3 fruit trees for small space yards and patios

You can grow a variety of fruit trees in your small yard if you buy the right kind of trees and plant them in containers!
Garden expert Shirley Bovshow introduces new gardeners, Ari and Emma, to a multi grafted apple tree, a dwarf avocado tree and an espaliered Meyer lemon tree from her garden.
"Way to Grow"
Garden designer Shirley Bovshow and her two apprentices, comedians Ariana Seigel and Emma Tattenbaum-Fine, take you through the basics with a fun Gardening 101 series.
Shirley brings the expertise; Ari and Emma bring the cluelessness.
If Shirley can teach them to garden, she can definitely teach you!
Featuring: Shirley Bovshow, Ariana Siegel and Emma Tattenbaum-Fine
DP: Nathan Blair
Sound: Chris Hall
Editor: Melyssa Vazquez
Have any gardening questions for Shirley? Leave your comments below and Shirley will answer them.
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Shirley Bovshow's funny, warm and accessible personality made her a garden television favorite in North America as the co-host and designer of the "Garden Police" makeover show on the Discovery Home channel and popular expert on HGTV, Style Network, USA, and other major national media outlets. Based in hot, dry, Los Angeles, Shirley shares design ideas and makeovers from her professional landscaping projects on her top rated, "Eden Makers Blog" , HGTV.com. Houzz.com and her new blog, Foodie Gardener. Shirley has partnered with professional producers, writers and editors from garden television to produce multiple original garden video series for the web. Her shows include the international, "Garden World Report," "Garden Center TV", and "Garden Makeover TV."
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[@kellyellie589]

Whoa. My husband says my yard is too small for apples...hah!

[@erikastitt6909]

I love the video! I'm trying to grow Mayer Lemons, blue berry bushes and peach trees in my small back yard

[@natashalindner2059]

I have a turkey brown fig tree (kept small), a small space moorpark apricot tree, a small space meyer lemon, 2 blueberry bushed (also kept compact), a rhubarb about to go it, a passionfruit vine to send along a wall. I want that apple tree and another multi fruited citrus tree. Your team are great and I also now know about my sad plants - I will hold off on the autopsy and find some patience so they can recover in their own time.

[@mobilewalter]

My home depot has the dwarf 4 graft apple tree. Brought one for mothers day and it looks great on the backyard deck

[@mdzinnathowlader8915]

hi watching from out of space

[@superslyfoxx1]

Thanks. Can't wait to find a multigrafted tree.

[@LilOtakuAngy]

great timing, i was just looking into compact fruit growing :)

[@Fit_soldier]

Angela N hows the growth it’s been 6 years already???

[@LifeJunkee]

Great video! So you don't actually need a garden, you can grow these all in pots outdoors? I have a tiny patio I wanna use. Thanks!

[@FoodieGardenerDiabetes]

Appreciate you watching our videos! Shirley

[@clarisaginger6912]

That's a really cool vid!

[@yunarels]

hey girls thanks i like this again i have learn new thing today that i did not know it before thank again and waiting your next VIDEO

[@HUNTERWRENNMusicvlogz]

Where do i get these dang trees?

[@FoodieGardenerDiabetes]

Hi again! The multi-grafted apple tree- you need just one tree! Re: citrus trees. Citrus trees are more able to tolerate cold weather as they mature but are never comfortable in freezing temperatures. When temps dip below freezing, either cover them with plastic and other blanket at night and remove in morning. Or, move the pots indoors in bright southern exposure.

[@fcinternetmarketing]

Great video.

[@FoodieGardenerDiabetes]

Hi Superslyfoxx1 Thanks for your question. Yes, you can plant lemon trees outside in zone 8 (although zone 8B is better than zone 8A). If your particular area is accustomed to average temperatures below 30 degrees in winter, I suggest growing citrus in pots where they can be moved indoors. Multi-grafted apple trees do not need other trees in the yard to pollinate them! Shirley

[@rosesandrose2247]

nice video

[@bobs3303]

im in zone 7 a lot of snow in winter and real hot in summer so what do I do in the winter with all my potted trees ?

[@MrWillager]

subscribed! Can't wait to start my garden this year.

[@violethill4813]

Nice fruit trees!

[@flowerpower3618]

Thanks. I may be moving to a new house with the tiniest garden .

[@albduke]

You have the prettiest crew this side of the Mississippi. Lol

[@FoodieGardenerDiabetes]

You can try to grow basil indoors in front of a sunny window, but I've never had much success with it during the winter. Try. Let me know if you succeed. Basil needs LOTS of sunshine and warmth- the reason it's a great summer herb.

[@yunarels]

thanks

[@superslyfoxx1]

I am in the South and even though we don't have long winters I wonder about the lemon trees outside. Would I have to wait to get them to a certain size? I would love some dwarf fruit trees for my garden. Will keep on the lookout for them. Oh.. for apple--I see the multigrafted! Yes, I need to keep on the lookout for them. You only need one right?

[@gardengnome3899]

were did you get your avacado tree cant find one!!!????

[@steveulliott4106]

the music remindeded me of eurotrash from the 90's & 00's

[@Digs]

Thanks so much for watching and commenting, yunarels!

[@rawmark]

You don't need to buy dwarf varieties for containers. Any full sized tree can be trained to stay small. And the nice thing about fruit trees is that they know when they are in containers and they don't try to outgrow them. So pruning done during the winter time is easy peasy. If you want to find the best varieties then look for those fruit trees that are slow growers. Paw Paws, for example, are notorious for being slow growers. And so are jaboticaba trees. But I have a full sized washington navel and a full sized florida prince peach in pots in Maryland and they both give me loads of fruit. I have trained them to grow no larger than 6 feet.

[@trevorcole460]

Mark Gailmor would a 15 Lt pot be ok for a fruit tree? or would that be to small.

[@EdenMakers]

Are you root pruning them as well? I like the easier work of using the dwarf varieties though I agree with your point.

[@elarsilmarin]

awesome video! I wanna try grafting an apple tree now :D

[@FoodieGardenerDiabetes]

Thanks Flower Power. In order to advise you about basil, I need to know what garden zone you live in. Cold area? average winter temperatures? Basil is a warm weather herb- as soon as fall/winter comes, it struggles to survive. Hates cold weather! Shirely

[@cynnx7500]

Very awesome unique channel

[@henrykarrowkamara9958]

Nice

[@FoodieGardenerDiabetes]

Hi, it's Shirley. Yes, you only need one multigrafted apple tree because each different variety is self pollinating.

[@Canadaheather]

TheFrankenstein of apple tree. LoL Can you grow the avocado and lemon tree outside during the warmer seasons then bring them inside during winter? I live in northern Canada.

[@lilium215]

Hi, how much will the root system grow? I want to plant them behind a retaining wall. Will it eventually push out and ruin the wall?

[@littleblondemop]

Really fun to watch and informative-I like the long haired lady's hair too. I want to grown fuji apples or tinier apples, and 1 other fruit or 1 vegetable. I don't want to overwhelm myself and we only have a patio to do it on. Amazing how you're growing 3 different kinds of apples on one tree-talk about being a pro!

[@fishyfunhouse5489]

That apple tree doe

[@graslandscape]

Great video check out the cutting globe

[@Digs]

This is a Shirley question!

[@superslyfoxx1]

Okay will wait thanks. I reread my comment and it was a bit choppy. Two questions: Planting lemon trees in the soil outside is that possible in the South. I am in Zone 8 and even though it warm here mostly in the winter we can get down in the teens. Also, for Multigrafted apple trees... do you still need another tree to cross pollinate? Thanks.

[@Bubileaf]

That Apple tree... whaaat!?

[@1cbjack]

Did you mail order your trees or did you purchase locally? Where did you purchase them from?

[@Elise2010able]

I want to grow a peach tree

[@DaliaMadrid]

wow! what an interesting concept!

[@clons3253]

Shirley is there a place you recommend for these plants?

[@DR-lh9rm]

Is it better to keep dwarf trees in pots to keep them small??

[@Tanfeliz]

Grafting is awesome. I have an heirloom apple tree that never grows anything I'd want to eat. Maybe I'll graft it.

[@dianasim1876]

where to get plants like this

[@AlusaBird2]

Did the avocado have two or more types on it?

[@bigbuggie5]

I'd like to grow ranier cherries or the 4 types of cherries in one tree.

[@poison5369]

Ive got trees hahaha

[@RS-nz6rn]

Gayla😀

[@flawns]

Have the trees produced all 4 fruits??

[@FoodieGardenerDiabetes]

Let me know how you do Teresa. Shirley

[@straightfromtheheart7549]

Don't apple trees require at least 2 or 3 trees of the same variety in order to make fruit? And do all those varieties require the same number of "cold days"?? If your area doesn't have enough "cold days" (AKA days where the temp is below 50 degrees or so) the apples won't fruit in your area.

[@bobs3303]

can you send a couple of the ladies to help me out ?

[@tinaleonie5811]

That lemon tree looks sick

[@saw141]

Weird number of inappropriate and rude comments.

[@gardentips1249]

Got a little bit of salt burn going on with that meyer lemon.

[@charity9660]

Can i just pay you for a starter tree in a pot

[@thecheapbastard5168]

I have a "tree" that i would like these ladies to "grow".

[@ToughLuckWorld]

Small pot plants

[@justinmanzo3945]

I'm allergic to fruit

[@iiTzHaroon]

eat the apples there going brown

[@JoelSilvaraci20-09-BH]

Papaya

[@wuryan1160]

2:50 u women so smoke!!

[@MervindeJesusOfficial]

Apple....because in the piliphines. No apple

[@turbonbc]

when you mess with nature quality/nutrients/lifeforce drops significantly

[@takeshiyama1463]

The music over top of the the dialog makes it impossible to understand what the person is saying. No need for all of the splicing / special effects either - just distracts from what may be good information. Too bad.

[@stingrayyyyyy]

Who's single?

[@tohopes]

Everyone here commenting about the girls is single.

[@placasowuicho967]

Hmm wonder if she has an only fans