Thank you for sharing all the new varieties of what you are putting into your food forest. You gave a wonderful amount of information on each to let us know more about each. I can't wait to see your harvests of all of these wonderful fruits. Have a lovely day. Catherine
I remember paw paws as a young boy in South Africa, we had several in our garden, they were delicious. Really enjoying these blogs, and thinking about trying to plant a bed of mixed herbs and lettuce for next spring.
I have paw paws and they are so good to eat. Mine took a 5-7 years to produce fruit but in their second year of fruiting they produced lots of fruit. Wait to eat them until after they fallen to the ground or they will be half ripe. I have two American persimmons I bought as twigs. As they are over 12 feet tall now I hope I have a male and a female but neither have bloomed yet like yours have. My Asian persimmon is tall but no blooms so far. Sigh. I am glad you mentioned buckthorn as I want to plant some more in the front yard to provide shade for my hosta. The hazel nut does better in more sun. I need to find out what cherry tree/bush variety I have planted. Its fruits are more small, oval and sweet tart. It is a prolific producer I pit using a straw. You might try jujube trees, too. They are slow growers but I am hopeful mine, a Li and a Lang varieties, start producing soon. You can multiply your gooseberries and currants by pruning some of their branches at 6 inch lengths in the Fall and sticking them into the ground where you want them to grow. It really works! Just remember where you stuck the branches!
Lovely video & I thought the length of it was great (not too long at all) IMO. Wish the company you use could ship to me ☹️ as we have a very limited choice. The space you have created is beautiful & your videos inspiring. Thanks for sharing
It's interesting to see what you are adding! I live in Oklahoma where persimmons grow wild (I hike quite a bit). There is a story that you can tell what kind of winter you will have by cutting open the persimmon and it's seed. If the seed is shaved like a spoon, you will have lots of snow. I don't think it is accurate but it is fun to do this with children. Last October, I went backpacking about 5 hours east of here in Arkansas and my friend and I kept trying to figure out what the tropical-looking plants were that we were seeing everywhere. Finally, after getting home and looking online, I realized they were pawpaws (it was too late for fruit so we were just seeing leaves). I really enjoy seeing your garden and what can be grown in your climates. Thanks for the video!
I live in Seattle which has a similar climate as yours. My tea plants are small but I harvest the tips as they grow and dry them for about a week. I gently roll the leaves between my palms a few times as they wilt. After a few days or a week of drying I pan fry them dry. The taste is smoky and delicious.
Vera, I love all your videos! I live in Chicago and am in zone 5 so this video gave some great ideas about some other fruit trees to plant. I have never tasted paw paw fruit but sounds delicious! My son loves pomegranates so I'm excited to see if I can get that variety here. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with new gardeners like myself.
Thank you, Angelica! I'm glad you enjoy my videos! It sounds like your winters are quite a bit colder than ours, so the pomegranate might not be hardy enough for you. But since pawpaws originate from North America you should be abla to find information that is relevant for your cimate :)
I have ordered from lubera recently and have been very happy. I have ordered deli-dahlias and coconut chuffa nuts. So excited to see how they will fare here in scotland. Your plants look amazing
I'm glad to hear you're growing the deli-dahlias too! I'm really curious about the taste! I have already planted most of my plants, hope they take off :)
I'm growing a lot of the same plants as the ones in your video. My garden is brand new this year because the landscaping was done just a few months ago. I'm in the states, but I've never seen pawpaw. I heard of them just a few years ago. I bought Susquehana and KSU Benson. I may get 1 or 2 more. My in laws are from Ohio where the annual festival for pawpaws is held, but my father in law never heard of them. My mother in law heard of them in grade school, but she never saw them or tasted them.
Ah Vera, what a wonderful video. Love all the work you put into creating all of your content. The information is so valuable! Thank you so much for sharing. Really looking forward to seeing how your pomegranate experiment turns out and to see how you react when tasting the dahlia tubers! We haven't tried them yet, but smokey sure sounds intriguing!
Apologies, no seeds. Just really love eating them and hope to get a tree of my own some day, but I don't have the space right now. I wish you luck though!
Does pawpaw grow in the wild where you live? I visited a grower nearby (here in the Netherlands) who's been growing pawpaws for over 25 years, i'm looking forward to our plants bearing fruit!
I’ve never come across them in the wild but they grow in this region, I’m considering trying to raise from seed as the rooted cuttings I’ve gotten are not really strong
Your garden looks so nice! Love the vingerhoedskruid, in the back. : ) No need to waste greenhouse space for the tea plants. Optimum growing temperature is between 20 and 30C. So if that tea by me is cold hardy, they should do well outside in the Netherlands...
👋🏾 Vera. Love from the UK. Question, your links send me to a website that I can’t read the language. Do they ship to Uk? If not, what is the name of the man to made a fully hardy tea plant? Cheers. Maxine
Thank you very much for sending me the link for lubera I also bought a pomegranate from them I have put it in alarge pot for the first year and will bring it inside for the first winter and plant it out next spring it wll be interesting to see how they get on and how long it takes to get the first fruit
I am not so far away from you I am in Düsseldorf but I am directly an the Rhein so very mild my pomegranate will also be planted on the south side were my fig grows will be interesting if we get fruit
Richard Sydenham I grow my pomegranate in a big pot. Each year it gets moved into the cold greenhouse...it usually drops every leaf and looks dead. After winter i drag the thing outside and it starts pumping out new leaves quite quickly. Mine is a miniature variety and i5 has produced tiny fruits
Hi Vera - greetings from Paderborn/ Germany! I'm getting a 1,50m fig tree next week- do you have recommendations for the guild? I already have a teasel, hollyhook and oregano growing in the spot... Also do you have recommendations about how to best plant a fig tree?
Hi! If you’re planting a fig, it might be a good idea to restrict the roots somewhat eg by placing tiles in the planting hole- it encourages earlier fruiting and restricts the growth. For the guild I’d choose plants that have similar requirements( well drained, alkaline soil) such as Mediterranean herbs ( lavender, oregano, sage, rosemary...). Hope that helps!
By the way, I have a question for you. In my back yard, I have a black walnut tree that is about 200 or 300 years old. It produces a huge amount of walnuts that are very hard to harvest because the tree is extremely tall. I love this tree but am torn between keeping the tree or cutting it down and planting a smaller walnut tree instead. I love the tree but in summer it shades half the garden and I can't plant anything underneath because nothing will grow. Can you please give me your opinion on this so it can help me decide what to do. Thanks!
Tricky! It is always a shame to loose a large tree as they not only give a mature character to the garden but are also very important for wildlife. I think it depends a lot on the size of your garden - is there still room to grow other things? Also: it might not be wise to plant a walnut in the same spot as they are susceptible to the same disease and pests which might have accumulated in teh soil. They aren't a problem for a mature tree but might be problematic for a young tree.
@@GrownToCook Thank you so much for your response. Yes, I agree, the tree is home to many critters in my garden so it would be a shame. I may just start on the opposite end of the garden and only decide when I get to that point. I just moved to the house a couple of years ago and is filled with weeds and wildflowers but I am going to start with raised beds and cover the ground with cardboard like you suggested. I can start planting on the ground next year. Thanks again!
Hallo Vera Erg leuke video's en zeer leerrijk. Bedankt dat je ze maakt. Klopt het dat Lubera en Baldur geen fysieke winkels hebben? Rondstruinen is namelijk zo leuk om te doen. groetjes Barbara Sara
Hallo Sara en dank je wel! Lubera heeft een afdeling in Duitsland waar ze soms ook rondleidingen doen voor tuinclubs. We zijn er vorig jaar geweest om foto's te maken voor een artikel, maar voor zover ik weet, zijn ze idd normaal niet open. Baldur waarschijnlijk ook niet, maar daar ben ik minder mee bekend.
HI! I live in Europe and we do not really use climate zones the same way as you do, but it would prbably be something like zone 7 or 8. Our winters are mild (and getting warmer)
Thank you for sharing all the new varieties of what you are putting into your food forest. You gave a wonderful amount of information on each to let us know more about each. I can't wait to see your harvests of all of these wonderful fruits. Have a lovely day. Catherine
My Hillside Garden Thank you, Catherine! I’ve already planted most of them and am now hoping for some rain :)
Thank you for sharing Vera! You are always so helpful in sharing your knowledge with us! I appreciate you!
Thank you! I hope that sharing what I know helps others to be more succesful with their edible gardens :)
I remember paw paws as a young boy in South Africa, we had several in our garden, they were delicious. Really enjoying these blogs, and thinking about trying to plant a bed of mixed herbs and lettuce for next spring.
I have paw paws and they are so good to eat. Mine took a 5-7 years to produce fruit but in their second year of fruiting they produced lots of fruit. Wait to eat them until after they fallen to the ground or they will be half ripe. I have two American persimmons I bought as twigs. As they are over 12 feet tall now I hope I have a male and a female but neither have bloomed yet like yours have. My Asian persimmon is tall but no blooms so far. Sigh. I am glad you mentioned buckthorn as I want to plant some more in the front yard to provide shade for my hosta. The hazel nut does better in more sun. I need to find out what cherry tree/bush variety I have planted. Its fruits are more small, oval and sweet tart. It is a prolific producer I pit using a straw. You might try jujube trees, too. They are slow growers but I am hopeful mine, a Li and a Lang varieties, start producing soon. You can multiply your gooseberries and currants by pruning some of their branches at 6 inch lengths in the Fall and sticking them into the ground where you want them to grow. It really works! Just remember where you stuck the branches!
Lovely video & I thought the length of it was great (not too long at all) IMO. Wish the company you use could ship to me ☹️ as we have a very limited choice. The space you have created is beautiful & your videos inspiring. Thanks for sharing
It's interesting to see what you are adding! I live in Oklahoma where persimmons grow wild (I hike quite a bit). There is a story that you can tell what kind of winter you will have by cutting open the persimmon and it's seed. If the seed is shaved like a spoon, you will have lots of snow. I don't think it is accurate but it is fun to do this with children. Last October, I went backpacking about 5 hours east of here in Arkansas and my friend and I kept trying to figure out what the tropical-looking plants were that we were seeing everywhere. Finally, after getting home and looking online, I realized they were pawpaws (it was too late for fruit so we were just seeing leaves).
I really enjoy seeing your garden and what can be grown in your climates. Thanks for the video!
That should be seed "shaped" like a spoon.
Pawpaw native to parts of Ohio and I've never seen one my 30years living in Ohio lol....that's one of my next investments for my food forest
I live in Seattle which has a similar climate as yours. My tea plants are small but I harvest the tips as they grow and dry them for about a week. I gently roll the leaves between my palms a few times as they wilt. After a few days or a week of drying I pan fry them dry. The taste is smoky and delicious.
That's great to hear! Thanks for sharing, Edith, I can't wait to try some of our tea!
Vera, I love all your videos! I live in Chicago and am in zone 5 so this video gave some great ideas about some other fruit trees to plant. I have never tasted paw paw fruit but sounds delicious! My son loves pomegranates so I'm excited to see if I can get that variety here. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with new gardeners like myself.
Thank you, Angelica! I'm glad you enjoy my videos!
It sounds like your winters are quite a bit colder than ours, so the pomegranate might not be hardy enough for you. But since pawpaws originate from North America you should be abla to find information that is relevant for your cimate :)
Paw paws native to Illinois (mainly central and southern IL), hope your trees are doing well 😃
Really interesting selection of plants! Do you plan to do a catch up video with how they are all growing and if the fruits have been tasty?
I have ordered from lubera recently and have been very happy. I have ordered deli-dahlias and coconut chuffa nuts. So excited to see how they will fare here in scotland. Your plants look amazing
I'm glad to hear you're growing the deli-dahlias too! I'm really curious about the taste! I have already planted most of my plants, hope they take off :)
I'm growing a lot of the same plants as the ones in your video. My garden is brand new this year because the landscaping was done just a few months ago. I'm in the states, but I've never seen pawpaw. I heard of them just a few years ago. I bought Susquehana and KSU Benson. I may get 1 or 2 more. My in laws are from Ohio where the annual festival for pawpaws is held, but my father in law never heard of them. My mother in law heard of them in grade school, but she never saw them or tasted them.
Ah Vera, what a wonderful video. Love all the work you put into creating all of your content. The information is so valuable! Thank you so much for sharing. Really looking forward to seeing how your pomegranate experiment turns out and to see how you react when tasting the dahlia tubers! We haven't tried them yet, but smokey sure sounds intriguing!
Menno & Rana's Garden Adventures Thank you! I’m very curious too :)
I'm in Michigan and we love our pawpaw. Looking forward to updates on how it does!
Susan Huffman would you ever consider sharing seeds to the paw paw? I’m not having good luck purchasing plants😔
Susan Huffman I’m in IL
Apologies, no seeds. Just really love eating them and hope to get a tree of my own some day, but I don't have the space right now. I wish you luck though!
Does pawpaw grow in the wild where you live? I visited a grower nearby (here in the Netherlands) who's been growing pawpaws for over 25 years, i'm looking forward to our plants bearing fruit!
I’ve never come across them in the wild but they grow in this region, I’m considering trying to raise from seed as the rooted cuttings I’ve gotten are not really strong
Very nice update
Your garden looks so nice! Love the vingerhoedskruid, in the back. : )
No need to waste greenhouse space for the tea plants.
Optimum growing temperature is between 20 and 30C. So if that tea by me is cold hardy, they should do well outside in the Netherlands...
👋🏾 Vera.
Love from the UK.
Question, your links send me to a website that I can’t read the language.
Do they ship to Uk?
If not, what is the name of the man to made a fully hardy tea plant?
Cheers. Maxine
Thank you very much for sending me the link for lubera I also bought a pomegranate from them
I have put it in alarge pot for the first year and will bring it inside for the first winter and plant it out next spring it wll be interesting to see how they get on and how long it takes to get the first fruit
I am really curious to see whether we can get ripe fruits here! Let me know if your plant sets fruit, please!
I am not so far away from you I am in Düsseldorf but I am directly an the Rhein so very mild my pomegranate will also be planted on the south side were my fig grows will be interesting if we get fruit
Richard Sydenham
I grow my pomegranate in a big pot. Each year it gets moved into the cold greenhouse...it usually drops every leaf and looks dead. After winter i drag the thing outside and it starts pumping out new leaves quite quickly. Mine is a miniature variety and i5 has produced tiny fruits
Thank you, Annemieke! Interesting to hear you are succesfully growing pomegranates!
Hi Vera - greetings from Paderborn/ Germany! I'm getting a 1,50m fig tree next week- do you have recommendations for the guild? I already have a teasel, hollyhook and oregano growing in the spot...
Also do you have recommendations about how to best plant a fig tree?
Hi! If you’re planting a fig, it might be a good idea to restrict the roots somewhat eg by placing tiles in the planting hole- it encourages earlier fruiting and restricts the growth. For the guild I’d choose plants that have similar requirements( well drained, alkaline soil) such as Mediterranean herbs ( lavender, oregano, sage, rosemary...). Hope that helps!
By the way, I have a question for you. In my back yard, I have a black walnut tree that is about 200 or 300 years old. It produces a huge amount of walnuts that are very hard to harvest because the tree is extremely tall. I love this tree but am torn between keeping the tree or cutting it down and planting a smaller walnut tree instead. I love the tree but in summer it shades half the garden and I can't plant anything underneath because nothing will grow. Can you please give me your opinion on this so it can help me decide what to do. Thanks!
Tricky! It is always a shame to loose a large tree as they not only give a mature character to the garden but are also very important for wildlife. I think it depends a lot on the size of your garden - is there still room to grow other things? Also: it might not be wise to plant a walnut in the same spot as they are susceptible to the same disease and pests which might have accumulated in teh soil. They aren't a problem for a mature tree but might be problematic for a young tree.
@@GrownToCook Thank you so much for your response. Yes, I agree, the tree is home to many critters in my garden so it would be a shame. I may just start on the opposite end of the garden and only decide when I get to that point. I just moved to the house a couple of years ago and is filled with weeds and wildflowers but I am going to start with raised beds and cover the ground with cardboard like you suggested. I can start planting on the ground next year. Thanks again!
You're very welcome! Good luck with your garden, I'm sure you'll create a paradise :)@@angelica87993
Hallo Vera
Erg leuke video's en zeer leerrijk. Bedankt dat je ze maakt.
Klopt het dat Lubera en Baldur geen fysieke winkels hebben? Rondstruinen is namelijk zo leuk om te doen.
groetjes Barbara Sara
Hallo Sara en dank je wel! Lubera heeft een afdeling in Duitsland waar ze soms ook rondleidingen doen voor tuinclubs. We zijn er vorig jaar geweest om foto's te maken voor een artikel, maar voor zover ik weet, zijn ze idd normaal niet open. Baldur waarschijnlijk ook niet, maar daar ben ik minder mee bekend.
What's the Latin name of that tea plant please?
What climate zone are you in?
HI! I live in Europe and we do not really use climate zones the same way as you do, but it would prbably be something like zone 7 or 8. Our winters are mild (and getting warmer)
What variety of fig do you have?
The fig you can see in this video is 'Pingo de Mel' (yellow fruit), but we also have 'Petite Negri' elsewhere.
I m crazy about plant
I read that paw paws are pollinated by flies, moths or something like that, and our European insects don't know what to do.