Backyard Fruit Orchard

Want to grow your own fruit? Adding fruit trees and edible perennials can transform a backyard into a food forest! Growing fruit is probably the most rewarding aspects of gardening. Learn how to choose fruit trees for your garden zone, chill hours, pollination tips, how to plant bare root fruit trees, and tips for growing passionfruit. Fruit often takes a longer time to establish, but once it starts producing you are able to taste the sweetest, most delicious homegrown fruit you will ever eat!
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Homegrown frozen peach slices
Summer is an amazing time to preserve garden produce. Peaches especially, ripen all at once....so I froze some slices and also made a quick peach clafoutis. Today's video is all about garden to freezer recipes we use all Summer long!
Planting a Multi-Graft Asian Pear Tree & Tips for Growing Fruit Trees In a Backyard
In this video we are removing an unproductive fruit tree and replacing it with a multi-graft Asian pear tree. I discuss some of the pros and cons of multi-graft trees, but also how to select the best one at the nursery. Join me in my Southern California backyard garden for some fruit tree fun!
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Protecting fruit in a backyard garden~ Here are things w have tried.
There is no garden that is free of pests. In fact, if that’s your goal, you will probably drive yourself far crazier attempting to achieve that goal rather than simply accepting some losses. That being said, there are some tools we utilize to protect fruit around our garden so we get to enjoy the bounty. for example, this is a tree bag around a young persimmon tree.
How to grow the best apples right at home! Apple growing tips for Southern California
Join me in my backyard to harvest and talk about growing apples at home! I'll share how to choose the right apple variety for your climate, how to thin apples for larger fruit, how to protect apple trees from sunburn, and share lots of other backyard gardening tips!
Caring for Newly Planted Fruit Trees~ Tips for Backyard Orchards
Have you planted a new fruit tree recently? Have you wondered what comes next? Today we are tackling a lot of the common questions about how to care for young fruit trees in the firtst 1-3 years of life. Learn about protecting your tree from sunscald, how to thin fruit, fertilizing, shaping, and more!
Here are the pros and cons of a multi-graft fruit tree according to my experience
After three years of growing our own multi-graft peach tree, I feel like I have enough personal experience and thoughts to write a short blog about the pros and the cons. Essentially, these trees contain multiple grafts of fruit that is the same type of fruit (ie. all apples, all peaches, all cherries, etc). The peach tree I am going to share with you today is a multi-graft/multi-bud tree.
Backyard Fruit Orchard~ Fun Facts About Growing Pomegranates
If you’re planning or designing a year-round backyard orchard, it might be helpful to know that pomegranates are a fruit that ripen anywhere from September-November here in Southern California. I’ll provide some tips in this post for how to know when your pomegranates are ripe, but they mostly ripen all at once during the Fall. Read on over at Freckled Californian for more pomegranate growing information.
Growing Apples in Mild Climates + Tips for Cultivation
Come check out the low-chill apples I'm growing in my Southern California backyard. Learn my tips for growing strong apple trees and how to make sure you get fruit production!
How to Prune & Feed Blackberries for Lots of Fruit
During the late winter/early Spring, it's a good time to prune your blackberry plants. I like to combine the task of pruning with feeding at the end. I feed with an organic berry fertilizer and top off with some compost.
How to Prune Boysenberry Plants~ Full Guide + Video Tutorial
Our backyard boysenberry plants benefit from a proper pruning every year. I like to start by identifying the growth that fruited last year---as this growth will not fruit again. You can start pruning boysenberry plants anywhere between December-February here in Southern California.