How to Plant a Guild Garden - Companion Plants (Part 1)
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- The vegetable garden is changing... and changing in a big way. I'm creating a guild garden, a polyculture / forest garden made of 16 raised bed fruit tree guilds! Today I'm laying the planting foundations and showing the first 3 companion planting groups to consider for your own fruit tree guild.
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0:00 Intro
1:39 The Fruit Trees
4:05 Accumulators
6:53 Suppressors
8:31 Repellents
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What do you think of all this change? Tell me!
Hi Niall- have you ever tried a step-over fruit tree? I was watching the latest episode of Gardener's World with Monty at Longmeadow and he's trained his apple trees to be maybe three feet high. also on a miniature tree graft.
I like the way the garden is already taking on the feeling of age. Also, another use for the Rhubarb is the leaves have oxalic acid, so most critters leave them alone (you probably know this) and their flowers are beautiful and attract every pollinator.
Good morning, Niall, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA
You Fruit Tree Guild is seriously wonderful 😍
❤Peggy❤
Good morning to you too Peggy! Hope you’re having a lovely day - it was lovely when I filmed that and by the afternoon it was windy, cold and wet again!!
Niall - the guild looks great!! The hour time change through the house routine off sync. Enjoyed the video. I'm looking forward to seeing it all come to fruition. You do quality work. No doubt.
love this experiment! can’t wait to see how it all goes. i think dwarf rootstock fruit trees are a total game changer, no ladder needed for picking? yes please! 😍
my chives are gorgeous but they always seem to flop - have yours ever just decided to go horizontal? i’m planning to divide them and give them a little extra drainage this year, hopefully it will help them stand up straight 😂
Not thought of a guild garden but I already have ALL the plants you named growing. Wow psychic or what😂😂! Don't get much sun though in my back garden.
Great video Niall I took your advice last year with allium bulbs and put a lot in, your garden is always a joy to see ❤
Thanks for sharing a great idea in your garden.
You are so welcome! And thanks for watching!
What a wonderful concept. I know your trees will be loaded with fruit soon. Garden is beautiful as ever. Thank you for the ideas and information.
Now if it would only repel rabbits.
So nice of you, thanks! I'm usually lucky in that I seem to get no rabbits ever! I love wildlife and biodiversity, but I'm glad that they decide to stay away from the garden!
Sorry only catching up, ah those guilds, an addition you are really ,really enjoying. I'm delighted it's becoming a great success for you.
I'm excited to follow your project there! Best of luck,
Kelley
Thanks so much Kelley! Hope all is well with you and your garden!
This is a great idea, Niall, never heard of it before, but I can see the benefits will be good for the whole Fruit Tree Guild, thank you for sharing, much appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!
Love your guild garden Niall.
So nice of you, thanks Anne!
Very interesting. Not sure where his garden is but it's been so wet in Kerry that gardening has been difficult.
Niall, this "experiment" is soooooo interesting. Thank you for sharing it with us. DA
My pleasure! Glad you’re enjoying watching. If it works, it’ll be great! And if it doesn’t, I’ll be honest at the end of the season! 😂
Niall, I've just recently found your channel, and I'm enjoying it tremendously.
I'll be ready for fruit trees next spring at the new house. I'm buying bareroot and going to espalier them on the fence of my courtyard. Comfrey will now be my ground cover.
I've not used Comfrey in the past. Thank you for your recommendation.
Blessings
Hi Carolyn! Glad you found me and that you're enjoying the videos. That'll be so nice to get some fruit trees planted at your garden. I love espaliers!
Such a wonderful idea. BTW near the rhubarb forcer and other beds, there's are small green plastic bands on the fruit trees that should be removed so the trunk doesn't become girdled.
Thank you Kathryn! And great spot - thanks! I thought I'd got them all but that one must've slipped by, so I'm off to go and remove it!
Hi Niall,good afternoon,well the rain and winds dtill going strong, got soaked to and from church. Great vlog, cant wait to see your guilds in flower, some great tips there ,thanks see you soon take care bye for now 😊x
I'm not surprised you got soaked - it's a bit miserable at the min isn't it?! Yeah I'm really hopeful that they'll look super come the summer. Have a great week!
@@niallgardens thanks you too,still horrid here very cold 🥶,x
Looks great Niall what type of timber do you use for the veg beds?
Very interesting. I have dwarf trees and never thought to under plant with crops. Time to re-home some rhubarb!
Thanks very much Barbara!
Hi from Texas zone 9A! I love your fruit tree/guild setup. I was wondering where to fit more fruit trees and i love this concept! You've inspired me to go look for a dwarf 🍑 🌳
Did you decide on what trees to plant? We used to live in San Antonio and I found it very difficult to find fruit trees that would still flower without a long winter. We moved to California to a cooler zone (8a) so I was able to find apples and citrus that will work well here. Best of luck with your trees!
@@KitchenGardenTours not yet for a peach... going to look for one that needs less chill hours. So far I have a meyer lemon, key lime, a Satsuma, Pink Guava & Pineapple Guava - they're young 2years old but all supposed to be well suited to our warmer climate but the jury is still out on the fruit!
This is something I would really like to try. But, as the trees mature, is there concern about them shading out the other plants growing underneath?
Hi Niall. This is so exciting! I literally shopped in the garden centre yesterday for the plants and apple tree I needed. On your recommendation I got the James Greeve dwarf apple tree, could I ask though, do I need another type of apple tree to cross pollinate? I have two raised beds just built a few days ago. I’m feeling i will do the same as you and do both raised beds as guilds. Gives a whole new concept to the garden. A very rainy day in N Ireland today so will have to wait. Take care and thanks for another great video. 😊
Hi Julie! Aw that's so cool - I hope that you have success with it. So... James Grieve is pollination group 3 so to guarantee plenty of pollinated fruit, you ideally need another apple. If you're not in a huge hurry, you can leave it for a year or two and see how you get on... but otherwise, a second apple would help. Hope this helps!
Thanks Niall, I would be keen to get another one so it would have to be another type rather than another James Greeve?
@@juliemclaughlin68 I went with Discovery which is a well-known red eating apple. It's also pollination group 3 so it'll work well with James Grieve. I have 2x James Grieve and 2x Discovery in the centre of the guild garden. The great thing about Discovery is that it's common so it's easy to find in garden centres and online, and you can easily get it on a dwarfing rootstock. Hope this helps! BTW, what part of NI are you in? No problem if you'd rather not answer, I'm just interested because I'm from there myself!
@@niallgardens Brilliant Niall, thank you, I will get a Discovery. Very excited for the outcome of this. I’m in Bangor, County Down Lovely to know that you’re familiar with NI!😀
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Good morning Niall,hope all's well,will catch up later church in a bit, horrible wet and windy have a good day,happy gardening 😊x
Morning Hazel! Yeah it's wet, cold and yucky here! Have a nice morning in church!
Thanks for the idea of planting rhubarb between fruit trees. I’ll be doing this this year!