How to mulch fruit trees with amazing results
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2020
- Mulching trees, shrubs, and vegetables can make a huge difference in the health and productivity of your plants. Organic mulch increases soil fertility, moisture retention, and reduces weed competition, replacing the need for chemical fertilizers, irrigation, and landscape plastic. In this video, Michael shows the impressive results - with side-by-side comparison - from one of his many orchard experiments!
Permaculture, Natural Farming, Organic Fruit Production, No Till Farming
It’s excellent to see the comparisons of no mulch and cardboard verses without it. Very helpful.
Hah I love when someone gardening so long suddenly realizes the profound difference from doing something easier no mowing no irrigation. Mulch is all you need because that's what healthy consistently moist soil needs. Fruit trees love the fungal bacterial woody/carbon based mulch
One of the best videos out there demonstrating the difference in grass weed orchards & mulched / organic matter orchards. TY!
i used thick carboard around my 500 asian pear trees with wood chips on top. this method lasted 2.5 years and then needed replacement. i next used weed barrier fabric with wood mulch. this method lasted 2.5 years and then needed replacement. the carboard completely decomposed, the fabric was all over the orchard in pieces.
All the trees that I ordered from Burnt Ridge have been healthy and much bigger than I expected. My baby shipova tree was more than 4ft and Yamhill hazelnut had nuts on them!
Amazing contrast...I am glad that my whole orchard is woodchipped...I have no weeds whatsoever...greetings from subtropical Australia
I just put wood chips through my whole entire orchard and garden along with compost. And yes, I did spread everything evenly. I wanted and organic layer on top of the soil so that the sun doesn’t dry out or evaporate the water and I can save water consumption. My neighbor had their tree cut down by professionals and they put everything through the wood chipper and I got everything for free. I believe you can go to your local tree service and they can give you the wood chips for free. He’s right about the tree sizes and the differences on the growth,I had a similar situation where my in-laws had the same type of fruit trees planted on the same month and year over three years ago and their trees were smaller compared to mine at first! and now their trees are a lot bigger because they had mulch and organic matter everywhere has to oppose for me I just had grass And not very much coverage to combat the water being evaporated and the organic matter. but this year I fixed all of that by putting organic matter everywhere with no grass and cross my fingers. Let’s see what happens. I’m sure the results will be better in my favor later on.
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Thank you . I didn’t know if it was good or bad the cardboard I was in doubt about that, but you cleared this matter. Thank you very much for your help in giving us all of the ideas.
Thank you sir, that is very useful. I am currently trying to get some mulch to establish my food forest. Great information!
I like the comparison very much. Thank you for taking the time to film this. It's not easy, coming from a youtuber.
Amazing illustration of the ills of sod/grass infiltration/competition. I learned that this year by freeing fruit trees of grass choking, mulching heavily with compost and shredded leaves, but I did not have a control group to compare. I did them all. Your comparison is stunningly important. Thanks so very much for solidly teaching me the lesson I illustrated this spring, but did not learn until today with you!
Very dramatic comparison! thanks
I just received my trees from Burnt Ridge and I am very happy with them.
Thank you!
Nice video man! im currently growing figs they are in their 2nd year and they been competing with the crabgrass hopefully the cardboard will stop the crabgrass from growing
Great info for the home grower, I hope to get some bare root stock and scions this winter from your farm.
Thankyou. Here in New Zealand we just had a cyclone come through our country and wiped our orchards in hawks baby, (global exports for us) I have fruit at home and I’m gonna try this method and see what’s happens for next season looking forward for 6 foot growth results 😊
Thank you for sharing such good information, a good idea I saw the other day is to dig a hole and put a 4 " plastic tube with some 1" holes in the bottom, then you can add wet wood chips, leaves & manure to feed California earthworms who will provide oxigen and humus to the fruit trees, well hope it works for YOU, Best crops.
Wow very impressive thank you.
Nice
Such a useful video, thank you!
Can you explain how rainwater gets to the tree's roots if you have cardboard down? Or do you wait until the beginning of the dry season to put the cardboard down?
Nice place
Isn’t sawdust extremely high in carbon so it will pull a good amount of N from the soil moving forward?
Mulberry roots are no joke those roots travel far and choke out all the othere plants all my othere fruit tree get along and i can grow them side by side but not Mulberry those roots travel like 6 feet per year .may b the method your using could help me im going try it out .👍
I don't use any weed control; and I know I should; I just hand pull around saplings and row between rows like you used to. I hope that there might be some benefits? I just don't have access to cheap mulch and even my truck is crap.
Do you think you might have over watered the worse growers? And that's actually the issue? You send it had a drop really, right? It looks overated with its yellow leaves
Watering mulberries? You must plant them in the desert to do that... they are one of the most drought-tolerant plants
I wonder if that grass wouldn't be a bad idea. If it was deep mulch on the trees and a strip of sod
The idea of mulching with carton is good but I am not sure about ink from the newspapers - it seems full of chemicals to me..
Could an orchard be mulched with chopped hay?
Yes! It may have seeds in it, but especially if you use cardboard or the soil isn't bare underneath the hay that shouldn't be a problem.
I have mulched with the straw and created ideal habitat for the common vole - breeding like hell and destroying my apple trees...