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INCREDIBLE TREES
A yearly foraging adventure in your own yard
CONTENTS
Ideas for incorporating more or new edibles into the landscape
Nutritional concerns for edibles in the landscape
Fruit trees you can grow to have fruit in your yard all year long
IDEAS
Psst – Pass it on…
GREAT LITTLE PLANNING IDEA
From the National Garden Bureau
http://ngb.org/
MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE
Victory Gardens and Horticulture Therapy…
NOT EDIBLE, BUT THINK POTENTIAL
GROW YOUR EDIBLE AT THE TABLE
Add grapes on an arbor above your table for dessert!
VEGETABLES IN A BARREL
SQUARE FOOT GARDENING
Herbs are great for this style of garden
STILL MY FAVORITE
Potted Rosemary
WHAT IS PLANT FOOD?
FERTILIZING = SUPPLEMENTS
Photosynthesis creates FOOD
Fertilizers are NOT food
Fertilizers are plant Supplements
BTW – Plants are Magick!
APPLYING FERTILIZERS
Would you spray nutritional supplements on your skin?
Fertilizers best serve the plant where the plant absorbs the nutrients – In The Roots
Supplemental information to think about…
With nutrients
COLD WEATHER CONSIDERATIONS
Sometimes in cold weather slow release nutrients (manures and organics) in the soil will not be released from their holding pads and be made available to the plants. When this happens you may see nutrient deficiencies even though you know nutrients should be there.
Two solutions –
Wait it out for the warm weather to come back and release those nutrients back to the plant
Apply a little bit of quick release nutrients (inorganic, usually the powders you dilute in water and apply)
FERTILIZER BURN
When TOO much fertilizer is applied to a plant the fertilizer has the potential to chemically burn the plant
While not Typical in organic fertilizers it CAN happen – Chicken manures in particular
Symptom – Brown leaf margins
Solution –
Make sure to follow the instructions on the bag
If applying manures only apply a little at a time over a longer course of time and water in
Usually not a problem in Organic gardening, but I want to mention it anyway
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LET’S TALK TASTY…
Grow it yourself produce section
APPLE TREES NOW IN
Orange County Extension
APPLES & PEACHES FRESH FROM FLORIDA!
Best taste. Nothing like it.
HOME GROWN LEMONADE…
BLACKBERRIES COME IN THORNLESS
MUSTARDS & OTHER GREENS
SUPER easy to add
Last & last & last & last…
(Collards & Kale are Perennials in our area)
5 year old collards!
ILAMA – SUGAR APPLE
AMBARELLA
DWARF MANGO & DWARF CARAMBOLA (STARFRUIT)Make fruits more accessible
PINEAPPLE GUAVA
Illamma
Wampee
Starfruit
Citrus*
Figs (size)
Loquat
Dragon Fruit
Tropical Apricot
Barbados Cherry
BLACK Surinam Cherry
Pineapple
Ambarella
Mullberry (trees & Shrubs)
Mango (dwarf)
Persimmon
Pecans, Macademias
Grapes (Muscadine)
Longan
Olives*
Lychee
Grumichama
Tamarind
Pineapple Guava
