Omg love your mannerisms. Spent a lot of time living on Long Island and then New Jersey. There's nothing like the personality and the mannerisms of a New Jersey person. Your energy is so refreshing
@@melaniedietz4217 I currently live in Arizona my whole backyard is a garden. I watch RUclips videos to learn more about gardening and even though he's in New Jersey with a whole different climate I watch him because it's so refreshing
@@melaniedietz4217 I'm on Long Island Sound on the Connecticut side of it. It's in my backyard so LIS is my swimming pool stocked with seafood so my garden provides Veggies & then we get seafood like fish ,crab, & lobsters, and clams
Took your advise and planted a mega strawberry patch last week! Excited four pounds of fresh berries in the upcoming season. Great tips in this video james!
Having a couple of handfuls of berries everyday from the strawberries ,red ,black and yellow raspberries and blueberries . I planted them last spring after being inspired by you .
We have blueberries blackberries and raspberries growing here and love them all. We also planted elderberry and find it both easy to grow and productive. We planted three varieties.
@TheRumbleBunny , That's awesome, do you think they will they grow in zone 10. May I ask What variety plants did you get And we're you found them ? I would love to do get some .
Thank you for teaching with so much energy and positive outlook ! I had been feeling intimidated with planting a garden, until I came across your videos ! I am a 75 year old grandma, who grew up in the suburbs, but moved to the “country” 6 years ago - trial and error (and disappointments) year after year - found your videos, and I feel re-energized to start again … this year, I am getting the “area” for my Food-forest ready ! And looking forward to planting ! Thank you
I am 72 myself. I have not started a food forest, although I would love one. That takes a good bit of money to start. Something I have very little of. I have planted a few tomatoes, sweet potatoes from slips, onions, basil with the tomatoes and want to add radishes and carrots, maybe cauliflower later. I wish you much luck.
Im in my 70's also! Don't forget to add some worm castings to your plants. It is the best fertilizer on the planet! I raise millions of worms for fertilizer for my garden and to teach others how to care for them :)
I love the pooch in the beginning of the video. I love the fact that almost every gardener I watch has a dog alongside and the enthusiasm and joy when you talk about the plants. Very informative and fun to watch. I just subscribed.
Let's Gooo Hillary! Me and Tuck always love seeing kind and encouraging words from you in the comments. Glad to hear that, yeah you need some strawberries to make things even sweeter!
I love your doggie so much. I love how he cools off by digging himself a little shady bed. And I love how he likes to eat the veggies and harvest them himself. And I love how he is so floofy, loyal, loving, and happy! He loves you so much! TUCK 💗💗💓💓💓💓💓💓💗💗💗💗❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💖💖💗💗💓💓 I LOVE TUCK
I planted raspberry runners last summer at my new house. They are so abundant now in the summer and there will be even more in the fall. I got them for free from a family friend. I am so thankful.
I am new to gardening but am so encouraged and excited to get started. I did start some tomatoes and strawberries and I see a little bit of sprouts! I am stoked! Thank you and Tuck for the videos! Love them!
Would you recommend setting up some chicken wire around the plants or a structure with netting to protect from deer squirrels and birds? I’m looking to become more self sufficient when it comes to food for my family. If you could make or suggest a video with everything someone needs to know to protect their harvest I’d really appreciate it.
I worked in my friend's garden for years (mostly weeding, which I strangely loved---instant gratification!) and then later at a garden center. I just fell in love with gardening. I believe I saw one of your videos years ago when you were first starting out (forgive me for not staying the course) and recently your channel started popping up again and I was like, "Hey? I think that's the guy I saw YEARS ago? Look at how his garden has GROWN!!" So fantastic. I love your enthusiasm, I love your dog Tuck 💖🍓, and I'm learning a LOT. So just wanted to say thank you and God bless!
Same here! We head down there for vacation to see family/friends every summer. I would love to see the food forests and thank him in person. We always need to hit the mainland at least a couple times and we’re probably only minutes away when we go for groceries etc.
Love Tuck 🥰 Thank you for the excellent suggestions, which i will surely incorporate. Another possible addition to your list is the fig tree, which is easy to grow and beautiful with healthy delicious fruit. There are many varieties, with cold hardy types for northern gardeners. Even if fresh figs could be bought in the grocery stores, they couldn't compare with how fully ripe ones from the trees taste! Figs are virtually insect free, and i have baby figs in pots which are trying to produce fruit at a few inches tall! By the second year, they should be producing already. Fig trees can be kept small, when pruned yearly. This is easy to do, even for beginning gardeners, and the trimmings can be stuck in the earth for new trees in the spring, increasing the orchard or to share with others. You and Tuck are inspiring for all of us!🌱🦋🌱
I've done a few edible, ornimental beds near my house, apple trees with blueberry and currant bushes spaced every other apple tree with strawberries as a ground gover and cedar mulch. They are very nice looking productive beds that were only growing grass before
My garden is urban and small. I plan on starting strawberries in one of my raised beds next year. I'm in zone 4 and wanted to mention that Haskap bushes grow really well here and they are the earliest fruit to come into season here. They taste similar to blueberries. You do need two varieties. We've been enjoying them for 3 weeks now. They are big and good for eating fresh right off the bush. They will start to wane just as our raspberries are starting to fruit.
I found your channel and just finished planting my garden with my child this weekend. We planted blueberries, strawberries, and many different vegetables including shallots! I can't wait to start pruning my tomatoes and cucumbers!
I just started my first garden this years and I have all 3 of these planted! I am so dang excited watching these grow!! I also got 3 varieties of apples and hope to see apples in a few years! I'd love to get a video on how to prune raspberries and blueberries!
Thank you very much, James, for teaching us more details about different types of berries. I need a berry patch so much! My yard is teeny tiny. I'm grateful for what I have, but I dream of more land to grow the same things you do! You are my source for fruit-growing information! I'm on the west side of NJ, pretty much parallel to you, so you are proving to me that those fruits can be grown here. Thanks so very much! Good health and happiness to you and yours, always!
I just started my first container vegetable garden and I am learning so much from your wonderful videos. U especially enjoy seeing Tuck enjoying the "fruits of his labor!" Lol ☺️ ❤
The Bible says that a good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children--that's my goal. At near 66 years old, I'm setting up my three acres for my grandchildren. I may or may not see fruit/nuts from the trees I'm planting, but they will. It is however, gratifying to have some production from fruit bearing plants, especially those that will continue to produce well into their adult lives. I want them to look at the food forest I built and think "Papa did this for me."
I needed this advice so bad but unfortunately this year is a very busy summer for us. We are starting to build our house and soon be homesteaders. So any tips are always a huge help for us. Thank you for this video!
Aloha braddah James your fast becoming one of my favorite RUclips Gardner 💯 love the energy, and the contents. 💯 oh yeah, gotta give Tucker some love too, love seeing him eat them veggies, I also give my dogs treats fron the garden 💯👍🤙
I posted this on another channel and figured a few folks might need to hear this if they’re having a tough year in their garden. For reference, I’m 5b in CO with awful clay soil, bone-dry wind, and relentless 5k+ altitude sun. To the post- It’s been a challenging year and I’ve taken quite a few garden “L’s” on the chin, from the May snowstorm that broke everything that switched abruptly to extreme heat, to escaped chickens ripping apart the garden, to our German Shepherds barreling through fences while playing this morning and smashing the blueberry I planted last night. Last night for crying out loud! 🤬 It seems like it’s always something this year. But alas, dogs will be dogs, chickens will be chickens, and the CO weather will CO weather. I’ll keep rolling with the punches, and making the necessary adjustments. I’m focusing on getting as many perennials and trees in the ground knowing the work we put in this year will be an investment in fruitful harvests for years to come. In short, things don’t always go as planned. Don’t get discouraged, keep keepin’ on. If I can do it, anyone can.
I just got my first place and lucky for me a previous owner from well over a decade ago planted raspberries, left the wild blackberries unchecked, and I have two pecan trees! Also got my hands on a pink lemonade blueberry plant cause the nursery near me was having a sale on some stuff for in store only. Got some muscadines from them too, and going back once their apple and nectarine trees are back in stock.
Yes! Berries! Strawberries & raspberries are so easy to propagate, and they're especially delicious when you grow them yourself. 😋 Blueberries are awesome too, but not as easy to propagate and you typically need 2 or more varieties for pollination. Other fruits that are super easy to grow lots of: currants & gooseberries, blackberries & boysenberries, even grapes. Just stick cuttings in the dirt & keep them watered, and you'll have more bushes & vines than you'll know what to do with. As for bird netting, in a smaller space like yours it totally makes sense. I'm on a bit of acreage though, where netting could easily cost a lot for materials & man hours, so my strategy is to simply grow enough plants that the wildlife can have their share and I get enough for my family. Also, I've netted my berries before, and try as I may birds always found their way inside & got stuck...so I found myself extracting birds too often, lol. I love your channel, James, Tuck too. 👍 Your exuberance about gardening is infectious.
A friend gave me a 2 black raspberry suckers. I planted them in the ground with a top dress of compost and hardwood mulch. They are thriving 2 months later with no supplemental watering. Super easy.
Hey James I live in San Antonio Texas I just finished getting two Barbados Southern cherry trees they're so awesome bro now I got 18 trees in my yard and they're all producing fruit..thanks 4 TEAM GROW
Completely coincidently, I happened to buy strawberries, blueberries and raspberries to grow in containers just this week. I was quite encouraged to see all 3 made your list. I cant wait for those garden snacks! Thanks for all your informative videos.
James, I just love your videos and the love you have for Tuckie boy and your food forest! Lots of ❤️❤️❤️❤️ for Tuckie! Your enthusiasm is contagious!!!!
I have a large raspberry patch it began 100% all on it's own! We share a fence with neighbors & some volunteer raspberry's kindly came under the fence to live in our yard, once here they continued to spread, wa-la a raspberry patch! I have no idea which type, they're bright red, sweet & harvesting begins on fathers day. Our Peppermint came to us the same way!
Hey James. A friend gave me about 20 strawberry starts on Monday. She said to plant them directly into my garden box and I rushed home and did that in the evening just before dark. It was still about 90 degree here in Missouri. They don't look so good, but she says to keep watering them and they will come out of it? I sure Hope so.
I have picked up a few tips after moving down south. One of those tips is to have a crab apple tree for pollination. Plus it's a free source of pectin.
I keep on expanding I started with $20 plot at the fairgrounds to 5 raised beds at home(280sqft). As I finish this bed today I'm thinking about landscaping and making a perenial garden. I like that it doesn't take much money and there's always some workarounds it just takes a lot of effort.
Tuck & the Apprentice, back with more great information! We have strawberries, blackberries, and blueberries in our urban garden. Charlotte, NC. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Tuck is priceless!! Wish my 3 pups were more garden friendly. . .
My blueberry was self fertile though. Did so well I bought two more. After that I bought 3 apple and 1 pear tree of 15yr. Raspberries are just in the ground. Growing fruit is so much fun and rewarding.
Great video and advise. May I also suggest buying things from your area. It gets very hot here in Texas and if you get plants that are used to your climate rainfall ect you may have better luck. Got some local iris and they are having babies blooming and thriving in the worst soil and heat Thank you so much God bless
Our strawberries were all free ones from a friend thinning her patch. We let them put out runners last year and from 15 plants, we got 85! They fruited the first time this year! 😍
This was awesome, thank you for your encouragement. Today I had to deal with Squash Borers on my squash and I felt like I failed, it tore thru my squash plant that was growing so well. But watching this encourages me to keep going.
Soooo happy I found your videos. I am a Jersey grower and it's so much better to hear from someone in my zone. My strawberries are just leaves right now my 1st yr. What am I doing wrong?
Omg I just sat down with my glass of homemade strawberry hard cider and this popped up. 3 gal of overripe strawberries (blend and strain juice) + 2 lbs sugar in a gallon jug with a balloon on top. Leave in cool dark spot in your house. I like it when it is just barely alcoholic and sweet and sparkling. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ to the infinity adorable Tuck.
Great advice! I started with raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries. They give you a faster harvest. I'm still learning about fruit trees. I have one successful peach tree. I'm still trying to figure out figs.
I went to a pick-your-own strawberry farm last week and quickly picked 3 pounds. They were the perfect size, so sweet and juicy. I had forgotten how good strawberries tasted without the big white woody core found in most grocery store berries. I’m now vacating my not-successful hydrophobic greens bed to make a strawberry bed. ❤️❤️ I love watching Tucker. ❤️❤️
We have a strawberry patch in our front yard it grows like ground cover and is a ever berring variety & also have them growing in those terra cotta layered pots sitting on our short brick wall in the front yard. We planted three blueberry bushes in back yard as the winter frost finally toasted the two we had growing that were gifted to us some years back. The two old blueberries one was called a "hotel blueberry" that was a large sized berry and the other was a smaller berry but produced a lot of berries neither Bush was very tall both were about 3ft tall. We didn't have to ever fertilize the old bushes to get abundant fruit. 👍😊
That would be me...we already had three pear trees on our property. the biggest one has a disease. Apples and peaches fall off during a thunderstorm. Love Mr. Tuck. 💖
I live in northern Louisiana and we have wild blackberries EVERYWHERE. I've gotten over two whole gallons this year, and they are wonderful little berries.
Love that you made this video! I have met many people buying peach,plum and citrus trees down here in TX and they tell me that they have never grown a thing their life! Then I feel like a Debbie Downer buy tell them to start off with something a bit easier and simple like green beans.🌞
I feel like peaches are easy but maybe because I watched a few videos. They grow fast so you can't go wrong with pruning. They do require work like thinning fruit and they're susceptible to leaf curl but they produce fruit year after year.
Thank you for this! I thought that these berries would be difficult to throw, hence why they're so expensive in stores. We are moving to a house with 1-acre soon, and I can't wait to get berry plants!! My little daughter will love it!
Excellent video. We’ve been planning on planting strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries but didn’t realize why they should be a priority over fruit trees. This makes a lot of sense. We also want to do different varieties like you do too. We feed us and our dogs from the garden. Go Tuck!!!
I put in some young apple trees a few years ago. The deer destroyed everything above the graphed section and killed that part. I planted 2 haralsons and 1 sweet sixteen. I have no idea what the root stalks were of but they are growing back nicely.
I have been sprinkling crused red dried peppers on some plants and it has kept the raccoons off! Also sprinkled some on my front deck and it has ended the raid of the outside cats food as well. I like this idea. I am not certain about how it will affect deer, but may be good, as they go by smell as well.
@@em3842 I ended up just putting a few stakes in and some deer netting. It’s worked good so far. I really need to fence in my yard though. That would open up the area to a lot more growing potential.
Hey Team Tuck! Seeing you run around in shorts and Tuck au natural has me pining for Summer where I am Down Under one month into Winter. It never snows here in the subtropics and it can get hot and humid in our summers. I have grown blueberries in a terracotta pot and strawberries in the past but I haven't tried raspberries but would love to. Cheers!
Great video James! Ive' been growing raspberries for years and am now getting into straw and blue berries. Thanks for the tips and showing your garden.
Raspberries are awesome. I got some free red raspberries from my sister-in-law and they've grown like weeds. Some blackcap raspberries started growing where the birds like to shit off the railing on my deck. I dug them all up, and moved them to a better location, and now have a huge harvest of delicious blackcap's. They are the easiest plant to grow, were free, and are very rewarding. I also tried a thornless variety, but have had much less success with it. They seem to be more susceptible to bugs and critters; I guess the thorns are there for a reason ;).
I have a strawberry bed, 3 blueberry bushes and I had 3 double gold raspberries… but only one grew back. I got some raspberries this year. I’m very happy with my fruits :)
I planted 50 strawberry crown this spring and not 1 grew.. never planting them again.. I will buy already growing strawberry next yr... I do have wild strawberry doing great .
Hello James and Tuck I agree with you on that keep it simple I have a blueberry bush and still trying to get raspberry and blackberry bushes before it’s to lay.❤️❤️
I just found you trying to find plans for building raised gardens. Found you & found you video on how to build raised garden with pallets. I have watch 6 of your videos just today! Love Tuck eating carrots 😅
James.. you are so motivating and genuine with your videos and you should start a “eat your yard” movement. Lol I tell my friends all the time about your channel and how you have the most edible yard and you are absolutely the willy wonka of food forests in suburbs. Adore Tuck and this channel. Thank you for being awesome!
I can attest that strawberries and blueberries are resilient. I neglected mine over the last year and still got a few strawberries this year... my blueberries are still ripening. And the fact that strawberries send out runners means even if you pay for them initially, you can end up with even more plants.
Dont have a garden but ive been thinking about some of the berries in your video and you explained things so well. Thank you very much. Love your enthusiasm. Love Tuck. You make a great team. 🤗
I totally misunderstood pruning with my raspberries and cut them all down, thinking all would grow up in one season. Of course they didn´t. Now i don´t sweat it because i learned something and around the base of the plants there are a lot of new shoots coming up so berries will come back, hopefully with a vengeance! Another berry that will give fruit fast and grow like a weed is Blackberries, there are variants that have no thorns. Mine started grow like crazy on season two, and are now producing berries. cheers for the show!
Home grown strawberries taste amazing because they're fresher than something shipped across the country, and also because the varieties are bred to produce the best flavor for about 6 weeks instead of for constant production. I definitely have some preferences about specific varieties, but even an "ok" seasonal strawberry blows an everbearing out of the water.
Omg love your mannerisms. Spent a lot of time living on Long Island and then New Jersey. There's nothing like the personality and the mannerisms of a New Jersey person. Your energy is so refreshing
I am on Long Island now lol
@@melaniedietz4217 I currently live in Arizona my whole backyard is a garden. I watch RUclips videos to learn more about gardening and even though he's in New Jersey with a whole different climate I watch him because it's so refreshing
I’m also from Jersey 🌸
@@melaniedietz4217
I'm on Long Island Sound on the Connecticut side of it. It's in my backyard so LIS is my swimming pool stocked with seafood so my garden provides Veggies & then we get seafood like fish ,crab, & lobsters, and clams
James is a Joisy Giant .
Great Guy 👍🍇🫐🥕🫒🫑🥭
Took your advise and planted a mega strawberry patch last week! Excited four pounds of fresh berries in the upcoming season. Great tips in this video james!
Let’s Gooo!!! I am excited for you too, especially being a chef and having the level of appreciation you do for food. Thanks Mike 😁❤️
Where would be a good place to get some?
Still got about 4 gallons of strawberries this year but last year was double. Hoping next year's is a boon crop again
Is there going to be a collaboration in the future?😀 Love both your guys’ channels! let’s goooo! 😉
Hope to do same, hopefully not too late in Northern NJ. Just have to figure out which space I want to dedicate🍓🍓.
Having a couple of handfuls of berries everyday from the strawberries ,red ,black and yellow raspberries and blueberries . I planted them last spring after being inspired by you .
We have blueberries blackberries and raspberries growing here and love them all. We also planted elderberry and find it both easy to grow and productive. We planted three varieties.
@TheRumbleBunny ,
That's awesome, do you think they will they grow in zone 10.
May I ask What variety plants did you get
And we're you found them ?
I would love to do get some .
I love how happy u always are!
Thank you for teaching with so much energy and positive outlook ! I had been feeling intimidated with planting a garden, until I came across your videos ! I am a 75 year old grandma, who grew up in the suburbs, but moved to the “country” 6 years ago - trial and error (and disappointments) year after year - found your videos, and I feel re-energized to start again … this year, I am getting the “area” for my Food-forest ready ! And looking forward to planting ! Thank you
I am 72 myself. I have not started a food forest, although I would love one. That takes a good bit of money to start. Something I have very little of. I have planted a few tomatoes, sweet potatoes from slips, onions, basil with the tomatoes and want to add radishes and carrots, maybe cauliflower later. I wish you much luck.
Im in my 70's also! Don't forget to add some worm castings to your plants. It is the best fertilizer on the planet! I raise millions of worms for fertilizer for my garden and to teach others how to care for them :)
I to feel discouraged because ive tried planting many things and always failed
I love the pooch in the beginning of the video. I love the fact that almost every gardener I watch has a dog alongside and the enthusiasm and joy when you talk about the plants. Very informative and fun to watch. I just subscribed.
I see a new James Prigeoni video, I click! I am wanting to get into growing fruit next season, so this is helpful! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️s for the boss Tuck.
Let's Gooo Hillary! Me and Tuck always love seeing kind and encouraging words from you in the comments. Glad to hear that, yeah you need some strawberries to make things even sweeter!
I love your doggie so much. I love how he cools off by digging himself a little shady bed. And I love how he likes to eat the veggies and harvest them himself. And I love how he is so floofy, loyal, loving, and happy! He loves you so much! TUCK 💗💗💓💓💓💓💓💓💗💗💗💗❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💖💖💗💗💓💓 I LOVE TUCK
I planted raspberry runners last summer at my new house. They are so abundant now in the summer and there will be even more in the fall. I got them for free from a family friend. I am so thankful.
I am new to gardening but am so encouraged and excited to get started. I did start some tomatoes and strawberries and I see a little bit of sprouts! I am stoked! Thank you and Tuck for the videos! Love them!
Would you recommend setting up some chicken wire around the plants or a structure with netting to protect from deer squirrels and birds?
I’m looking to become more self sufficient when it comes to food for my family. If you could make or suggest a video with everything someone needs to know to protect their harvest I’d really appreciate it.
I worked in my friend's garden for years (mostly weeding, which I strangely loved---instant gratification!) and then later at a garden center. I just fell in love with gardening. I believe I saw one of your videos years ago when you were first starting out (forgive me for not staying the course) and recently your channel started popping up again and I was like, "Hey? I think that's the guy I saw YEARS ago? Look at how his garden has GROWN!!" So fantastic. I love your enthusiasm, I love your dog Tuck 💖🍓, and I'm learning a LOT. So just wanted to say thank you and God bless!
I don't know about you guys but I would love to do a tour of your garden/farm. It's so inspiring!!
Same here!
We head down there for vacation to see family/friends every summer. I would love to see the food forests and thank him in person. We always need to hit the mainland at least a couple times and we’re probably only minutes away when we go for groceries etc.
Love Tuck 🥰 Thank you for the excellent suggestions, which i will surely incorporate.
Another possible addition to your list is the fig tree, which is easy to grow and beautiful with healthy delicious fruit. There are many varieties, with cold hardy types for northern gardeners.
Even if fresh figs could be bought in the grocery stores, they couldn't compare with how fully ripe ones from the trees taste!
Figs are virtually insect free, and i have baby figs in pots which are trying to produce fruit at a few inches tall! By the second year, they should be producing already. Fig trees can be kept small, when pruned yearly. This is easy to do, even for beginning gardeners, and the trimmings can be stuck in the earth for new trees in the spring, increasing the orchard or to share with others.
You and Tuck are inspiring for all of us!🌱🦋🌱
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
@@Godwinpounds4333 Fine, thanks
@@lorettajoy7275 it’s nice meeting with you here. Where are you texting from?
@@Godwinpounds4333 I'm in Virginia, near NC border, and you?
@@lorettajoy7275 I’m from Florida. How’s the weather condition over there?
My grandma planted blueberries like 30 years ago at the hunting cabin she lived at. We don't do anything to them but omg the best blueberries ever.
I've done a few edible, ornimental beds near my house, apple trees with blueberry and currant bushes spaced every other apple tree with strawberries as a ground gover and cedar mulch. They are very nice looking productive beds that were only growing grass before
My garden is urban and small. I plan on starting strawberries in one of my raised beds next year. I'm in zone 4 and wanted to mention that Haskap bushes grow really well here and they are the earliest fruit to come into season here. They taste similar to blueberries. You do need two varieties. We've been enjoying them for 3 weeks now. They are big and good for eating fresh right off the bush. They will start to wane just as our raspberries are starting to fruit.
Great suggestions! I can't grow raspberries well here but I love our strawberries and blueberries! Thanks for sharing!
I found your channel and just finished planting my garden with my child this weekend. We planted blueberries, strawberries, and many different vegetables including shallots! I can't wait to start pruning my tomatoes and cucumbers!
I just started my first garden this years and I have all 3 of these planted! I am so dang excited watching these grow!! I also got 3 varieties of apples and hope to see apples in a few years!
I'd love to get a video on how to prune raspberries and blueberries!
I am loving the Titan rabbiteye type blueberry. On its second season, it was loaded with berries the size of a nickel. Really impressive variety.
I will check that one out, thanks bro ❤️
Thank you very much, James, for teaching us more details about different types of berries. I need a berry patch so much! My yard is teeny tiny. I'm grateful for what I have, but I dream of more land to grow the same things you do! You are my source for fruit-growing information! I'm on the west side of NJ, pretty much parallel to you, so you are proving to me that those fruits can be grown here. Thanks so very much! Good health and happiness to you and yours, always!
I have planted Raspberries Blueberries and strawberry 🍓 😋
@@sandrabrown6860 Best of luck! Get some bird netting so they don't steal all your hard work!
Thanks for sharing! it is 100% truth to say there is nothing comparable to homegrown fruits and veggies and strawberries are so easy!
You and Tuck always make my day better. Great video, easy to do and something everyone can do!
I just started my first container vegetable garden and I am learning so much from your wonderful videos. U especially enjoy seeing Tuck enjoying the "fruits of his labor!" Lol ☺️ ❤
Nice to see Tuck every time! He’s special!
The Bible says that a good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children--that's my goal. At near 66 years old, I'm setting up my three acres for my grandchildren. I may or may not see fruit/nuts from the trees I'm planting, but they will. It is however, gratifying to have some production from fruit bearing plants, especially those that will continue to produce well into their adult lives. I want them to look at the food forest I built and think "Papa did this for me."
That’s beautiful!
You're an amazing man sir. Not many people have a papa as amazing as you!
Beautiful.
Good man 🏆♥️
Im thankful the world has people like you.
barley getting into gardening frfr and u have been a fantastic help!
I needed this advice so bad but unfortunately this year is a very busy summer for us. We are starting to build our house and soon be homesteaders. So any tips are always a huge help for us. Thank you for this video!
Hazelnut bushes. Nuts in 3-4 years, get huge harvests if you can beat the squirrels. Nut trees are great source of oil and protein for homesteads.
Aloha braddah James your fast becoming one of my favorite RUclips Gardner 💯 love the energy, and the contents. 💯 oh yeah, gotta give Tucker some love too, love seeing him eat them veggies, I also give my dogs treats fron the garden 💯👍🤙
I posted this on another channel and figured a few folks might need to hear this if they’re having a tough year in their garden.
For reference, I’m 5b in CO with awful clay soil, bone-dry wind, and relentless 5k+ altitude sun.
To the post-
It’s been a challenging year and I’ve taken quite a few garden “L’s” on the chin, from the May snowstorm that broke everything that switched abruptly to extreme heat, to escaped chickens ripping apart the garden, to our German Shepherds barreling through fences while playing this morning and smashing the blueberry I planted last night. Last night for crying out loud! 🤬
It seems like it’s always something this year.
But alas, dogs will be dogs, chickens will be chickens, and the CO weather will CO weather.
I’ll keep rolling with the punches, and making the necessary adjustments.
I’m focusing on getting as many perennials and trees in the ground knowing the work we put in this year will be an investment in fruitful harvests for years to come.
In short, things don’t always go as planned. Don’t get discouraged, keep keepin’ on.
If I can do it, anyone can.
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Much love Tuck and James ❤️❤️❤️❤️💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
I just got my first place and lucky for me a previous owner from well over a decade ago planted raspberries, left the wild blackberries unchecked, and I have two pecan trees! Also got my hands on a pink lemonade blueberry plant cause the nursery near me was having a sale on some stuff for in store only. Got some muscadines from them too, and going back once their apple and nectarine trees are back in stock.
Thank you James and Tucker 🥰
Yes! Berries! Strawberries & raspberries are so easy to propagate, and they're especially delicious when you grow them yourself. 😋
Blueberries are awesome too, but not as easy to propagate and you typically need 2 or more varieties for pollination.
Other fruits that are super easy to grow lots of: currants & gooseberries, blackberries & boysenberries, even grapes. Just stick cuttings in the dirt & keep them watered, and you'll have more bushes & vines than you'll know what to do with.
As for bird netting, in a smaller space like yours it totally makes sense. I'm on a bit of acreage though, where netting could easily cost a lot for materials & man hours, so my strategy is to simply grow enough plants that the wildlife can have their share and I get enough for my family. Also, I've netted my berries before, and try as I may birds always found their way inside & got stuck...so I found myself extracting birds too often, lol.
I love your channel, James, Tuck too. 👍 Your exuberance about gardening is infectious.
And those are the 3 things I planted in my yard this year! Even grafted some apple trees.
A friend gave me a 2 black raspberry suckers. I planted them in the ground with a top dress of compost and hardwood mulch. They are thriving 2 months later with no supplemental watering. Super easy.
Absolutely love your videos. As a beginner gardener this really helps, you motivate me to keep on going. Love Tuck the boss.
Thanks Omar! Me and Tuck are glad to hear you are finding value in the videos 🐕❤️
Hey James I live in San Antonio Texas I just finished getting two Barbados Southern cherry trees they're so awesome bro now I got 18 trees in my yard and they're all producing fruit..thanks 4 TEAM GROW
Thank you. Your videos bring such joy in these dark times.
Completely coincidently, I happened to buy strawberries, blueberries and raspberries to grow in containers just this week. I was quite encouraged to see all 3 made your list. I cant wait for those garden snacks! Thanks for all your informative videos.
Where do you find them in containers?
I can only find bulbs seeds.
James, I just love your videos and the love you have for Tuckie boy and your food forest! Lots of ❤️❤️❤️❤️ for Tuckie! Your enthusiasm is contagious!!!!
I have a large raspberry patch it began 100% all on it's own! We share a fence with neighbors & some volunteer raspberry's kindly came under the fence to live in our yard, once here they continued to spread, wa-la a raspberry patch! I have no idea which type, they're bright red, sweet & harvesting begins on fathers day. Our Peppermint came to us the same way!
Hey James. A friend gave me about 20 strawberry starts on Monday. She said to plant them directly into my garden box and I rushed home and did that in the evening just before dark. It was still about 90 degree here in Missouri. They don't look so good, but she says to keep watering them and they will come out of it? I sure Hope so.
I have picked up a few tips after moving down south. One of those tips is to have a crab apple tree for pollination. Plus it's a free source of pectin.
I keep on expanding I started with $20 plot at the fairgrounds to 5 raised beds at home(280sqft). As I finish this bed today I'm thinking about landscaping and making a perenial garden. I like that it doesn't take much money and there's always some workarounds it just takes a lot of effort.
Hugs to you and Tuck glad the growing season is back so I can enjoy the adventures of the garden with you both. Looking good.
Blessings to all!
We love you tuck❤️❤️❤️❤️
And he loves you 🐕❤️
Thanks for all the tips and tricks James you’re awesome and you’re garden is beautiful this season. 🙏🔥
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Heck yeah! I just love this channel. You always deliver. Kind, positive, informative. Keep it up! We appreciate it!
James, you are SO informative! Love you videos always! And TUCK, of course!
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
Tuck & the Apprentice, back with more great information! We have strawberries, blackberries, and blueberries in our urban garden. Charlotte, NC. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Tuck is priceless!! Wish my 3 pups were more garden friendly. . .
My blueberry was self fertile though. Did so well I bought two more. After that I bought 3 apple and 1 pear tree of 15yr. Raspberries are just in the ground.
Growing fruit is so much fun and rewarding.
Amazing video! I have blueberries and black berries, just planted a raspberry yesterday! I love growing! It’s so fun! Thanks again! 🙌🏾🔥🔥🔥
Great video and advise. May I also suggest buying things from your area. It gets very hot here in Texas and if you get plants that are used to your climate rainfall ect you may have better luck. Got some local iris and they are having babies blooming and thriving in the worst soil and heat
Thank you so much God bless
Tuck is so cute! Great video of him curled up in his hole under the berry plant!
I had raspberry bushes for 3 years. It grew jurassic size leaves but not one berry. 🥰🥰🥰🥰😘 love for Tuck.
Thank you so much! ❤❤❤My husband, babies, necessary and nephews are gonna be eating good!
Our strawberries were all free ones from a friend thinning her patch. We let them put out runners last year and from 15 plants, we got 85! They fruited the first time this year! 😍
This was awesome, thank you for your encouragement. Today I had to deal with Squash Borers on my squash and I felt like I failed, it tore thru my squash plant that was growing so well. But watching this encourages me to keep going.
Soooo happy I found your videos. I am a Jersey grower and it's so much better to hear from someone in my zone. My strawberries are just leaves right now my 1st yr. What am I doing wrong?
Omg I just sat down with my glass of homemade strawberry hard cider and this popped up. 3 gal of overripe strawberries (blend and strain juice) + 2 lbs sugar in a gallon jug with a balloon on top. Leave in cool dark spot in your house. I like it when it is just barely alcoholic and sweet and sparkling. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ to the infinity adorable Tuck.
Great advice! I started with raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries. They give you a faster harvest. I'm still learning about fruit trees. I have one successful peach tree. I'm still trying to figure out figs.
Tuck, the soul of the garden !!!
I went to a pick-your-own strawberry farm last week and quickly picked 3 pounds. They were the perfect size, so sweet and juicy. I had forgotten how good strawberries tasted without the big white woody core found in most grocery store berries. I’m now vacating my not-successful hydrophobic greens bed to make a strawberry bed. ❤️❤️ I love watching Tucker. ❤️❤️
We have a strawberry patch in our front yard it grows like ground cover and is a ever berring variety & also have them growing in those terra cotta layered pots sitting on our short brick wall in the front yard. We planted three blueberry bushes in back yard as the winter frost finally toasted the two we had growing that were gifted to us some years back. The two old blueberries one was called a "hotel blueberry" that was a large sized berry and the other was a smaller berry but produced a lot of berries neither Bush was very tall both were about 3ft tall. We didn't have to ever fertilize the old bushes to get abundant fruit. 👍😊
Hi James I just planted 2 varieties of blue berries in the pot so I can control the acidity of the soil. I hope it will yield like yours.
Wow beautiful sharing 👍
That would be me...we already had three pear trees on our property. the biggest one has a disease. Apples and peaches fall off during a thunderstorm. Love Mr. Tuck. 💖
I live in northern Louisiana and we have wild blackberries EVERYWHERE. I've gotten over two whole gallons this year, and they are wonderful little berries.
Love that you made this video! I have met many people buying peach,plum and citrus trees down here in TX and they tell me that they have never grown a thing their life! Then I feel like a Debbie Downer buy tell them to start off with something a bit easier and simple like green beans.🌞
I feel like peaches are easy but maybe because I watched a few videos. They grow fast so you can't go wrong with pruning. They do require work like thinning fruit and they're susceptible to leaf curl but they produce fruit year after year.
Thank you for this! I thought that these berries would be difficult to throw, hence why they're so expensive in stores. We are moving to a house with 1-acre soon, and I can't wait to get berry plants!! My little daughter will love it!
Excellent video. We’ve been planning on planting strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries but didn’t realize why they should be a priority over fruit trees. This makes a lot of sense.
We also want to do different varieties like you do too.
We feed us and our dogs from the garden.
Go Tuck!!!
Strawberries, blueberries and blackberries are a must to grow! 😍🙌🏻🍓
Your food forest is such an inspiration.
I screwed up and planted raspberries too close to the house. I relocated them, now I have raspberries everywhere.
James, you do the world a great service.
I put in some young apple trees a few years ago. The deer destroyed everything above the graphed section and killed that part. I planted 2 haralsons and 1 sweet sixteen. I have no idea what the root stalks were of but they are growing back nicely.
I have been sprinkling crused red dried peppers on some plants and it has kept the raccoons off! Also sprinkled some on my front deck and it has ended the raid of the outside cats food as well. I like this idea. I am not certain about how it will affect deer, but may be good, as they go by smell as well.
@@em3842 I ended up just putting a few stakes in and some deer netting. It’s worked good so far. I really need to fence in my yard though. That would open up the area to a lot more growing potential.
You can always get new scions to graft on, from eBay.
Hey Team Tuck! Seeing you run around in shorts and Tuck au natural has me pining for Summer where I am Down Under one month into Winter. It never snows here in the subtropics and it can get hot and humid in our summers. I have grown blueberries in a terracotta pot and strawberries in the past but I haven't tried raspberries but would love to. Cheers!
Thank you for your encouragement! I love Tuc too!!! hearts hearts!!!!
Good info. I have to share with groundhogs, bunnies, and birds, but these are all tasty. Thanks to you and Tucker.
Great video James! Ive' been growing raspberries for years and am now getting into straw and blue berries. Thanks for the tips and showing your garden.
So cool to know that, I actually picked up a blueberry, raspberry, and goji berry plant today
Raspberries are awesome. I got some free red raspberries from my sister-in-law and they've grown like weeds. Some blackcap raspberries started growing where the birds like to shit off the railing on my deck. I dug them all up, and moved them to a better location, and now have a huge harvest of delicious blackcap's. They are the easiest plant to grow, were free, and are very rewarding. I also tried a thornless variety, but have had much less success with it. They seem to be more susceptible to bugs and critters; I guess the thorns are there for a reason ;).
James thank you very much, I love this channel. You make feel hungry every time you try your golden food.
I have a strawberry bed, 3 blueberry bushes and I had 3 double gold raspberries… but only one grew back. I got some raspberries this year. I’m very happy with my fruits :)
I've got four blueberry plants that I picked up this year. And four strawberry plants. I love berries.
Everything looks beautiful!! How do you keep them so great and healthy? Whats your watering system?
I planted 50 strawberry crown this spring and not 1 grew.. never planting them again.. I will buy already growing strawberry next yr... I do have wild strawberry doing great .
Hello James and Tuck I agree with you on that keep it simple I have a blueberry bush and still trying to get raspberry and blackberry bushes before it’s to lay.❤️❤️
every good harvest starts with a seed. Love seeing Tuck!
I just found you trying to find plans for building raised gardens. Found you & found you video on how to build raised garden with pallets. I have watch 6 of your videos just today! Love Tuck eating carrots 😅
This guy is so awesome. Thanks James
James.. you are so motivating and genuine with your videos and you should start a “eat your yard” movement. Lol
I tell my friends all the time about your channel and how you have the most edible yard and you are absolutely the willy wonka of food forests in suburbs. Adore Tuck and this channel. Thank you for being awesome!
I can attest that strawberries and blueberries are resilient. I neglected mine over the last year and still got a few strawberries this year... my blueberries are still ripening. And the fact that strawberries send out runners means even if you pay for them initially, you can end up with even more plants.
Dont have a garden but ive been thinking about some of the berries in your video and you explained things so well. Thank you very much. Love your enthusiasm. Love Tuck. You make a great team. 🤗
I totally misunderstood pruning with my raspberries and cut them all down, thinking all would grow up in one season. Of course they didn´t. Now i don´t sweat it because i learned something and around the base of the plants there are a lot of new shoots coming up so berries will come back, hopefully with a vengeance!
Another berry that will give fruit fast and grow like a weed is Blackberries, there are variants that have no thorns. Mine started grow like crazy on season two, and are now producing berries.
cheers for the show!
Home grown strawberries taste amazing because they're fresher than something shipped across the country, and also because the varieties are bred to produce the best flavor for about 6 weeks instead of for constant production. I definitely have some preferences about specific varieties, but even an "ok" seasonal strawberry blows an everbearing out of the water.