That was some good information, so glad that I know my small orchard was planted wrong! Oh well live and learn. Leaning trees, clay soil no amendments. At least the next 9 trees will be planted better. And I found out I have deer in the neighborhood. They ate my apple buds, and the day before the peaches were being pick, they ate them maybe it was the squirrels. So far, I did get one pear I guess only I like them. Yay one win.
Best way to keep trees shorter is with summer pruning. I had ultra dwarf tree I thought would stay small. After it went over 12 ft tall, I started pruning down. At that point could only keep to about 10 ft.
Thanks for doing this. I would love for you to do apart 2 video and even a part 3 lol. I am sending your channel to hubby as he argues with me about the trees and planting. I would also love videos for beekeeping as it is on our list. We are surrounded by mountains covered in wild Heather and Heather honey is incredibly delicious. It is in our 3 to 5 year plan to get set up and maybe take a few classes as it is something neither of us have experience with. So any help that way on how you set it up, caring for them, etc. While I am American Hubby and I live in the Highlands of Scotland and are taking early retirement and have bought a new home with 2 hectares of great growing land.
Hubby wants a relatively small orchard , a couple of trees for each fruit. He wants to put it in this winter, while the trees are not going to be stunted or harmed in route, and bare roots are cheaper, even if we are buying trees that are 6-8 year old trees, thus not waiting as many years growing for fruit as the younger saplings. I am okay with the orchard, however, we have herds of red deer. As they are only hunted to keep herds healthy, getting the sick, disabled and elderly out, the herds ramble through everyone’s yards, so most who grow veg will do so in poly tunnels. Have you had any experience with deer and your fruit trees on your farm? I know you won’t have red deer but most likely whitetail, possibly even moose depending on how rural you are, which we don’t have here. As you plant new trees, do the deer try and destroy them? Other than using deer fencing, have you found any ideas to keep them from getting to them if they do get in and cause mayhem? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. We have seen huge 8-10 point stags up there who jump over the deer fence like a cat jumps upon a couch, no effort at all. But when he landed the earth shook, we could feel it while sitting on our deck! We don’t want to harm them, but we don’t want all our fruit trees destroyed.
I am just loving your channel. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! 🌱🦃💜
Luke off all the stuff I have watched of yours I’m really shocked you don’t use compost more for your orchard… I would think you would be more into a permaculture style orchard .
Am I still able to plant my peach tree in a pot that I bought this Spring? (We're in Niagara, Ontario, similar zone) We kept delaying planting it for different reasons, and now we brought it into my sunroom because we weren't sure if we should let it get frost if we were better off keeping it inside until Spring
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Thanks for the video. It came at the perfect time. Just picked up a few trees today. You said not to add any fertilizer but I live in Florida which is just sand. What is your recommendation for this situation? Thanks in advance for your advice.
Great video, I didn't know basically any of this info thanks. Congrats on the property. With the land you should consider some section of food forest or small rewilding to help provide for the local critters too. You may even find they are a benefit to the pest problems
"If you plant them straight, they'll grow straight." False. Lol. I planted a small apple orchard. We get horribly oppressive wind. Most have wind lean and one was almost knocked down. Now it's well rooted leaning so hard that I'm thinking of just letting one branch air-root and bury it in the soil to maybe help push the tree back upward. Lol. It was pushed over by an overly aggressive snowdrift. My 5yo son is 100% in support of this idea because it would make a tree branch tunnel that would be "so cool." I didn't put stakes because I've read that in areas of very high winds (we get 60mph+, and even though I've put a bit of a windbreak for them, they still get a good amount of wind), if you stake them right away, they won't be able to stand without a support. They won't anchor themselves well enough. We've seen this with the 3 fruit trees that remained from the people we bought the property from. They'd planted about 12 fruit trees, but only 3 remained (2 pears and an apple) when we bought the property. All were staked, in the wind tunnel that is made by the barn and shop, and are so poorly rooted that they would wiggle when pushed. Of those 3, 1 survived. The apple is getting stronger, but still can't be without a stake. I've been pruning it for balance and to have some branches that grow upwards to protect the fruit from the wind (any tiny apples would get wind blight and fall off). This year, it finally paid off. We got a PAAAYLOAD of apples! It still wiggles when pushed lol, but the upward branches protected the apples and wind blight was mostly kept to the leaves on those branches! Hardly any apples dropped! I'm trying to help it root itself better by daily going out and giving it a little push. It's getting stronger. It's been almost 4 years.
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What about growing from seed.
pruning please!
That was some good information, so glad that I know my small orchard was planted wrong! Oh well live and learn. Leaning trees, clay soil no amendments. At least the next 9 trees will be planted better. And I found out I have deer in the neighborhood. They ate my apple buds, and the day before the peaches were being pick, they ate them maybe it was the squirrels. So far, I did get one pear I guess only I like them. Yay one win.
Haha, hey, I just bought the biggest peach tree at the store this spring 🤣 . Thanks, Luke. I should head over and buy some seeds for Christmas socks.
Best way to keep trees shorter is with summer pruning. I had ultra dwarf tree I thought would stay small. After it went over 12 ft tall, I started pruning down. At that point could only keep to about 10 ft.
Hi there! Just curious, are berry bushes as complicated with sourcing as fruit trees? (A bit off topic but this video made me curious)
Thanks and God bless!
Thanks for doing this. I would love for you to do apart 2 video and even a part 3 lol. I am sending your channel to hubby as he argues with me about the trees and planting. I would also love videos for beekeeping as it is on our list. We are surrounded by mountains covered in wild Heather and Heather honey is incredibly delicious. It is in our 3 to 5 year plan to get set up and maybe take a few classes as it is something neither of us have experience with. So any help that way on how you set it up, caring for them, etc. While I am American Hubby and I live in the Highlands of Scotland and are taking early retirement and have bought a new home with 2 hectares of great growing land.
Hubby wants a relatively small orchard , a couple of trees for each fruit. He wants to put it in this winter, while the trees are not going to be stunted or harmed in route, and bare roots are cheaper, even if we are buying trees that are 6-8 year old trees, thus not waiting as many years growing for fruit as the younger saplings. I am okay with the orchard, however, we have herds of red deer. As they are only hunted to keep herds healthy, getting the sick, disabled and elderly out, the herds ramble through everyone’s yards, so most who grow veg will do so in poly tunnels. Have you had any experience with deer and your fruit trees on your farm? I know you won’t have red deer but most likely whitetail, possibly even moose depending on how rural you are, which we don’t have here. As you plant new trees, do the deer try and destroy them? Other than using deer fencing, have you found any ideas to keep them from getting to them if they do get in and cause mayhem? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. We have seen huge 8-10 point stags up there who jump over the deer fence like a cat jumps upon a couch, no effort at all. But when he landed the earth shook, we could feel it while sitting on our deck! We don’t want to harm them, but we don’t want all our fruit trees destroyed.
I am just loving your channel. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! 🌱🦃💜
Remember if you can't reach the branches you can't harvest the fruit or prune easily .
Luke off all the stuff I have watched of yours I’m really shocked you don’t use compost more for your orchard… I would think you would be more into a permaculture style orchard .
Thank You!
Thank You!
Pruning these new fruit trees
Am I still able to plant my peach tree in a pot that I bought this Spring? (We're in Niagara, Ontario, similar zone)
We kept delaying planting it for different reasons, and now we brought it into my sunroom because we weren't sure if we should let it get frost if we were better off keeping it inside until Spring
Do you have a list of places you recommend for buying trees?
Change Title. Sounds negative <3 🙂
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Thanks for the video. It came at the perfect time. Just picked up a few trees today. You said not to add any fertilizer but I live in Florida which is just sand. What is your recommendation for this situation? Thanks in advance for your advice.
Would love to see what you have for pt. 2!
Definitely a part two to this video would be appreciated
Great video, I didn't know basically any of this info thanks. Congrats on the property. With the land you should consider some section of food forest or small rewilding to help provide for the local critters too. You may even find they are a benefit to the pest problems
Pruning and tree spacing for a backyard orchard please
"If you plant them straight, they'll grow straight." False. Lol. I planted a small apple orchard. We get horribly oppressive wind. Most have wind lean and one was almost knocked down. Now it's well rooted leaning so hard that I'm thinking of just letting one branch air-root and bury it in the soil to maybe help push the tree back upward. Lol. It was pushed over by an overly aggressive snowdrift. My 5yo son is 100% in support of this idea because it would make a tree branch tunnel that would be "so cool."
I didn't put stakes because I've read that in areas of very high winds (we get 60mph+, and even though I've put a bit of a windbreak for them, they still get a good amount of wind), if you stake them right away, they won't be able to stand without a support. They won't anchor themselves well enough. We've seen this with the 3 fruit trees that remained from the people we bought the property from. They'd planted about 12 fruit trees, but only 3 remained (2 pears and an apple) when we bought the property. All were staked, in the wind tunnel that is made by the barn and shop, and are so poorly rooted that they would wiggle when pushed. Of those 3, 1 survived. The apple is getting stronger, but still can't be without a stake. I've been pruning it for balance and to have some branches that grow upwards to protect the fruit from the wind (any tiny apples would get wind blight and fall off). This year, it finally paid off. We got a PAAAYLOAD of apples! It still wiggles when pushed lol, but the upward branches protected the apples and wind blight was mostly kept to the leaves on those branches! Hardly any apples dropped! I'm trying to help it root itself better by daily going out and giving it a little push. It's getting stronger. It's been almost 4 years.