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Blue Forest Plants
Приєднався 18 тра 2020
Blue Forest Plants is a permaculture nursery located on the shores of Lake Superior near Duluth, MN. We focus on offering cold hardy plants for all layers of a healthy food forest. Here to help you propagate edible, medicinal, and useful plants.
Currants - Pruning and Layering
Tis the season to prune and start propagating currants. This shrub is great to work with and responds really well to a little of attention each spring.
Very easy to propagate by a varied of methods, we take a look at layering in this video.
Let us know what you think in the comments. If you have a question we will try our best to answer.
Blue Forest Plants is a small permaculture nursery located in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. We aim to offer edible, medicinal, and useful plants and to share our experiences for the benefit of all.
blueforestplants.wordpress.com
email: blueforestplants@gmail.com
Very easy to propagate by a varied of methods, we take a look at layering in this video.
Let us know what you think in the comments. If you have a question we will try our best to answer.
Blue Forest Plants is a small permaculture nursery located in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. We aim to offer edible, medicinal, and useful plants and to share our experiences for the benefit of all.
blueforestplants.wordpress.com
email: blueforestplants@gmail.com
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Winter Rabbit Damage
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Blue Forest Plants is a small permaculture nursery located in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. We aim to offer edible, medicinal, and useful plants and to share our experiences for the benefit of all. blueforestplants.wordpress.com
Speckled Alder Coppice
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Blue Forest Plants is a small permaculture nursery located in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. We aim to offer edible, medicinal, and useful plants and to share our experiences for the benefit of all. blueforestplants.wordpress.com
Willow Windbreak Installation pt. 1
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Blue Forest Plants is a small permaculture nursery located in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. We aim to offer edible, medicinal, and useful plants and to share our experiences for the benefit of all. blueforestplants.wordpress.com/
Hoophouse update and Duck TV
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Blue Forest Plants is a small permaculture nursery located in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. We aim to offer edible, medicinal, and useful plants and to share our experiences in nursery design and other other permaculture projects. blueforestplants.wordpress.com/
Last Call for Bare Root Plants
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Blue Forest Plants is a small permaculture nursery located in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. We aim to offer edible, medicinal, and useful plants and to share our experiences for the benefit of all. blueforestplants.wordpress.com/
Making Terraces From Logs - In Depth
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Blue Forest Plants is a small permaculture nursery located in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. We aim to offer edible, medicinal, and useful plants and to share our experiences for the benefit of all. blueforestplants.wordpress.com/
Cattle Panel Hoop House
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Blue Forest Plants is a small permaculture nursery located in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. We aim to offer edible, medicinal, and useful plants and to share our experiences for the benefit of all. blueforestplants.wordpress.com/
Observing Water in the Landscape
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Blue Forest Plants is a small permaculture nursery located in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. We aim to offer edible, medicinal, and useful plants and to share our experiences for the benefit of all. blueforestplants.wordpress.com/
Hand Dug Pond
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Taking a look at our hand dug pond filling up in early spring. Blue Forest Plants is a permaculture nursery located in Northeastern Minnesota. We focus on edible, medicinal, and useful plants that are cold hardy. We are developing videos to share our experiences and help others make connections with the natural world so we can all grow together more.. blueforestplants.wordpress.com/
Upper Terrace Garden Development
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Updates on developing terrace gardens near the upper elevation of our property. Design considerations include water management, plantings, terrace construction.
Coppice Regrowth
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Taking a look at many hardwood species' ability to regrow after being cut and how to manage a coppice system.
Roots! - Digging Butternut and Hickory
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Taking a look at some of our nut trees as they come out of the air-prune beds in Fall 20'. Nuts trees tend to put a lot of energy into there root systems early on, sometimes having little to no above ground growth to show for. The butternuts show great root developments and the effects of taproot pruning are clear. The slower growing hickories show less effects of air-pruning, but demonstrate t...
Blue Forest Plants - Announcing Spring Orders
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We are open to staking taking order to be filled this spring. A lot of wonderful plants on offer that are great for urban lots, homesteads, and farms. blueforestplants.wordpress.com/
Potting Soil System Basic Elements of Permaculter Design
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Potting Soil System Basic Elements of Permaculter Design
Working with Quaking Aspen in Food Forest - Pollard
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Working with Quaking Aspen in Food Forest - Pollard
Air Prune Beds - Late Summer 2020 Update
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Air Prune Beds - Late Summer 2020 Update
Are leaves scented? Thank you God bless you MARANATHA
great idea! thank you!
I am using the same technique on the land I am working with. Many slopes, rocks, timber with sand and silt. I am trying not to dig and just securing the logs by using old stumps where possible. Great work, thanks for sharing.
How about air layering? I was considering air layering mine since it’s getting so tall
What variety is this please
I'm curious to know how this is going now that it's been a few years! For my space (lack of) I was thinking of doing one line of them but super dense and then maybe training them to a fence to keep them growing vertically and not out . We have a pawpaw orchard I'm trying to protect from wind.
Thank you. I am wanting to start making willow furniture for the first time and am setting out to identify trees for gathering material. This is made more difficult right now as it’s wintertime and I have no leaves to help me.
Great video ,thanks ! I was pulling downed trees out of a Tornado damaged area today ,and I came across What I Think is Balsam Poplar . I spend most days in the woods of western Pa cutting downed trees up ,clearing gas line roads . Do Balsam Poplar Trees have a tendency to just fall over with no warning? I was cutting up black cherry ,and American Elm and standing trees just fell over !No wind ,no cause . The trees have a very smooth bark ,kind of plated bark and the wood is very lightweight . It can have very thick outer pulp wood ,and distinct heart wood !Almost a tree within a tree. I am going to check the buds tomorrow and look for size and that sticky residue you showed ! I wish I could walk the woods with you here and pick your brain on some of the species I come across .
There's focus delay in the camera. You have to wait for it to assess the light/dark and then focus on what's near field. Firehosing in and out restarts the focusing process over and over. Better to pick a focus spot, continue the tutorial and if there's still no focus, slowly move closer or further out, depending on your camera setting. At any rate, we see the difference between male /female even with out of focus :)
Super helpful, thanks for putting this together.
In the summer cut some cuttings and poke them in the ground, they are like weeds and will grow.
What was your spacing on the butternuts? I'm wanting to do some black walnuts in my air prune beds next spring but am unsure of how tightly to pack them in there.
You can go pretty tight, probably 3-4 inches apart on center.
@blueforestplants1563 thanks for the info. I appreciate it.
That's HUGE, I thought they only got 6 feet tall! Bummer!
How old is the plant
7
How can I kill or completely remove these, they are invasive and taking over my wetland.
I'm in SW MI and just starting on conversion of a 5 acre section of our 20 acres site into coppice with standards. There are quite a few benefits to coppice as a woodland management scheme and I don't think the full potential for synergies with other systems have ever been approached.
Nice. First coppicing vid I've see from the across the water. I cut an area of 50+ year derelict hazel in an ancient woodland in Dorset to restore it to rotation and for firewood. Biggest problem we have is we are overrun with introduced sika deer. There are vids on a channel if you would like to go and look. Good luck in your endeavors and thanks for posting.
How many years did it take for the alders as big as the ones your harvested to get to that size?
about 15 years I would estimate
Thank you for publishing this. I am just in the process of coppicing my alder trees in Norfolk UK.
@Blue Forest Plants Fantastic video... and plants! Two questions: 1. How old are the seaberry plants featured? 2. What's the soil like they're growing in? Thanks!
Never mind. Found the answers in the comments.
Thanks, you answered questions I had on a project ✌
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Nurse logs are sources of major benefits in and of themselves. Incorporating them into terrace building is great function stacking. I've been doing something similar with my swales on contour. Rather than inlayiing them as you have done, I've used stakes to lock ours in place and they've naturally been enveloped a bit.
We have done the same with staking, but have found over time that keying the logs into the slope with a trench really helps with moisture retention and overall solidity. We ended up redoing a lot of our staked logs terraces with the in ground method after 3-5 years to increase moisture retention. I think it depends on your context and what you have time for. Either way, you are introducing more organic matter to your system and helping to slow down slope erosion, while encouraging debris deposition up slope. 😁
Can I buy nanking cherry seeds from you?
Hi, we don't sell seed at this time due to the seed regulations here in MN.
@@blueforestplants1563 thank you so much for responding, God bless you.
Wow! Ang ganda nman! Sana makahingi sa yo ng seeds kaso nasa Pilipinas ako.
Can you layer any time of the year ?
With currants you can layer at any time, the root easily and fairly quickly. With other species, layering is best done in the early spring or fall to give the plants enough time to establish roots. Some, like hazels, may take more than one year to root from layering. I try to do my layering in the spring so I have well rooted plants by the fall to dig up if I want.
что сейчас с плантацией ивы?
I planted a thousand seeds and about 60% of them are growing now. I'm putting them all over my yard and the rest are going in the forest next to my house. I can't wait till they grown up.
Hello, I'm about to plant 6 of these up here in Portage. Thanks for your vid.
I could barely hear your commentary
Can it be used for wattle fencing?
Probably not the best wood for fencing, wattle or otherwise, since it tends to rot relatively quickly.
For what it's worth, I've got some Alder I've laid for a hedge, and it seems to be working, so far. Only a year in, so hard to say long term, but I've got new shoots from the base, and the laid portions are growing nicely.
Does it really need 2 in order to get fruit🥺
Yes, they are not self-fertile generally.
@@blueforestplants1563 how do you know if it's two varieties, or just clones when you buy them?
Good tip, gonna test it out.
I am planting these this spring, hope they do as well as yours
Did you move those bitternuts out to a new spot/heel them, or can they stay in the air prune bed over winter to grow another year?
Where I live, It is not ideal to leave your plants in the in the air prune beds over winter because of the very cold winter temps. Since the are raised above the ground and the snow cover, there could be issues with winter kill. I also don't generally want my plants to be growing in the air prune bed for more than one season: the goal is to get them established and then taken out in the fall for planting or healing in. Depending on your context, you could leave some plants in for a couple seasons and be fine, although with the nut trees the root systems would get quite large laterally, making removal more difficult.
Have you tried pollarding more mature trees? We have a norway maple that is a bit too big and i’d like to try pollarding, but I’m not sure it will survive. It’s about 6-8” in diameter at the height where i would cut it.
Looks great on the cattle panel. Have you tried kiwis up there?
Hi Nate, I have not tried kiwis on the cattle panels, but I do need to redo a kiwi trellis this spring and I think that would work great. I will try to make a couple of videos about it. Thanks!
Thanks for the tips. Just found your channel - cool to see other people gardening like this in Minnesota! I’m just getting started with a “forest garden” in my yard in St. Paul.
Awesome to hear. If you are ever in the Duluth area let em know and stop on by for a nursery tour. Happy growing!
I am growing my seaberries from the seeds I found in frozen fruit! It will take a while. Is it recommended to prune the tops off, so they don't get so tall? I would like to keep them as decorative trees, as well as fruit bearing for my smoothies. How far to space them ?
You can certainly prune back seaberry pretty hard. A couple of considerations with that: 1) the berries fruit on second year wood, so pruning back new grow will prevent fruiting. If you want to prune for size/shape I would recommend pruning about half the plant one year and the other half the following year to ensure continuous fruit bearing sections. 2) Seaberry likes to sucker already, and pruning will only encourage this tendency. Be prepared for it when you select your planting location. Spacing depends on what you are going for. If you want a contiguous hedge, 1-1.5m would be appropriate. If you want access to all sides of the plant, 2.5-3m would be better. Happy growing.
How old are your female seaberrys? How fast do they grow?
I would say 7-8yrs old. The do grow pretty quickly once established in a favorable location - FULL SUN. From a seedling you could have fruit in 5 yrs.
I have two sea berries about 4 years old. Never had any fruits from either one. I wonder if they are both males or both females. How long does it take to get some fruits? Thanks
It can vary in time for fruit depending on age, location, and local conditions. Generally I would expect fruit by year 5 from a seedling, but of course if you have both female or male that would be a problem. How big are your plants and how old where they when you got them? Are they planted in full sun? What region are you in?
@@blueforestplants1563 Hi, thanks for your reply. They are about 4 feet tall now, we got them as seedling in a pot, don't remember how old they were when my gardener friend gifted them to us. They are planted in full sun. I am in Northern California, Berkeley area. They are not doing much except taking up space that can be used for beans and tomatoes! Also, they are very prickly and I have to be careful not to brush against them! We are thinking of pulling them out, but I saw your video and thought they may give us some fruits soon!
In regards to cornelian cherries (CC) - I found it a lot more productive to find a big tree and look for seedlings around it if you can identify them, it will save you a lot of years of waiting, and when planting the seedling home don't use any manure-based compost (and to be safe - no compost at all) because the CC's roots usually refuse to grow in Nitrogen rich soil - I learned it the hard way after planting some 20 seedlings from the local forest. I have 2 volunteer CCs this year coming out of seeds that I threw under a cherry tree a few years ago.
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But since it sends offshoots isn't it easier to dig them out rather than this method?
Good question. In my experience some individual plants seem to sucker way more than others. The males I have don't seem to sucker at all. I have read from others' reports that this is a common occurrence. I do dig suckers of female plants I have. It is a good method, but you are limited to the number plants you can propagate this way. I am experimenting with layering and softwood cuttings as well.
Can i get cuttings
I'm really interested in buying some stuff. When i click on the link it says page can't be found.
Sorry about the link not working. If you click on 'Home' at the top of the page it will bring you to the main site. you can also try this: blueforestplants.wordpress.com/
Your county name bro??
I was hoping to take some cuttings this weekend - is it too late?
I am not sure where you are located, but it is getting pretty late to take hardwood cuttings. You can take softwood cuttings later in the season when new growth is starting to firm up, but that has been difficult to get consistency with in my experience.
Nice setup, thanks for sharing! Do you mostly grow trees from seed in the air prune beds, or do you also use them to propagate cuttings? Any preference?
I have always grown from seed in these beds, especially nuts, but not exclusively. You could probably do cuttings, but I am not sure it would give you a lot of benefit over sticking into a regular nursery bed. In my experience the root systems that form from cuttings are usually small enough to easily dig, whereas some of the root systems on a 1 yr nut seedling would be a major challenge with the taproot they form.
So helpful, thank you!