PJ's Forest Garden

12/01/2025

Got about a foot of heavy, wet snow. It's pretty, but it was enough to damage a few evergreens. I was more worried about the chestnuts and oaks, who tend to hang onto their brown leaves late into the winter (a trait called marcescence). Behold the leaden skies of a Michigan winter.

10/16/2025

A short follow-up to a clip from 2018, showing how much things have grown up in that area:

A look at this section of my garden from a similar vantage point, showing how things have grown up in that time. Totally different time of year, but it's a s...

10/09/2025

Quick tour before the frost showing a few chestnuts and the start of fall colors.

A relatively quick walk-through the evening before predicted frost, showing a little Fall color, some ripening chestnuts, and the garden winding down for the...

09/26/2025

09/12/2025

Late-summer garden walk after a couple of hot, dry months with no videos.

I've spent very little time in my garden this season and many crops are light or missing due to late frosts (and now drought), but here's how things look goi...

07/18/2025

Another garden walk, see how things look during a season of neglect.

Walking through the garden backwards and being peeved at a few things. Year of Neglect. Bonus other-yard footage and native rose in full flower from last wee...

06/26/2025

Garden foray after time away. So far things are fairly average (read: underwhelming), but better that than a devastating drought, tornado, etc.:

Back looking at the garden after 2 weeks away and before any mowing for the season. Goumi and raspberries ripening, updates on other fruit potential, and the...

06/08/2025

In addition to a hard frost on 5/9 that smoked most of the leaves on my persimmons, pawpaws, mulberries, amorpha, and others, I had a second late frost on JUNE 2 which knocked back the regrowth on some of those same plants. Ugh. Going to start grafting persimmons and pawpaws later today. Pic is a small chinquapin chestnut after the 6/2 frost.

05/15/2025

Garden got smoked with a late-ish frost last Friday, walk through this world with me and survey the damage.

Had a late-ish frost (totally within reason for the date, my forest garden is just unfortunately frost-prone being low and flat), this video is two different...

04/20/2025

First garden walk of the '25 growing season, a wonderful time of year.

My first garden video of the 2025 growing season. Nanking cherries in flower, peaches and plums just starting, daffodils and dandelions, forsythia near the e...

03/25/2025

Like everyone else I have spring fever after 5 cold, grey months of Michigan winter. Going through my garden videos to note what I've grafted where, it's so nice to see flowers and bees, it won't be long now. https://www.youtube.com//videos

10/11/2024

New garden walkthrough after the first frost.

A walk around the dry forest garden after the first frost of the season, before the Fall colors really get going.