Fruit trees in a temperate climate: planting tips, rootstocks, mulch, prune, thin fruit
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- The six year old apple, pear and plum trees at Homeacres, in June then September. See how rootstocks affect growth, what happens if fruit is not thinned enough, and the apple harvests of different varieties.
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Summer 2018 at Homeacres in Somerset, SW UK zone 8 climate.
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This man's way of life is where the world is headed. Don't let the media fool you.
@Dan Driscoll, I agree!
I’m binge watching all these episodes, there can’t be a nicer bloke on the internet.
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I hit the 👍 button on these videos before I even watch them. Best garden series on the web.
That is nice thanks
Precious Metal Head heartily agree
Ya this is my video channel
Im sorry this is my favorate channel
I mean this channel is so amazing
OHMY GOSH! I love this guy! Charles, your heart and nature is a BLESSING dude! You really have a way of lifting other's spirits by just speaking a few words.... Thanking God for you and your work! Big hugs!
This is kind of you to say, I am just me, happy to help!
@Unconventional Me, I agree with you full heartedly! 💕
Yep, I agree. I love listening to Charles.
Charles: "I could then go ahead and show you each tree in turn..."
Me: *grabs cup of tea* Oh, please do!
The information you so generously share is priceless
Sat in my potting shed, with my brand new wood burning stove next to me ( a roasting 25 degrees ) watching this, whilst drinking a cup of tea. Looking out onto my garden, wondering where I can fit an apple tree. Always hit the like button before the video starts, as I know it’s going to be good.
Merry Christmas to you, and everyone.
How charming! Choose M27 rootstock and consider cordon pruning if space is really tight, even fit in two trees.
Thank you very much for the advice, I’ll be sure to look for the M25 rootstock.
M27!! (M25 is the largest tree)
M27, haha sorry, that could of been a problem in a few years. I’d of been sat under a giant apple tree, thinking I’m sure Charles Dowding said M25.
@@Greentreeanduril hahaha
I LOVE that you've shown yearly in the year and then fruiting, this take so much time and effort and I really appreciate it
I appreciate that!
I just LOVE YOU! Thank you for sharing your beautiful connection with the natural world. Parents, take note: This is real, devices are not. Go outside and play!
Thank you so much Stephanie
Thank you, Mr. Dowding. You're such a pleasant man and your videos are a real gift.
Quite probably the most informative fruit tree video I’ve ever watched. Eternally grateful for Mr Dowding’s willingness and ability to share his knowledge.
Thanks Tony, maybe a book one day!!
Thanks for a delightful fruit tour...your green thumb sure extends beyond vegetables! Congrats!
I simply love your channel! Finally a practical realistic gardening channel for people in the UK!! I cant get enough of your content since i discovered your channel!
Thanks so much 😊 happy to help, share the knowledge
The fruit-growing capital of the world, New Zealand (I've been to South Island 3x) often grows fruit trees very close together, pruning them so they're like a hedge. In fact some NZ websites claim that one can harvest 13,000 lbs of apples off an acre, and when I heard THAT, I planted my fruit trees growing here in the AZ desert, putting another tree in between the ones I had planted 24' apart, so now they're 12' apart. Why? because WATER is the biggest issue, and I don't want to waste a DROP of water in my orchard. I love apples in an orchard because apple juice is easy, and my animals eat the apples, even my Great Pyranees dog ("Tundra") eats them in her breakfast meal, with carrots and eggs. Apple juice is great for cleaning water spots off the sink, especially if it has turned to vinegar. Yours look very marvelous, Charles. When I juice them, the chickens eat the pulp if I can't use it any other way, or my goat, named "Heather".
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing Margaret.
You are such an awesome educator!!! Love your videos and hope to incorporate all the principles you teach. Love the “ no dig” idea. Please keep sharing!
Thanks v much Nicolette
I never knew that apple trees took a year off, sometimes! Wow. Love this series. Absolutely a RUclips gem.
Many thanks Patricia
Wonderful to see your orchard. What a joy to grow apples, pears and plums. I'm in the tropics and surrounded by fruit but it's paradise everywhere.
So funny!
Always a joy to watch these beautiful videos Mr Dowding. 30 minutes of serenity. Thank you very much and a merry Christmas to you and your family.
Well thankyou
I just said to my boyfriend that it's like watching Bob Ross but with gardening
You have lots of fruit trees Charles, very impressive. I just pruned here so I was very exicited to see your new video. It is so satisfying to grow fruit, watch it come along and then eat it off the tree. Glad to see you do that at the end. My favorite is to go out back when the kids come home, pick the apple and then slice it up for all to enjoy. So rewarding.
Yes what a lovely food to share!
Man, even your voice is perfect and just so calming.
Ah thanks Farad
Charles Dowding you are so welcome.
Simply sublime! Sir, you are a wealth of useful information.
Cheers Clint
Another great informative video, thanks Charles!
I did not know that I needed to cut back on apple production. I have done my summer pruning already so now I will have a look at the apples. I luckily inherited my apple trees through the purchase of my new home so trying to learn as much as I can from you.
Glad it was helpful
Thank you for the tour. I too share my fruit with some insects (and squirrels). I am thankful for the bounty.
ROFL my mouth watered when he bit into that apple. Thanks for all your knowledge and hard work. I am multi sowing my radishes thanks to you. 4 seeds to a place, 9 places to a square foot. Delicious cherry bell.
Nice feedback thanks
Thank you very much for taking us around your Apple trees.
After asking about winter veg types i found out you literally wrote the book on it. Witch after the Christmas financial low has subsided i will be getting for next year. Mr. Dowding, thank you for all that i have been abule to learn from you this year. I hope you and yours have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. I look forward to learning more from you in this next year. This video taught me what we did wrong this year and lost all but one fruit tree. So we can fix that and we can better protect my beloved Anjou pear tree. Thank you so much. Sincerely, John
John thanks for your message, happy to help and I wish you well in 2019
Charles is the king!
Hello. I just planted 3 apple trees 1 plum 2 blueberry 2 peach and strawberries. I also have a small garden. My suburban yard is not that large. But I'm trying to grow as much as I can. This is my second year. Trial and error. I enjoy watching your no dig videos. You have helped me a great deal. I even have less weeds than last year. Compost and mulch. Have an awesome summer. See you on your next video
Nice to hear Cheryl
A good thing from this lockdown, it's led me here. Blows Gardeners World out of the water. Brilliant videos, 100 of them by the way.
Many thanks Davey
que alegría! no tengo mucho espacio, casi nada.. pero cuanto que estoy aprendiendo y que valioso!! gracias Charles!!!! te envió mucha energía, la mejor.. y los mejores deseos para ti amigo!!!
Muchas gracias 🥬
I don’t grow fruit, (no space), but boy was it good to see the sunshine!
Love your work Mr D, please keep it going,
Richard
Thanks Richard and I know what you mean!
Single cordons take up no room really.😁😁😁
First time I've actually understood fruit tree pruning despite numerous books, articles etc. Thank you for your wonderful videos!
You're very welcome 🌈
Thank you, Mr.Dowding! I love your videos and Ive learned so much from you! Hello from Dickson, Tennessee, USA!
Cheers Marcie :)
Beautiful voice and interesting tips, thank you Charles.
How fortunate you are!
I bought a quince seedling from Puglia 8 years ago an this year we had about 10-12 large Quince, probably helped by the drought. Made lovely jelly and jam. Also a great year for Olives
What a heaven garden tour. I have shared this video even with my non-English speaking friend, who loves gardening.
Thanks for sharing Ug :)
6 month's in the making this video. Respect Charles
Thanks
Another great informative vid , I have had a Victoria plum in garden for around 6 years and never had a plum , so the pruning shall start and hopefully next year I’ll be plum happy 😃
Thank you for removing fear of growing fruit trees! Am in similar zone to yours (8A) in South Carolina USA, where previous commercial apple growers have retired out almost completely. Will take a couple of years, but will soon have the crisp, wonderfully fresh apples I learned to love while growing up near these former orchards. This is an excellent description and example of how to do it on smaller, manageable scale.
Many thanks and may your small orchard flourish!
I am contemplating a small orchard in my small backyard as part of redesigning a veg and fruit garden. This was very interesting to me. Thanks!
Wonderful!
Thanks Charles for all your great information and for being so kind, humble and charming in your videos. This info is much appreciated as I'm planning a row of 8 little fruit trees , as you have done. Wish I had this information before I let our Pear trees grow about 30 foot tall! I don't know what to do about those monsters now; they produce fruit like crazy, but the pears are as hard as a rock and never get soft... my donkeys get to eat all of them...every single year.
Nice to hear Jeri except for the pear trees! I would cut them back hard, unless they are growing where you don't need the space. Sounds like a variety for cooking.
I am so grateful for my Jakob-Fischer apples, a flavour you cannot buy.
Growing fruit is a good thing to do.
I learned so much about fruit trees. I have only a few right now but big plans to expand to fruit and nut trees in South Carolina. Problem is that humid & hot summer, destroyer of plants. The rest of the year is perfect for growing...but summer is the best weeder of the weak.
Sounds a challenge for trees Jeffrey, good climate however for okra 😄
A joy to watch on a winter morning. I’m not sure what rootstock I have on my Lidl and Aldi 9.99 specials but the apple ‘champion’ wasn’t a bad little eater for it’s second year, and the cherry ‘starburst’ produced 3 lovely cherries 🍒 in it’s first year. Nothing on the Victoria plum or on the pear ‘Clapp’s Favourite’. I will be doing a bit of grafting for multiple varieties when I can get hold of some suitable scion wood and have the apple and pear espaliered along the fence as room is a bit tight. All trees heavily mulched and I have marked my calendar for summer pruning at the beginning of July:-)
Russell Howe thanks Russelll and you are well organised
It might appear that way lol! My garden is in a constant state of chaos:-)
i am very lucky because i can manage three languages, and this enables me to watch and follow Italian, French and English garden videos. I am noticing that you love your vegetables and you restrict the growth of fruit trees. Your trees seem not to use the benefits of bending long stems to generate more fruit on horizontal branches. I think this should be mentioned particularly when it comes to apples and certain other trees. Some of the tall branches in your garden could be bent to fruit and allow better air circulation at center of tree. Thank you for teaching us how to culture vegetables and fruit trees. Your English attitude and methodology has charm and is enjoyable to watch. I have been watching your videos more than once to make sure I get whatever I can from them. I take an interest in garden structures, field design, tools, and other things that belong to a garden. Really thank you Sir.
Thanks Victor this is helpful.
I could have said more, it's also a Q of not saying too much!
I really enjoyed this video. I have just 1/3 acre and have started 2 peaches, 2 apples one mulberry, 3 figs, and two failed cherries. Planning apricots, almond, plums next!
Thanks and you could have fig bounty!
Thank you! And I hope so! I love giving them away. A tray of 7 will cost about $10 usd and poor quality. I follow your no dig method and have had great results zone 8b central texas clay. I watch your videos every day. Very soothing and inspirational!
@@lianagilbert61 lovely to hear thanks
Great information. I always learn something worthwhile. Root stock sizes are fascinating. We lost an old Apple tree in our yard two years ago and have been looking to replace it, if not just for the flowers the bees love so much.
Just a wonderful video Mr.Dowding. I could have watched all day. My little orchard is in its 4th year and i am looking forward to the future.
Thanks and I wish you well for this year's harvests
Surely established HomeAcres! Amazing!!
You give the best information possible. I have not watched a better informative video on fruit tree growing and care.
Glad it was helpful!
What a wonderful holiday surprise! Thank you so much for this break from the craziness of the season!
Ah that is a new one, a Christmas antidote! Happy you like it.
Apples, even though considered common and blase'...….are actually very very tasty. In example, no one ever thinks about eating an orange until your sitting next to someone in the lunchroom peeling one. The smell of it gets in your nose and the primal human kicks in, and you want one. Mr. Dowding, we are not all blessed with your almost perfect 4 season British climate, but I love your videos.
Thanks WW and I know what you mean, apples are often underrated, maybe because more common than other fruits.
Also the apples of commerce have less flavour than homegrown.
Mr. Dowding, If you have not yet figured out why the Good Lord has placed you on this earth, please allow me to tell you... To make videos as this to bless others into becoming the best gardeners! You are an inspiration to me and so many others I see commenting. This is my second video I have seen of yours and I have to admit, I am in love with them. Please don't stop the blessings. I am so excited to plant my trees in the manner in which you do, they are so beautiful. Be blessed my friend.
Many thanks Joyce for your eloquent comment and may your trees be fruitful
Thank you again for such an informative video. I am planting some fruit trees in the spring here in Ontario Canada and will follow your advice on pruning and thinning the fruit. This journey of growing food at home is made so much easier by hearing your advice and inspiration. Kind regards, Coreen.
Lovely to hear this Coreen, thankyou
Thank you for the tour of your fruit trees. From Central, southern Virginia U.S.A.
Good video, thanks. I find it interesting how a person (me included) will forgive scab and insect spots on fruit when home grown, but will seek out perfect fruit in a store. If more people grew their own the levels of pesticide use would probably go down dramatically.
Yes that is a good point
What a wonderful video. I searched hi and low for this information a few years ago and didn’t find anything so helpful and informative. Thanks once again Charles for all your efforts we do appreciate all the knowledge you impart 🙏🏻😊☘️
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Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Makes picking a new species for our garden easier!
Wow, inspiring. I've got to get more fruit trees in the ground👍
What a fantastic video, thank you Charles. Wonderful :) I bet you'd be an amazing fella to sit and have a good chat with, could listen to your expertise all day!
Cheers Haze, I feel privileged to be able to share my experience
Thanks so much for this video. So much valuable information. I have some apple trees, which were here when I moved four years ago, and I knew next to nothing about caring for them, but now I can get started. I had looked up pruning information on the RHS website, but found it daunting! I didn't know about summer pruning. Your vegetable garden is wonderful!
Thanks John, glad you will have a go
Thank you Charles for explaining about the fruit and other bits it will be very helpful as my tree's develop.
Cheers Fred
Thanks so much for your videos, this one especially since I am planning to plant a bunch of one year old fruit trees next spring.
Beautiful orchard.
Wonderful variety.
Very inspirational.
I'm very excited for spring to come and shop for a few varieties for my farm. Thank you so much.
Hi Dianne, many thanks and enjoy the planting
Great place! beautiful fruits.
Thank you! Your videos are so informative and inspiring. Please keep it up, you are my favourite! From Vancouver, Canada.
Nice of you to say Jonathan
I love your fruit trees. We are putting in an Orchard with a focus on Antique apples.
I wish you well with that Steven
Fantastic Charles. I have a Jonagold out the back, consistent cropper and a big tree but I know I haven't been pruning it really correctly, now I will!
Thank you. Very interesting. I have a few fruit trees on my allotment which I'm afraid I've neglected a bit so this has given me the encouragement to get them back under control.
Charles you are the best! Thanks from Vancouver Island Canada 👍🏼👍🏼
You are very welcome Ella and thanks
i live for fruit trees, some might think its sad, but i feel like everyone else is just dangerously lost ;)
I love your videos Mr. Dowding. I only wish you had made this video last winter. I lost two main branches on my Victoria plum tree this summer because I didn't thin the fruit. I guess 100 plums per branch is too much for a three year old tree. Lesson learned (the hard way). Thanks for all the expert advise. I hope to visit your farm some day.
Sorry to hear that Peter and best of luck this year!
Your garden all around is so beautiful. I love your collection of fruit trees. Thank you for sharing.
Thankyou Shonita
I just love watching your videos, full of useful information very simply explained with lots of common sense. God bless you for sharing such valuable information not to mention letting us enjoy the beautiful garden of yours which is so uplifting. Also you talk calmly and slowly which helps us armatures to digest the exuberant amount of precious knowledge. A very warm greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
Glad you like the videos, and may spring arrive soon for you :)
great. Thank you Charles, I understand more about rootstocks now.
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We did the bad spots out even the worms and eat them, still good. Thank you and have a great day.
Charles, this vid helped mean lot! We are moving into a 1.2 acre property and I have been snapping pics of your garden and putting the pics in on the property Google map. You are always an encouragement to garden better. It's amazing to me that on our search there are so many 1acre homes and no garden, sad state of affairs humans have got into
Glad it was helpful! Yes strange times
Excellent video guys! Winter pruning tutorial next would be great :)
Excellent! No matter your growing zone, there's much to learn from Charles, in this jam packed episode.
Jam, love it!
These all look delicious.
Excellent, as usual! So much great information communicated so pleasantly.
Thanks Francis
Charles Dowding - Happy new year! Met you in Germany recently (the Irishman in France) Reworked my beds added new no dig beds, sowed Fava beans and bought a Red Windsor apple tree :-)
@@francishetherton1837 Ah yes I remember you for sure, had just forgotten your name.
So we made a video in French.
Snag is I was less fluent than I had thought!
It releases in a month or so.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig bravo pour la vidéo en français ! Ce n'est pas grave. Les français apprécieront l'effort et adorent les petites fautes qu'ils trouvent charmantes. L'important c'est de communiquer vos idées au jardiniers francophones. Merci
Fabulous thank you Charles, my apples are on their second year so this video will come in handy 👍🏻
Nice to hear Helen
Everytime i watch Charles’s garden, i keep waiting for Wallace and Gromit to show up.
You are really some special kind of person. So interesting. Always look forward to your videos.
Thanks Becky Jo you have made me happy to hear that! Glad you like the videos.
Hello from gardening lover from Thailand, love watching your video. Cheers
Thanks, a lovely country
Very informative and enjoyable to see such beautiful fruit trees. I am on my second year this year of only four trees but hope to plant another two or three. Will look forward to watching more of your videos.
Best of luck with that Chris
Love your fruit tree we got Apples coming in the spring but all of are fruit trees will be grown under high tunnel, a little different way of growing!!!!🍒🍒🍒
So different, I guess that is against birds and hail
I have your book on Organic Gardening. You comment that if your soil type was more acid you would grow a bunch of in-ground blueberries. I live just out of Vancouver, Canada - blueberry country. I am inspired now to plant a whole bunch of blueberry bushes rather than always wanting to grow what seems exotic! Lol, sometimes it takes somebody else to point out the obvious.
Wow delicious!
I could watch every one of your videos, so informative, relaxing, just plain nice. Wish I could be your friend, cheers from USA!
So nice of you Ryan
Your knowledge is mind bungling. How did u accumulate so much knowledge
Lifetime I guess 😀
What a fantastic informative video thanks so much. I have a small space but I have room for a few fruit trees instead of more flowers and this video has helped me choose the right tree and try and get it right.
Glad it was helpful Davena!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig would I be safe to plant an m26 apple approx 2.5 meters away from the house maybe?
You are absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much. I was about to go fruit crazy. I realize now I need to plan this out and think about what things will look like in 5 to 8 years.
You are so welcome, and a good plan!
We grow Spartans in southern Ontario 6a and we get a heavy crop most years. Dry seasons can stunt fruit production for a season. Love them.
Nice to hear!
Hi Mr Charles, I love how you explain about the fruit trees.( I got four fruit trees at my backyard last year and I wonder if I can add more 😂😁) Would you make an update on your fruit trees? Thank you 😊
Thanks, if we can find time!
Love the pear trees.
To hear Wren (your 3-year-old fan) yell, "Wait, that's not Jupiter!" was funny! My neighbor grows apples in Hawaii and it is a definite labor of love. When Wren was maybe 2.5, he went and picked all 5 of the apples about two weeks before they were ready! We had to bring them to our neighbor with an apology. She didn't mind too much; they were still yummy. He also went through a phase of picking all the cherry tomatoes when they were green. Gardening with someone so small takes a lot of patience.He has planted his own bare root apple trees recently, so hopefully he will have some apples to share in a few years! I think we've learned the apple lesson though and now he leaves our neighbor's alone until she tells him he can harvest them. The trees are so small and just the right size for little boys to pick apples! I can understand the temptation. Just the other day he picked *all* our lemons. I am glad he aspires to have a garden like yours. He's ready to clear out all our grass. He tells me, "Don't worry, you don't need to dig anything!"
Nice to imagine all this, you have a great character there 😀
Great stuff man. Cheers😊✌
Merci pour ce joli tour !!! je suis admirative de tout ce que vous faite et de votre méthode pour faire pousser vos plantations ! Je souhaite qu'elle se développe sur toute la planète ! J'adore les pommes c'est mon fruit préféré et vous en avez une telle variété c'est magnifique! Brigitte
Brigitte ca me fait plaisir le lire et oui, j'en mange toujours de ces pommes a Noel
Thank you for all your wonderful videos. I would love to see a video showing how you deal with pests and diseases on your fruit trees...
I wish, because I suffer pest and disease damage
Lovely trees