What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

Coast to Coast Edition. We've got James Perjoni on the show from the

Gardening channel with James Perjioni over on YouTube on YouTube so go check him out I've learned a ton from his channel love his energy on his videos and you know we've become gardening friends so James we talked about your food force yesterday,

and a lot of that was the fruit trees, especially early on.

I'm going to be doing that over the next,

I would say, two to three months.

Let's talk a little bit about how you set that up from the start.

Yeah, well, from the start I actually made a lot of mistakes which has guided me

at my new food forest because at the start I just wanted to go for the cheapest trees I could possibly find and just sticking as many as I could.

But after years I've kind of learned that that's not always the best approach.

So I've kind of, I like to do this thing where education's got to come before

before actually taking action so you got to take action but you got to make sure

to educate yourself a little bit first. So I learned soon after going to my

second food forest out variety selection is one of the biggest

things when it comes to planting fruit trees.

So I'm focused on variety selection and getting the right trees in not only varieties but kinds.

What's like a classic mistake you made that you can remember early on with a variety that was perhaps not the right one?

Well, I like went to just Lowe's or Home Depot, and I just said, oh, that not only did I not look up what kind of variety was good.

I just went to like Home Depot and found trees that were like $7 as opposed to like $25 which is nothing wrong with that but I just

went to Home Depot and grabbed like a I forget it was like a red delicious apple

not only was an apple that isn't disease resistant or anything like that but I don't even

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