The best way to NOT plant a Fruit Tree
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- This video is not about planting fruit trees. Because, truth be told, we’ve never actually planted a fruit tree before. And so, we don’t yet have any tips, because we don’t yet have any experience. Which is why instead, this video, is about something we do know. Something, as it turns out, we’re very good at. This video is about the best way we’ve discovered to NOT plant a fruit tree.
So, if the fear of doing something wrong ever gets in your way of doing it at all... then this video is for you.
Have you ever considered narrating audio books? You have the perfect voice for it. Thx for this video. I need to plant trees next spring due to loosing some in a bad storm this year. This is helpful advice
Thanks Amy, I appreciate that! I have looked into it a bit, but never seriously. Perhaps I should :)
Back To Reality it would definitely be a good side gig! People who can narrate have a gift. You could be the next James Earl Jones. And I mean that. 😊
You are far too kind. But I appreciate it nonetheless :)
I second this 100%!!
As an actor, just going to agree with this. I've often been jealous of how good your narration is. It's darn near professional quality for work like this.
This year we just went for it - and planted 18 fruit trees - and about 50 berry bushes. Also not sure what we are doing, but we just went with a huge variety, and planted lots because we are not yet living on the property, and its a 5 hour drive to get there. So while they all took this year, and we are hoping for continued success, we felt that even if we lost some, by the time we get to move there, we will have our orchard (and some to sell... hopefully). We are also in Ontario, and doing research on the growing zones, pollinators, and disease susceptibility was enough to drive me crazy, I feel you pain, and glad you have one in the ground.
I love this! Perfectly said and illustrated. This is this biggest obstacle to new farmers - fear of not doing it 'right'. Bravo and thank you 👏🏼💕👏🏼💕
Start by looking at what grows in your area, are how the space to plant both fruit and nut trees you like. Make sure to enclose fenced area or surround with fencing to protect with young trees from deer.
I grow a small food forest in pnw with multiple apple, pear, plums, peach and kiwi(they take 4 years to produce with both male and female) that were worth the wait. Smaller places i use the 3 in 1 or 4 in 1 trees to get the most from the area.
An excellent example of never letting the perfect be the enemy of the great, or even good.
i planted a lemon tree for my mom a couple years back. It struggled in its first year due to positioning + quality of soil. After a year of struggling, and me trying to fix the soil quality without doing too much damage to the tree, it finally bounced back and is looking great at the start of year 2. Now closing into its 3rd year, its looking ... still meh compared to other trees of the same age, but at least its healthy.
Some research is still good though. We were at the other end of the spectrum and just did it, more based on the children choosing what they wanted to grow than any research. We have now planted half a dozen different fruit trees and realised that they all blossom at different times and, with few other fruit trees in the area, they don’t get fertilised!
Just a good excuse to plant more :D
michaek turvey, or a reason to learn to raise bees? :)
@@thisorthat7626 That was my first thought, but actually we are blessed with plenty of bees many other pollinators that are in and out of the blossom - also the garden is a meadow garden with plenty of flowers to attract them in.
I am no expert on this, but I believe that while some varieties can self-fertilise (e.g. our damson tree produced fruit straight away) others need multiple trees of the same variety blossoming at the same to get fertilised. From what I have read crab apple trees can be good at fertilising lots of other varieties of apples because they are an old variety that other apples have descended from. So worth a bit of research just to see what will work together.
@@michaelt251 Sounds like things are working out for your garden and your kids are learning about how to grow plants. Wonderful!
@@thisorthat7626 we are all learning - that is why I love watching this channel!
As an autistic person, yep understand that needing all info to do anything, I need to process the data first lol
Although this year I got sick of the front lawn and being in Melb, Australia when we went into lockdown, I got the shovel out, flipped the entire lawn over, covered with new soil and put in 7 fruit trees (multi-grafts so 7 trees = 14 fruits). Best decision ever, and while we prefer to call it an Orchard because I like that name better, it has slowly morphed into a food forest. We planted peas, snow peas, pumpkins, watermelons, zucchinis and cucumbers all in between the trees. Mostly to help build the soil. We then planted brambles (raspberries, blackberries and their hybrids) as a fence along the front. We are in our Spring and so everything is growing amazingly.
Next year I will extend the bed, put in two more trees (thinking an Apricot/peach/peach/plum and a pear multi. Although the girl wants a pomegranate lol) Then on that side plant grapes to fence off the entire lot.
Also along the other side of the driveway, we have blueberries, strawberries and midyim berries (Aussie native).
My thing is, just do it, put those trees in, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second-best time is today. Just make sure the chill hours in your area match to the min chill hours on the trees and into the ground they go. If you find you don't like them, just graft on a fruit that you do onto those trees.
This was awesome.
I got over the doing it right but but my biggest fear is putting it in the wrong place ! What if I change my garden plan in two years time. What if I plant it to close to another. I did that 15 years ago not realising that “no dig” would transform my garden. I’ve just had to work around a 5 meter walnut and sweet chestnut when I doubled my growing space.
Now again I have 4 trees in pots and have the same dilemma. Scared to plant them in the wrong place 😏
Don't stomp the soil after planting, it can damage more delicate roots. Just water it to get the soil to settle after transplanting next time
That reminds me of my tiny apple tree: it's about a foot tall, with only one green living leaf on it so far this spring, but it's alive nonetheless. Planted an apple seed last summer in a little pot indoors just to see what happened.
Also: what kind of tree did you end up planting?
I would give the root ball a scratch before burying it to encourage the root growth.
Awesome, thanks for the tip!
Here the deer would have that chewed that little tree down to a nub in a week and the moles would hollow out the root system shortly after...have to armor everything.
So...... What kind of tree did you plant?????
Pepper tree next! They grow in temperate climates.
As they say in some old proverb: “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
Lol that’s great
I also like combining that with "the bird dares to fall before learning the fly."
Of course there's the ancient Taoist saying: those who say don't know, those who know monetize RUclips videos. Or something like that.
Ah yes, we have that saying here in Ireland too. But we also have "a tree in the wrong place is a weed", which I accidentally subscribe to. I started my "food forest" again last year for the 3rd time after my meat-rabbit orchard-grazing combo went badly wrong 10 years back, and then I needed to put a drain through the next attempt. 3rd time lucky!
Edit: I forgot the time I planted 2 peach trees inside the polytunnel and they turned out to be a terribly soft variety that turned to mush upon ripening. This is therefore my 4th attempt.
"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly."
Yes, you read that right. The desire to do something 'right' turns into fear of making mistakes and then that fear paralyzes you into doing nothing at all.
Do things poorly, make mistakes, learn from them, and keep moving forward. The only people who never make mistakes are the people who never do anything.
That quote was actually my original title for this video! lol But I decided to save it for a follow-up instead.
We are of one mind :)
its a good quote, it helped me learn how to solder a circuit funny enough
I've planted some fruit trees and the best advice I can give is the same: get all the information you need. Then forget about it and just go and do it.
I love it! :)
I'm a suburban gardener. A couple years ago, I planted a peach tree in my backyard. I didn't know anything about gardening at the time, and I had no idea what variety it was, since it was brought to me, dying in a pot. I just planted it in a sunny place and said screw it. It's more about just doing it rather than trying to get perfect results, because realistically, you aren't going to get perfect results, especially not on the first year after planting. The tree I planted now produces beautiful plump peaches every season, although the birds usually get to most of them before I do.
Thanks for the inspiration! This is helpful to hear!
I replanted my appel tree last year it went besurk on the blossom so I letterlijk remooft all the frooting ones so it could put the energy to rerooting this year i got 30 appels
@@BackToReality Glad I could be of help :D
@@jellev4567 Wow, that's a lot! Good to hear that the replanting worked out.
analysis paralysis.
another approach: just throw hundreds of seeds in the ground and keep the ones that you like..
The "shotgun" approach. :)
Good tip, thanks!
Wow
Huh! I have no space at all except for a small balcony and it already has 5 fruit trees. I am probably just second guessing my second guessing there ;D
One good reason to plant fruit trees now: Even if you’re renting or moving soon, you can take multiple cuttings to turn into more fruit and nut trees when you go!
How about 🤔 Plant in 25-50gal. Plastic or fabric pots. Move the tree. Than take cuttings. Dont leave your trees, cuttings take years to produce fruit or nuts. I had one landlord try and claim the trees were his. He lost in court and i got my trees back. I run stabilizing boards and ropes as after 10 years or so their very large and top heavy. Movings a bear but you can keep you machines and fine furniture, I have my trees.
@@grannysweet hahahah 👍😁
@K Barnes yes it's not hard. Internet has all the info. Look up each type separately. Look at websites for ag colleges. Their libraries are yummy.
I like to root them on the tree but I've forgotten the proper name of that technique. Since space and mobility are my issues this is what works for me. It's ok to struggle with the learning curve. Of the first 100 cuttings I did only 9 made it to produce. I sold the trees when they were ten years old for 2.5 grand each. After eating off them for 7 years. The 92 cuttings that didnt make it? Learning curve, steep and burtal. Worth it !!!😎👍🐶
K Barnes Yep! Starting with water first, then moving them to potting soil
If your renting, then plant dwarf fruit trees in pots, & take the pot & tree with you.
Just yesterday I was planting fruit trees in my community.
Mario Carlos, good for you! Fruit trees will provide for decades. I see so many trees around my community that people have forgotten about so the fruit feeds the wildlife. Still thriving and doing their part. Blessings.
I needed to plant my fruit trees before my grandpa died. It’s been four years now, he’s still alive, and we even had our first peach harvest. Fruit trees are extremely rewarding. Congratulations on getting started!
Love the honesty. As you clearly intended, this applies to a lot more in life than fruit trees.
I usually plant fruit trees like apples that have been grafted onto dwarfing root stocks,, for ease of picking and maintenance. I also plant comfrey next to them. This pulls up nutrients from deep down, I then chop it down periodically and mulch around the tree. The comfrey suppresses weeds and adds nutrients gradually as it rots
yep! sometimes you just gotta try!
I will give you some tips from my own experience with fruit trees.
1: plant 2 of them. two apples, 2 pears, 2 plums, etc. so they can cross pollinate. We only ever had one plum tree in our yard and we only ever got fruit off it every couple of years. So 2 of each is my recommendation!
2: location, location, location! I planted 6 fruit trees at the back of the yard in the new house when we moved. I didn't realized it was swamp wet 99% of the time and all my fruit tree roots rotted! :( only have 2 pears left. I had to move them.
3: PICK THEM NOW!! If you go check on your fruit apple/pear/plums/cherries and think to yourself, "nearly perfect! I'll pick them tomorrow morning!"
NO! You pick them NOW and let them ripen inside because ever single wild animal in the 100 acre woods is watching you walk away and are moving in for the kill!
4: Deer will EAT YOUR APPLE TREES! In the winter they nibbled my apple tree right to the trunk! it was only a small tree, about that size you planted. So I recommend a fence of some kind for a few years till its taller, bigger and stronger to avoid becoming a winter snack.
5: Don't expect much for the first few years as it grows bigger and gets a good root system. My pear trees only really gave fruit this year... well would have if the stupid crows hadn't eaten everything....
And rabbits love tree bark too. Galvanised wire mesh is good. Went to prune a tree once, the tree bark had been stripped at 3ft. Rabbits eating whilst on top of the snow....
These are all fantastic tips! Thanks so much for sharing your experience!
@@cliffthegardener Any time you grow anything there is something that will want to eat everything.
Very true! 😊 Just do the things you want to do - now. I'm so glad I started planting fruit and nut trees as soon as I could. The journey to a dream takes many steps, and I certainly didn't have the money or physical capability of planting 60+ trees in one year. But slowly, over the past four years, that's exactly what I've done -- and learned so much along the way. Congratulations on planting your first fruit tree! Great decision and great, thoughtful video. 😊
Oh Olive, you have no idea how inspiring this comment is. 60+ trees in 4 years... Well Done!
@@BackToReality Thanks. 😊 On this first (hopefully!) rainy day of the fall, I'm already thinking about what bareroot trees I shall get in January. Definitely a couple of crabapples - they're pretty and excellent for attracting pollinators. Also, it's super interesting to experiment with unusual trees. Last year, I planted a Medlar - it's supposed to taste like cinnamon applesauce, and its fruit is ready for harvest in early winter. Who knows what trees I'll find this year? 😊 Have fun choosing and planting your new trees!
I’m not sure if I watched a video about how to plant trees, or listened to a spoken word poem 🤪
I heard another RUclipsr, Kathryn from Do It On A Dime, say in a couple of her videos about cleaning up around the house, "a completed something is better than a perfect nothing".
Thanks Back to Reality folks for speaking some deep truth.
I like what you said at the end, that basically the best way to learn and get it done is to just do it. We've planted fruit trees and berry bushes almost every year since we moved onto our property 5 years ago and that first year we spent about $300-400 on plants and most of those died. Each year since then we've had more and more success (while spending less) and I've always felt bad about that first year when we wasted so much money. But I think your video puts it in a new perspective for me because without that first year of failure, we would not be where we are now, with the knowledge and experience to keep our garden and mini orchard alive and doing well.
I just bought a house one one of the first things I'm considering is fruit trees simply because of the years it takes to mature. Luckily the property came with a mulberry and fig tree.
Enjoy your videos, you have a way of telling a story that I like. I have to put a cage around my trees otherwise the bucks destroy them. 👍👍
You need to invest in some chickens and a hog , they will transform the landscape for you very effectively.
Really enjoyed the fruit of your labour.
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
KEEP PLANTING TREEEES.. Just add TREE GUILDS! eventually your trees will connect and become FOOD FOREST 🥦🥭🍅🍊🍊🍏🍌🍋🍎🍑🍊🍊🍅🥭🍍🍐🍊🍈🍅🍍🍏🍉🍉🍅🥭🥭🍌🍏🍐🍒🍑🍏🍍🍅🥭🥭🍌🍎🍐🍊🍒🍒🍒
awesome video good to see you guys 👍👍🇨🇦🛠️🇨🇦🛠️
Dude,your voice is just...wow!So relaxing..best wishes and regards from Serbia ;)
Wow, thank you! :)
Just like making a RUclips video. 😉👍
We planted 5 apples and 3 blueberries and 2 blackberries ☺️
On a side note - we also planted 9 flowering cherry, 4 blazing maple, 15 privet and 2 river birch - its definitely been the year of the tree 🌲
Over the years I've read, researched, planned, and planted fruit trees only to have more failure than successes. We moved 3 years ago and promptly planted 6 fruit trees bought at the local small nursery without any plan, soil amendments, fertilizer or sleepless nights of worry. All of those trees are doing well and starting to produce. Go figure! LOL Great video. Thank you.
Plain dirt is the best. Any time the soil is amended with organic stuff mixed into the dirt it will cause a decomposition to occur which robs nitrogen and oxygen and a hostile environment is created for the roots. The roots need the oxygen and nitrogen for themselves. Only put mulch and organic amendments on top of the soil, never mix it in. Minerals such as sand (to improve drainage and aeration) or clay (to improve water holding ability ), depending on the existing soil profile, can be mixed into the dirt since they are inert and not requiring decomposition.
Then a nice thick layer of mulch on top benefits the roots by insulating the soil and over time it will turn into good compost that will leach down to the roots.
For free mulch check out getchipdrop.com/ , delivered free. FREE !! Spread the mulch out 1'-3' thick , it will settle quickly to only a few inches.
Your effort is never wasted if it is in the pursuit of knowledge. Just plant one tree at a time. If it fails plant another learning from the first. Same as parenting, no such thing as a perfect parent. Just jump in do your best a d prey it all turns out ok. News flash ....most of the time it does. Grow well tree you have good caretakers.😉
I went through this same thing for the past 4 years on my land!! Finally planted a whole orchard this year though. Its just funny because this is literally my thought process i went through over the years, and I never got anything done.
That's how I planted my Saskatoon berries; I planted 3 in shady parts of our garden where they didn't get a lot of sun 2 years ago and one in the middle last October. The one we planted last year is the one that is giving us fruit but the other 3 are getting there, too. I'm a kinesthetic learner so this works well for me and in the future I might just plant them near grapes so that they have something to trellis on.
The worst enemy of a great plan is the dream of a perfect one.
Fruit trees are tricky, but the commitmet isn't that high once planted...
Good fertilisation, Enough water and (above all) WEEKLY checks on illness.
This video is excellent, congrats
This is THE most relatable youtube video to date. I Always enjoy what you have to share. 💙🌱
What kind of tree did you plant?
to plant the tree or not, that...is the question.
Thank you for this! I have purchased 3🤟🏾🍑 🌳, 2 ✌🏾🍎 🍏 🌳, 2 ✌🏾🍐 🌳 and 1☝🏾 🍋 🌳 over the past 10 months. I am nervous 😬 and excited 😜 and just want them to STAY ALIVE!
Your ability to illustrate a very common point in a visually poetic way is unmatched. As someone who works at a nursery that sells a lot of fruit trees, there are a lot of people that want the guaranteed choice or some kind of assurance that what they choose is going to live and bear lots of fruit very quickly.
The hard truth is... trees are not like other products. You can research and analyze all you want and choose the right tree that fits all of your columns on paper or your timetable, but nature has the last laugh. A severe winter can damage or kill a young tree that should have worked in your zone. A deer could rub the bark off your new tree a day after you planted it before you could get a protector on it. A vole infestation could result in a yard full of girdled tree trunks as the spring thaw reveals the damage. A once in a lifetime frost could destroy a tree that had been happily growing for 10 years if it didn't harden off properly beforehand. A plague of locusts could defoliate your whole orchard within a week.
The more i grow in this wild landscape the more I'm reminded that the gardener is at the mercy of things they (mostly) cannot control. Analysis begets paralysis. The only way forward is to simply do. Mistakes will be made but the only thing that will stop progress entirely is inaction. You should always have a clear mind about what you're doing, but more and more I'm confronted with the idea that there isn't a one size fits all approach to gardening. It takes trial and a truckload of error.
VERY helpful comment. Thanks Mike!
YES! Plants WANT to live. They'll figure out a way around your mistakes, if you don't get it "perfect". Maybe they'll need a year longer to actually fruit. So what... Just plant fruit trees!
Excellent conclusion!!! Here's my vast experience, shared: if planting pears, plant 2, if planting walnuts, plant them away from apples, as they kill them (others, too, I imagine), if planting peaches, hurry up, I understand they don't live that long (7 years?).
Unrelated: have you looked into winter sowing?
And a request: time lapse pics if you try the 3 sisters again this year. With a cherry on top?
In spring 2019 Zone 5 I planted: 1 Plum, 1 Peach, 1 Black Tartarian Cherry, 1 Bing Cherry, 1 Royal Rainier Cherry and 1 Regular Rainier Cherry. 2020 The Peach tree died just outside of the 1 year return policy. On the plus side the 2 Rainier cherry trees produced about a dozen small cherries without the pollinator cherries producing flowers. All the research I did before hand helped me feel confident in my actions, but still it worked out when it shouldn't have... I just did it.
Hi, I love your adventures on your property. We have just started season 6, and planted our first tree in our ‘food forest’. :-)
As a grower of apple and peach trees. Here's how we plant our trees,
1. Buy bare-root trees ( this ensures your roots are healthy and you can light prune the roots to open them up to absorb more nutrients.
2. . Keep the roots moist and cool until you're ready to plant ( we cover them with wet straw and cover them with a piece of plastic) Best to plant within 24 to 72 hours of receiving them.
3. 6 to 12 hours be for planting place the trees in a large feed bucket or trash can filled with water
4. To Plant, you will need the following
1 Sharp digging spade
2 spades full of sand for each tree
Up to2 gallons of water for each tree
1 pair of pruning shears
5. Procedure to plant
1.Dig a hole that is 6" wider than the root spread and 6' deeper than the length of the roots
2. Place a spade of sand into the bottom of the hole
3. put a half quart to a \half a gallon of water in the hole ( depends on how wet your sand and soil are.)
4. Fill the hole back up with the soil you took out stirring in the sand and water. You want a consistently of loose peanut butter (add additional water to reach this constancy.
5. Lightly trim the roots with the pruning shears (Think of it as giving it a light trim haircut) Look for the clean white inside color of the roots.
6. Prune any excess branches and any ones that are touching other ones. (You want the growing energy to go to the roots)
7. Take the tree by the trunk just above the graft (the graft should be facing to the east) and move it up and down in a pumping action to work into the soil/sand slurry. Stop when your graft point is just above the soil line.
8. Pat the wet soil with your shoe or boot to make sure all air bubbles are gone from around the roots.
9. Take the next spade full of sand and sprinkle around the base of the tree.
10. Take about a quart of water and pour slowly about 3 inches out from the trunk. Pat down with your boot or shoe again.
The reason you want the graft facing east is that is the direction of the least amount of wind and the graft is the weakest point on the tree.
DO NOT MULCH FRUIT TREES! In fact, you want bare ground in a circle around the tree to keep diseases, fungi, and insects away from the base of your tree and especially the graft area.
Do not fertilize a new tree wait one year before adding fertilizer.
Feel free to contact me if you have any other questions. Spray schedules and pruning are very important to maintain a decent yield and fruit size.
Tim Brady, Dixie Chile Ranch, Kenton, TN
The absolutly MOST IMPORTANT thing to do is CUT it while planting! Also you want to loose up the roots. Maybe it is a bit too low in the ground, which could become problematic. If there's a vole situation you can put pebble stones into the ground all aroud. We're building a food forest with our neighbours (around 40 trees) and I'm an aborist for many years and YES not planting at all isn't the way to go, but the most important thing you need to do is cut it right from the start!
I placed an orchard and 20 fruit trees, along with fruit shrubs and 14 raised beds 2 years ago. It’s worked out pretty well. I underplanted them with pollinators like borage and spurge, catmint and daffodils. It’s coming along amazing. The soils isn’t great but I have improved it with llama manure and compost. I just went for it. I read a lot, but at the time I started to feel overwhelmed, I pulled the trigger anyway. I’ve not regretted it. Good luck
let me tell you about my first tree planting experience. 1975 I was a kid I got a summer job working at the university working for a south African scientist. working in the greenhouses. it was part of Carl Sagan's nuclear winter project. by 10 am it was 140 degrees . so I worked in inhuman conditions 6 days a week . Sunday my only day off. my mother informed me I was going to dig up a cottonwood sapling and plant a weeping willow sapling there she had bought at Kmart on a blue light special for $1 . then I was to replant the cottonwood about 30 feet away.let me tell you it was North Dakota and it was August and it was 114 degrees I checked . not good planting time.
but there is no telling that to my mother.
fast forward 40 years.
the willow tree covers the entire side of the yard and the street . the cottonwood is a monster. .
my other tree planting experience was far more pleasant and incredibly more expensive
one day. 15 years later I got to work and was told to drive to a logging site in Washington I was to meet a guy named Jay.
Jay was a heillocopter piolet I met him on a landing. I had a small paper bag in it were Douglas fir seeds $8000 worth the heillocopter was $2500 per hour we went up about 3000 feet at that point I dumped the bag out the door . the propwash scattered the seed and planted 600+ Acer's of ground today that forest is probably ready to be logged again . fuuuuck I'm old
Your lone tree reminds me of the Charlie Brown Christmas tree! Make sure you put a few ornaments on it - oh and a scarf! Seriously though my grandparents planted a bizzilion fruits trees to see which ones grew & then culled the non-performing ones. Old school from Germany. Apples & cherries grew great, pears okay, peaches were nothing. This was done on the family farm in the Catskill Mtn's of NY. But I agree with others, plant a few types & see what grows. Can't catch fish without your line in the water!! Love your videos!
Some yrs ago, we bought a single pear tree that was supposed to be self-pollinating. I've seen comments online from others who were told the same thing. Well, it's a pear & needs a "friend" to produce. We have one peach tree. I've seen a few ... very few .... comments that it needs a partner to get peaches. Not true. We've harvested 2-3 bushels each yr for the last 4. & Finally, we live in the "Cherry Capital of the World," & I can't seem to get a producing cherry tree. We've tried more than once. Our son's tree died, too, but that's a different story. Too much fertilizer will kill anything.
Compost your mistakes.
Is our favorite mantra around here.
We fail. We fail spectacularly. We fail often. And yet... We have built our own house, by hand. We have designed and planted not one, not two, but 3 orchard areas on our little 8 acres. We have decided to allow failures to "help" us. We've made huge mistakes, learned, and corrected our course along the way.
I've learned to not let perfection deter me from getting something done. I'm not perfect. My work is not perfect. My farm certainly isn't perfect.
I came up with a new catch phrase about our place just last week: "It's a different kind of beauty." While what we've done here doesn't appeal to everyone, as there are unmowed areas, overgrown portions, weeds even... we appreciate the more wild aesthetic of our little corner of nature. And just to show, nature fails all the time.
Love your videos and a million reasons why . we bought a 100 acre farm north of Barrie 36 years ago. . century farm house run down etc....it is now our forever home. 35 years we had the ministry come in and plant trees on 17 of our acres, pine and spruce.....that program dwindled so we bought our trees through the ministry and planted a variety of trees not fruit but to attract wildlife and birds. Fast forward my hubby and I have built a forest on 60% of our land with trails (some named) throughout our property. we truly love our little peace of quiet.
I’ve been contemplating planting nectarine tree(s?) in my backyard, but hesitated for all the same reasons. You’ve inspired me to just do it. I’m guessing I’ll need two for cross-pollination?
I love it! Thankyou for sharing...and I feel much better that I’m not the only one suffering from ‘analysis paralysis’....overthinking over planning leads to all stop paralysis and nothing gets done. I’ve got three bushes left to plant and I have been overthinking where to put them. Meh...just sticking them in the ground for now...can always move them later.
I disagree with your postponing approach. Probably you already know but, Stefan Sobkoviak at Miracle Farms has most of your answers.
We planted over 50 fruit trees too soon 5 years ago. They all died. Started fresh this year with another 50 and doing 50 more next year!
Pull the mulch away from the trunk so it doesn't rot out :) I also read that you shouldn't fertilize the first year of planting so the roots go searching for nutes. Tanglefoot is great around the base of the trunk to prevent ants farming aphids on the tree. A whitewash of the trunk or something to protect from sunscald (I used leftover drain pipe I had cut into 12 ft lengths.)
Dave Wilson is a great resource, he's got some short vids on youtube that go in depth into pruning. I love his style of keeping the trees small and managed so you don't need a ladder to harvest. That starts with chopping the tree at knee height. I chose to do that with some trees at home, but at my new orchard I'm doing central leader which I'll terminate a bit higher up. I think it will do better in our climate since we get a fair amount of snow.
Planting beneficial plants nearby help a lot. I had crazy insect pressure one week and lady bugs showed up the next and saved the day. Either it was by chance, or it was the crimson clover clover/mustard covercrop I planted.
Mulch is also great. 10 inches of straw wasn't enough for me. I should of put paper down first. You know all about weed pressure already. Keeping edges tidy and replacing the weeds with a low growing cover crop suited for your climate is the direction I'm going to try to head next season.
my first year on my parents place, plus added additional 4000 square meters, i've already planted 160 trees. First step on any land is to plan trees. Can always cut down, remove it, re-graft or just let it grow. The sooner the better and the rest will just follow. Fruit prices are ridiculously high and the quality is awful.
Next thing is to try grafting like types of fruit to the trees you grow, I'm at about 60% success with grafts I have done.
Pears on an Apple tree that was not fruiting well, Peach and Apricot on a Cheery Plum that never gave ripened fruit.
Just try it and as has been said you win some you lose some.
Hi. I agree. Better planting something than nothing at all. Because you are in the beginning of creating an orchard, I thought I will let you know about a channel I watched just yesterday. The guy created an orchard in a barn. Trying to get 3-4 zones higher, so he could plant trees that don’t grow in his area, out of Montreal. Very interesting to watch and consider if you too have an old barn. The channel is called human wisdom. Worth watching. Cheers!
Your videos are so uplifting to me. I really appreciate you sharing your journey. As someone who struggles pretty hard with not doing things unless I can do them perfectly (or my idea of perfect), this video really resonated with me. So did your video about losing your plant babies to a June frost and the power of that lesson and how you dealt with it. Thank you so much, I really appreciate all your videos.
The best time to plant a fruit tree was 7 years ago or in your case, 4 years ago. :) At least you managed to hit the 2nd best time, which is today.
Just think, had to put in some fruit trees 1st before starting the garden, next year you might have started getting fruit.
I put 2 apple trees and a handful of grape starts inside a wee fence and forgot them. Luckily the bunnies and deer didn’t find them either. But now I have to find more fence, dig them all up and sort them. You just reminded me that I should get on that. I lost my husband to Covid in March and a best friend to cancer in August and haven’t been inspired for awhile. So thanks for the inspiration. Mom and I love your videos.
Trees are self-sufficient like most plants. What's great about trees is they don't need any form of composting because of their long roots, just plant it and wait. Growing vegetables at a high intensity do require at least some form of composting, I am sure some composting will really help your trees though, just depends on what kind of effort you want to put in.
Just saying.. U could mix a little of that compost/woodchips in the hole before u add the tree.. U could also scramble a little of that pot soil... Also could make a little deep circle arround the tree base with the top soil for water colect in.. What u Should't do for shore, is steping on the soil, let the soil fluffy, so the tree can expand the first roots more easily.. Either way, good job, u have planted a tree! 👍🏼
In my area Lowes and Home Depot both deeply discount bare root trees at what they perceive is the end of bare root season. You don't get the choice picks but at $5 and less you can get a good number of trees.
Plant them and then use the Mark Sheppard STUN method.
What a great video. For sure, just do..even if it's not the prescribed method. Plant and nurture. You pair have this under control and before you know it you will have z little orchard
That was profund and wise. Narrated in a beautiful way. You just put in words my way of thinking. Made it so clear that inspired me to just do it. Well done. Thank you!
Coming from a certified arborist that loves fruit trees my thought is give the tree room to grow. Start with the fruit that you want to eat. Because you will care for that fruit more than what you think will bring in most profits. Don’t worry about anything in the first three years other than growing roots. I usually use kelp treatments to help establish new trees and just keep that focus on growing a bigger tree. Over the years your diseases will show up and you can care for them after mistakes have been made. Your tree won’t die and if your not relying on the trees fruit to live you can fix diseases and deficiencies over the years. Once your comfortable with one crop start another fruit that you like. Maybe 2-3 if your ambitious. Remember this if anything “I’ve seen so many high yielding fruit trees that get little to no care.” You can’t go wrong unless you do nothing. If you need advice reach out to me anytime @ Arbordoctor.net
ahah spot on :D just awesome, guys :) love your experiments, love your videos, love your perspective on stuff. Keep up the great work
Ps. I can't relate at all. I just keep on doing and if it's wrong, it's okay, I am a "let's do this" kind of guy and it hasn't worked out absolutely fabulous in the first 47 years. So breathing deeply I know, God's got this.
I live in the city and have never planted anything, but one day I want to live in the country, like you, and plant my own garden.
I really love how you always also show what you did wrong or in this case just, did not do.
All the best from Vienna
The motivational encouragement I needed, thank you. The OCD in me ;) leads to either perfection or inaction. Just gonna plant!
Please don't forget to protect the tree from hares and small rodents. As you have a lot wildlife they could damage it by eating the young bark during winter and early spring. I would like to thank you for continue posting videos. I like your channel a lot.
Nice video! Just catching up on your channel, hope all is well with you guys in Canada! :)
Oh my goodness, we did exactly the same thing, except that we did order a bunch of trees in our first year, but they got choked out by grasses. Finally on our 6th season here, we have a plan and trees in the ground. Congrats!
But make Sue you clear dirt from around the graft, or you will encourage growth from below the graft. Happy planting.
Yep, last year I decided to stop thinking about it and put in pear trees. I finally have my first fruit trees! I've been here for 10 years!
Just make sure it is self pollinating. If not you need a second tree. Just a tip since you only showed one.
My grandmother made that mistake a couple of years ago and just realized it on her Apple
Tree
So true. Planted 40 in 12 months. Learning along the way... but there will be something of a food forest in some years.
I feel as though you should watch the Biggest Little Farm Documentary. It might give you some ideas :)
I am really enjoying your videos. This one made me laugh. I have been thinking about planting a fruit tree my entire life, and I am turning 60 this year so a little voice in my head is saying maybe it’s too late, but I am really hoping to plant at least one fruit tree this year. I finally planted asparagus three years ago and I am hoping to maybe harvest some for the first time this year. We are also trying to create a food forest. Just love the concept. Really appreciate all the insight you are sharing!
My Dad grows lots of fruit trees in Ireland and has more fruit than he knows with each year. He digs a hole in the ground, plants, the tree, and waters once, and that's all of the maintenance that tree will ever get.
Those of us in dry climates are jealous. :). Though once fruit trees get established here they grow quite well with regular watering.
As someone who bought a bare-root cherry tree two years ago and potted it into a 20 gallon nursery pot until I figure out exactly what I want to do with it- and there it still sits- this resonates with me.
Thanks for the motivation.
We planted 4 fruit trees and 8 blueberry bushes this winter. I could see them starting to bud today. I'm so excited!
There’s a great book on fruit trees if you happen to want to do any more research! It’s called “grow a little fruit tree” and I highly recommend it
YES! It's always about ACTION--DOING, Be-ing.