for a variety of blackberries that thrive here, check out Rosborough. Ive been growing them for over 15 years. They are hardy and very productive.
Cool thing about apples is if you have the wrong variety for your area, you can cut it down below the graft and graft the right variety onto the root stock. Nice video, James, thanks!
Hey James, I just retired and want you to know how much your videos are influencing me to garden. I think I have watched, liked, and subscribed to all of your videos. I love tuck. He is so sweet how he looks at you and waits for your attention. Thank you.
I know u weren’t to concerned about the apple trees roots. But if you hadn’t of cut the main trunk down with the chainsaw. You can easily rock the trunk back and forth and it exposes a couple of roots , you cut one or two with the hand saw and continue rocking the tree and it will come out. I’ve taken many trees out this size by rocking them back and forth particularly if you wet the ground. I usually have the trees out in under 10 minutes. Most people don’t believe me until they try it
I feel for ya man, I had to cut down 5 of my tree's due to the boring beetle. I had tears in my eyes when I did it. I had a Nectaplum, all in one Almond that was beautiful, a Fuerte avocado, a peach tree, and an apricot. I live in so cal just so you all know.
Oh no!!!
Oh damn this hurts to read!
I love how he lives in New Jersey. Finally gives me a good idea of things I can grow in New York.
I was so surprised! lol
Thank you James for educating people and the passion you have for growing!
I use branch from the tree to be the stick for beans and tomatoes 🍅 as your bamboo sticks function
Hi JP. I bought a house and the first thing I was looking for was a yard. Not just for me to lounge, PS. IM in but for my dogs , but most importantly...The Food Forest.!!!!! Your videos have not only showed me a bunch of knowledge, but Im totally stoked on growing my own food. Who doesnt like vegetable soup ?? Or fresh fruit from the garden, herbs, all that good stuff that my body craves, it actually thanks me when Im eating good. And I love the clinics you give, so much knowledge. Thank You JP!!!!!
Thank you for sharing! Excellent point on growing pest- / disease-resistant varieties suitable for your region. Might want to consider soil type, too. I recommend prepping the ground correctly first and buying only healthy trees from reputable nurseries. Also, if you or your neighbors have a walnut tree, be careful what you grow, especially in terms of fruit trees. Walnut mulch might not be too bad; but I think walnut roots can release a toxin for some plants like apples and tomatoes.
Red delicious apples picked fresh off the tree are my favorite apple. I grew up surrounded by miles & miles of orchards in the Okanagan Valley in BC: apples, cherries, peaches, apricots, plums, pears.... many varieties of each.... just outside my backdoor. It was wonderful, most of those orchards have been turned into suburbs now. The delicious apple trees were enormous & the apples huge, up to 5 lbs, the size of a small pumpkin.
Hi James, I just love how you ALWAYS tell us what you have learned by mistakes it really helps so many of us. I’ve just got my new garden going, I’m a sm home grower and I’m 70 just moved from PNW to hot humid VA and whole new learning process. Ty so much I come to your channel so much!
Good luck
Pears and jonagold apples are my favorite. I dehydrate and also make pear butter and pear honey with the pears. Great video, thank you!!
Really great analogy about clearing out that thing that needs to go, for the benefit and growth of the rest of the garden. :)
Pear trees are a blessing ... huge amount of varieties the can get very old, 100 years and more ...
We recently Had our Yorkie pass on.......this video brings back many......fond memories. Thanks.............
I love your spirit and your passion for everything you do. ❤️
I recommend shelling and roasting your hazelnuts in the oven (15 minutes at 180 ˚C). They're absolutely delicious that way.
ok I love that you just randomly mention you closed the fence so that Tuck can't get in while you're using the power saw because yes, that is important information to your viewers ty
You have saved me a lot of grief, thank you from Washington State
You’ve got a tropical paradise in your backyard.,I love listening to you when I’m out tending to my own. Just moved to 3.5 acres with lots of fruit trees already growing and I brought my own gingers and bananas. I just need more cardboard and mulch to get rid of so much grass. Keep growing! I got box turtles eating my fallen persimmons. They are quite delicious.
Paesano! Your enthusiasm and knowledge is admired and being applied here on the West Coast. Keep up the great content.
You got me started on my food forest. 2 or 3 years ago. I didn't know where to start and you said I have to just jump in. Well I did. I'm in west central Florida and it's like a dang jungle. I love it. I've made pockets of semi-tropical and tropical plants and eating pretty well.
Love that you are fron Jersey and you are repping how to do it here specifically. Bought a house two years ago and have a long 60 foot garden fenced in with the typical stuff, but fruit trees are next. Very helpful and much appreciated. My Tucker says 👋 to your Tucker.
Tuck, you gorgeous sweet dog--I'm glad you get to share in the fruits of the garden!
That is such excellent advice for new gardeners or people moving into unfamiliar territory - I'm very much guilty of planting things I love, which isn't always such a good idea as they might not love where I plant them! I'm sharing this with my young nieces & nephews who have gardens now. Cheers. 👍🐾🐅🙃
One of my BEST and most prolific apple tree came from a local, organic apple seed- This tree is SOO prolific year after year- only cost me the price of the organic apple.
I throw mine all over the place and haven't got a tree yet. Still trying
@@crhu319 Perhaps nurture it along a little better in the very beginning- as you are competing with the birds/ mice and rats for that seed. Put a seed in a container- water it, care for it- then put it out in the yard.
That's the great thing about gardening James, You get to learn from your mistakes, there is always tomorrow and It allows you to take the lessons learned and make improvements in mark 2, mark 3 and so on. Fail to plan, plan to fail. Great video mate love it
Love how your hindsight balances your foresight balances your insights with garden knowledge and tips! Wisdom! 🐝🪴🐞🍀
I like my pear trees but also love the quince trees.|
SO many trees- like the stone fruits, apples, quince, goji, pomegranate, mulberry, will grow a whole 'nuther tree if you just cut a small branch off and stick it in the ground. ,
Good to know about getting the right plants that are sustainable. Thanks for sharing your love of plants.
Wonderful insight James. Thank you and Tuck.🌸
I’ve always dreamt of having a food forest in my backyard here in NYC although I didn’t know to call it that at the time. So I started researching on the internet and James Prigioni popped up. It was almost like God sending a prophet to guide and inspire me. I just want to tell you that you and this channel are the reason I have started my food forest project in my tiny backyard. I don’t want to get into it but after breaking ground to plant my fruit trees I found garbage underneath my yard. I really feel that your incredible and inspirational positivity is what is getting me through this long and arduous process to dig up my whole backyard to remove all this garbage so I can realize my dream like you have. Thank you for this channel and I will be buying a few T’s to show my support. Keep up the good work bro.
I’ve made a lot of mistakes!
I have a 6th of a acre!
Like you said and I believe that working with your county extension service to help make better decisions for planting plants that take little to no chemicals! I love yellow delicious apples but here in eastern Missouri they have a problem. Same with Bradford pear!
Some plants in a area have special needs that the soil and environment make it hard on them!
Grow, eat and enjoy gardening! It good for you and very enjoyable!
My daughter is growing the curly variety of hazelnut!
I have a small ditch I want to grow hazelnuts in to slow the runoff! Love the curly variety for walking sticks💞❤️
Thank you for your show!
Love you, man. Thank you for your fast talking
I'm really enjoying your videos. I'm a North Coast gardener and we have many of the same climate issues you do in New Jersey (humidity, roughly equivalent growing season, etc). Your food forest take on things is very new and very different to me and I'm learning a lot and getting inspired to try new things.
Quick thought on chainsaws: I use an electric chainsaw and they are much, much less hassle than the gas-powered ones. Since you're in your back yard running an extension chord is no big deal. Borrow one from a friend and give it a try - you'll love it.
Thanks for all the great ideas! Gardening is such a fun and interesting pastime! I always enjoy your videos and find them inspirational and informative! Thank for sharing!
Tuck is a sweet fur baby. I want to give him all the hugs and all the love
This video popped up at the right time for me! I've been saving every fruit wood we trim, especially our oldest precious Apricot whom we have to do the same as you did with the Red Delish. The wood is amazing in color, will be beautiful to burn in winter stove and it will make great mulch when we chop it. Our inherited orchard is overgrown and its hard taking stuff out but as you helped me understand, it is for the greater good of the forest. Thank you for the inspirational videos you continue to share with us!
Thank you for the informative videos.I started gardening at around 5yrs.old many yrs.ago.My Dad&Grandma taught me and gave me the love of gardening and growing our own food&hvng great tasting fruits and vegs.to share with friends.
I've learned alot already just from watching a few of your videos and I can see your very passionate about growing your own foods as well.That's awesome!
I'm not sure if your pup is a Yorkie,but it looks alot like one.That is the most mellow and well behaved little dog I've seen! I'd certainly love to know your secret for growing a little dog like that as well?
I'm a new subscriber,&I thank you for your helpful and interesting informational videos.
One thing I discovered several yrs.ago is that many fruit trees grow very well near the coast in sand or sandy soils.According to what will grow in the temperatures you live in,peaches&apples should grow very well in NJ. No matter where you live in NJ,you can't be too far from the coast and the weather and temps.there are very similar to where I live in Indiana,so I know those fruit trees as well as Cherry trees and Pear trees shld grow and produce very well in NJ. You're growing many of the same vegetables and fruits there we grow here,&you do very well with the things you grow.
If your soil is sandy there,you shld try some Watermelon,Cantaloupe,&Honey Dew Melon if you enjoy any of those.They shld grow very well in your climate in sandy soil.Our soil here is so full of clay that we dnt hv much fortune in growing melons which is a shame bcs.I love a good melon of abt any kind.
I'm sure you know about not growing certain veggies next to others,&that some will actually help others and help each other grow well.Tomatoes nxt to peppers is a bad idea as you get the pepper flavor in your tomatoes.There are several other examples but I usually have to look them up while drawing up planting plans each year.
Take care,&God bless you. Thanks again for the great tips and good gardening wisdom!
You will want to reconsider your decision on not wanting to take the roots out. The main ones near the surface should come out or they will all send up suckers of new growth, they will be what ever the root stock is.
Something good from the Garden State of my growing up years.
You have a great spirit James.
Good going on the food forest. We also have issues with squirrels so you might want to consider some netting to put over those hazelnut trees for protection. We've done that with success on some of our berry plants.
SERIOUSLY THOUGH, WE LOVE YOUR CHANNEL MAN!!!!!!!
Tuck is the best. I am a Yorkie person too.
I almost have all my cardboard and mulch completed in the backyard. Food Forest Goals 2022
Let's Gooo! Sounds like the start of a great thing my friend.
The federal government doesn't want people to grow their foods. The government wants you to buy food from the grocery store which comes from Mexico. The plants you buy at the big box stores will not grow anything. These plants are offshoots of hybrid plants and are created so as to grow little or nothing. All are no good. from Tomato plants to apple tree plants and everything in between. Don't waste your time trying to grow a garden. I grew gardens for many years and would get 30 or 40 tomatoes from each plant. Now I grow great looking plants and only get one or two tomatoes or one or two peppers or one or two watermelon.
@@louiekidd251 Then stop growing plants from a store, conspiracy over!! People are just lazy, mindless robots and want all the benefits of growing food with little to no work. Every where I travel to its the same old thing, the cost of living is so high, people dont have the time or energy to grow food for themselves, thats the real conspiracy MAN jk.
All the best
@@louiekidd251 bullshit, if you have heirloom seed banks - which you do - you can purchase seeds.
fully agree the tree needed to go, but where is your safety gear, i suggest you wear an eye patch for a week and put a splint on 1 leg to find out if you would miss them if you got injured.
When you have a fruit tree you don’t like why not cut some branches and graft on one you like. Just remember apple trees with apple, peach with peach, plum and nectarine. Your variety will double and triple. Good luck!
Great tip!! @Op
Ty for the link @Truelove!
We moved into a house five years ago that had a golden delicious tree. The fruit on it tastes amazing however was not super healthy in the tree is dying because of lack of care from previous owners. Is also been attacked my bugs in the dying branches. Last year I was able to acquire several good new root systems from Air layering in this year I cut off a bunch of cuttings to propagate in hopes that they will grow. I'm maybe able to get one more year out of it just for that purpose and then it will be cut. I was also able to propagate several pear trees come to existing trees on my property. I took a few branches as I was pruning the pear trees last fall and just stuck them randomly in the wooded area in back of my property. I just went through yesterday and found that they are growing very well, between 7 and 8 feet tall and even flowering.
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@@tmillertube Thank you for the great tips!
I have appreciated you and your beautiful spirit over the years. Thank you 🌱
Nice job. Don't be sad to lose the tree. All is well. Enjoy the rest of your harvest, James!
Thank you, thank you so much for all your hard work and info
Grow some Clumping bamboo!! There’s lots of types of running and clumping that will grow there. The bamboo leaves and shoots are edible, also, the culms might have a few cups of water in each section
I can’t thank you enough. And, yes you ROCK!!
You ARE inspiring!
We’ve learned to go slow and steady. There’s so many plants that places sell but aren’t a match for our area. Great video James!
Love seeing tuck he's so cute🐶🐕💋💚
Thanks for a great tip. At 71 I am still trying to get it right, this is why I had to get rid of my apple trees, scab. Regards Geoff UK
Great Video! I am prone to purchasing "cheap stuff" vs. higher quality so can relate to mistakes. I chose less expensive soil which has plagued me for years! Now I buy only best quality soil and make heaps of compost. Also, my Danish relatives make hazelnut snaps by soaking the nuts in vodka for a while (like months) and it is delicious! You can use various fruit and nuts for this and great to share with friends. The older it gets the better. Thanks for sharing!
Ditto on all...and I am SO trying that vodka thing!
Great system you have developed! Knowledge + motivation = success.
now this is what I've been looking for, real Farmers with real world knowledge. If you are gardening and are not learning from your plants haw to approach life, you are doing it wrong. MUCH PROPS TO YOU AND YOUR FARM💪✊🙌
Great video! I just ordered 2 apples, a pie cherry, a peach, a fig, an Asian persimmon, and a plum. 1 of the apples is a liberty and the other is a wolf river apple. I'm excited to add these to my wild homestead! :)
I love your videos, James. Always such great information.
Thanks Josh, I'm glad to hear you find value in them my friend. I try to pack them with useful info
I'm starting my food forest tomorrow can't wait for spring.
Love your videos. You might be seeing seckle pear trees. The fruit has a rosy blush. They do very very well here in NY. I think that they are much more delicious than bartlet.
Red Delicious. That is the bottom of the barrel apple. I am glad you have figured it out. I hate taking out trees. I get invested in them and don't want to get rid of them even if they are just not working out. So it is very important that I plant what works.
Its so hard to remove a tree when you realise it's in the wrong place, especially after nurturing and watching it grow.
Truth!!
Like removing a bad relationship from your life that you invested time in and envisioned growing into something positive - but which only brought shade into your life.
So true.
especially when you believe in karma..
Just do it
That apple tree IS great and useful! It's a living reminder to research and prep properly.
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He always turns me on to some sweet funky music! That was great advice too!
I’m in south eastern Michigan. It had never occurred to me to see which fruit trees are best for my USDA zone. I’m glad I saw this. In the spring, I had just planned to plant a pear, apple and peach tree.
This is invaluable! It's a hard decision but one made on knowledge and experience. Great metaphor for other life decisions as well. Thank brotha!
Thanks Michael, yeah it’s always tough to cut down a tree you watched grow well. But I’m happy I learned the lesson and could apply it to the new forest.
How’s your food forest looking this fall? Any ideas for spring too?
That little doggy is the cutest little vegetable eater.