Greetings, I hope you enjoy this July garden tour of my backyard here in Austin Texas' Zone 8B, even though the temperature is soaring into the triple digits, there are still all sorts of things that grow in our intense summer Texas heat. I hope this update on my raised bed and fruit trees is entertaining, informative, and inspiring!
Here in Austin Texas, I am working with some really dense clay soil, because of this, I've decided to grow fruits and veggies in a large raised bed, and build a french drain for my peach trees.
My raised bed is 60 square feet (20'x3') and about 2 feet high, I'm growing peppers, cucumbers, strawberries, tomatoes, eggplant, watermelon, and a few other seedling starter plants. Near my raised bed, I'm growing ornamentals and olive trees in containers to attract pollinators for my raised bed vegetables and backyard peach orchard. I'm also doing a little zone pushing by growing pineapples and an avocado sapling in containers.
I hope this garden tour is entertaining, educational, and inspiring. Good luck with all your gardening projects this summer!
Video Chapter Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:36 Raised Bed - Jalapeños and Cucumber Harvest
9:52 Plants in Containers - Zone Pushing with Tropicals, Ornamentals, Olive Trees in Whiskey Barrels, and More
13:32 Our Backyard Peach Orchard
19:15 Closing Thoughts and The Front Yard Garden
Thanks again for watching Austin Texas Gardening!
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