Pruning Peach Tree & Mulching ALL Fruit to Stop Pests
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2024
- In this video, I prune our peach trees and mulch up all the fruit to stop pests (fruit fly) from infesting the orchard.
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Fruit flies are such a pest for stoned fruit mate. I had a similar issue here this year. But taking steps like yourself to prevent the fruit being destroyed next year. The sound was fine great video. Tony
FYI - Peach wood makes for some of the best bbq wood. Apple as well as most fruit trees.
True, but here's a small detail you may find useful: cherry tree bark fumes are slightly toxic (even though they smell nice), so make sure to scrape off the bark if you cook with that kind of wood. My favorite barbecue wood is plum tree, burns slow and hot and gives a mild bacon-like flavor.
@@Dr_V too late lol
Yes
olive tree is the best BBQ burn wood! BBQ is toxic whaterver you do!
@@sabinecranet8220 never done olive..... might have to give it a go, if I can find it
Hearing the birds chirping in the background makes me happy. They're like Australia's Soundtrack and it makes me feel really at home listening to them ☺️
I love how you're holding your ground against poisons.
More power to you my friend!!
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Here in Georgia, USA the commercial peach growers "table top" peach trees. Basically always pruning the tree back so it's never higher than your head. I'm told it also save stress and damage to the tree in storms and as peaches are a soft fruit allows them to be picked fully by hand. And if you're ever south Georgia in late July to mid-late August swing by we'll go to Morven,Ga and let you taste the best peaches and homemade peach ice cream anywhere. Keep the good work, eh. I learn something from each video.
I'm making plane reservations now! Come pick me up at the airport!
BTW my brothers name is David Jackson! Lolol
Is that the same as 'hat racking '? I used to live in deep south Florida and see the cutters go through the groves.
That’s good to know. I have a peach tree that blocks the view of my sunset so I’ve been chopping off the top yearly. I was worried I might be harming it. It grows back with gusto though and gives the best peaches I’ve ever tasted. So many I make wine. Delicious!
Sorry for your lost. I am sure you will get some good peach harvest next year 🙏🙏🙏
Good to know...I planted 2 apple trees and a pomegranate tree this spring, and I've learned that there is a lot more to growing a healthy tree than water and fertilizer!
Wow. That is some pruning confidence. I wouldnt have imagined that the tree would survive that.
as long as you have a healthy root system you can prune ALOT off of most trees (not all, mind you) but nature has ways of pruning trees as well. Not all death is bad death. The new growth will be much healthier than what was there before.
it will just make the next crop(s) smaller as the tree has to spend energy on regrowth.
@@Tsuchimursu maybe for a year but pruning stimulates Veg growth
Have cut a mango & an orange tree almost to ground. Both sprouted branches within weeks. Unfortunately for me, I was trying to remove the trees. Had to burn the stump to below ground level, to stop them.
@@chrisgartenn Only burnt to 5cm below ground level & fires were swamped with more then 200ltr of water each time. If done with caution & preparedness it is a valid way to remove them. I do not live in an area that has underground pipes, wires or flamable material. I am also in an area where my soil has very little organic matter within, so the risk of it spreading through underground smoldering is vertially non.
Wow! You were not kidding when you said you were going to severely prune!
We had a horrible problem with cutworms this year and we borrowed the neighbors chickens and let them roam for 10 days to clear up most of the larvae in the ground. It worked wonderfully and my understanding is this is also an effective aid for the fruit fly larvae. You have to watch the exposed fruit tree roots as the chickens scratch, but maybe try this in conjunction with your current method and it may help for next season?
Don't know if it's available in Australia, but here in Indonesia we usually use Methyl Eugenol (from clove oil) trap to specifically trap male fruitfly it works like magic.. Just use a plastic bottle cut in to 2 width wise and joined together oppositelly (creating a funnel structure) and putting a piece of cotton ball w/ a dab of Methyl Eugenol. Be sure set it right after the trees finish flowering
Perhaps CLOVE OIL would work then AND its definitely organic. The Methyl Eugenol if extracted from clove oil would also be organic.
Thank you Lauda. I see there is quite a bit of research to support this. I like it. Clove oil is so concentrated that I am sure you probably don't have to refresh the cotton ball often?
I throw Bacillus thuringiensis tabs around mulch and leaf piles to control deer flies, stable flies and mosquitoes. I noticed it helps control fruit flies but doesn’t help with moths on my apple trees. I use neem oil on the trees right after blossoms fall off and when I start seeing fruit form. Then in July I use neem again when tent caterpillars seem to start invading. That’s about all I use. Blue jays and other birds seem to do a good job with what’s left.
Hi Mark i had infestation of earwigs with my nectarine tree so l got my blow torch and carefully burnt back all the leaves to the branches and the next season the tree grew back healthier with more fruit,cheers.
Your videos are truly premium. Your passion for being more self sufficient is genuine and you enjoy sharing your skills. Your videos are what RUclips needs more of. Fun, interesting and educational.
Sad for your peach loss, so glad we rarely have fruit fly in South Australia! :)
Just the birds lol
Hi Mate. Use the chickens to clean up the fallen fruit and let them pick over the scraps after you chip it all. Also get heaps of wood chips around under your trees as it will help to control pests
Fence in the orchard and bring in chickens to free range under the trees. They will target both lava before they can get underground and the freshly emerged adults that can't fly yet helping to cut down numbers that reach breeding. Once they learn breaking open fruit can produce larva you will see all the fruit on the ground opened even if they don't eat it.
Pigs and goats are also good for getting rid of the ground fruit but you would want to protect the trees if you let them into the area as goats are known to strip the bark.
I can't believe I'm only just finding this channel. It's absolutely brilliant. I've watched a couple of your videos now and they've already helped me so much (even if this one was sad). Please keep posting - you're such a wonderful resource to us all.
Near me is a nut orchard where all the debris from the harvest is placed in home made open bottom bins placed on recycle metal siding. This allows the "bug" infested waste to compost with free drainage and prevents worms, etc. from entering the soil. Next year the compost is returned to the orchard. This is all done in situ, reducing handling labor.
Invest in dwarf trees. I have a dwarf peach tree and a dwarf avocado tree. They only grow to 5-15 ft tall. And that's unpruned. You can keep them at a height you are comfortable at
We feel for you Mark, just bought a yellow cling peach tree for our garden and watching the 5, yes 5 peaches that set. Thanks for reminding us about bagging fruit, our wild fig is fruiting and the wasps seem to have a taste for peaches as well. Glad you have good machines to deal with the branches and mulching. Here we have a push mower and petrol trimmer, so breaking out a sweat is really easy. Love to the family and please keep safe. Brian & Essjay, Western Cape RSA
In W.A the ag department does monitoring for Mediterranean and Queensland fruit fly. They put traps in people’s yards in various suburbs. As well as in parks. That are checked daily. They have one outside my place along the creek. If fruit fly are detected then they doorknock everyone one in the area and ask if you have any type of fruit tree or certain types of ornamenta plants. Then they inspect the plants.
Do similar here in Victoria too.
I have a calamansi and it has been ravaged by med fruit fly. I pruned it this year and I hope they won’t come again
I was asked, and did so, to remove my peach tree because of the fruit fly monitoring in WA. I'm in the Mandurah area. Got into my olives and lemons as well which shows they are desperate for food given they rarely touch olives
@@thesecondguyontheinternet I didn't know they would get the lemons. I need to check my lemon tree as it has a lot of fruit on it and I'm in QLD.
@@janependergast5796 I didn't think so either. I found them on the older fruit rather than younger fruit
You sparked a love for gardening and plants over the past 2ish years. Starting small but practic is perfect. Just got my first key lime last week :) tomatoes are almost ripened as well. Love from Florida my friend💕
Hopefully you can keep your tomatoes under control.
I didn't have enough jars after harvesting the tiny weeny plants I had, can't imagine bigger crops
We freeze our excess tomatoes and use them for sauces
@@brianoliver5640 awesome. They're just cherry tomatoes. Been trying to get my hands on some everglades tomatoes
@@brianoliver5640 as an Italian this sounds as heresy, sorry can't do
I spray my peach trees with liquid sevin diluted to 1/2 of the recommended dosage during first olive sized fruit set, again at golf ball sized fruit then once more 1 month before harvest. Never have any more fruit loss.
I feel for you man. The years work you put into these trees and the time it takes for 1st fruit. It is saddening. I'm still waiting for my 1st plum tree to fruit after 4 years of espalier training so I can imagine the work you've put in.
I felt like you put those infested peaches into the chipper with extreme prejudice lol
That's the only way to use a chipper isnt it? Lol😄
Those maggots will be blended up
I did the same thing to a mutant bougainvillea from hell , dwarf variety my arse !! , there was no remorse but the bloody thing spiked me good a few times , Mark was the inspiration for me buying a Hansa mulcher over a year ago . My main problem is lorikeets and flying fox eating my almonds while they are still green , some pesky law about protected animals or something.
I can hear the sadness in your voice. What a massive pr pruning - so happy to hear that the trees will come back from that!
Skeleton pruning it’s going to make those trees come back awesome 👍😎
Hi Marcus. What a great day: )
This was the saddest let's get into it I've heard from you :(
In truth though, it's very healthy for the trees overall health - not just for the fruit but the next year, the following 2-3 years he's probably going to get a massive harvest as the tree rebounds.
🙏💔🙏
Fruit flies is very difficult to prevent fruit from them , thanks for sharing to us such informative and good content , i will learn from your video for my garden
garlic spray and powder? Use that in my garden for other pests and earwigs on peachtree. works pretty good....
If the fruit fly has to develop in ground under the tree, maybe its a good idea to move your chicken coop into your orchard.
I was thinking even just let the chickens out just after mulching birds are curious and will be scratching and pecking away.
So very smart! My step-mom would do this every year to at least one or two of our pear and apple trees. They actually produced MORE fruit on a smaller tree and no worms, yay!! Great job!
We lost a massive branch off of our peach tree this year due to a wind storm and I don’t own a chipper, so I chopped it all up manually for the compost bin. It was a lot of work but it made a substantial amount of compost that will be lovely to spread over the garden come springtime.
I did invest in a leaf sucker/blower/mulcher last year and that thing helps a ton! One day I’ll get a chipper...
Very nice. I had also had to fully trim my peach tree this year
Interesting video, my wife enjoyed listening to the birds calling and singing in the background!
I'd love to see an update on the tree itself. How much has grown back and did it produce fruit last year?
Thank you. We also keep our trees small. Way better to control
Good job, Mark. You are giving your peach trees a new start. I keep my trees where I can reach and let it spread out. It makes it easier to chuck a net over it.
Always good to see you Mike. Stay blessed
A great book recommendation is Ann Ralph's "Grow a small fruit tree". I've been able to fit in a larger amount of fruit trees that's more diverse (different harvest times) while making it easy for me to harvest fruit.
I couldn't watch the video as soon as came out because I was in classes but when I got my break,watching you gave me more knowledge and inspiration to go back to my agri-science class and succeed.Thank you so much for the wonderful tip Mark!:)
Hi Mr. Valencia. My name is Joel Bain (I'm 19 years old), I'm from the bahamas and I'll soon be starting a farm and orchard of my own as well. I have an idea for you to try on those flies. If you have access to one, you can plant a neem tree on your property. When it gets large enough(or if someone else has a tree), you can create a spray with fruit,bark,seeds and or leaves to spray around the base and leaves of your peach tree. It's a natural way to deter pests. You should try it. Thank you for indulging me.
Our fruit flies here in Europe i catch them with a mix of potatoe skin in a big mason jar with water, liquid soap for the dishes, vinegar and then cover with saran wrap making holes on the wrap so that the flies can enter and never leave. After a while, the potatoe skin will rotten and produce a smell that the flies are attracted to. Very effective.
G'day, Mark. You are smokin' hot riding the lawn mower!
An old farmer told us to cover the ground under the tree with old tin or tarps and the fruit fly can't get out of the ground.🤔
Deborah Pullyn, great tip! Thanks
I pulverize and boil all sugar bearing waste before adding it to compost or using it for "green" top dressing. This generally makes it unavailable to anything but very small subterranean creatures, who tend to be helpful in the process of making the nutrients available to the plants being "fed".
Happy Samhain everyone!!
This breaks my heart - sorry you had to prune your trees. Trees I’ve planted are like family to me.
Slivers of irish spring soap stuffed in women nylons and then hung around the garden - and in trees - repel many pests in my garden: birds, four legged critters and some insects. I have no idea if it would help your particular fruit fly problem though.
I died a little inside watching that wonderful tree be pruned back to infancy. But as a gardener once told me, you can't have emotions when gardening.
Those mulchers are awesome, its sad you had to decimate the tree, but at least cleaning up wasn't a protracted effort.
This week I lost 2 dwarf orange trees to a overly enthusiastic bobcat driver and a wife that thought they were a bush lemon and a grapefruit. Returning them to the soil is tomorrows job, the C7 makes it a bit easier.
On the plus side, I already have a 2 fresh holes dug for new trees.
We are only renting (have a small veg garden & herbs) but am watching everything you do (we are SEQ too) Hopefully buying next move.
You are a great resource and a pleasure to watch. Thank you for posting your good work. I am so motivated after watching you, hard with no yard tho but what I have is doing well. 2 kg broad bean off 5 plants, 40+ tomatoes to go off 7 plants AM EXCITED. I have Moringa & Gumby Gumby too, along with some "healing herbs" lavender, mint, rosemary etc. Would love you do do something on the benefits of these plants.
You don't have to be good good at everything, just something, I like that expression. Because of you I have got right back into my garden (what I have). Grew up with self sufficiency (being independent) as a value. Thank you again.
Everything I've read about fruit flies says to remove fruit (in a bag in the bin) before it drops on the ground or as soon as it does. Putting mulched fly-blown fruit on the ground or exposed in the compost heap doesn't stop the life cycle, unless the chickens get the larvae and pupae, and you will have more fruit flies in the future. We're trying the bag and sleeve solution, also.
I suggest neem oil and/or milky spore on the ground around it. Both are natural, wouldn't be on the edible fruit anyway, and is supposed to kill the larval stages of the flies. Won't stop the flies from stinging the fruit, but might stop flies from developing into more. I've used milky spore & it works for japanese beetles, at least. Haven't tried neem yet but seems to have good reviews.
Those are amazing and interesting!! Thanks for sharing and happy gardening watching from Japan☕️☕️😊👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊😊
Aww, peaches are my favourite fruit. Love them. This is heart breaking to watch... Even if these ones look more like nectarines. Lol. I'm used to the round fuzzy peaches.
The type of peach shown is called (here in Australia) a china flat or donut peach. They do have fuzz. The other type of stone fruit shown was a type of plum.
I have found that a woven acetate fabric like what you would use in a dress or jacket lining- my mom used a clear one of a backing on her curtains and 20years later that fabric is still keeping up. We made bags from that to use in the garden a simple square or rectangle that we tie around the branch with a piece of string.
I have used fabric called tulle as a very inexpensive way to keep insects from getting at the younger plants and getting at the developing fruits. Typical cost is US$40 for 108inch wide by 50 yards long 2.7m × 46m. It's not as strong as the commercial types but it worked well and it lasted me an entire season.
Big thumbs up !
Why don't you feed the fruit with worms to your poultry?
thats a great idea
The maggots burrow. The ground is where they want to end up to finish their life cycle.
@Dick Biggles exactly... he should focus on creating habitat for predators
Yeah, I doubt the mulcher killed all the maggots. Better to feed the fruit to livestock (stomach acid beats mulcher) or dispose of it elsewhere. On the other hand, he might not have any fruit for the flies to infest next year.
Pro tip. You should use the 3 cut principle. To avoid rips and tears.
I just saw a fruit tree covered with a net in someone’s front yard today with about 10 lengths of long Polly pipe coming through the top branches with beer cans stuck on top of the pipe so the net doesn’t tear from the plastic irrigation pipe.
I didn’t see how they attached the pipe to the tree so I’m assuming they tied them to the trunk or stuck them in the soil but it looked great....like a big piece of functional art from gardens by the bay in Singapore.
There is something called Milky Spore which is a fungus that is placed all around the yard that disrupts the growth cycle of alot of those type of ground bugs. The fungus live in your ground if watered in properly about 10 years. It's a little pricey but worth every penny. We had a massive I mean massive Japanese beatle infestation at our new homestead so I applied it to about 1 ½ acreas last summer and around all the trees/bushes.
Realy good information in this video,one of the better channels for me
Listening to the Noisy Minors in the background, good birds for bugs!
Watching him ride around on that mower in fast motion made me chuckle for some reason.
Spray the tree with a light agricultural oil just at bud burst to help get rid of the overwintering maggots. There are non-petrochemical oils that can be used and still maintain an organic fruit.
I wonder how crazy your chickens would've gone after the peaches with grubs in them
Hey Mark! Not sure if you know this but there are 100% organic pesticides that use bacteria to manage some pest. Fruit flies seem like something that they might have a product for. I use both Monterey BT and Botaniagard for similar pests here at home. Love the channel!
By chipping the fruit,won't it give quicker access for the maggots to get to the ground to pupate? By the way, that was a GORGEOUS peach tree specimen! What a shame you had to prune so vigorously!😫
Possibly to new maggots, yes.
However, a theory to support this would be that it also exposes maggots to predators, also since the water retaining outer skin of the peach has been removed, the fruit dries out and without moisture the maggots cannot survive or eat the flesh of the peach?
the fruit pulp would dry out and be more accessible to insects and bacteria to break down
I think they tried this with sponges in Florida waters. Sponges loved it
It will come back bigger
I am so lucky to be down south in Victoria. No fruit fly on my small block. Just need to trim the trees at the top. Way too tall to get netting over... BTW you look like you have way too much fun on that mower 😉
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Having a few good geese(not all goose eat fallen fruit) running around is quite good pest control.
love your channel mate. Greetings from the USA!!!
When you said fruit flys I thought you meant those small things from America. Those things are massive! Holy hell. That sucks.
Wow that mulcher is a beast !
Wow ...abundant fruits!!
Really useful video! Thank you - will apply to my fruit tree. Also - I loved your performance in Gladiator.
Hey mark very helpful I’m in Shepparton I didn’t realise or so much connect the dots that the flys stuff the fruit up iv just got 15 peach tree seedlings and some cherrys from our property I saved them from under the tree re planted then and yeah very good information on ya mate thanks I appreciate all you’re content I enjoy going though the old stuff to find the facts I need them and there thanks you’re tru blue buddy
Mark plz do more videos like garden tour 40+ min vids so good as background )) going 3rd or more circle of vids now
Love your work Mark!
I now know your pain and frustration, Mark. For the first time this year I found out we have a fruit fly in the US. Pepper Fly. They like the nightshades. They completely destroyed my peppers and eggplants, and some of my grape tomatoes, but my peppers got it the worst. Out of my 40 pepper plants I couldn't enjoy any of the fruits, most would rot on the plants and others that I thought were fine still had maggots in them and anything else I harvested such as eggplants that had the maggots in them I put in the trash or down the sink disposal. It was so frustrating I felt like chopping down my entire garden and giving up. I fear that many maggots already got down to the ground before I got to the fruit. I may not grow nightshades next year in order to disrupt the cycle, which is a shame. But if I do try growing them again next year I'm going to buy a bunch of cheap nylon fabric mesh and cover the pepper plants entirely and the eggplant fruits, and tomatoes. In all the years I have been gardening this was the first season I ever experienced these pests in West Virginia. We had a very hot and dry summer, so those are good conditions for the fly. I rotate my crops too, but I don't see that working for something like a fly.
Sorry you couldn't enjoy any of your peaches. I'm not sure that mulching them would have killed them all, I maybe would have disposed up tight in a black trash bag or given to the chickens. But hopefully most of the maggots were killed by the chipper.
Hey Mark all those fruit tree branches could be dried out and used in a smoker for meats and such or a bbq
That’s help a lot thank for the tips
Love from your Southern Family in South Africa
OMG! Plums! I haven’t had a decent plum in YEARS! Thankyou Mark for your vid. We’re in the same boat here (Nth Brissie).. having lemonade lemons, paw paw etc rotting on the tree from being stung by fruit fly. I’ve read some interesting info on colloidal silver and will be trying spraying with different dilutions to see If that works... if nothing else should definitely help with leaf mold on EVERYTHING in our humid climate 😁
Luckily for me in the East of Melbourne fruit fly don't seem to be an issue yet.
I know they have them in the West of the city so I guess they'll make it over here soon.
It would break my heart to have to prune a fruit tree that hard.
Hope you can keep them under control next season.
I live in an apple farming region. There isn't one single apple tree here in any of these orchards that's as big as even your smallest one. They're kept short and slim and quite densely planted in rows almost like hedges. When they grow too big to be pruned back succesfully, they're ripped out and replaced with new ones. They live under row netting and carry dozens of fruit per tree, so bagging would be basically impossible. It's all optimized for convenience of picking.
Great info. Well done for reaching over one million sub. Thanks all the way from the Top End.
My neighbour had about 20 different dwarf fruit trees, but being in his 70's most of the fruit fell on the ground and rotted away. After he died, his wife removed all of the fruit trees and after a couple of years our fruitfly problem almost dissapeared..., I haven't had a problem now for a few years, except on my larger tomato's..., so I only grow the cherry types now and that stopped the problem.
That's too bad the peaches are all rotten. I can't even get my peach trees to grow here in florida. They just die. Mold, deer, rabbits, caterpillars etc. I have 1 tree left out of 6, and i hope she survives.
Now that I completed my life goal I made 8 years ago (I thought it would take the rest of my life), I’m out of challenges.
Now starting on growing a whole orchard😂
I am now collecting seeds from all the fruits and nuts I like to start and grow them.
What I already planted: kiwi and apricot.
Next up: pear, apple, grapefruit, pomegranate, walnut.
Idk what seeds to collect next
Are your seeds certified for type. Or are they just from a fruit you had.
Most fruit trees are grafted to a hardier root stock so they grow true to type.
Any seeds collected from fruit can be very hit and miss. You may get a good plant or most likely get one with inedible fruit.
Peach trees are very susceptible to pests and diseases (scab, rot, leaf curl...) and are hard to grow without using fungicides and pesticides. Though 🍑 is one of my favorite FRUITS! 😋
Another good alternative might be to install bat boxes yes while they might eat your fruit bats will eat the flies for sure.
my peach tree died from old age. I cross fingers for yours. Greetings from Germany (and no, I didn´t bring the fruit fly to your lovely country :-P )
Wow I'm always amazed everytime watching yours lovely, wonderful, beautiful garden sir...your my inspiration,my guide to grow my own fruits and vegetables garden...😄 Thank you.....lots of learning ☺️
Great videos your really love what your doing and it is contagious. 👍👍
Lol... I do that to for get where the camera is on the cellphone. Put a sticker arrow next to the camera to remind you were to look. It's helped me
Congrats! 1M Sub!🍻🎉
We've just lost all our beautiful peaches to fruit fly. First time in 5 years they've even touched them. Question. Wouldn't the fruitfly continue to grow in the mulch? I threw mine to the chickens. They made short work of them.
Sometimes you need to step back to get ahead. Good job.