I Broke the Rules and Planted 35 Different Edible Perennials in a Small Garden, Here's What Happened

[@jamesprigioni]

SHARE THIS VIDEO IF YOU ENJOYED IT! Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:13 Overview of the Garden 00:27 Apples 01:41 Strawberries 02:05 Asparagus 02:40 Persimmons 03:07 Pears 03:56 Echinacea 04:28 Hazelnuts 04:59 Cherries 05:54 Figs 06:15 Grapes 06:40 Rosemary 07:02 Fall Raspberries 07:25 Oregano 07:46 Peaches 08:03 Blackberries 08:26 Lemon Balm 08:41 Mint 08:55 Currants 09:13 Rhubarb 09:51 Hardy Orange Tree 10:14 Horseradish 10:26 Japanese Raisin Tree 10:39 Jujube 11:13 Blueberries 11:38 Lavenda 11:50 Sage 12:20 Plums 12:40 Rosa Rugosa 12:58 Summer Raspberries 13:14 Boysenberries 13:26 Gooseberries 13:41 Carpet Raspberries 14:58 Autumn Olives 15:35 Aronia Bush 15:51 Thyme 16:04 Fuyu Persimmons 16:24 How We Fit so much Food in so Little Space 18:31 Giveaway Winner Announcement 19:28 Final Thoughts

[@briandupar6406]

Love the channel ! I stay in zone 9 a and growing is pretty easy

[@briandupar6406]

Have you ever tried to grow Mary Jane just curious 😂

[@donnabrooks1173]

I'm a serial killer of rosemary and thyme for some reason I can't keep them alive even though I watch KZbin for their care.

[@morb-g4q]

What happened to lemons and Plums? I rate plums higher than those cherry trees. Get rid of those tree's you don't like and plant some plums or something else you like. Yeah!!!

[@jbell2910]

Congratulations

[@oddball-z]

Your enthusiasm is contagious, and long live the king 💛

[@jamesprigioni]

Let's Gooo! Tuck and Gardening getting me amped!

[@Anu_Fathima]

​@@jamesprigioniplease show you are preserving food which you grown

[@shirleyandrews1152]

U R so right‼️there is nothing like a peach off the tree. Store bot ones taste like cardboard. I don’t even bother with them anymore.

[@PalmettoParatrooper]

People underestimate the power of perennials. The moment you get land spam a variety of perennials all over it.

[@bpseaton]

James, maybe you've already posted this somewhere and I just haven't seen it, but do you have a site map of your garden? I would love to see how you lay out your beds, trees, and so on, because sometimes it seems like you must be working with a hundred-acre plot! Fantastic stuff, man. Thank you for sharing your world with us!

[@tedtolentino4955]

Let me also add my request for a site map. I have a few shade trees on my property and it would be helpful to know what I can plant underneath these trees and still have a successful food forest. I'm in zone 7, too.

[@idahofishgamer3560]

I have been watching you for years without a home of My own now I have one I have been building my dream garden piece by piece lots of failures but with Noone to teach me my passion in life it wouldn't have been possible with out you ty for your energized teaching.

[@juneramirez8580]

Congratulations on your home!!!! Best of luck growing your garden!! Be watchful for both success and unfortunately, some failures! But don't get frustrated!!!

[@joycee5493]

Please bring back your signature opening. It was such a wonderful start to all of your videos.

[@RebeccaElice]

I was also disappointed not hearing it 😂

[@janeblake3917]

Your positivity and your gorgeous side kick keep me coming back! You’re so inspiring I now have a number of fruit trees in my garden thanks to you - raspberries, cherry tree, apple, peach, fig and red, white and black currant and hazelnut!

[@heysuz701]

I love seeing how your garden (and you and Tuck) has grown and changed over the years! Thank you for continuing to share and encouraging everyone! I would love to see a q&a live stream!!

[@shirleyhulse6896]

James it's good to see all the fruits and vegetables and not wasted lawn with nothing growing on it such a waste of space

[@crusher9z9]

why buy land if its gonna be full of useless flat nothing.

[@RebeccaElice]

Now this is what i called being blessed!

[@gisela1074]

It’s not magical but hard work also ingenuity.

[@V.Multicuisinechannel]

Correct 😊❤

[@V.Multicuisinechannel]

​@@gisela1074❤😊

[@RebeccaElice]

@@gisela1074 He is gifted… 😊

[@smas3256]

We are mid 70's and never knew how great potatoes are supposed to be. We are blessed and try to inspire other. James. Thank you for inspiriting us and being such a ♥good dad to ♥Tuck. ♥

[@cindyeasterling6917]

❤❤❤ Tuck and congrats to the winner! Your food forest is more than impressive. Those apples are gorgeous!

[@honeybadgers1996]

Congrats to the winner🎉 Thanks for showing your beautiful garden. A big hug to Tuck🐶💕

[@doloresreynolds8145]

Every garden needs a “guardin’ garden dog”! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Cthomas5678]

Always a beautiful garden James ❤❤❤ thank you

[@V.Multicuisinechannel]

Yes ❤

[@gisela1074]

I absolutely love your channel and selflessness in teaching others.

[@TygerBleuToo]

I had a Thai Basil plant that was in a pot. She flowered and spread her babies everywhere! I’ve potted a few of them in various places in the garden because pollinators love the blooms. Oddly, the original plant died, but she created a huge family. I also have a mint plant but learned the hard way that unless you want a mint jungle, plant it in a pot that is off the ground. They spread out of their pots out of the drain holes.

[@marygoodsell3602]

You are my favorite garden channel, i am in process of copying your food forest, and I love Tuck too!❤❤❤

[@V.Multicuisinechannel]

❤❤❤😊

[@arlenemaxwellcopeland1644]

Team grow! I have aerogardens from the pandemic, yard food, and house plants. Husband has now done containers for food. We're trying and we love it.

[@jamesprigioni]

Let’s Gooo!!!!

[@ceres4786]

Thank you for showing your perennial plants and trees! They are amazing!! Could you explain about watering and maintaining them?

[@amynourse9727]

♥♥♥♥for Tuck! Adding asparagus next year for sure!

[@AlchemiFlower]

Another legendary video. Let's forever appreciate how James gets right to the point with the info we came for. It's endless inspiration and knowledge for turning the back yard into a food forest...with no stress!

[@joannewolfe5688]

I always enjoy seeing your different varieties! My food forest is young yet, but. gets better every year.

[@ShellyMcDonnell123]

❤❤❤❤❤ 's for Tuck!

[@cindyspiess9963]

Always a Pleasure James and Tuck ! ❤ I grew your "super sweet 100's" this year . 👍

[@IAMGiftbearer]

A greenhouse would be a good item to give away! Also, a large raised bed, shade cloth, insect netting, and tall trellises.

[@janicemiles7907]

I agree! I love all those ideas.

[@Many8s]

Thank you, James, for sharing the details of your "broke the rules" food forest. Such incredible levels of produce from those trees and plants as well! Best to you and Tuck❤!

[@steverowlands8028]

James really enjoyed the video you have so much enthusiasm it's addictive

[@deborahplyler6528]

Thank you for sharing, I love the wonderful plants and fruits and vegetables you grow.

[@cmc6295]

James is the most ingenious, enthusiastic food farmer in the universe. The variety of food is amazing. Enjoy all his videos. Being a dog person, love seeing precious planting pal, master gardener, food connoisseur King Tuck.❤❤❤❤❤

[@Vera-k5o]

still consistently delighted with the amount of love the little Tuck king is always receiving

[@tubegoob1]

Congrats CLM! 🤘🎉🎊

[@baneverything5580]

I grow fall/winter crops like greens/tubers in the thick mulch/compost around my fig trees. I also plant Red Ripper Peas around my fruit trees in spring and it feeds the wild bunnies and keeps them away from my garden, keeps making longer vines, adds nitrogen to the soil, gives me a harvest until fall, and the leaves and vines create great compost. Red Ripper Peas are the most heat & drought tolerant plant I`ve seen and the leaves and young pods are edible too.

[@vafito44]

Hey bro I’ve always loved gardening and have done it since a child, you inspired me to start my yt channel a few days ago thanks dude! I love ur channel

[@greggtilghman6349]

❤❤❤❤❤ for King Tuck, the Garden King ❤❤❤❤❤

[@baneverything5580]

If you have a productive cherry tomato vine that`s beginning to get too large and old take cuttings and make new plants. They grow very very fast and look healthier and more vigorous than the parent plant. I do this every August.

[@VK-qo1gm]

Do you plant the cutting in the ground or small container first, Thank you

[@kh8529]

​@@VK-qo1gm for my Roma tomatos, both worked. I only clipped the most bottom leaves, made really deep holes with a stick and put them in. Lots of water on the first day and after it left the leaves hanging for a few days the plant started growing.

[@bonniec3397]

You are amazing. I LOVE your videos. They are so educational. I would order food from you if possible.

[@dengornulfo8887]

Nice food forest you have there and Love Tuck..he's so adorable❤ greetings from the Philippines

[@happyhobbit8450]

Thank you!!! I am land drunk :) I have 6.17 acres but MOST is forest ... I am on the side of the mountain. It's a work in progress your videos give me encouragement!

[@chpsusan]

🐾🐾🥰❤️🥰❤️🐾🐾🐾 for Tuck. Love your attitude! You both are a true inspiration 🫶

[@Grow_with_Michael]

I love the food forest & Tuck 🌳 ❤

[@puppetlady1]

❤❤❤for tuck, the young king!! I do share your channel with my friends. Ty

[@juneramirez8580]

Great ideas. Thank you! You are wonderful for our environment! My property was just certified as a Wildlife Habitat . I wanted to do that for a long time and just finally did it!!!! Hope it will encourage others also!!!

[@davidcraft4919]

Thanks for all you do, JP and Tuck! You've really inspired my garden this year, and I am so grateful! ❤❤❤❤❤❤🧑‍🌾

[@sialig9297]

hahahahahah.... I JUST LOVE YOUR PERSONALITY...So enthusiastic... I guess I have been watching you for quite awhile now..

[@odunayooke450]

Wow this is incredible.....nothing beats enjoying the fruits of your labor..Love from Nigeria...i feel so inspired by you and i started my own little container garden (taking tips from you) at home. Though am no where near your perfection but i feel so elated when i go to the garden to get as little as spring onions to use in a dish. Thanks for the good work and also cheers to your little buddy.

[@kkl8631]

Great tour! Fun to learn about all these different plants. Love ya James and Tuck ♥♥♥♥

[@homesecurityshortclipspluse]

Thanks James for the channel! Your videos are interesting and informative. Even David the good thinks so. He mentioned you in one of his videos!

[@Omoloya1]

Hey, JP and King Tuck. Thank you!

[@marysisson7761]

❤❤❤❤❤ you are definitely an inspiration for my new project. Switching to a food forest rather than a standard garden. Wish me luck 😊. Love Tuck! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@tammiepulley7167]

Your garden is awesome. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.

[@jpexoticpets146]

Thank you for sharing! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ We love your puppy too!

[@JDB61698]

Inspirational, as always!

[@nancylucas4231]

James--your food forest has grown to be so amazing! I've been following you for many years. Thank you for your enthusiasm and kindness in sharing everything you do. Blessings to you and Tuck and your family.

[@Detour4it]

Vision, determination, and hard work achieve the dream. Beautiful

[@AnubisFenrir]

💙 Tucks has such an adorable smile

[@FarmLifeSimplified-k2w]

Your harvest is really impressive! Seeing your fresh fruits and vegetables gives me more motivation to improve my own garden.

[@tedtolentino4955]

Great advice on growing perennials. Thanks for sharing. Hugs to Tuck.

[@sakis763]

We are lucky to be on planet Earth... grow our favourite food....

[@29cyd1]

Your paradise always blows my mind. ♥

[@jmbal925]

Tucker living the life !!!

[@jungsoopark1638]

Thank you for sharing the process and results of growing so many edible plants in a small garden. It's really cool to see so many different plants growing well. I think breaking the rules actually brought good results. Great effort and great video!

[@garfielda34]

❤❤❤❤ for Tuck and your continued inspiration!

[@mariakapari]

Give all my love to the young king! He is precious ❤❤❤

[@riccardo50001]

Your zeal ands enthusiasm areI really fun to watch. It makes me wish I had a backyard garden, but unfortunately I live in a condominium and I had a rhythm pathetic response when I moved here. I had had a deck with plants on it reviously so I brought them here to the complex I set them out in a place where they could have been distributed somewhere but despite my inquiry nobody did anything with them. I planted a few of them outside the back door of my building and someone was not very happy about that at all. So I ultimately took them to Golden Gate Park And left them where the staff could use them. I have to admit however, I wasn't a very good parent to a small patch of garden that my landlord let me use. I think you're kind of zeal is required, Though I also had a very busy life so I couldn't always do what was necessary. I also put out some poison to stop the snails and my landlord freaked out Because of his dog, so I gave up that little patch and Just kept plants on my my deck. Even there, I was really surprised how much water they required and I really do miss that apartment with a deck and the sweeping view of downtown San Francisco.

[@CraigBuccalo]

Thanks James and Tuck! I planted a pear tree a few years back and this year I got my first pear. It was one of the best pears I have ever tasted.

[@sf55514]

❤❤❤ love for Tuck and all. Congratulations

[@agulag]

I love the advice AGAINST the ones you wouldn't grow again, if you started over. it is really nice to see the honestly of making a bad choice and not pretending like it was not a mistake.

[@engleds]

You are so blessed to have so much area to grow in and undoubtedly not just clay soil, roots and rocks like my back yard here in Arkansas. I'm 71 and I have 3 above ground gardens and a small patch about 12'x9'. I wish I had a green thumb and the knowledge you have to care for plants. I was very excited that I had cucumbers that actually grew this year since they had never been successful before and beans usually grow well. My squash never does well. It flowers, but rots on the plant, then I got the squash bugs! My tomatoes haven't produced any fruit, the flowers just seem to die. The eggplant took forever to produce anything and then only a couple of eggplant the size of a plum. I feed the plants and water but no good comes of it. I had a fig tree but it died the third year. Just bad soil even though I've spent loads on good soil, manure and compost. It would be so nice if I was younger or at least had someone to help. I enjoy watching you and Tuck in your garden and daydream of what a wonderful garden I could grow one day.

[@amynourse9727]

Congrats to clmccowen! ♥♥♥♥ A raised bed giveaway would be amazing!

[@suelove5824]

Thank you so much for your ideas and encouragement, James & Tuck! We have a small side yard but we are growing many vegetables in food safe 5 gallon buckets because of viewing your videos. Thank you! ❤❤❤❤🥰 for Tuck !

[@cobysmith3179]

I have watched you for several years now and I love seeing your space change and grow. I have lots of fruit trees (10 so far) that I’ve planted. We’ve only been in our house two years, so I’m still waiting for all my perennials to produce. We have blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, asparagus, walking onions, rhubarb, artichokes probably more I’m forgetting g along with our fruit trees. I had my first nectarines this year!

[@luckyleaprealestate]

I love small garden 🎉❤

[@ross-smithfamily6317]

Thornless blackberries are wonderful! LOVE it!!

[@HelloNewman15]

James, you and puck are rock stars . Thanks for all your great information, it’s helped to make me a better gardener. I don’t recall ever seeing a video about what critters you battle in your food forest. Mine is a modest 15x30 and last year a wood chuck/ groundhog did major damage and this year it’s been squirrels and Norway rats which have eaten half of my ripening tomatoes. I would love to hear your experiences….Mike

[@MoniMeka]

Lmaooooooo @ his dog down there WAITING for somethin' to drop! Ok, my month is watering! LOL. It all looks so good!

[@bettyfox2220]

Watching you and Tuck❤❤❤ inspired me to plant alot more in my garden with beds filled with zucchini, sunflowers, beans etc !! I look at my garden differently now. Thank you for sharing your beautiful food forest!❤

[@AudreyLMcFarland]

Thank you! I have started growing my own food and your information is so helpful!.. and seeing Tuck, is always an added bonus~! And - Congrautalations to CL Macowen! enjoy the composter!!

[@menarussell]

It's so encouraging and fun to see what you grow. I'm still considering doing a chair garden here. I collected the lawn chairs and bins to put in the chairs. My plan is to grow food in the bins. I'll have to work on getting it set up. I don't know if I'll get it done this fall. I do love watching all that you accomplish. Thank you for the details on the varieties of each. It's also great to know what you don't recommend growing.

[@jenniferhazell9488]

❤,s for Tuck & you are doing an amazing job too James 😊

[@GrowerStatusT73]

Your Stella cherry tree is sooo beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@davidhudson3567]

💙💙💙 For Tuck.... I'm so green with envy... I'm just getting going... a long way to go. I can't wait until I can swing a few fruit trees...

[@mandandi]

This is very encouraging. I started putting some plants in the ground 4 years ago - orange, moringa, cactus some nut trees. This year, they are all flowering. I cant wait to eat the fruits. I also have a plot with leafy greens and I don't buy them anymore. Recently, I plants herb seeds and have a small herb bed. I am now encouraged to plant more trees around the yard. I even make my compost from free cow dung I collect near where I live. I have decided to collect seeds and plant own trees at home, some have germinated already. Its cheaper for me doing it this way.

[@wonderscall6486]

Your garden is amazing and inspirational.

[@waldoonline]

Awesome garden tour! Love the dwarf trees!❤

[@slatigresa1]

You have been such an inspiration for me getting started! Thank you for sharing!!!

[@lilyrose4191]

Your garden is awesome! 🍎🍏🍐🌱🌳🌼🏵🌹🍊🍋🍅🥬🥦🫑🌶🍓🫐🧄🧅🌽🥕🫒 Love your videos. Tuck is adorable and even eats asparagus! 🥰 I love the way Tuck 'tucks into his veges.' 😍 Thanks for another terrific video - such enthusiasm! 🌱🪴🌳🌷🌺🌻🌼🌿🌹🌾🏵

[@lilyrose4191]

The timestamps are handy too. Thank you 🙂🦋

[@sonyabarkwell6077]

Oh, James we just love Tuck your Guardian for your Foodforest!😁

[@Crystal-f8j]

James your garden is so nice. It’s looking amazing. I’d never want to go back up to the house if it mine.

[@renam2927]

The big advantage of Elaeagnus: we can leave the fruits on the trees during the winter. When they have passed through the cold, they are not so tart, I'd say they are delicious. And the tree tolerates cutting very well.

[@farmerbizzlethebackyardgar2242]

U are a wild man!!!’ great job as always very inspiring!’n

[@BiddahSweet]

Good job to Clmcallen!! What an awesome Giveaway James, you gave out a $500 Vego Composter what a lucky guy to win it, job well done! Garden is looking good!

[@SueBall-vl8ou]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I'm going to try gardening again here...Sue from Arizona

[@sherrylingenfelter8991]

Dad,Tuck wants a carrot! 💙💙💙🐕

[@GardenFreshHomestead]

You love your berry tree. Your fig is huge. ❤for Tuck! wants a carrot

[@BilliaPhily]

Have you ever tried growing Taiwanese Jujubes? They’re also called Taiwanese Green apple because the fruits are as big as green apple. They’re so delicious that no Chinese jujubes could ever be compared to them. They are very easy to grow too. We love them more than any fruit trees we have in our garden.

[@bigtonythabagmanrobinson3753]

Congratulations C.L enjoy!!

[@mompofelski4191]

HEY - will you do one of those "persimmon seed" readings that tell what your local weather will be? I think that would be fun to see. Knife - Fork - or Spoon. What'll it be?

[@danflower999]

WOW! You have an amazing forest 😮