Upgrading and Updating My Permaculture Food Forest!! Zone 9, Texas

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In this backyard transformation I'll show you how to create a subtropical food forest on a suburban lot!
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@franzb69

finally some foodrelated stuff

@kathrynion

I don't know if you know, but mulberry trees can get HUGE.....up to 60 or 70 feet in some cases. I have one that volunteered in my yard and grew quickly before I even knew what it was (only started gardening hardcore a couple of years ago and identifying the various plants/trees that I have - I am in Houston also). It's only about 6 or 7 years old now and is at least 25 feet tall already (and probably almost as wide, too) and doesn't show any signs of slowing down. About 2 or 3 years ago, it started fruiting modestly. This past year, it absolutely RAINED fruit. I was shocked.. Fortunately, the "rain" only lasts a month or two in the spring, but it made quite a mess this year. I like eating the fruit, too, but you should be warned that tiny little bugs infest the fruit QUICKLY, even while it's still on the tree. I am not sure what the bugs are, and maybe you don't care much, but just thought you should know since your kid was eating them from the tree. The bugs are very hard to get rid of just by simple washing. If you research this issue at all, you will also find that mulberries and their hybrids and cultivars are a genetic and taxonomic mess. I THINK what I have is a white mulberry (Morus alba), but I am not entirely sure. I think Persian mulberries might be the equivalent of black mulberries (Morus nigra), but I'm not sure of that, either. I know where my tree most likely came from, though. There is a HUGE mulberry in an open field near my house, so I think the volunteer probably came from there. The last thing to know is that my poor tree got OWNED by web/tent/bag worms (whatever the hell they're called - they love fruit trees and they have been bad in Houston this year) twice already this year. The last time (about a month ago), my poor tree was absolutely COVERED with those damn things and I had worms all over my house for days once they started to emerge from their webs (they are harmless, but they will chow down on pretty much ANY kind of fruit tree leaves). I had a couple of new mulberry volunteers in pots on my porch and one of those got completely owned by the worms. They seem to be super resilient, though, as both my large tree and the small volunteer leafed out again quickly and already look fine now as if nothing happened. However, last year I cut a few branches off the large tree and I think I may have given it some kind of disease that caused many of the leaves to get spotty yellow and fall off (but it's doing much better this year; I still see a few bad leaves here and there, though). So I recommend pruning in the winter when there's no threat of rain instead, and making sure you seal up any large cuts as thoroughly as possible so diseases don't get in and affect your trees. I love my tree. It's been gorgeous with beautiful leaves most of the time (and the birds really like it, too), but it has had its issues, just so you know. It's a bit higher maintenance than I expected.

@PackWolfypack 21 күн бұрын

Please don’t take the Lord’s name in vain.

@denisemouledous7352

Citrus do not like their feet in soggy soil. I’m in Louisiana in same zone as you. Try to plant them in a small mound instead of even with your ground. I learned this from a horticulturist!

@riverchel

I have a Mexican plum and chickasaw plum trees. These are native. Also black cherry (native). I hear tropic snow is a good peach for warm climate. Do you have a loquat tree? I just put an arctic frost Satsuma in the yard, citrus actually do well in understory, so you may consider trying that. They like protection.

@foragingandurbanfarmingatt4745

Great video, as always! I pick the apples off my young trees. They're just not ready. I know it's sad, but for the best

@whiterose1083

Why does he literally embody the houston area. he just needs to make his own lean while he picks his friuit. :)

@phoebehorton564

A great apple fore zone 9b is granny Smith. I am in florida And have an Anna and a golden door set, but my Granny Smith produces the most period it takes 1 or 2 winters for them to get good at flowering the same time when you have young trees. But the Granny. Smith always flowers right after winter

@mwnemo

Suriname Cherry and Cherry of the Rio Grande

@PoeticPoppa

Please show more of your puppy.

@ShyDog827

At my family home in South Texas ( Corpus) , our fruit trees and all of our neighbors’ fruit trees thrived and were not bothered by the cold weather we had. All of us had beautiful mature fruit trees of All types with abundant fruit and very fragrant flowers .