Growing a Greener World Episode 1007: Gardening with the Masters – Growing Unusual Fruit
Growing a Greener World Episode 1007: Gardening with the Masters – Growing Unusual Fruit
Dr. Lee Reich introduces us to some hardy, delicious and unusual fruits and berries. These varieties aren’t typically included in the American garden, but they should be.
Want to learn more? Check out additional resources in show notes on our web page: https://www.growingagreenerworld.com/episode-1007-gardening-with-the-masters-growing-unusual-fruit-with-lee-reich/
You can also enjoy more of Paul with Joe in episodes of The joe gardener Show podcast:
On soil health – https://joegardener.com/podcast/gardening-science-made-simple/
On blueberries – https://joegardener.com/podcast/how-to-grow-blueberries/
On fruit growing – https://joegardener.com/podcast/fruit-growing-success/
https://joegardener.com/podcast/uncommon-fruits/
Great info, enjoyed the video.
Now this is a farm to lead by example. One can see the dedication and work that has gone into it. Thanks.
Love the video and the content but really don’t like the background music
What type of cherry? White flowers one that has cherry no it.
Lee is my HERO
I know I am asking after 2 years …. still… what about wild blueberries, who are coming from the mountains… do they grow in such an acid soil too?
Thank you
What kind of fig trees? My tags say fruit grows on previous year’s growth, so if I prune mine like his (I want to!) I would get no figs……
I would like to know where you can purchase some of these varieties. I would love to have an edible landscape here at home.
Black currant is a superfruit! It is anti cancer. You can dry berries and leaves for winter tea. The smell of the tea in winter is out of this world!
What in the world???? I had no idea that place was so close to me! Yup i’m definitely inspired!!!!
I was watching your deer fence episode and this came up and what a wonderful episode. An eye opener episode with dr Lee Reich and enjoyed the walk around his farm/garden, and the beautiful Mohonk house upstate New York. Thanks and enjoy your channel!!
This show is absolutely worthy of corporate sponsors! Watched at 4:30 a.m. in L.A., where it’s still dark outside, and I want to head into the garden and start turning my compost pile! Lol. Now I’m waiting for the garden center to open so I can pick up more mulch, mushroom compost, worms & elemental sulfur! (I would have planted more raspberries & blueberries if I had known! My harvest has been pithy, not sweet enough to be excited. Kept them only to sacrifice them to the small wild beasts in the fruit trees overhead). Will rework my plantings & expect a better crop in the future.
A wide range of garden products companies would benefit wildly from sponsoring this channel’s content. There’s a lot of interest in a greener world (love the show title). I benefited in a single visit, was thoroughly entertained (good editing!), & enjoyed the conversation. I’m an environmental scientist & gardener (whose garden has been my best teacher of environmental problems), & I loved the guests and the content. Host and guests are well informed, good humored & inspiring in a world that is full of disorder, dysfunction, and despair. The best place any of us can go to reboot & get healthy, emotionally and physically, is a garden. Our own or that of a friend or acquaintance.
To anyone watching who doesn’t have a garden yet, do not despair! Every great gardener is happy to have extra hands in the dirt in exchange for tutoring and a few pieces of fruit while ur working! U’ll leave with the intellectual seeds (& physical ones, cuttings, free plants…) needed to grow a physical garden and a peaceful mind.
The best opiates are words and stories arranged thoughtfully and being a student of nature in a garden. May everyone who watches dare to become addicted to both.
Loved the show.
Another great episode! I’m really interested in the fig espalier’s in the grow tunnel, and I’d love to see the process for starting one. Reich’s _Landscaping with Fruit_ (I just bought it based on the podcasts & am still exploring it) has some very general espalier info but not that technique. Where could I find the step-by-step?
I enjoyed this episode and it encourages me to get past my hesitation trying to grow Chicago hardy figs in SW Michigan. I loved the method of building the compost bin and immediately went on the internet to find notched manufactured wood or wood decking. But I found nothing like what Lee is using. Can you give me any tips on finding these boards? Thanks. Susan Stone
Bellisimooooo!!!
Is that design compost bin for sale or did Mr Reich have someone build them. That’s brilliant!
I see comfrey plant leaves on the compost pile. Comfrey leaves make the best liquid fertilizer! They are extremely nutritious treat for the chickens or other homestead critters. A lot of beneficial insects overwinter under dead comfrey leaves. The bees love comfrey flowers! Plant some comfrey!!!!
Good information. Well show.
This was fantastic!
The gardening channel with James Prigioni is a great permaculture channel with a food forest
Would the white currants be a goose berry?
Of all the gardening channels I subscribe to and all the random gardening episodes I have ever watched, this has been my favourite episode by far! Just subscribed and I look forward to binging!
Love Dr. Reich’s gardens! I feel more confident about getting figs from my Chicago fig now! Thank you!
Love the Lincoln Logs compost bins!
Love these videos!!!! Thank you!!
I love his voice. I love hearing him on your podcast so to see him in person is a treat.
Wow!! Great video! I immediately subscribed! Thank you for showing the beauty and goodness in the world!
Lee your the man!!
Lief 💅.My heart prompts me the right feelings about you.Great job and having passion to connectivity of nature is appreciable.In fact you are not digging for gold but digging to germinate plants on earth.Gloriously nature most beautiful gift and enjoy the beauty of monarch beauty of nature 🙏.
I want your garden, I am so jealous. 😭
Me encantan los vídeos pero no entiendo sería genial si tuvieran subtítulos porfavor
Très belle vidéo 😍 je ne savais que l’on pouvait conduire les figuiers de la sorte, je vais appliquer tous ça merci beaucoup 🙏
Make him a President. I worship the man.
I thoroughly enjoyed this
Oh my goodness! Our little girl would love your blueberry palace! It’s her favorite fruit and it gets its own line in our grocery budget. She will eat a pint a day if we let her! Loved seeing ideas of all the things we can grown in zone 5.
Beautifully done! Can I ask how you guys protect your blueberry bushes from birds?
@21:58 I love that gate
I live in Walsenburg Colorado and we are a zone 6. Any pointers on growing grapes and other fruit? I tried raspberries and they did good the first year. But didn’t come back, the whole plant from top to bottom died.
Well information. Good show.
This is my first viewing of this series and I like it very much so far.
I really love your garden. I am trying to learn now. Thank you so much for this content.
Does anyone know why I’m getting the plants to grow nice and green but I’m not getting any vegetables on them.
Great episode guys. I’ve got a little tiny orchard and I was going to put chickens in it, but I think I’ll dump that idea and put in more fruit, especially berries. Like Lee, I love fruit!
Love the show, I think we’ve seen every episode, this was one of the best.
I did catch an episode of growing a greener world on TV. It was growing in a Suburban area where nobody was gardening. Except for one beautiful lady with a beautiful dream. Happy you are on YouTube.
I’m in zone 5b, at altitude… I have 2 blueberry plants that I was told to plant in large peat moss bags that were dug into ground. I fertilize every spring with a blueberry fertilizer. Every fall I wrap in cloth, In 3 years I have never had fruit. This year I’ve decided not to wrap them, and have finally seen the beautiful fall colors, but would really like fruit…. Suggestions???
This has to be my favourite video ever. Thank you, very much for the amazing information you share.
I don’t know if you ever travel outside of the country but please check out Bealtaine Cottage owned by Collette O’Neill. She’s an Irish environmentalist, writer and teacher who is famous throughout Ireland for Goddess Permaculture. Her YouTube channel has been going for 10 years. She’s got such a fantastic story of how she started down this path.
Extraordinary input extraordinary results.
I very much enjoyed this episode. Informative, and well presented.