I’m in Florida zone 9b and I have horrible ants in my yard. 3 different kinds of fire ants and some kind of pyramid ant. Can I plant fruit trees out here and them survive? I have sandy soil and not sure what I would need to do to get them started and make them grow. Or will the ants destroy them? I wondered if I could raise them in those 55 gallon barrels cut in half? Would that be enough room for roots? Would they get big enough to produce fruit in a bucket? So many questions and no one that knows the answers for me. I moved here from Alaska so this is totally new area of issues for me.

Mulching in FL creates a safe haven for ants & cockroaches ... the price is too high to mulch.

What is happening to humans who eat meat from animals who ate the hay that turns the manure toxic?

Top man! Great tips

This was the first year I've had aphids, also the first year i got ladybugs 😂. Anyway, what eats snails?

I don’t buy treasuries - it just supports the government’s war crimes. Gold is the safe bet (as physical gold or GLD etf) and land. Other things are risk like stocks but I have index funds. I hold minimal cash.

Hi David, I have clay soil and a lot of my trees just struggle to grow. I planted a lemon tree, dug a 3 ft deep 3ft diameter hole to plant the tree in and amended the soil, mulched it about a 3 ft radius out from the tree and it never really grew and eventually died. I was using sugar cane leaves for the mulch I think, would wood chips be better? Any other suggestions?

Awesome channel!

I play "whats this plant" yearly. I label my seedlings. Then something happens..they get flooded by rain or i think they are germinating fast enough and i move them and then i have NO IDEA what ANY of them are. Right now i have 2 tomato plants in my green bean patch. My squash and melons are all mixed together... If they grow they grow if they dont its fine. Seeds are cheap and im kinda a seed hoarder.

I've heard that you are supposed to change the water in the sweet potato jar once in a while. But I'm planting in grow bags.

Wild forests have I think 17 to 18 invasive out of 22 to 23worms in USA so 4 5 natives. And the invasive worms are eating all the mulch and leafs and it fact a few native birds or gone. How ground birds ground nests eaten so no eggs then gone forever after a bit of time

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What are your favorite ways to prepare pumpkins? Beyond pumpkin pie, I’m not sure what to do with them.

Wow that makes so much sense. Finally. Something that works. Changing your perspective. Thank you ❤ so much.

Man, I never heard of that one! What about “Nut grass”? When growing up in Indialantic, we were plagued with it. Were we throwing away something edible?

You should try inoculating your terra ground with Johnson Hsu compost extract.

I love this video! Your attitude is so motivating! I have a bunch of seeds that I need to plant and Ive been worrying too much about where to put them. Im going to go outside and just stick them somewhere and see what grows. Thank you!

Bro, you've got an awesome singing voice! You remind me of Adam Sandler, sprouting ( pun intended, lol) a song off the top of his head. Great gardening tips and channel just found you tonight. You and your family Be Blessed.

I just did this today for my fig tree. Going to do it for my loquat and the rest of any fruit trees I get. Thanks for reassuring my doubts I had.

You can pick your grass and soak it in a bucket after a week you'll have nice fertilizer water to water the tree, then when you are done with the grass in the water, use it to mulch your tree.

Best how to I’ve ever seen!!!!!

The joys of Taxonomy 😍

LSU did a breeding project with them. I bought some tubers online and they have been about the size of a red potato. A little larger than golf ball size but smaller than a tennis ball 🎾

That's absolutely awesome! I have not seen it in the wild. Good new genetics!!

I'm in far northern Australia and can buy coffee tree's for 25au (45$A). Thanks for the video. We are a bit to grow all year as winter is 60 to 90f.its tropical climate and able to grow unique fruit

What about mint? Does it hurt to have mint around your fruit trees?

I always get so much value from your videos. Thank you

Planting my first few fruit trees on my half acre this year. Thanks for the tips!

I mulch and mulch and the grass loves it grows best in the mulch. I pull it out go down into the mulch and the grass runners are criss-crossing everywhere so i dig a moat around the tree wich helps but more than a hundred trees its very hard to do and i find that the cardboard worked like a little roof the first years, rain would run off it, when i dug down to pull grass under the cardboard was dry so i broke it up to let rain in now it has composited down but i won't use it again but ill continue to mulch heavily i only have tank water and not much rain Australia

Very cool

I have to put large chunks of granite around all my plants not fenced in. Mulching without carbon

Thanks, less can be more!!

So glad this is on KZbin. I almost trashed my 2 week old swamp water because other youtubers said don't keep it that long. Loved this video and so glad I can keep my swamp water forever because it's surely working for my plants!

Is that what that is? This whole time 😅

I thought you're supposed to plant the whole pot. Just put 1 gallon-ish pot in the ground. I have one more so I may try this method.

Good stuff playa!

" I walk around with a pocket full of beans. " ❤

Thank You ...

all my big big oaks like that fell in Ida.. i was pretty upset, but now all those big rootballs have become favorite burrowing spots for all types of critters, and the holes left in the ground serve as ephemeral pools where frogs like to breed. We also have sunlight now, so losing the massive trees was an overall benefit to the diversity of the habitat.

Casava. skin it, cut into chunks, boil and eat it like potatoes. Add virgin olive oil and sea salt.

Thank you. The first step can be the hardest.

That's so cool 😊

I live in Ohio where it was originally all forest. There are areas nearby that have been known as "prairies" ever since the Shawnee moved out 225 years ago. The reality is that these prairies were fields where the Shawnee had raised their corn, and by the time settlers arrived several years later, they were overgrown with grass, appearing like prairies. The parks district in the area tries very hard to make them live up to their name by planting prairie grass in them, mowing, and burning them every so often. But the area naturally wants to return to woodland and does so quite quickly when allowed to. Amazing how land in different areas wants to be a certain way.

What would be a good mix for blueberries and fruit trees?

You came across a gem native nut plant! You are awesome.

My first mulching from freshly shreddedcwhole trees got some fungus on a peach tree but it cleared up when i pulled the mulch out of contact and used a brush and dishsoap on it. Do keep fresh mulch put of contact with the bark.

I used to let graas and weeds grow in potted plants until i went to repot and saw theres ten percent plant 90 percent grass roots. Eeks

Noticed you for got to mention that most cultivated fruit trees have shallow roots, pawpaws being one of the exceptions. We never mulched trees. We have followed the advice to plant in plain soil the first year and only water it. The second year we would add aged manure and that was it. We had good results. Healthy soil needs plant biodiversity. We avoided synthetic chemicals in pastures and lawns. We always had vigorous tree growth and fruit production. Mulching may limit root-spread because of changes to soil. For optimal soil fertility avoid synthetic chemicals like it's the plague, and have confidence that the trees will form mychorrizal relationships and that's the crucial part to their establishment.

Wool. I have used it for years as a mulch. 10-1-4 , retains >30% weight of water, doesn't attract termites. The wool price for meat breed sheep is so low that it is not cost effective for small producers to take it to market. Ask your local extension agent about small producers and offer them maybe $10 for a large bag full. Help small farmers. I do cover it with crushed leaves or thin layer of chips in public view areas since the white kinda 'glares' . Also very good for downspouts or other potential erosion or bare ground areas since weighted down wool will filter out particulate matter and slow down the water

Was the soil beneath that great oak rocky? I've seen that happen many times in my era, where we have a whole lot of rock in the soil: pine trees often go sideways, completely unrooted. And then below the trunk you can see a whole lot of rock woven into the root system. This rock could stabilize the tree, but my assessment of the situation is that the roots do not have sufficient room to grow. As above so below, and with trees it would certainly make sense. Another possible reason why a tree would be biased toward a shallow root system would be nutrient density and water availability. I bet if there was some moisture at least periodically available from below the tree would try to reach it.