We’ve been planting up our orchard since April and are looking forward to seeing it flush out again come spring—(and hopefully without the spongy moth!). Instead of planting it all up at once, we took our time to think about what plants we’d like to plant within the guilds. This is a video on the framework we’re using.
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43 Comments
The aerial shot was beautiful🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄💚🙃
You are such a good teacher!
Thank you for the videos you all do!
I think your fruit trees will be fine as long as their not girdled. 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄💚🙃
Y’all might consider some bark paint for your tree trunks to keep them from cracking in winter or sunburning in the summer.
Nice guilds I’ve had luck with are mulberry/bunchberry/yarrow/nodding onion and apple/yarrow/comfrey. We have strawberries and garlic everywhere too. One experimental guild that is very happy so far we have is asparagus/strawberry/sea berry.
Your guilds are looking good. Cheers!
Explaining your point system is inspiring. I might have a new winter project.
I've always wondered, isn't it just as important to know how invasive a plant is regardless if it's native or non-native. Seems like it's important to think about because a non-native plants that's not invasive is perfectly fine but we should be careful of planting a native plant that spreads like crazy.
Such a beautiful orchard ❤️
well done….TY for all the info
comfrey is great as a weed suppressor and it super easy to propagate. I started with 5 roots last year and have like 70 plants this year.
Fun! I grow a Backyard Food Forest/orchard/garden in Lubbock, Texas. Well done on your plant selection. It's really difficult to establish guilds in my climate. Especially around young fruit trees that are kept small but I just keep adding beneficial plants as I come across them. Giving them special care for a year or two.
Looking forward to your updates 😀
Hi, been able to get plenty of inspiration thanks to you. Just ordered Tagete minuta seed, looks like a super interesting plant for in a guild next year, was unknown to my yet. Your guilds look really diverse, curious to see the results in the future and to hear your feedback. For the moment, I only work with mint and lemon balm around my fruit trees. It looks like the number of infestations with fruit moth has been reduced.
I can confirm what you said about the untouched pear tree. rodents and deer always feed on my apple trees, and always leave the pear trees next to it untouched. Someone once told me that an apple tree tastes sweeter, especially the root.
What is the title of the book you are currently reading on soil?
Do you think you rich yuppies are going to survive in the shtf collapse. I think all you do gooders will be eating each other.
Gardening is such good excersize! As far as I understand, no insects care or know if they are useful to humans or not. It is all about them. And all contribute in some way. A poisonous plant to animals for instance (tansy) attracts lots of kinds of butterflies and bees, but would kill your livestock or pets so I'd never grow it just to see insects on it etc. Those beetles that are destructive in my veg garden are a great help in the wild places around & in my woods to clean up things & add to the general compost. All insects contribute, even if just food to birds, bats, etc. So I don't make a distinction & all insects pollinate something when they walk across plants of any type. I even like spiders. Just don't like slugs which love young dandelion, so I spend many hours a year Spring & Fall digging them with a knife in all of my lawns, including 3 ditches along the hwy infront of my lands. Rarely get one in the gardens now since putting mulch down & horsetail fern has choked out almost everything that was not a mature bush or tree. I now rent raised beds in the village to grow food.
Try planting Garlic along the edges to keep voles and your larger browsers out, some people swear by that.
Lawn and leaf bags (paper obviously) also work well to smother weeds and I can often find them at a reduced price at the end of the season.
And those deer….if they don’t eat something they manage to damage it somehow. Buck rub has almost ruined several small trees, so we’ve taken to caging them til they’re of a thicker caliper.
Love this planning video, a look inside the system behind setting up your orchard is really appreciated! Thank you!
Thank you for filming. U C Santa Cruz Center for agroecology has some useful information on inter planting in the orchard. Different zone, but wise methods. Saffron! Wow. Check out The Fullest podcast with Nicki Bostwick. She is a great proponent for using saffron as a medicinal. Naw comfrey drives me batty and seeds out too much . My daughter in N Vermont has a deer field that feeds the herds without them wandering too much. Again thank you so very much.
We have a small orchard in NH, love your channel. We bought right before covid and have been reviving the orchard. In the last two years our mature pear trees have been ravaged porcupine, deer and squirrels. I can see how companion planting can deter them. Id be interested in hearing how you guys develop other natural strategies throughout the years.
Really big fan of all the info you share! I'm an amature permaculturist and often find myself watching your videos with a notepad on hand. I don't know if you do this or ever would, but your property would be one I would love to get a tour of someday (not local, so that would have to be a planned roadtrip some day, if available).
I've planted comfrey next to every fruit tree and bush I put in the ground. Chop & drop for easy fertilizing.
My dad's family has roots in the Finger Lake region, in farming and stone masonry. These videos give me an idea of the natural beauty that brought and kept them there. I like your garden journal; it looks similar to mine–a Minimalism Art B5 notebook with graph paper. It allows me to accurately plan out garden beds and also record the garden's progress. I keep spreadsheets, also, to collect even more detail. The scientist in me wants as much data as possible!
I recommend growing an heirloom apple from Holland named Belle De Boskoop since your partner is from Holland. It is one of my favorite apples! I would also recommend a second fence to protect your orchard or the deer will kill your trees that you spent so much time, money and energy planting.
IMO Asian Pears, pawpaws, and persimmons are the best for avoiding deer browse. I saw you had european pears but don't sleep on the asian ones, they are way yummier and store for a long time. Obviously, pawpaws are also awesome.
Love celeriac, especially put through the shredder nd then a lemon and whole grain mustard vinaigrette mixed through, you can add a carrot for a bit of contrast. Also garlic, celeriac and tattie mash oven baked. I do it with crème fraiche for Christmas dinner.
Summer are you still living in brooklyn
any recs for dealing with those awful 4wheeler rider pests?
Really enjoyed the garden walk, and always appreciate shared garden tips and plant suggestions I can use in my own food forest.
Your videos are always so informative and just a feast for the eyes. Thank you!
15: this needs to B a postcard
The big grocery R always looking to get rid of banana boxes…and all vegy boxes.
Hey! Lovely video, I was really impressed to see what you called "Peruvian black mint" in your guild. I manage an urban regenerative farm in Auckland (OMG – Organic Market Garden) and we use this plant extensively. However we refer to it as huacaty (pronounced wok-a-tai). It was brought to us by an English chef who named it very drably as apple marigold, later we had some Peruvian tourists come by the farm who told us its correct name. We use it as a herb in our salad mixes as well as biomass for composting. If you want to check us out more then our organisation is called For The Love of Bees.
Thanks for producing such excellent videos!
Saffron is an expensive crop though labor intensive. Bulk Barn for the cheapest saffron shows how expensive it is. Great job as ever!
I love your orchard and the planning that went into it. I also started an orchard 5 years ago, with a 5 foot horse fence around a half acre to keep deer out. I just spent this afternoon laying cardboard and wood chips around the trees and bushes, again. I have 30 fruit trees planted in that area on a 22 foot spacing. Then I planted fruiting bushes between all of the trees, so there are about 35 bushes. Some of the bushes are Juliet bush cherry, Carmine Jewel bush cherry, Currents – black, red and white, Highbush Cranberry, Honeyberries- 3 kinds, Elderberrys, Seeded Concord grape, Gooseberry- 2 kinds, Hazel nut, Figs-Chicago Hardy & Celeste (Zone 6A), boysenberry, and more. I have things planted in other areas like Seedless Concord grapes, Horseradish, Blueberries, Asparagus and strawberries.
I initial goal was to have something to eat every day during the summer. I have also been planting Egyptian Walking Onions around the trees.
Wow! That was a lot of information! I use a ton of comfrey. I think the plant has the ability to absorb specific mineral nutrients. Not necessarily super deep but in the upper foot or so.
Awesome work so far!
Looking forward to see that orchard evolve.
Love the wide coppice lanes, lots of room for future intercroped production systems.
My only note is for you(and everyone else with less than a dozen) is your honey berry's, they are a total thicket species, meaning lots and lots of them to provide lots and lots of cross pollination and better fruit sets. Seedlings of the modern cultivars work just fine for that as well, plus you may get a cultivar or two of your own out of it that way.
I also really want to trial new jersey tea in a thicket form some time in the near future. Love the details. Looking good 👍
NIce video. Perma Pastures farm sells a bone sauce that repels deer and also have comfrey that is more contained. They have you tube videos on planting guilds and more. Thanks for your videos.
When your New Jersey Tea flowers, inspect them for ants. The butterflies that use the plant in the Lycaenidaeas family all disguise themselves like parts of the plant but the ants that tend them often give them away.
vaguely heard of the concept of guilds but honestly i would love to research more on it. as if i need a reason to do more research when i, for fun, spent a week writing down every plant native to my county, including general care in terms of sun and water needs, lol
Very nice!
Saw the stark bros sticker on the fruit tree. Love them and they have great deals!
Just looking at your comments, they are all positive. If you really want input this should concern you. The space is already planted, you have some cool stuff. I'm wishing you the best 🙂
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