We Just Bought WAY Too Many Fruit Trees…
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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Jacques and I took a trip Off The Stead to gather up a new batch of bare root fruit trees to fill in the homestead. Along the way we will tell you what to avoid when choosing bare roots and what you will want to avoid!
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I saw "we bought way too many fruit trees" but what I read was "we're gardeners" 😂😂
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I saw it and got so excited
We're gardeners we are going to buy fruit trees without having literally any space left in the garden 😂
"The Path that Jacques Built" sounds like a book title. 😂
I agree - please make a charming sign and plant it at the beginning of the path; plant a bed of beans at the end of the path
I just said the exact same thing and then I saw your comment 😂
Omg they need to find an illustrator to make an Epic Gardening children’s book for them.
I'd read it
How to go bankrupt at the nursery! 🤣🤣🤣 Reminds me of when my friend and I go to the nursery every spring and come home with a packed SUV! 😁
business expense!
If you don't do that, are you really a gardener????
13:45 99% sure I know who Jacques is talking about, and Orin is his first name. Orin Martin is the long time manager of the Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz, and has a book with illustrations by his daughter, Manjula Martin, called Fruit Trees for Every Garden. He also has a number of very informative videos on pruning on the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology RUclips channel. The videos were super helpful to me when figuring out pruning young fruit trees a couple of years ago.
I literally just watched a video of his on pruning fruit trees this morning to learn how best to shape my plum trees. The video was extremely helpful and very informative.
Yes! I had the same thought, I've been watching his pruning and orchard videos all winter.
*singing* "gonna go bankrupt at the nursery." Is the vibe for lifey 😂😂😂
Thanks for the shout out! On behalf of WAN staff it’s our privilege to be your local nursery. We love you guys and BI!
I inherited a pear with the house i bought. I was getting these tiny a** pears bc I later found out, pears do better with a friend. But even the itty bitty pears were the best thing I have ever tasted. I got a 4 in 1 on clearance at the end of last year and I'm telling you... "I'm here for it!"
Keep up the good work fellas. Watching for Newfoundland Canada 5a
You guys are speaking my love language. Nursery trip, bare root fruit trees, multi grafts… this is ultimate gardening porn right here.
Seriously though a Dave Wilson Nursery multi grafted tree is top tier; it doesn’t get any better than that!
I'm with Jacques on the pink lady apples, but my absolute favorite is the Opal apple. A few years ago, I bought one at whole foods and it made me emotional with how perfectly crisp, sweet, and tangy it was. The flavor was much more complex than its golden skin let on. I only saw them for one season and only at whole foods. I've been searching since.
The laughing at the beginning is just so signature I absolutely love it. I just put 6 fruit trees in my small back yard, I'm packing it in. You guys are great I love how much fun you always have on the videos.
Yo, props to the editor for those graft highlights / sfx, that was professional.
I am so excited to see Eric and Josh having a fun fruit tree adventure. I always love watching videos from these two guys named Eric and Josh!! Eric and Josh those are their real legal names!!!
My thoughts are you each should take one type of pear then trade scion and graft your own two in ones!! Same with cherries since the only self pollinating one is royal crimson. Coffee cake needs the chocolate persimmon to pollenate it otherwise it stays astringent. I got a chocolate for mine this season. Next year if your looking to graft the coffee cake, I’ll have scion!
Oh man, love watching San Diego January when we are huddling under our grow lights for fake sunlight here in Ohio. But at least we have 1200 chill hours (💪💪💪) Excited to see how the orchard pans out, we have 30 fruit trees we are planting in March as well!
Don't worry too much about finding low chill pears. Most italian pears (Citron de Carmes, Coscia, Bella di Giugno, etc.) will do well in San Diego, as Sicilia is at roughly the same latitude, and many varieties grow there. American varieties Seckel, Warren, Magness, and pineapple will do well in SoCal.
You can never have enough fruit trees! Thanks for sharing your trip to the nursery!!
Love this! I put in 2 peach, 2 apple and a plum last year, with the intention of pruning to keep them under 7 feet tall. Then I watched you (and the mention of pruning in your new book!) and realize I was on the right track with my fruit trees and will be adding more this year. However, this does not beat the 100 pecan bare-root trees my Mom and I bought about 40 years ago. My dad just about had a stroke. But luckily a tracker with a post hole digger. Unfortunately, they sold that property about 2 years after planting all of them.
Orin Martin is indeed the tome of knowledge. The 3 acre Chadwick Garden at UCSC, under his care for 40 years, is Eden on Earth. You must visit.
I look forward to seeing the video with Tom Spellman. I know you've had him on before but he really is a wealth of information regarding trees and planting. Plums, pears, Cherry s, dragon fruit, passion fruit, and an orchard of varying citrus. Where's the peaches and nectarine? How fantastic that you can have all that variety of fruit from your own yard. No pesticides and fresh so it tastes better than any store bought fruit. Great job on the homestead orchard Kevin .
Putting in peaches, apples, and nectaines to go with our plums.
Have lemon and clementine in the house.
Something's bound to fruit every year with all my fruit tree redundancy. Haha
Love planting season!
Kevin already has peaches. I remember the video last summer.
Pears were an afterthought in my Food Forest. Oh man I am so glad I finally decided to plant a couple. I love my homegrown pears! Have a 3 in 1 pear on order 😊
Last year I planted three low chill cherries: Royal Lee, Minnie Royal, and Royal Crimson. 2nd year in the ground and I see some flower buds forming. Royal crimson is self pollinating while Royal Lee and Minnie Royal need pollinators. They will each pollinate each other and Royal Crimson will pollinate both.
I've already planted them now, but I was wondering about tree spacing. It was hard to find any definitive answers. I bought dwarf varieties, and the most common spacing answer seemed to be minimum 12ft between. You guys seem to be planting them wayyyy closer. Also near your veg beds. Do you not worry they will interfere. What do you know that I don't, please? 😅😊👍 Cheers, guys.
Kevin when you talk about the texture of apples there are different textures for different apples. Some are more crisp some are more soft try different types. For general eating I like a very crisp sweet tart apple. For baking a softer sweet apple is better that's me what about everyone else? I live in NY so we get a lot of different apples in the stores. Plus lots of places to pick your own in the fall
Very true!
I totally get this. I said last year I didn't need any more trees. Got 3 more this year. Thank God I have room!!!
Edited to add: Bartlett pear, an apricot and granny smith apple for canning. I already have a pink lady and another apple. It's so exciting planning for future harvests!
Love the video. I'm up in 4b waiting patiently for seed starting. This is great to see "off the stead" vids
So adorable! I haven't seen Eric, I mean, Kevin, so happy in such a long time! Getting back to basics with Jacques and treasure hunting for fruit trees at the nursery! Very excellent indeed!
You definitely need more wood chip mulch to beat back that bermuda grass! :)
I inherited 2 Lime trees (Bears limes) when I bought my place. They got a loving prune just before Christmas (I'm in Christchurch, New Zealand on the coast - temperate oceanic climate) so I'm not expecting much fruit this season but they'll be back!
My buddies new property has Bartlett pear tree that looks like it’s never been trimmed or maintained a day in its life but last summer it had some of the best pears I ever tasted…cold pressed pear juice on its own is heavenly…makes sense why it’s used as a sweetener in other juices. Beats a apple to me any day of the week.
Now that you mention it I have seen it as a blend in juice but never as a standalone, it must be crazy sweet!
Love how you show us how you pick the trees - so completely helpful!!
Definitely share the book! One of the things I love about the channel is y'all share all the cool things you find!
yes!! dunno why they’d keep it a secret
It's "Fruit Trees for Every Garden" by Orin Martin and it is soooo amazing!
He was probably joking
The pears from my tree are the sweetest I've ever had. Makes me sad that they don't last very long in storage but they make amazing pear butter
Brian I found you in 2020 and you'll never lose me! I love both your channels and do remember your weekly series, they were so informative. I look forward to seeing the new series you have in mind and think it will resonate and be a hit with everyone, no matter what their bank account looks like. Who doesn't like something free?
Keep up the amazing ideas and cheers to you for spreading the word about creating our own sustainable happy places. Cheers to many more years and gardens!
Spent over $500 on fruit trees and berry bushes last summer. Super excited for this year!
Everyone has preferences. I feel like the go pro zooms in very well and I can read the plant labels if it’s not announced. Like sometimes RUclipsrs don’t mention all the fruit trees around the fruits they are shopping for and I am curious to know.
I got Bartlett and Asian pear, royal lee,royal crimson,Minnie royal cherry, two different jujubes, astringent and non-astringent persimmon,pluerry, and pluot this year. Go big on edibles.
Perfect timing - I've been jonesing to plant some fruit trees in my front yard.
Oooooo! We had a Bartlett pear in our back yard growing up and I'm telling you, there's not much better than taking a bite of a juicy Bartlett right off the tree!
Yes 100 precent agree, Back in my hometown we have a couple different fruit trees that were planted there back in the day, one of them was a giant pear tree in the center of downtown not sure what variety it was but it was absolutely delicious and way better tasting than anything I've bought from the grocery store, I would harvest about 3 plastic grocery bags full off the tree at a time there was a lot more but I didn't have a ladder 😅
Love how much fun you’re having and how much you enjoy each other’s company. Where’s the remix for the nursery song?😆
I’m so jealous of the amount of variety you get to choose from. Where I live Nurseries only have the absolute most basic of fruits: apples, sour cherries, and plums if you are lucky. I know we are in a cold zone but I still wish they would get more to choose from. Peaches and pears at least. And I’ve never seen a nursery that sold bare root trees. If you want any decent variety you are forced to order online.
Jacques @1:57: "I really want to grow a pear!" A clip for the archives! 🙂
I won't trash talk apples though. Try a Spartan, especially right off a tree - so crisp and sweet. Spartan and Macintosh are probably the best eating apples, but maybe San Diego is too warm? If you ever see what looks like a fresh Spartan, try it. Some supermarket apples can definitely be mealy ('Red Delicious' comes to mind).
Highly recommend planting hops in a container. They can sent shoots feet away from the main rhizome. They are awesome but will go nuts in your soil and watering!
You & Jaques are such an awesome pair🙏😊😊
About your dragon fruit plants/stands. Do you have a video you can share with me on how you protect them during the winter🙏🙏🙏
The Book is "Fruit Trees for Every Garden" by Orin Martin and it is sooo awesome, best fruit tree book out there!
Good luck with Hops, they need crazy long days to bloom, that's why they grow them in Idaho and Washington, maybe you can coax them with some grow lights in the summer?? I saw a scraggly one once bloom in Carpenteria near a long lit patio.
Thank you for sharing! When you film the Tom Spellman video, it would be very helpful if you also get advice for growing a "backyard orchard" in containers. I live in Brooklyn, and I would love to add a few small fruit trees on my terrace! Thanks in advance.
I cannot believe the selection! And now I’m chill hour envious. In Houston we are lucky to get two weeks in a year of chill hours. ( a a few days to kill everything)
1:57 lol😂 "ever since I read that, I really wanna grow a pair"
That county chill map is dope! I need the opposite for growing degree days for my county in the PNW!
That store looks magical.
Agree with Jacque, Pink Lady is the best apple.
It has everything I need! It is crisp, crunchy, acidic, and just sweet enough.
I'm gonna need a behind the scenes of you and Jacques messing up the laugh intro from your videos together. I belt that collection is extensive. lol
Really wish I had good weather for pruning right now. I could really use some garden time right now.
10a newly changed to 10b Florida here. Just watching this now after just purchasing flordahome and hood pears this past week. No idea why suddenly the urge to do pears 😂 But here everything says Floridahome is 150 chill hours and harvest starting mid July for Florida. I checked with local nursery and they said they fruit here. We really only get about 30 chill hours but my peach rated 100/150 does really well.
Man I hit some major frustrations last Fall concerning my choice in persimmon tree variety. I chose a catalog tree that was called "Nakita's Gift". The full description was right down my alley and it boasted that it tastes like caramel. NOT! It was so very astringent I thought it was going to turn my face inside out. So I tried every way possible to make sure I was ripening them properly etc. It was the most inedible fruit I've ever experienced so I cut the tree down this Spring. I've since done a lot of research to figure out what to purchase in the future. So do your research and save yourself $40 and 3 years of wasted time.
Where I am in the mountains of Idaho a great fruit tree is one that survives the winter 🥶! We have to cage them to keep the deer away.
1:57 “I really want to grow a pear” haha
Spent around $2,870 on fruit trees lost $400 on dead fruit tree or diesese. Cherry, plum, apple all got diesese in FL.
It inspires us! I don’t have a big area to plant but I want to make the most of it.
Really look forward to seeing how the hops turn out!
Hey you guys should explain some of the terminology you guys use. Like you said the pear tree was "foreign" I think is what you said and I've actually never heard that before. Also what's the difference between the Florida Home Pear and the Hood European Pear? looking to get a couple more fruit trees this year and want to get the best ones I can! Love the videos as always. Keep up the good work
One of the pears was a 4-in-1 meaning it was 4 different varieties grafted onto 1 tree. So you plant 1 tree but get 4 different flavored fruits. The difference in the other two might be in the flavor but also they have different harvest windows and help pollinate each other for bet fruit production and size.
Spring bare root fruit tree shopping 💚💚💚💚💚
I’m with Eric apples are weird textured especially when compared to a pear off the tree, they just melt away especially on a hot summer day. Love the content Kevin and Jaques
loved it, seasons almost here !
I'm with Kevin regarding apples vs pears. I'll eat both uncooked, but a pear is my preferred choice. When the fruits are cooked, I prefer apple over pear.
Looking forward to seeing those trees once they are established!
I wish I had your space. I found some ultra dwarf fruit trees and wanted the cherry, but chill hours are like 600-800. Not gonna happen in the OC, so I got the weeping plum.
According to Gary Matsumoto (he’s on RUclips and knows soooo much about fruit trees)at Laguna Hills Nursery in California and Royal Lee and Minnie Royal didn’t flower simultaneously so they were not pollinating each other well. Royal Crimson, a newer cherry, flowers in between and is suppose to be self pollinating . It was suppose to solve the pollination issue. He also mentioned that it could take 5-7 years before they really start producing. Minnie Royal is a softer cherry and perhaps less desirable. He recommended Royal Crimson and Royal Lee together.
The way they display their trees 🌴 is cool 😎 🎉
Wow, I grew up in Point Loma and had no idea you were in the area! Now I live in Maine and have 8 fruit trees myself
I grow Asian pears, which are definitely light years away from the store bought when fresh off the tree, but European pears have to be ripened off the tree
What wonderful fruit trees. Nohing like very fresh fruit. Th birds will especially love you when the cherries fruit. I hope you love the birds.
I ordered a couple fruit cocktail trees with no place to plant them. Im going to have to pot them. 😂I can’t resist!!!
This video was definitely for me, I appreciated you showing the proper thought process when it comes to buying fruit trees
You definitely need to get a pluot tree. A plum/apricot hybrid that I’m obsessed with.
Apple textured varies a lot by variety! If you want a super crisp apple, Evercrisp is the best. Something like a Fugi is a ‘soft’ apple.
I think you honestly need to start looking for more land. Good luck guys! 🙂
Green Fragrant pears and korean pears are my fave. The green fragrant ones are like guavas sweet and smooth. While korean pearsxare ultra sweet and huge.
Went to the Walter Anderson’s at sports arena this weekend and even though I do not need another apple tree couldn’t resist the 6 in 1.
Pears are good!
my strategy for fruit trees is to try to balance the harvests for all the fruit tree varieties so there's roughly equal amounts of summer, fall, spring and winter. of course the only thing you can get for winter is citrus or avocados
I deeply regret getting hops plants. They spread like wild fire and very hard to exterminate when you want to get rid of em.
What a nursery .. wish we had something close to that here.
If you want to add one more tree to that collection, I have a black sapote with a branch i need to prune, but if youre interested i can try air layering it before i prune it 👀im also in the SD area!
cold is 31 to 30 degrees lucky that basicly half the year in the midwest
I would agree with the apples vs pair when it comes to store-bought but fresh off-the-tree apples are unmatched tbh 🤤🤤
Platycerium Grande - Fun to grow - they look prehistoric to me. Love them.
Phish lense is crazy. Yeah I know that’s not how you spell it 😂. You guys are so enjoyable to watch. Sometimes I literally don’t have any reason or something that I want to learn it’s just to hang out with you other gardeners and people that appreciate that quality of life living. 🙏🏼 Bless you guys
@2:10 I totally agree with you about apples vs pears. Grew two apple trees and one pear tree and the pear was way better than the apples.
We have a staghorn fern growing in a tree for almost as long as ive been alive. If you let them, they get maaaaaasive. the tree branch will break before the fern does im sure of it lol
been waiting for you to put in more trees....got a lot of empty space to use there!
Would love to see a video on terra preta/biocharr in general
I love growing tomatoes n peppers but what I really want is mature fruit trees I have like 9 dwarfs potted or more and also bushes like blueberries but idk if they all survived summer
Jaques, if you don't have them I recommend red pears and asian pears. They both have excellent texture. Also, have either of you grown Green Gauge plums ?
I noticed you guys were planning to put the trees pretty close to each other. Is this because you plan to be vigilant with pruning them down? Asking because I just added some apples, peach, and cherry to my backyard. I spaced them quite a ways apart (something like 15-20 feet) and would love to be able to add more to the space, but don't want to cause issues down the line.
It's good to know there's low chill hour options for some of these! My range is 325-425.
I'm pretty sure my dad has one of those stag horn ferns. A really big one.
Can you attempt to espalier one or two of your bew trees, and show us the process?
Yes!!! So excited for the cherry tree
You may think pears are better until you try sweet and sour autumn apple variety that tastes like chilled crispy super juicy sweet and sour gummies (grandma had one tree tike that, sadly no idea what variety it might have been)
I prefer apples over pears but they have to be extra crisp and crunchy soft apples are a no go. I wish I could grow oranges.
He is absolutely 100% correct I saw a pear tree on the side of the road. I stopped and got three of them and I literally almost bit my finger off trying to eat them. They were so freaking delicious so guess what now I have three pear trees in my backyard.❤
I was recently gifted a fig tree and a crab apple that is made for Texas. I’m in Texas. I’m excited because I wanna make crab apple jelly the fig tree we always had a fig tree when I was young we grow up with fig tree we grew up with pomegranate trees Kumquat trees, pear trees, quad mulberry. Oh my God we have I even have growing wild in my backyard I have. Elderberry it grows wild in my backyard.
I have propagated the mulberries for people, the loquat, the elderberry cleaning my friends, have elderberry plants for me ..
Could you air layer what you want to prune off then have a second tree???