Do THIS for NICER and MORE Fruit Next Year (apples, pear, plums,...)
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Do YOU want to get BETTER, NICER and MORE Fruit Next Year (apples, pears, plums,...) ? Do THIS This Year.
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"There is no substitute for experience." But my subscription to your channel has given me the benefit of your experience and I really appreciate it. Thank you, a lot.
Glad it helps.
Two years ago we collected all the windfall apples and dumped them in the forest for the deer. Had an amazing year of bug-free apples. Last year we didn't do this and the bugs were terrible this year. Now we see why. Thanks for this amazing tip!
I'm thinking of getting a pretty large flock of chickens for my pear orchard. I figured all that space on the ground might as well be put to good use and make me some extra income. But the chickens will (hopefully) also do the job your sheep used to do. Clean up fallen fruit and I think they may even be better because they will also eat insects and weed seeds and such.
Yes just keep rotating them to fresh grass. If you see bare ground in several spots they’re there too long.
After watching this I made sure to pick up the fruit this year under the peach/plum tree. I put the plums that had fallen in a bucket. A few days after that we had rain for about a week and it filled the bucket up 3/4 with water. There it sat for another week or so. My husband said, “did you see all the worms in the bucket?” Lo and behold there were tons of little white worm drowning in the water. I was flabbergasted 😲 but happy that all those worms were not going into the ground to haunt next years harvest. Thanks Stefan
I've heard several teachers say that tossing the little apples into a bucket of water for 24 hours or more will kill the larvae inside. So even without a hot compost it's easy to eliminate the pest and be able to use the fallen apples in (not hot) compost or some other way.
exactly why i planted my orchard's floor with deer salad. i have a family of deer who give birth and rear their young on my orchard. they eat all my dropped fruit and any trimmings from my orchard and garden beds. their poop is also one of the best fertilizers around. and since they are at home here and protected and well fed, they do not mess with my trees. of course i protect young trees anyway but i have seen the local deer chase away non-resident deer from my orchard because they don't follow the rules. i made friends with the 3 sisters mom in 05 and have watched all three sisters be born right in front of me. they have a very interesting social structure. the females are the boss. the male offspring usually stick around for a couple of years then wonder off but the females stay a unit. these ladies eat out of my hands because they have never known a world without me in it always making sure they have water and food. they could easily jump my 6ft fence around my garden but they never do. i had to train them mind you... started when they were babies. they follow me everywhere but once i go in the fenced area, i leave to gate open but they will not come in because every time they did, i loose my smile and speak to them without my usual love. they recognize the look i am sure. when they get fighting amongst themselves over food i give them the look and they stop. it is hilarious. i believe a balanced eco-system has to work with native animals. they can help the soil and the trees because they are part of the natural system. i also have bird houses on every tree. i have so many birds and some even land on me and eat out of my hands... i have a special whistle i call the animals for food with. the wild turkeys come running like dinosaurs... my little oasis and a place of peace. cheers 🙂
That is such a lovely story; thank you for sharing.
@@barbarasimoes9463 cheers 🙂
I'm going to be watching a lot more of your videos because I just leased an organic orchard that has 40 fruit and nut trees! My first orchard and I'm so excited and I'm so glad that I've been watching you the last few years :-) The orchard has; Apples, Pears, Nectarines, Apricots, Pomegranates, figs, Walnuts, and Almonds (and grapes too). The orchard hasn't been maintained too much over the past 10 months and so I hope I can get things in order for this coming spring!
It's amazing what you can learn being a student of nature, you just have to learn it's language! Or tune into this channel 🤙
0:34 prepare .. the pear.
Do I want better and more fruit next year?
You betcha!
I'm all ears!
💚You're such a wealth of knowledge!
Another wonderful video, Stefan. We have sheep and you are correct. - they are great for cleanup and mowing. For a smaller number of trees geese will do the same job.
Wow, u actually accounted for S.hemisphere and even mentioned Nuu Z’ild ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Having toured NZ to speak and teach for a month both islands it always makes me aware of the difference. Check out: beyondorganicnztour.com
We're putting our chickens through in the fall, after the tree is finished.
My Grandmas' used to call these jam fruits. We'd collect. They'd cut the insect trouble out. Then they'd cut and cook. At one Gran's it was apples and cherries. At the other's, where we lived, pears, peaches and cherries.
Yes! Also put a ring of petroleum jelly on the trunk
Great information! I just bought property and there are 5 apple trees and 1 pear tree that we've found so far that have gone feral and neglected for at least 8-10 years (forclosure property). Many of the apples look bug infested and partially rotted. I'll start clearing under the tree this season and plan on pruning them in late winter/early spring.
You are a wise guy! 😁👍🏿
Great video as always! You are such a fantastic teacher and have a wonderful way of imparting practical knowledge and a simple way to implement those practices! Thanks again!
Thank you
Always learn something from watching your videos. Everything about your videos is excellent.
Good to see you again Sir! :D
I don’t have farm animals. The fact that i now need to do the job of a pig 😂😂😂😂😂 Omg, so fitting 😂😂😂
I got myself a rolling nut gatherer (Garden Weasel) for the day my nuts start producing, and I'm thinking that it may work for picking up some hard fruit. It would have to be a fairly decent size, though...a 50 cent piece or so.
I have 2 they work for most fruit that is hard.
brilliant. I had just heard about this and you've now confirmed it for me
thank you! awesome videos, just subscribed and have been binge watching. i’m learning so much thank you!
Enjoy the Binge journey. Down the rabbit hole you go.
I pasture our pigs & chickens through the 1acre orchard about once a month. Chickens more often. Haven’t got into raising lambs yet. I wouldn’t mind 4 lambs in my freezer.
Pigs will dig up the tree roots chickens roost in the trees and eat ripening apples
All my livestock is mobile. Pigs only dig too much when they run out of food they like or you over graze. 4 pigs on 1acre for 2-3 days once a month controls weeds & allows oxygen into soil. I let the chickens out after to spread the manure, eat fly larva, and spread mulch. It works great. I’m getting way fewer Canadian thistle and milk weed. And my soils are healing from compaction and the lack of microbial activity.
Thanks
Thank you 🙏
Hello I love your channel
Thank you for sharing your knowledge...truly grateful!
Makes sense...thanks 4 your shared time/talents with us Stefan. I wish 4 U a good nights sleep...counting some future sheep! Health and God's continued blessings upon you n' yours!
Received, thanks. Baaaaaad (good) sleeps to you too.
Just put apples in the barrel, leave on rain and fertilizer is done.
Hi, do the chickens not do the same job as sheeps? Would they not scratch and eat the insect larvae?
To some degree, they like ripe fruit but don’t care for green fruit. They scratch but it depends how long you leave them in one area, best to move them while the grass is still green rather than the area is all tilled.
I did learn ! Thank you for this video 👌🏿👌🏼👌🏾👌
Thanks so much
Awesome information! Thanks! 🙂
The sheep are also fertilizing the trees as they go....
Hello Stefan, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
I have a question, maybe you can help me.
I have my compost pile directly next to one apple tree and I used to collect the apples and throw them in there, because I knew about the problem of leaving them directly on the ground. Now the pile is not necessarily hot enough to destroy the larvae.
But is there a chance that other predator bugs are eating the bugs in the pile? Or did I create a perfect environment for these pests to multiply?
Is it possible to stop the bugs with traps from climbing up the tree again?
Traps help but not as much for the ones that fly, unless it’s aimed at the flying one (apple maggot fly). It’s a good question that would make a great little study. So many factors in a compost pile (age, material, size, location, time of year, moisture, ...).
@@StefanSobkowiak Thanks for your answer, Stefan!
Be aware of mice and rats in a compost pile they will eat the tree trunk bark
This is the sort of schooling I need for my many fruit trees as an amateur front/back yard weekend gardener.
What about the chickens? Won't they scrap and eat those buried larvae?
Wow you have some very interesting information.
Hi Stephan, I was intuitively doing this with my cherry this year. All my fruit trees did not have any fruit this year but my cherry. It had fewer fruit that normal. We had a very harsh winter last year here in Calgary. On top of that, we had summer weather up to the third week of September last year, and snow the last week of September and. It was winter weather after that. All the poor trees did not get time to prepare for winter. Their green leaves froze and fell. That is why I am thinking they did not produce any flowers or any fruit. I would like to know if there is anything I can feed them before winter comes this year so they have a better chance of thriving next spring? What do you suggest? I have my backyard mulched with wood chips. Thanks Stephan! Another great video!
I would have said mulch number one. Give them a good watering once a week if not enough rain. Not sure what helps for Calgary type weather. Look up Bernie Nikolai on FB and his RUclips channel he’s in Edmonton and trying many fruit. I guess it’s true if you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes.
Stefan Sobkowiak thank you Stefan! I will water them well before freezing.
There are lots of people that do land clearing with sheep and will be happy to pen up their sheep on your land for a desired time.
Absolutely thanks
Cette semaine, en jetant les prunes abîmées au pied des arbres, je me suis dit que ce n'était peut-être pas une bonne idée. Vous m'en donnez confirmation aujourd'hui. Je sais donc quoi faire en fin de semaine... Merci encore pour toutes ces infos!
C’est de valeur de faire le travail deux fois mais c’est mieux pour les fruits l’an prochain.
I've been subscribed to your channel for probably 4 years now and enjoy the info that you put out. I did not know that you had sheep previously. I'd like to know more about how that setup worked. I really want to set up a polyculture orchard/ Savannah prairie w/fruit and nut trees rotating livestock.
It’s the best solution for an organic orchard and less work, insects and disease.
Interesting, Thanks!
We bought a land this year with an old orchard of diversified cultivars of apples and pears that has been abandoned for a couple of years. So i would say lots of fruits affected by insects. We brought in a big flock of chickens and have been moving them around in the orchard all summer so that they could feast off the apples on the ground. Will the chicken get the same results the sheep had on your orchard?
Partial but not as good. Sheep don’t leave fruit, chickens do in my experience.
Stefan Sobkowiak true they don’t eat them all, but I picked up the rest to make nice apple cider vinegar :)
So will the sheep eat the other plants under your fruit trees if you are doing the fruit tree guild?
Yes
Mine aren’t producing because I haven’t yet planted any. Trying to find the extra money to buy them with all of the other expenses of setting up. I’ll have sheep and chickens, then some pigs later on. I just don’t want the sheep to eat my guild plants and shrubs. Suppose I’ll need to fence each guild.
Start with seeds, the lowest cost way to start.
Great vid!!
Squirrels eat all our pears every year 🙁 they go over night 😳 before there even ripe 🌱
They sell net sleeves specifically for bunches of fruit or even one fruit. They come in different sizes for one or two fruit, or a long, wide sleeve for a whole branch of fruit. They all have a pull tie to keep the fruit in place. Try looking on websites. They are becoming very popular. And these can be used year after year for all kinds of fruit.
Hi Stefan, Does Guava, pomegranate will have buds this year which will be converted to fruit next year. I see some at grapes.
Good question I’m not very familiar with tropical fruit. Check out Pete Kanaris’ channel from Green Dreams Florida.
If I don't have sheeps and hot composte should I grind up the ground fruits and press them for cider?
Yes but best to let it become cider or cider vinegar, wash the fruit before pressing. Juice will have an earthy fungal taste if gathered off the ground.
What kind of sheep did you have? I had Shetland sheep and put them in with fruit trees and they ate the trees and destroyed them.
Sheep learn by watching each other. We had one that began to eat bark, we immediately got rid of it. Problem solved. Breed has little effect. Make sure they have access to seaweed for minerals.
How do I access the wasp video. I am still trying to figure out UTUBE. Where do I go? Thank you.
just click on this link, it's the wasp video: ruclips.net/video/g6G9UFgHkCs/видео.html
OK but what do you do with the yellow jackets on the windfalls?
Let them feed so you get more next year. See my wasp video.
Can lantana be planted in citrus orchard as ground cover and to attract bees and butterflies? Please advise
Sorry I don't know it.
Hi Stef! One personal question, how much fruit do you eat daily and do you do it every single day throughout year?
Thanks and cheers from Croatia!
I usually gorge seasonally. In fact I hardly eat any apples anymore, I've overdosed so badly my stomach doesn't agree with them anymore. I've switched to plums and apples. In plum season I eat 40 plums a day for 3-4 weeks then I hardly eat any other fruit the rest of the year. Eat like a bear.
@@StefanSobkowiak Very nice! I like Your approach, it seems very in tune with natural seasons. Eating fruit all year round doesn't suit me either and I found out fructose can be very damaging for liver if consumed on regular basis. I live in mediterranean coastal climate and usually my fruit of choice will be figs, pomegranates and apple or peach rarely. All grown from from garden. I am checking your channel since I am buying orchard in continental part of Croatia soon that has 200 mature fruit trees (walnuts, apples, pears, plums and few other odd trees), so every bit of new information is useful since I grew in coastal climate but looking forward to new adventure!
Very nice. All the best for your project.
J D ... sounds like you may need a few sheep 🐑
@@SuperLovetolisten or pigs? You have some experience?
Would you say it’s a good idea to have sheep in the permaculture orchard, or would they damage the lower plants?
We had up to 100 sheep in the orchard before it was replanted to a permaculture orchard. Now sheep would eat most of the understory in plants.
@@StefanSobkowiak Thank you!
Geese !!
Healthy leaves big leaves on new fruiting wood no scab or insects feeding on leaves mulch cut grass short regularly micro nutrients little nitrogen dormant oil spray
Arthur what do you use as micronutrients?
@@StefanSobkowiak magnesium and calcium as a foliar spray two or three times in the summer bitter pit is a problem in stored apples my orchard soil adjacent lake ontario has been in apples pears since 1930s its a challenge to keep nutrient and insect balance up i keep goats pigs snd beef cows and place manure under trees its worth the effort by hand fork
Is like to get SOME..SQUIRRELS BIRDS AND WHAT EVER EAT THEM ALL
What if you have chickens?
They can clean up some.
Its not rocket science. But if you watch nature it certainly has that level of intensive interaction. But its worth it to be fed properly.
What was the easiest way to kill your lamb and fast?
Have not tried any other way than the jugular. It stayed absolutely calm and still in my arms.
We tried sheep in an apple orchard. Inside of 5 years they killed/ate 70 apple trees. Nothing fazed them, not fencing, not repellent sprays, nothing.
Sheep are follower. If one starts others pick up on it and imitate. We got rid of one that had started. Also giving them free choice seaweed gave them no desire for the bark. If it ran out they would start on bark.
🙂
Would sheep eat/damage the shrubs and perennial layers though?
Yes
@@StefanSobkowiak Thanks for your reply.
Our squirrels eat every bit of fruit we’ve ever grown ... along with the yellow hornets that infest them, we never get to eat any fruit we grow. 😕
Plant a few more and overwhelm them.
Two words: air rifle. My stepfather would sit and shoot, with an air rifle, the squirrels that tried to get his pecans. Or, can you use bird netting to keep the squirrels off?
Sir,I have a doubt about Apple, pear and plum cultivation,in our region have tropical climate so we don't have any chilling hour's during winter season,I would like to know is it possible to cultivate these plants in polyhouse so we can control the temperature and maintain cooling temperature in winter season (less than 7 digree), Kindly advise
Ani gopinath
India
No don’t grow what is outside your climate. You can probably grow mango, breadfruit, lychee, palms, citrus, .... grow what you like and grows like weeds.
@@StefanSobkowiak thanks sir
How about chickens?
Works but not quite as well as sheep, especially on fruit that is not ripe.
Can chickens make the job instead of sheeps?
To some degree, they like ripe fruit but don’t care for green fruit. They scratch but it depends how long you leave them in one area, best to move them while the grass is still green rather than the area is all tilled.
@@StefanSobkowiak Merci
Pick up fallen fruit, is that it?
That’s a big start.
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Feed em to your chickens
With animals doing the job, you also get free fertilizer in return.
I would rather keep the sheep instead of having them for meat
I bet all the sheep poo didn't hurt any either
Fantastic, never had nicer grass as those years, lush and healthy.
Kill the squirrels?
I hope you eat them then.
Stefan Sobkowiak I would never kill anything, but after the after the polar vortex killed all my buds last year, this was my first year I should have gotten fruit, but the squirrels got all of my plums and peaches by early July. I know you win through attrition and diversity, but I would take any other tips you have...
Plant more of the fruit you want since nature always needs a portion. Problems arise when we want it all, sharing is caring.
You seemed sincere about not playing these games anymore. I've had it. Goodbye forever.