Touring a Three Year Old TROPICAL FOOD FOREST in Zone 9B, Phoenix, AZ!
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2023
- Welcome back to The Green Yard and an exciting tour of our Tropical Food Forest! The Food Forest part of The Green Yard is full of tropical fruiting and flowering trees. In this video I not only go through all of the trees and plants we have in the food forest part of The Green Yard but also a brief synopsis about what it is like to grow these trees in the Phoenix area. We have our tropical trees like our Carrie Mango, Papaya, Loquat, Lychee, Longan, Grumichama, Rose Apple and more. We also have our ultra tropical trees like our Jackfruit, Soursop and Santol tree. Most of our Food Forest trees and plants did fantastic during last winter, which is one of the coldest winters we have had in the last decade. We also have lots of flowers and new growth so I'm expecting a year of growth and abundance. I can't wait to take you all along with me while I continue my Green Yard journey. If you want to see more amazing plant content please like and subscribe or follow us on one of our social media accounts.
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I'm in Mesa Arizona and have 70 trees in the ground and about 300 other tropical trees in containers all on a stand size house lot. I love seeing others growing fruiting tree here in the desert.
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! That is so great to hear that you have all those tropical trees! It's always nice to hear other people are trying to make their yard a Green Yard too. I've actually been wanting to feature other Green Yards on The Green Yard channel. Would you be open to collaborating and letting me film a tour of your yard? Just let me know and happy growing.
I’m in Mesa as well and have maybe 150 trees (lost count). Flood irrigated acre. Nice to hear from others growing rare stuff here.
@edibletropicaltrees I’m in Mesa also. Would love to check out your place to see what has and hasn’t worked for you
@@sonotapsim in Mesa growing fruit trees as well. Would love to check out your place to see what has and hasn’t worked for you.
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Yay! As our desert city becomes more and more dotted with a number of food forests, we will be able to bring in more rain and reverse climate change! Mesa here, also 1/3 acre, and also food forest garden.
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! I could not agree more. I'm hoping that more vegetation, especially food forests, will help to reduce the heat island effect. I loved out monsoon season in 2022 but this year was terrible and The Green Yard got almost no rain. I'm sure your garden is beautiful! I've been working on showcasing other peoples Green Yards on the channel. Let me know if you're interested in doing a video tour of your property.
Alabama here!!
Yall got me hooked!! I'll fo my best to help yall out here too!!!!
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Two years ago, I moved from Colorado to southwest coastal Florida and I started turning my yard into a tropical food forest. Unfortunately, I have root knot nematodes. Now I have started removing the infected plants and trees and working at building up the soil to a richer environment that is not favorable to rkn. One tree does seem resistant and that is a pnk guava. It started out in a three gallon pot and now it is fifteen feet tall. My papayas were thriving but now it's been a cool wet winter and they are suffering from rust fungus. Avocadoes planted from seed are going really well. A nectarine is doing good, Figs not doing good. Persimmons died back to root stock but I will graft on them. Mango doing good. Peach trees all died. Passion vine doing great.
Hello @gerrylavelle8433 thank you for watching and commenting! I'm so sorry to hear that you have root knot nematodes at your property, that is so devastating! I'm glad you were able to find out quickly and starting to amend the soil and hopefully get more resistant trees in the ground! It sounds like your Tropical Food Forest will someday be filled with abundance and life. I'm always looking for fellow gardeners to collaborate with so if you're ever open to giving me a tour of your Green Yard for the channel just let me know! You can also reach out via email at thegreenyardarizona@gmail.com.
Been great watching your new hobby start to grow. I have some citrus trees that are starting their third summer and looking good.
Last October I planted a Thornless Mexican Lime, an Orange Sherbet mango, a Nam Doc Mai mango, and a Barbados Cherry. I cold protected my mango trees just to be safe and both made it through the winter.
I have new growth coming out and my Nam Doc Mai is also flowering. I will remove them once I see the tiny mangoes forming.
I’ve been using Miracle Grow Tomato fertilizer every 6 weeks, fish fertilizer once a month, and agricultural sulfur every couple of months. How do you go about fertilizing your mango trees?
Right now I’m using 30% shade cloth for my Orange Sherbet mango until some of my other trees get a little bigger. Treated my mangoes with copper fungicide a couple times, too.
Looking at your yard it looks like I could put in a few more fruit trees! I’m surprised that I didn’t see any fig trees in your tour. I bought some fig cuttings and have three varieties that seem to be thriving. I have up potted them and I am now prepping some holes. Oh, and I couldn’t resist, I am also planting a Flavor Delight Aprium. All my trees are pretty new, too. Well, hopefully in about 2-3 more years I will start seeing the “fruits” of my labor.
Thanks for sharing your gardening ideas.
Hi Dave, I appreciate you watching and commenting! It sounds like you have a great collection of trees and plants! That is fantastic that they all made it through the winter and are putting out new growth. I really just use the agricultural sulfur to lower the PH every few months and then I use fish emulsion once a month. I have seen a lot of new growth and added success using the fish emulsion once a month. I have my mangoes in spots where they get natural shade so I have not had to use any shade cloth yet but I hear that 30% is the perfect number for success with tropical trees. I do have a fig tree but in a different part of The Green Yard. This is my very shady tropical food forest part of The Yard Green so I try to keep all of my really tropical trees in this area that need afternoon shade and more protection. The Flavor Delight Aprium sounds awesome. I like to densely plant my trees so that's why I have them so close to each other and so far it is working well. Thank you again for watching and the kind words.
Great video I also live in phoenix thanks for sharing .
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! I appreciate the kind words!
The grafted ones are definitely a slow grower because mine havent grown much in the last 2 years also.
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! That is good to hear, I feel better knowing that yours hasn't grown much in the last few years either. Hopefully that will change this year and we have a bunch of growth on our trees.
Awesome content & impressive garden
Thank you so much for watching and commenting! I really appreciate your kind words.
Can you do a video just on the jackfruit
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! I can definitely do a video on just the Jackfruit tree. I actually have it on my list. Look out for the video in the next couple months.
Get seeds from very vigorous varieties
Like from peach cobbler, cac, dupois saigon , Baileys Marvel, bombay
And plant the seedlings forget grafted trees...they do not grow well here too too slow
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! I will keep that in mind and look out for some seeds from more vigorous varieties. I have had success with the grafted varieties so far but I agree that they grow slowly. Thank you for the advice.
@@thegreenyardazI heard RSI specifically and possibly green life both sell plants grafted to specific root stalks that do better here in AZ. I’ve been going to green life for years and love that place and the owner. I want to check out RSI now as well and ask questions about root stalks for az desert. I heard these trees do much better when a better or proper root stalk is used.
Certain strains work better here than others. For instance I heard florida peach is the easiest to keep alive here in the heat.
* Florida Prince** peach tree