When I was a kid we would go to the field next door and look for wild strawberries. They are tiny and often hard to find in a field of other wild plants. But we didn't have much money and felt the berries were worth the work. Sometimes I would take my dog picking with me because using her nose she would find them quite quickly. Very useful when exploring unfamiliar areas of larger fields. She loved strawberries so much that she would snort while eating them!! When I heard her snorting I knew she had found a patch and I would pick for later while she picked and ate. In an area with many patches of berries, I would tell her to go find the next patch while I picked. I learned to pick quickly or she would eat them all! I have many fond memories of picking berries with my mamma and sister. And the dog of course, lol!
Wow Bobbijean! Thankyou for sharing your memory with us! Are you still close to the area where you used to pick them? I pray you find all the wild strawberries you need in Jesus Christ's name Amen 🙏❤️ God gives us comfort through his creations, your dog was his gift to you.🦋
My 4 year old son and I love to watch your videos. He is obsessed! Every morning after breakfast he asks to watch one of your harvest videos. While we have been in lock down and away from nursery your videos have given us both something positive to focus on. You have inspired him (and me) to get out into our garden and start our own food forest. He also now wants a Yorkshire terrier, ❤️ Tuck. Keep up the amazing work and inspiring content.
Glad you are finding value in the videos Gabriel, and thank you for the kind words. Me and Tuck are trying to get as many people growing as possible, and we want them to be raking in big harvests too!
I love growing berries--blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries. I really recommend the new raspberry variety called "Raspberry Shortcake." It's a thornless bush variety. There's no staking involved and it's harmless. It makes a great container plant too.
James, you and Tuck are so fun and educational to watch. I love it when I get notification of a new video. Would you mind putting out a video about watering? For example, when and how often? As a fairly new gardener, I often wonder if I’m over or under-watering and not sure how to know when things need water. Everything in your garden looks perfect. I’m sure a lot of your viewers and fans would like a little Prigioni Wisdom on the subject. Apologies if you’ve already done that! Maybe a refresher? Here’s a heart for Tuck ❤️
Good point about the tried and true berries. There's a reason why they're the first berries that you think of when it comes to berries. Flavor. Flavor. Flavor.
@0 V 0 Official i went through rare seeds online it was out of stock for like a year. I kept checking every few weeks and when it was in stock I bought about a dozen crowns.. it is now two separate patches about 12x6
I just LOVE Tuck!! I have a Pekingese and a Chihuahua, my two garden boys that love to come hang out with me too, but they won’t eat anything out of the garden at all..lol I love how Tuck will eat a cucumber or a carrot 🥕..That’s just the cutest!! I used to have a lab, that we lost to old age a few yrs ago, and she used to get green tomato tar, all over her face, from stealing the cherry 🍒 tomatoes..lol She loved the Sun Sugars the best! 👍
"In my opinion, there's a reason they're super rare." That's an excellent point I hadn't considered before. I thought I'd plant out rare plants because buying them would be so expensive, But taste tests are definitely in order.
Thanks James - inspiring as always. I now have a sense of why my new blueberry bushes didnt make it last season. They had to compete with perennial weeds and groundcovers- and the drought here. so the weeds took the goodness, the light and the water. I have a green grape vine planted along my deck railing which gets massive sunshine all summer. It produces literally thousands of very sweet grapes to the delight of the neighbourhood. I pop the bunches into the freezer and have lovely frozen bursts of sweetness all winter long. They freeze really well.
I just love your videos! I usually have to 2x the voice on videos because they talk so slow and have a hard time getting to the point, but I don’t have to with your videos. You’re entertaining to watch, you talk fast and get to the point fast. Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge! Keep up the good work!
I think it's great that you shared not just you like but what you didnt like. Always look forward to your videos. My initial flush of strawberries were great. The black raspberries are starting to ripen. The red raspberries and blackberries are a few weeks away. Picked some Mulberries today with more on the way. I moved my 4 blueberries plants into large pots this year to better control the ph and added a new variety. I would like to add 2 or 3 more next year.
I compost all my coffee and espresso grounds for a year than spread as a topping around my blueberries. Also triple super phosphate is areally a great flower booster for all fruits.
Hi to you and Tuck. I want to thank you because your channel has helped me and the wife so much. We live in Rochester zone 6. The house was over run with weeds. Upon cleaning up we found 5 bushes with small hard trunks.. either blkberries or raspberries. No thorns. We cut them down some were growing on top of cement.. crazy! We added a blueberry bush and will add another this year we built palet raised beds and we found a grape vine under the weeds. So we used cattle fencing to make a trellis between the raised beds. We are planning to grow a persimmons, alberta peach dwarf and 2 columnar apple trees. This is all thanks to you! And by the way our 2 cats like to dig in the dirt and eat our cherry tomatoes. So we planted catnip for them. We are planning on planting brussel sprouts broccoli and cauliflower. Besides lettuce tom.potatoes celery etc. We also been donating excess produce to the local food pantry besides canning some. We are so thankful to you! Your positive attitude is awesome.
I didn't even have to try to plant hazelnuts. The jays and squirrels did that for me. Now it looks like I have a hazelnut forest. Wonder if I'LL get any this year. LOL
We do have a wild hazelnut forest and I have only succeeded in beating the animals to the nuts one year out of the past 6 years! Good luck! Supposedly the trick is finding them and picking them while they are still green and unripe, before the animals are interested.
Watching how your garden has grown and flourished over the past 3 years that I've been watching is amazing! I grew up in NJ and see you doing all of this in your yard in Jersey is so cool. Thanks for sharing what you do!
I wish that I had your soil and your wonderful enthusiasm. I've been gardening for 60+ years and I've had a couple bad gardening years and sure could use a bit of your youth/attitude right now. Doggone health problems kinda kicking me around. I absolutely love your dog.....lost my little buddy this year.
I just love your intro, James. It makes me want to just jump up and get out in my garden. I’ve been using some of your suggestions and my garden is doing awesome! I planted 6 strawberry plants but, I wish I would’ve planted way more. I planted strawberry bulbs (?) about 3 weeks ago. Maybe by next spring I’ll get a lot more. Thanks so much for your infectious energy and excitement for gardening! I love it!
I have fond memories as a child growing up in Ontario, my sisters and I playing in the woods, picking buckets of dark purple/black colored raspberries:) there were also tiny little strawberries growing along the ground:)
Yes, raspberries are doing the best in my garden. I have heavy clay soil, but the raspberries and blackberries are flowering and fruiting the best of all. I have pretty much the same varieties as you do. Plums and peaches are prone to pests and fungus, strawberries require good amounts of fertilizer, and blueberries try to die on me when I plant them in the soil, so I just keep them in containers.
Its important to note if you're planting outside, where you live definitely matters. I've tried strawberries many times here in Texas and the heat kills them faster than anything else lol. I think next I'll try to grow them inside.
I’d be interested in a video on how do you stay on top of keeping the garden organized and from having tons of fruit landing on the ground and riding all the time. How do you say on top of it all? How much time does it take - seems like a full-time job.
Yay for blueberries :) I finally planted a garden this year and have 14 blueberry plants/7 different varieties two of each. So we have early, mid and late season. We also got raspberries, blackberries and strawberries. Totally love berries :) would’ve bought older plants but I wanted more so I opted for young plants for more affordable prices.
The past year I have worked myself hard getting ready for several fruit trees and now I'm getting some blueberries and a honeysuckle type called Honeyberry (Haskap, Yezberry) because its easy to grow. When I was a small kid, dad had a hedge of raspberries, very tasty but the thorns were awful. Great memories from an experienced gardener, how to plant seeds and save flower seeds.
I planted some loganberries in the fall and I'm really looking forward to seeing how they do. I'm also planning to plant a mulberry tree because I love the flavor and they're something you never find in the stores and stuff you can't get in the store is one of my biggest motivations for gardening.
I have two mulberry trees. Last year was the first time I was able to get a reasonable amount of mulberries, because there weren't as many wild birds. Last year, also, the birds that did beat me to the fruit also spread the bushes around. I have a number of mulberry shrubs/small trees all over my property, providing shade for the poultry and a small amount of berries. I don't think my neighbors were as thrilled with the mulberries that had started in their yards, though. This year, we are hosting a flock of Starlings and another of Boat-tailed Grackles, three species of dove have decided it's a nice place to live, too. I doubt I'll get much fruit, but I do enjoy the visitors antics.
Never new what a pipin apple was. I tried starting a tree from my crabapple tree. Not sure how it's doing (compared to the other two), so stuck some seeds in the pot from a bag of store bought apples. A couple of weeks later and some green is popping up.
James, every single video you’ve made is full of energy and positivity. Anytime I need a bit of encouragement or happiness, I turn to your video. And of course seeing Tuck digging in your garden is a plus 🧡🥒🍒🍓
I learned a great deal from you and Tuck, but the coolest thing was learning the name for the wild black raspberries that the birds planted in my yard 5 years ago. It’s exactly as you describe, and it’s a hard fight to eat em right off the bush or put them in vanilla blackcap raspberry pies!
You have given the confidence to garden. Buying a property soon, will be growing everything ...lol!! Have been practicing in my rented yard; 2 years. Lots of failure, learning; am ready to go! You teach about growing several varieties, for better pollination. Unbelievably great advice. My gratitude always 💜💜💜 Hey Tuck 😄💜
I,m sure not rich , I live in a tiny apartment in Oregon , but when I saw you teaching the world how to do it right , I jumped on board . As of now I have 4 blueberry bushes and 4 raspberry bushes and a grape growing on a rope because you can eat grape leaves with cheese and protein . good job ~! all on my renters insurance because I eat off my plant,s . Now teach us all you can ~! We are sponges out here .
Goji berries, I agree! My raspberries are a favorite of the Japanese beetles. They can make lacey leaves out of my whole row over night 🤨 Great information!
This was a berry good drop today james. Got all 3 going crazy in my backyard. The raspberry is the king of production and I'm perfectly happy with it taking over. It's the boss. Be safe my guy.
I planted the start of my food forest this weekend and used my red solo cups to rem what I planted 😬 I felt a step closer to soon having a forest of food!! Thank you, James! Keep the videos coming and sharing your knowledge. 🙏❤️
James, would you might sharing what varieties of each berry you are growing? I'm especially interested in the blueberries, but I'd love to know all of them. Thanks so much for your energy and enthusiasm in sharing what you've learned.
This is all so wonderful, I really enjoy watching your food garden grow and learning about it. Who knew there are so many kinds of berries you can grow! YUM.
I planted 5 blueberries over the last 2 years. I’m down to 2-3 and they don’t seem to do much at all. They definitely aren’t thriving like my fruit trees. Then my mulberries freeze off every winter, but send up new chutes every spring. I even buried them with snow last year thinking it would protect from the -35F temps in winter and no dice.
Wow great tour love your energy . My son and I fell in love with indoor growing over this winter and being stuck around the house since all this stuff 😷 started . We've grown pomegranate and apples from store bought and mulberry from our frozen backyard harvest can't wait till spring to get these outdoors . Much love from Canadian proud get outdoors 🙏
An fyi for people living in areas with alkaline soils! (Such as in colorado) pine needles will not change the pH of your soil! We have buffers in our soil that make it very hard to change the pH! If you wish to grow blueberries, it is best to do it in a raised bed so that you can start with a different soil that is easier to change the pH of, and use a soil acidifier such as HollyTone or Humic Acid. Peat moss is the main component of potting soil, and is naturally slightly acidic, but not acidic enough on its own for blueberries. Keep in mind that James is starting with already somewhat acidic soil! Eastern US is prone to having more acidic soils. You will know if your blueberries need more acid in the soil if the leaves of the plant get very pale!
You have a great place with years into your varieties. I live in Alaska. I do raspberries, I haven’t tried blueberries, or currents. Theses do well. Thankfully fir the tip of the white current, I’ll look for it
I love aronia BECAUSE you need to process it. Great thing that's productive and gives you an interesting flavor. They also look really good and are food for the birds. I'm growing it mainly for wine.
I’m a huge fan from Northern California🐾I hope you create a video about your peach trees - they’re beautiful🐝. I know they can be tricky; but I learned that after I purchased 2 in February. Immediately they experienced leaf curl; so I sprayed them with Monterey oil- they seem to be adding beautiful foliage; but I’d love to hear your advice🦋
You’ve inspired me once again James. We’re looking at moving in the next 18 months so I’m going to plant some blueberries are raspberries in pots so I can take them with us. As always ❤️ to Tuck.
We have not had good luck with strawberries on our sandy soil. I see them as heavy feeders. They need a loam rich in calcium. I grow currents successfully and black currents make the best syrup. Red and white currents make great muffins. I’m weird, i like mulberry. The tree is super messy, so plant it away in the back corner of your property, but it’s very productive. Birds will leave black spots on your cars.
Living By Choice I have carrots, broccoli, green onion, zucchini, cucumber, green beans and tomatoes...at least the beginning stages of all. I grew all from seed
Erin79 nice!! :) I started seeds for the first time this year too :) I don’t have any produce yet though cause I started late cause the virus delayed my seed order :p edited cause I saw you said you were from jersey lol sorry I’m pregnant my brain is slow sometimes 😅
Living By Choice I had bigger plans but this V thing kinda stopped me in my tracks. I just started at the end of April, but even the learning is valuable! I know all about “pregnant brain”. Not as bad as “mom brain”! 😁🤣
I absolutely love and appreciate all the knowledge and experience you generously share with us James, you have been one of the main inspirations in my life practices the last 3 years. I moved back to Washington state from Pennsylvania at that time and began growing things at my parents place, now I'm growing on 3 properties (none of my own yet though) and I'm mainly incorporating the methods you put me on to. The bounty is so abundant this year, I'm swimming in strawberries !😋 You also introduced me to Paul Gautschi, who it ends up lives about 2 hours from me! So I visited him last summer , which was an incredible and educational experience, so valuable and spiritual. Watching you also made me decide this year to start a little channel to share with friends and family to try and get everyone excited to grow and forage more of their own food, and I always try to help anyone interested by giving them seeds or advice or labor . If you'd like to see the gardens you inspired I'd love to hear whatcha think or even get feedback on what I have going! ruclips.net/video/5q8DKUdnNBI/видео.html Love you and Tuck brotha, keep it up, I'll always be watching and learning 🙏😊✌💚
I had to binge watch all your videos last year and proceeded to build a food forrest following your example best I could. The rewards have been amazing and with ongoing learning making it better each year as you do. Thank you and I’m always excited to see your next video.
I really like your videos! I love gardening, but sometimes it can be pretty hard, and these videos give me a lot more inspiration growing more vegetables, knowing one day they would become big! Thank you!
Great video! I love berries so much that I grow 7 different species of thornless berry as well as 6 different species of raspberry and they're all soooo good in their own ways!
Still going through 7 years worth of your vids. I just started year 3. I love to watch the whole process.
Let's Goooo!! I like that approach, getting a whole feel on the way things have progressed along
I’m doing the same thing. I like to look at new material, but looking back at the origins of a channel helps us pick the authentic folks.
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When I was a kid we would go to the field next door and look for wild strawberries. They are tiny and often hard to find in a field of other wild plants. But we didn't have much money and felt the berries were worth the work. Sometimes I would take my dog picking with me because using her nose she would find them quite quickly. Very useful when exploring unfamiliar areas of larger fields. She loved strawberries so much that she would snort while eating them!! When I heard her snorting I knew she had found a patch and I would pick for later while she picked and ate. In an area with many patches of berries, I would tell her to go find the next patch while I picked. I learned to pick quickly or she would eat them all! I have many fond memories of picking berries with my mamma and sister. And the dog of course, lol!
Wow Bobbijean! Thankyou for sharing your memory with us! Are you still close to the area where you used to pick them? I pray you find all the wild strawberries you need in Jesus Christ's name Amen 🙏❤️ God gives us comfort through his creations, your dog was his gift to you.🦋
What a nice story.
Too long, didn't read.
@@australianwoman9696 yes, I live about 2 miles from the area. Thank you for the wonderful blessing, and may God bless you!! 🙏 ❤
Love your story! Thank you for sharing.😋💝
I think I’m in love with James energy, Tuck and that garden.
Let’s Goooo!! It’s hard not to be happy in a garden 🤷🏻♂️
The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni I been in my garden ALL day planting and propagating mint, it suppose to be my rest day but 🤷🏽♀️
Growing that coca! I’ve never had that much energy. 🤣
Same!
Hit me like a truck with that intro but damn if I aint feelin it.
My 4 year old son and I love to watch your videos. He is obsessed! Every morning after breakfast he asks to watch one of your harvest videos. While we have been in lock down and away from nursery your videos have given us both something positive to focus on. You have inspired him (and me) to get out into our garden and start our own food forest. He also now wants a Yorkshire terrier, ❤️ Tuck. Keep up the amazing work and inspiring content.
That's so precious 🥰
Love how fast you talk! Usually I set videos on 1.25 speed but you are perfect!
I love how your simply trying to teach us with good quality videos and educational videos, unlike a lot of people on this platform thank you !!!
Glad you are finding value in the videos Gabriel, and thank you for the kind words. Me and Tuck are trying to get as many people growing as possible, and we want them to be raking in big harvests too!
You’re the quintessential urban farmer, thank you for sharing your life with us.
I love growing berries--blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries. I really recommend the new raspberry variety called "Raspberry Shortcake." It's a thornless bush variety. There's no staking involved and it's harmless. It makes a great container plant too.
James, you and Tuck are so fun and educational to watch. I love it when I get notification of a new video. Would you mind putting out a video about watering? For example, when and how often? As a fairly new gardener, I often wonder if I’m over or under-watering and not sure how to know when things need water. Everything in your garden looks perfect. I’m sure a lot of your viewers and fans would like a little Prigioni Wisdom on the subject. Apologies if you’ve already done that! Maybe a refresher? Here’s a heart for Tuck ❤️
Love your videos. I can watch them over and over. I get something new out of them every time. Thanks
I get just as exited as tuck when I see a new posted video by James Prigioni. Thankyou for Your amazing tips!
I thought you were MI Gardner for a sec. Your photo kinda looks like him. Cheers..
Screenshot and zoom in-- it IS MI Gardener!!
Just planted blueberries yesterday. Raspberries on the way.
Just love how Tucks into all your fruits, sooooo adorable
Rapsberries are very easy to grow.. they grow wild in my area, black and yellow
Good point about the tried and true berries. There's a reason why they're the first berries that you think of when it comes to berries. Flavor. Flavor. Flavor.
The strawberry variety I planted this year is "Old North Sea" a very rare variety.. it was found growing in an ancient viking village
Hows it going?
@@ibra673 growing great! Produces heavy amount of small berries.. i had some berries before June last year and it produced all through June
@@cryptocurrently894 Nice!
@0 V 0 Official i went through rare seeds online it was out of stock for like a year. I kept checking every few weeks and when it was in stock I bought about a dozen crowns.. it is now two separate patches about 12x6
I just LOVE Tuck!! I have a Pekingese and a Chihuahua, my two garden boys that love to come hang out with me too, but they won’t eat anything out of the garden at all..lol I love how Tuck will eat a cucumber or a carrot 🥕..That’s just the cutest!! I used to have a lab, that we lost to old age a few yrs ago, and she used to get green tomato tar, all over her face, from stealing the cherry 🍒 tomatoes..lol She loved the Sun Sugars the best! 👍
"In my opinion, there's a reason they're super rare."
That's an excellent point I hadn't considered before. I thought I'd plant out rare plants because buying them would be so expensive, But taste tests are definitely in order.
Your energy and passion inspire me. You keep it up.
Thanks James - inspiring as always. I now have a sense of why my new blueberry bushes didnt make it last season. They had to compete with perennial weeds and groundcovers- and the drought here. so the weeds took the goodness, the light and the water. I have a green grape vine planted along my deck railing which gets massive sunshine all summer. It produces literally thousands of very sweet grapes to the delight of the neighbourhood. I pop the bunches into the freezer and have lovely frozen bursts of sweetness all winter long. They freeze really well.
I just love your videos! I usually have to 2x the voice on videos because they talk so slow and have a hard time getting to the point, but I don’t have to with your videos. You’re entertaining to watch, you talk fast and get to the point fast. Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge! Keep up the good work!
always enjoy your tour and your gardening advice .. Tuck is too cute ..
I think it's great that you shared not just you like but what you didnt like. Always look forward to your videos.
My initial flush of strawberries were great. The black raspberries are starting to ripen. The red raspberries and blackberries are a few weeks away. Picked some Mulberries today with more on the way.
I moved my 4 blueberries plants into large pots this year to better control the ph and added a new variety. I would like to add 2 or 3 more next year.
I compost all my coffee and espresso grounds for a year than spread as a topping around my blueberries. Also triple super phosphate is areally a great flower booster for all fruits.
What a great idea!
what brand of triple super phosphate do you use ?
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Reyhaneh Mehdizadeh just whatever brand that can be found at the garden center.
Blueberries 🫐 arent worth the hassle in my area.
I love how tuck just like to chill in the food forest and like dig a spot to sit in🥰
Hi to you and Tuck. I want to thank you because your channel has helped me and the wife so much. We live in Rochester zone 6. The house was over run with weeds. Upon cleaning up we found 5 bushes with small hard trunks.. either blkberries or raspberries. No thorns. We cut them down some were growing on top of cement.. crazy! We added a blueberry bush and will add another this year we built palet raised beds and we found a grape vine under the weeds. So we used cattle fencing to make a trellis between the raised beds. We are planning to grow a persimmons, alberta peach dwarf and 2 columnar apple trees. This is all thanks to you! And by the way our 2 cats like to dig in the dirt and eat our cherry tomatoes. So we planted catnip for them. We are planning on planting brussel sprouts broccoli and cauliflower. Besides lettuce tom.potatoes celery etc. We also been donating excess produce to the local food pantry besides canning some. We are so thankful to you! Your positive attitude is awesome.
I didn't even have to try to plant hazelnuts. The jays and squirrels did that for me. Now it looks like I have a hazelnut forest. Wonder if I'LL get any this year. LOL
We do have a wild hazelnut forest and I have only succeeded in beating the animals to the nuts one year out of the past 6 years! Good luck! Supposedly the trick is finding them and picking them while they are still green and unripe, before the animals are interested.
Ha, they do that in my garden, too. Unfortunately they always harvest the nuts before I get a chance ;-)
step 1: buy a 22.
step 2: shoot as many squirrels as possible.
step 3: cook the squirrels, and eat hazelnuts for dessert.
@@j0n314 A good plan, but with one fatal flaw. My garden is in Germany, where the Eurasian red squirrel is a protected species.
@@gerardvanwilgen9917 Aren't there invasive grey squirrels in Europe now?
Watching how your garden has grown and flourished over the past 3 years that I've been watching is amazing! I grew up in NJ and see you doing all of this in your yard in Jersey is so cool. Thanks for sharing what you do!
I can’t get over your energy. I wish you could mentor my sons. You’d teach them to love gardening!!! Thanks James! From Nova Scotia
I wish that I had your soil and your wonderful enthusiasm. I've been gardening for 60+ years and I've had a couple bad gardening years and sure could use a bit of your youth/attitude right now. Doggone health problems kinda kicking me around. I absolutely love your dog.....lost my little buddy this year.
Thank you for the tip of raspberries and blueberries in pots!!!
Thanks, James and Tuck! So much good info, and you explain so simply that we can all get it!!
Tuck knows how to cool off. Dig a hole and dip into it!! Lol 🐕🐾👨🌾🏡 James, would love to see a harvest picking video. There's so much to pick, Wow!!
Love little tuck he’s so adorable
I just love your intro, James. It makes me want to just jump up and get out in my garden. I’ve been using some of your suggestions and my garden is doing awesome! I planted 6 strawberry plants but, I wish I would’ve planted way more. I planted strawberry bulbs (?) about 3 weeks ago. Maybe by next spring I’ll get a lot more. Thanks so much for your infectious energy and excitement for gardening! I love it!
I have fond memories as a child growing up in Ontario, my sisters and I playing in the woods, picking buckets of dark purple/black colored raspberries:) there were also tiny little strawberries growing along the ground:)
Yes, raspberries are doing the best in my garden. I have heavy clay soil, but the raspberries and blackberries are flowering and fruiting the best of all. I have pretty much the same varieties as you do. Plums and peaches are prone to pests and fungus, strawberries require good amounts of fertilizer, and blueberries try to die on me when I plant them in the soil, so I just keep them in containers.
I love how Tuck politely "asked" you for that strawberry 😊
Its important to note if you're planting outside, where you live definitely matters. I've tried strawberries many times here in Texas and the heat kills them faster than anything else lol. I think next I'll try to grow them inside.
Thank you for your informative and mouthwatering video. I love your lush garden, productive fruit trees and your beautiful dog.
I’d be interested in a video on how do you stay on top of keeping the garden organized and from having tons of fruit landing on the ground and riding all the time. How do you say on top of it all? How much time does it take - seems like a full-time job.
Yay for blueberries :) I finally planted a garden this year and have 14 blueberry plants/7 different varieties two of each. So we have early, mid and late season. We also got raspberries, blackberries and strawberries. Totally love berries :) would’ve bought older plants but I wanted more so I opted for young plants for more affordable prices.
What are your favorite varieties that you have?
I love teaberry.
The past year I have worked myself hard getting ready for several fruit trees and now I'm getting some blueberries and a honeysuckle type called Honeyberry (Haskap, Yezberry) because its easy to grow. When I was a small kid, dad had a hedge of raspberries, very tasty but the thorns were awful. Great memories from an experienced gardener, how to plant seeds and save flower seeds.
I love your garden! Thank you for explaining how the fruit should be planted, etc.
Thank you for talking so quickly! Very efficient.
I planted some loganberries in the fall and I'm really looking forward to seeing how they do. I'm also planning to plant a mulberry tree because I love the flavor and they're something you never find in the stores and stuff you can't get in the store is one of my biggest motivations for gardening.
I have two mulberry trees. Last year was the first time I was able to get a reasonable amount of mulberries, because there weren't as many wild birds. Last year, also, the birds that did beat me to the fruit also spread the bushes around. I have a number of mulberry shrubs/small trees all over my property, providing shade for the poultry and a small amount of berries. I don't think my neighbors were as thrilled with the mulberries that had started in their yards, though.
This year, we are hosting a flock of Starlings and another of Boat-tailed Grackles, three species of dove have decided it's a nice place to live, too. I doubt I'll get much fruit, but I do enjoy the visitors antics.
James, in the UK an apple tree grown from seed is called a Pippin. Prigioni Pippin sounds cool.
Never new what a pipin apple was. I tried starting a tree from my crabapple tree. Not sure how it's doing (compared to the other two), so stuck some seeds in the pot from a bag of store bought apples. A couple of weeks later and some green is popping up.
Gandalf doesn't like that apple 😂
I wish I had a neighbor like this. Fantastic garden.
James, every single video you’ve made is full of energy and positivity. Anytime I need a bit of encouragement or happiness, I turn to your video. And of course seeing Tuck digging in your garden is a plus 🧡🥒🍒🍓
I learned a great deal from you and Tuck, but the coolest thing was learning the name for the wild black raspberries that the birds planted in my yard 5 years ago. It’s exactly as you describe, and it’s a hard fight to eat em right off the bush or put them in vanilla blackcap raspberry pies!
Wow! Love that those berries can be potted 😍
Had to check the playback speed, don’t usually see this kinda energy 🤣❤️
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You have given the confidence to garden. Buying a property soon, will be growing everything ...lol!! Have been practicing in my rented yard; 2 years. Lots of failure, learning; am ready to go! You teach about growing several varieties, for better pollination. Unbelievably great advice. My gratitude always 💜💜💜 Hey Tuck 😄💜
I'm growing 2 different varieties of alpine strawberries in containers under grow lights in my living room. They're incredible.
I,m sure not rich , I live in a tiny apartment in Oregon , but when I saw you teaching the world how to do it right , I jumped on board . As of now I have 4 blueberry bushes and 4 raspberry bushes and a grape growing on a rope because you can eat grape leaves with cheese and protein . good job ~! all on my renters insurance because I eat off my plant,s . Now teach us all you can ~! We are sponges out here .
that is nice! How are your plants doing ?
Goji berries, I agree!
My raspberries are a favorite of the Japanese beetles. They can make lacey leaves out of my whole row over night 🤨
Great information!
This was a berry good drop today james. Got all 3 going crazy in my backyard. The raspberry is the king of production and I'm perfectly happy with it taking over. It's the boss. Be safe my guy.
I planted the start of my food forest this weekend and used my red solo cups to rem what I planted 😬 I felt a step closer to soon having a forest of food!! Thank you, James! Keep the videos coming and sharing your knowledge. 🙏❤️
You are really a very positive person even in this tough quarantine time
Highly positive vibes 🙏🚩😊
Tuck is too adorable ☺️! Thanks for sharing all your knowledge 🌻🐝🫐
Answer: blueberries, raspberries, strawberries.
Sounds good.
👍Thanks
He goes over more that's useful information.
Birds eat all my strawberries
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I always learn something when i watch your videos ,james.Thank you brother .Way to go Tucker ,dig that hole and get cool.Have a blessed day.
James, would you might sharing what varieties of each berry you are growing? I'm especially interested in the blueberries, but I'd love to know all of them.
Thanks so much for your energy and enthusiasm in sharing what you've learned.
Love your videos. Give Tucker a big hug for me.
Your channel is great and your pup is adorable. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
I just started gardening. Love your energy and information. Thank you!
great video James, thanks for sharing with us all
Tuck loves helping in the garden. 🐶
This is all so wonderful, I really enjoy watching your food garden grow and learning about it. Who knew there are so many kinds of berries you can grow! YUM.
I love your videos it help me with my garden
I planted 5 blueberries over the last 2 years. I’m down to 2-3 and they don’t seem to do much at all. They definitely aren’t thriving like my fruit trees. Then my mulberries freeze off every winter, but send up new chutes every spring. I even buried them with snow last year thinking it would protect from the -35F temps in winter and no dice.
Love this video. I have been growing herbs and vegetables in my garden. This is very helpful since I want to start a fruit orchard next.
Wow great tour love your energy . My son and I fell in love with indoor growing over this winter and being stuck around the house since all this stuff 😷 started . We've grown pomegranate and apples from store bought and mulberry from our frozen backyard harvest can't wait till spring to get these outdoors . Much love from Canadian proud get outdoors 🙏
I click the like button so fast when I see Tuck digging 3:45. He's working really hard. Lol 😂
Very well presented and very organized delivery. Facts after facts
Your garden is so inspiring!
We love your Tutorials. Thank you. We expect to thrive this year.
Truly love watching Tuck get into garden treats...
Tuck needs his own channel - so so cute !
An fyi for people living in areas with alkaline soils! (Such as in colorado) pine needles will not change the pH of your soil! We have buffers in our soil that make it very hard to change the pH! If you wish to grow blueberries, it is best to do it in a raised bed so that you can start with a different soil that is easier to change the pH of, and use a soil acidifier such as HollyTone or Humic Acid. Peat moss is the main component of potting soil, and is naturally slightly acidic, but not acidic enough on its own for blueberries. Keep in mind that James is starting with already somewhat acidic soil! Eastern US is prone to having more acidic soils. You will know if your blueberries need more acid in the soil if the leaves of the plant get very pale!
You have a great place with years into your varieties. I live in Alaska. I do raspberries, I haven’t tried blueberries, or currents. Theses do well. Thankfully fir the tip of the white current, I’ll look for it
So happy I found your channel.
Your info is so solid, and straight to the point 👌
Just planted some blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries in pots. Thanks for the tips.
I love aronia BECAUSE you need to process it. Great thing that's productive and gives you an interesting flavor. They also look really good and are food for the birds. I'm growing it mainly for wine.
I’m a huge fan from Northern California🐾I hope you create a video about your peach trees - they’re beautiful🐝. I know they can be tricky; but I learned that after I purchased 2 in February. Immediately they experienced leaf curl; so I sprayed them with Monterey oil- they seem to be adding beautiful foliage; but I’d love to hear your advice🦋
You’ve inspired me once again James. We’re looking at moving in the next 18 months so I’m going to plant some blueberries are raspberries in pots so I can take them with us. As always ❤️ to Tuck.
Tucky! I wanna huggy! He's SO adorable 😍 🥰🍓🫐🍓🍓
I enjoy watching your videos, you give ideas and tips for my small home garden. I don't own a dog or intend to get one but Tuck is special to me
We have not had good luck with strawberries on our sandy soil. I see them as heavy feeders. They need a loam rich in calcium. I grow currents successfully and black currents make the best syrup. Red and white currents make great muffins. I’m weird, i like mulberry. The tree is super messy, so plant it away in the back corner of your property, but it’s very productive. Birds will leave black spots on your cars.
Tuck is so adorable!
Love your energy and your beautiful garden, especially Tuck.
My first year as a gardener is phenomenal!! I should’ve started long ago. I’ll pay to help you harvest! 😋
Thanks for helping this Jersey girl!
What’d you grow? :)
Living By Choice I have carrots, broccoli, green onion, zucchini, cucumber, green beans and tomatoes...at least the beginning stages of all. I grew all from seed
Erin79 nice!! :) I started seeds for the first time this year too :) I don’t have any produce yet though cause I started late cause the virus delayed my seed order :p edited cause I saw you said you were from jersey lol sorry I’m pregnant my brain is slow sometimes 😅
Living By Choice I had bigger plans but this V thing kinda stopped me in my tracks. I just started at the end of April, but even the learning is valuable! I know all about “pregnant brain”. Not as bad as “mom brain”! 😁🤣
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I absolutely love and appreciate all the knowledge and experience you generously share with us James, you have been one of the main inspirations in my life practices the last 3 years. I moved back to Washington state from Pennsylvania at that time and began growing things at my parents place, now I'm growing on 3 properties (none of my own yet though) and I'm mainly incorporating the methods you put me on to. The bounty is so abundant this year, I'm swimming in strawberries !😋 You also introduced me to Paul Gautschi, who it ends up lives about 2 hours from me! So I visited him last summer , which was an incredible and educational experience, so valuable and spiritual. Watching you also made me decide this year to start a little channel to share with friends and family to try and get everyone excited to grow and forage more of their own food, and I always try to help anyone interested by giving them seeds or advice or labor . If you'd like to see the gardens you inspired I'd love to hear whatcha think or even get feedback on what I have going! ruclips.net/video/5q8DKUdnNBI/видео.html
Love you and Tuck brotha, keep it up, I'll always be watching and learning 🙏😊✌💚
So much information in such short time, brilliant.
I had to binge watch all your videos last year and proceeded to build a food forrest following your example best I could. The rewards have been amazing and with ongoing learning making it better each year as you do. Thank you and I’m always excited to see your next video.
I really like your videos! I love gardening, but sometimes it can be pretty hard, and these videos give me a lot more inspiration growing more vegetables, knowing one day they would become big! Thank you!
I grow red raspberries. I planted last year and its fruiting this year 😁 I've grown strawberries for years with great results
Great video! I love berries so much that I grow 7 different species of thornless berry as well as 6 different species of raspberry and they're all soooo good in their own ways!
Lets goooo!!!! Your the man James. Good stuff bro. Thanks for bringing us along.