Getting your 10,000 steps today, going backwards ! I hope to get an abundant harvest someday, my food forest is in its second summer so we got a mini harvest. Mostly raspberries, strawberries and some tart cherries from one of our dwarf trees.
Greetings Stefan, I am curently living in Canada and wanted to suggest you to try a fruit tree which I brought back from Europe. The tree is called Cherryplum (Prunus cerasifera). It is the mother of all domesticated plum trees and it really grows like a weed. The tree is never ill and will produce even in the harshest weather conditions. 😊
@klaustruthahn4185 Good to know, but may I ask when you say it's" never ill and will produce even in the harshest weather conditions" may I ask which zone your growing it in Canada, I'm in Southern New Hampshire we can get a lot of snow in the winter. Thanks, Mia.
I too mow around a plant, weed that I want to keep . I now am keeping a golden rod weed, I learn it is not hay pollen like the rag weed, who knew ! ❤your channel. God bless.
For us in the Northwest with our trees above 1,000 m elevation, abundant fruit, this year, came as a surprise: a result of zero late frosts that usually reduce our tree's output. That and no damaging summer hail storms to reduce the fruit even further. Have to give a shout out to 'global warming' - best damn year yet! Next year I'll plan my pruning better. Also, having the thick grass carpet under the trees really reduces fruit bruising. . . Tnx Stefan, for that tip.
19:10 - Japanese Beatles Love by 30x15 ft wall of wild grapes, but they also destroyed my cherry trees this year... A little bit my plums and pluots. I was going to remove the wild grapes until I noticed how much they prefer them
We planted 2 apple trees 6 years ago and this year is the first real year! 😅 Just picking up what is falling and I already don’t know what to do with everything! Juice, sauce, butter, pie, crumble… it’s soo cool, I give the rest to freinds around me…
Do some canning, I buy apples cut on pieces into the jars,add water 2,3 spoons of sugar. Dry lid and glass jar top,tightly close the lid.Cook in cattle filled in 2/3 of water reaching the jar,for 30 minutes after water started to boil. You can keep the jars for many years, at least 2/3.When open the jar,put into a pitcher add more boil water to dilute, if to acidic add more sugar to sweeten,thi is your fruit juice to enjoy. I'm from Poland,growing in farm, we always canned more than 600 jars with fruits, vegetables, all kind of recipes, we wore self efficient, never bought any those from store.Good luck.Greetengs from Chicago
I'm gonna try to get my haskap to root in small pots filled with soil. I'm gonna bend a young branch so it is covered by soil. Hopefully it roots. At least the ones I covered with mulch this spring rooted, and are already replanted.
Is there a reason you don’t grow elderberry? Also, what layer do comfrey and lovage belong to? Do you grow them? Mine are big like bushes here in Calgary Alberta area.
really cool, informative video, congrats for such a beautiful diverse orchard ecosystem! only drawback, the camera doesn't capture a single thing of what you wanted to show us because it never leaves the focus from you handsome guy☺
Your seedling field is an important part of the video to me. I've done something similar in a open field part of my property with mostly seedling trees, with the intent of it being low maintenance, and I have the same kind of results. It's been very dry here the last 3 years, not a good start for the trees.
Another wonderful video. Your orchard is huge and very beautiful. I know you mentioned free picking but what do you do with the rest of the apples and other fruit?
@@StefanSobkowiakafter the destruction I seen the voles did to my flower bulbs over winter, I wouldn’t encourage them. I have never seen a vole in my life and when I found info on them they were soon evicted.
I have two peach trees and I get an abundance of them since I live alone I have no problem sharing my peaches with my neighbor's and my family nothing gets wasted they do there goes in a canning jar or to a neighbor
Hello, thank you for sharing all your tips and tricks. I have planted a few fruit trees and will continue to plant more. I notice your trees are so tall. How do you pick all your fruit from such tall trees? What about the fact of the trees being so tall and causing a lot of shade for smaller younger trees? Would that not cause issues over time?
How do you harvest the (cultivated) grapes and kiwis? Do you have to cut them back periodically so they don’t strangle the trees? And what varieties of kiwi did you find will survive your winters? Thanks - very inspiring tour!
May I ask you - which directions are your tree raws planted? east west or to the least wind attack area?.... thank you very much. I am about to plant 300 fruit trees on Cape Breton Island, NS and I need every valid input I can get out there. Thank you once again!
For Cape Breton wind will likely be the greatest influence. I would go with North South orientation so that the West most rows will reduce the wind. Also lets in the most sun to dry off the trees from the rain and fog.
Wild grapes galore in my woods and field edges. They absolutely will strangle a tree. And, you're right, they grow very fast. I found a crabapple tree just a short distance from my house I didn't know I had until I liberated it from a wild grape vine. That thing burst to life the following spring. Too bad it's about the worst, soft, bland apple I have ever eaten. The other old crab I found here has the tastiest, crispiest, sweet/sour apples... either way they are both good pollinators etc...
An idea for bump crops. Let old customers pick for free like you did, as a new product offer apple pressing as a service. If someone picks 200 pounds of apples, they will be thinking of all that canning and juicing anyway. Charge by the pound! 💪
Question- I have a lot of wild seedling apples around my property. Would it be better to transplant to a nursery bed this fall, graft in the spring and then move to orchard or transplant to orchard directly? Any suggestions for helping trees when we get those sudden drops in temperature beyond the normal range for your region?
For the cold drops use cultivars that are at least one zone hardier. Build in cold protection that way. For the seedlings plant them in the orchard, add a metal tree guard and a marker stake to find them and graft in spring. Less transplanting is better.
People want to be in exchange. Let them help YOU. Have them pay a little bit to come pick apples and make them a cup of coffee, and a blanket to catch sun on. You did all this. You should have some exchange. There are four levels of exchange. 1. Take, give nothing in return. This is the level of the criminal and you can get more criminals by never let them give back. 2. Give less than the value of what you get. 3. Give the same value back, noting more, nothing less - give what you promised and no extra. 4. Give more than the value you get. This is the best level for a company to work on, but the hardest. So give them in abundance but charge something. They will be so happy. Also let them pick something for you. Just ask for it.
Stark Bros is the only nursery I'm aware of that ships in the fall. Does anyone have recommendations on other nurseries for fall shipping (ie mid-late October)?
You are talking about birds diversity. Do you have cherry trees? How do you deal with birds. If I not covering they eat my cherry way before they even ripe
NE Ohio. My Good friend has about 30 different types of cherry trees in his orchard. His family also loves to hunt. When the cherries start to ripen, the whole family goes bird hunting,,, specially trying to take out the invasive species, STARLINGS! & you know, Robin breasts are very edible! ;>) @@StefanSobkowiak
@@StefanSobkowiak I’ve taken root cuttings very easily, and I suspect grafting is as easy. If you only have one source of genetics, you will need to graft, to get fruit. Love your content, and I agree with everything you do.
I have been trying unsuccessfully as well to get pawpaws to establish. I'll keep trying. Maybe I need to build a shade cloth over them? Perhaps sized so the sun is filtered between 10am and 2pm?
We chopped down the locust trees near house. They are weak trees in storms. The choke cherry went also. Both are very aggressive trees here in WI. Now the locust are popping up from the roots all over. Cedars, Asian elms and oaks grow like weeds. And we have a neighbor with a black walnut that I need to keep clipping seedlings constantly-sigh. I’m sure these trees have a purpose somewhere, but too aggressive here. I started an orchard last year. The late frosts here may be an issue. The climate change caused too warm of weather and broke dormancy way too soon and frost killed a lot of plants. Winery lost about 90% of grapes. It killed a vigorous grape vine here. I could grow peach trees 2 miles away but not here. Tried three times and think it’s too hot and dry. However we did install drip irrigation this year and may try one more time. Irrigation question: is a single 2 gallon emitter ok for fruit tree or would it be better to create a circle around the trees? I’m clueless on spraying, but was told we have apple scab and I thought it was cedar rust.
Your mixed fruit orchard is rather like my mixed avocado, apples and stone fruit and wild grape with the odd fig, nut and citrus orchard, unlike yours I do not have the space. Un like your much of mine grows in 2 totally different places. One is on a morning sunny Eastern pour iron sand face, the 2nd is a natural semi soft swamp that I've slowly but surely draining. My fruit is ripe from about mid-January though to late April being the beginning of our NZ winters. What are the results. The avocado are given away to ever ask, or I might trade for a bit of meat. The stone fruit I get 150 to 200 kgs. I slow cook every evening as they are harvested and if there are apples with that harvest, they go into the pot too. At the end of the season, I surely have 10 to 12 large roasting dishes sizes full of stewed fruit including many many feijoas and wild black berry fruits. Here every year in NZ Māori in my area hold a parliament that is called a Poukai. There is 4 Pa in our area that hold these and people all over NZ come to these hui. I donate most of my stewed fruit to these do's for their chiefs to turn into wonderful puddings that are baked to feed the visiting peoples that come to talk at these parliaments as well as the locals in attendances. Some Pa have these visitors stay overnight and they are feed breakfast as well. Love your fruit orchard mate, I wish I had your area over here, cheers.
I love this unedited format much better
I agree. Especially with gardening channels, I'm looking for something calm and full of information. Just hearing him talk does wonders
It’s nice to see a new video from you! Your food forest is really looking like a forest now. I could spend all day in there.
It really is! I could too.
Getting your 10,000 steps today, going backwards ! I hope to get an abundant harvest someday, my food forest is in its second summer so we got a mini harvest. Mostly raspberries, strawberries and some tart cherries from one of our dwarf trees.
It starts slowly then pow you don’t know what to do with all the fruit.
Truly enjoy your videos. You get distracted and off you go, also the amt of knowledge that you share is wonderful.
Glad you enjoy it! Distraction is my middle name.
Greetings Stefan, I am curently living in Canada and wanted to suggest you to try a fruit tree which I brought back from Europe. The tree is called Cherryplum (Prunus cerasifera). It is the mother of all domesticated plum trees and it really grows like a weed. The tree is never ill and will produce even in the harshest weather conditions. 😊
Thanks for the tip. Weedy fruit trees always good.
Where are you located? - Do I have a chance to get seeds or cuttlings? I am on Cape Breton Island, NS. Thank you!
@@gernotfrohlich6978 I love Cape Breton!
@klaustruthahn4185 Good to know, but may I ask when you say it's" never ill and will produce even in the harshest weather conditions" may I ask which zone your growing it in Canada, I'm in Southern New Hampshire we can get a lot of snow in the winter. Thanks, Mia.
I too mow around a plant, weed that I want to keep . I now am keeping a golden rod weed, I learn it is not hay pollen like the rag weed, who knew ! ❤your channel. God bless.
Stefan the Sage
That's awesome! I am all for less work! In the wild no one is pruning the trees and they still grow and produce! Blessings 💕🤗
Hey its totally nice to hear your voice and very interesting
For us in the Northwest with our trees above 1,000 m elevation, abundant fruit, this year, came as a surprise: a result of zero late frosts that usually reduce our tree's output. That and no damaging summer hail storms to reduce the fruit even further. Have to give a shout out to 'global warming' - best damn year yet! Next year I'll plan my pruning better. Also, having the thick grass carpet under the trees really reduces fruit bruising. . . Tnx Stefan, for that tip.
Your presentations are inspiring. I only wish my fruit trees would be inspired as well!
Rock dust and compost plus mulch should help start the turnaround.
Your hard work has paid off. Congratulations Stefan.
Yes! Thank you!
19:10 - Japanese Beatles Love by 30x15 ft wall of wild grapes, but they also destroyed my cherry trees this year... A little bit my plums and pluots. I was going to remove the wild grapes until I noticed how much they prefer them
We planted 2 apple trees 6 years ago and this year is the first real year! 😅 Just picking up what is falling and I already don’t know what to do with everything! Juice, sauce, butter, pie, crumble… it’s soo cool, I give the rest to freinds around me…
That’s the spirit. Wonderful to reach a state of abundance.
Please how many years before producing fruits, apple 🍎 please
Do some canning, I buy apples cut on pieces into the jars,add water 2,3 spoons of sugar. Dry lid and glass jar top,tightly close the lid.Cook in cattle filled in 2/3 of water reaching the jar,for 30 minutes after water started to boil. You can keep the jars for many years, at least 2/3.When open the jar,put into a pitcher add more boil water to dilute, if to acidic add more sugar to sweeten,thi is your fruit juice to enjoy. I'm from Poland,growing in farm, we always canned more than 600 jars with fruits, vegetables, all kind of recipes, we wore self efficient, never bought any those from store.Good luck.Greetengs from Chicago
Great video. The orchard looks gorgeous.
Love your videos!
Thank you!
Really enjoy and learn from your videos.
Glad to hear it!
Thank you!
It's so fun to listen to you. Lots of good education here. Thank you.
Glad you enjoy it!
You have given lots of tips that I can understand and use. Thank you for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
I'm gonna try to get my haskap to root in small pots filled with soil. I'm gonna bend a young branch so it is covered by soil. Hopefully it roots. At least the ones I covered with mulch this spring rooted, and are already replanted.
Great video. Full of information. Love this format! And always thinking you are going to trip walking backwards the whole time 😂
Is there a reason you don’t grow elderberry? Also, what layer do comfrey and lovage belong to? Do you grow them? Mine are big like bushes here in Calgary Alberta area.
We’ve grown them but they died out after a couple of years. Need more loam or clay soil.
Can you do a video on your traps please!!!
I have, see my playlist “insects and disease of fruit trees”
Love the food forest ❤
really cool, informative video, congrats for such a beautiful diverse orchard ecosystem! only drawback, the camera doesn't capture a single thing of what you wanted to show us because it never leaves the focus from you handsome guy☺
So nice of you
Your seedling field is an important part of the video to me. I've done something similar in a open field part of my property with mostly seedling trees, with the intent of it being low maintenance, and I have the same kind of results. It's been very dry here the last 3 years, not a good start for the trees.
Well said!
I could be wrong, but think you'll need two Paw Paw's to cross pollinate and get fruit, I'm sure you know that already. Your property is magical💚!
Agreed, it's been hard enough to get one to grow and survive, will be adding more seeds to germinate.
@@StefanSobkowiak Good luck on your Paw Paw adventure 🙂
I love your work. Have you ever considered running organic pigs under the fruit trees to consume the excess fruit?
Considered but a little leery of the rooting and the manure and parasite transmission to people.
Another wonderful video. Your orchard is huge and very beautiful. I know you mentioned free picking but what do you do with the rest of the apples and other fruit?
We gather some for juice some years, feed to the animals, gather for deer hunters and leave some for voles when we expect a big vole years.
@@StefanSobkowiakafter the destruction I seen the voles did to my flower bulbs over winter, I wouldn’t encourage them. I have never seen a vole in my life and when I found info on them they were soon evicted.
Excellent video - Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
I have two peach trees and I get an abundance of them since I live alone I have no problem sharing my peaches with my neighbor's and my family nothing gets wasted they do there goes in a canning jar or to a neighbor
Hey i like how your fluffy mic matches your hair! so cute ;)
Thank you! 😊
Hello, thank you for sharing all your tips and tricks.
I have planted a few fruit trees and will continue to plant more.
I notice your trees are so tall. How do you pick all your fruit from such tall trees?
What about the fact of the trees being so tall and causing a lot of shade for smaller younger trees? Would that not cause issues over time?
Yes I didn’t expect them to grow so much. We use ladders and poles to pick tops. Or just shake harvest.
How do you harvest the (cultivated) grapes and kiwis? Do you have to cut them back periodically so they don’t strangle the trees? And what varieties of kiwi did you find will survive your winters? Thanks - very inspiring tour!
Yes they will be cut back to about 6-8 feet. Kiwi: Michigan State is the only one I remember.
I would make apple mousse for my porridge with 100 lb of apples.
May I ask you - which directions are your tree raws planted? east west or to the least wind attack area?.... thank you very much.
I am about to plant 300 fruit trees on Cape Breton Island, NS and I need every valid input I can get out there.
Thank you once again!
For Cape Breton wind will likely be the greatest influence. I would go with North South orientation so that the West most rows will reduce the wind. Also lets in the most sun to dry off the trees from the rain and fog.
Now you realy have a forest.
Wild grapes galore in my woods and field edges. They absolutely will strangle a tree. And, you're right, they grow very fast. I found a crabapple tree just a short distance from my house I didn't know I had until I liberated it from a wild grape vine. That thing burst to life the following spring. Too bad it's about the worst, soft, bland apple I have ever eaten. The other old crab I found here has the tastiest, crispiest, sweet/sour apples... either way they are both good pollinators etc...
You can overgraft it to a few kinds of apples.
That's what I was thinking. It's a vigorous, healthy tree that seems pretty disease resistant. @@StefanSobkowiak
At 15:00 minutes there is an explanation about apples developing cells which later develop.Really fascinating!
I too dream of paw paws. I won a seedling but it died. Some day!!
An idea for bump crops. Let old customers pick for free like you did, as a new product offer apple pressing as a service. If someone picks 200 pounds of apples, they will be thinking of all that canning and juicing anyway. Charge by the pound! 💪
Thank you for the information I havre a lot of apples on the ground can i leaves them there for The wildlife
You can if the wildlife will clean them up within a few weeks.
I can imagine you walking backwards on a town street.
😂 "i get distracted by Kiwis" sell me the tee shirt.... Actually, make it a TREE shirt
At about 7:14, Stefan plants another plum tree!
Which plant cause irrigation line problem due to the roots?
Perennial sunflower
Question- I have a lot of wild seedling apples around my property. Would it be better to transplant to a nursery bed this fall, graft in the spring and then move to orchard or transplant to orchard directly? Any suggestions for helping trees when we get those sudden drops in temperature beyond the normal range for your region?
For the cold drops use cultivars that are at least one zone hardier. Build in cold protection that way. For the seedlings plant them in the orchard, add a metal tree guard and a marker stake to find them and graft in spring. Less transplanting is better.
I eating only overripe fruits. This when they most tasty
Stefan I fight the codling moth and apple maggot flies in my small orchard. You said your traps are working. What are they made of?
I have a video describing each one in separate videos. See the maintenance playlist.
''There is no such things as eating too many plums. I eat 20 a day''. He eats. ''Mmmm''.
People want to be in exchange. Let them help YOU. Have them pay a little bit to come pick apples and make them a cup of coffee, and a blanket to catch sun on. You did all this. You should have some exchange. There are four levels of exchange. 1. Take, give nothing in return. This is the level of the criminal and you can get more criminals by never let them give back. 2. Give less than the value of what you get. 3. Give the same value back, noting more, nothing less - give what you promised and no extra. 4. Give more than the value you get. This is the best level for a company to work on, but the hardest.
So give them in abundance but charge something. They will be so happy. Also let them pick something for you. Just ask for it.
Stark Bros is the only nursery I'm aware of that ships in the fall. Does anyone have recommendations on other nurseries for fall shipping (ie mid-late October)?
Most smaller and family nurseries do fall shipping.
You are talking about birds diversity. Do you have cherry trees? How do you deal with birds. If I not covering they eat my cherry way before they even ripe
Everyone loves cherries, plant more.
NE Ohio. My Good friend has about 30 different types of cherry trees in his orchard. His family also loves to hunt.
When the cherries start to ripen, the whole family goes bird hunting,,, specially trying to take out the invasive species, STARLINGS! & you know, Robin breasts are very edible! ;>) @@StefanSobkowiak
I know, protected however.
Have you grafted to the paw paw?
No
@@StefanSobkowiak I’ve taken root cuttings very easily, and I suspect grafting is as easy. If you only have one source of genetics, you will need to graft, to get fruit. Love your content, and I agree with everything you do.
I have been trying unsuccessfully as well to get pawpaws to establish. I'll keep trying. Maybe I need to build a shade cloth over them? Perhaps sized so the sun is filtered between 10am and 2pm?
We chopped down the locust trees near house. They are weak trees in storms. The choke cherry went also. Both are very aggressive trees here in WI. Now the locust are popping up from the roots all over. Cedars, Asian elms and oaks grow like weeds. And we have a neighbor with a black walnut that I need to keep clipping seedlings constantly-sigh. I’m sure these trees have a purpose somewhere, but too aggressive here.
I started an orchard last year. The late frosts here may be an issue. The climate change caused too warm of weather and broke dormancy way too soon and frost killed a lot of plants. Winery lost about 90% of grapes. It killed a vigorous grape vine here. I could grow peach trees 2 miles away but not here. Tried three times and think it’s too hot and dry. However we did install drip irrigation this year and may try one more time.
Irrigation question: is a single 2 gallon emitter ok for fruit tree or would it be better to create a circle around the trees?
I’m clueless on spraying, but was told we have apple scab and I thought it was cedar rust.
You have such a beautiful orchard.
What does you suggest I pla t for 1/2 of land in Sault Ste. MARIE , Ontario area
1/2 ACRE IT WAS suppose to read plant
@@sheilabrennan5543 oops, I think you wanted your comment on main comment section. ☺️
A guy that i got some paw paws from said grow them in sumac then after 3 yrs trim away the sumac and the paw paw will take off.
Great tip.
what was the "rare" plant that constricts the irrigation lines?
Perennial sunflower
@@StefanSobkowiak At first I thought they might be sunchokes. I guess that's not surprising since they're also a perennial sunflower.
Your mixed fruit orchard is rather like my mixed avocado, apples and stone fruit and wild grape with the odd fig, nut and citrus orchard, unlike yours I do not have the space.
Un like your much of mine grows in 2 totally different places.
One is on a morning sunny Eastern pour iron sand face, the 2nd is a natural semi soft swamp that I've slowly but surely draining.
My fruit is ripe from about mid-January though to late April being the beginning of our NZ winters.
What are the results.
The avocado are given away to ever ask, or I might trade for a bit of meat.
The stone fruit I get 150 to 200 kgs.
I slow cook every evening as they are harvested and if there are apples with that harvest, they go into the pot too.
At the end of the season, I surely have 10 to 12 large roasting dishes sizes full of stewed fruit including many many feijoas and wild black berry fruits.
Here every year in NZ Māori in my area hold a parliament that is called a Poukai.
There is 4 Pa in our area that hold these and people all over NZ come to these hui.
I donate most of my stewed fruit to these do's for their chiefs to turn into wonderful puddings that are baked to feed the visiting peoples that come to talk at these parliaments as well as the locals in attendances.
Some Pa have these visitors stay overnight and they are feed breakfast as well.
Love your fruit orchard mate, I wish I had your area over here, cheers.
Wonderful keep going. Love fejoas.
Sparta looks a lot like my Roman Beauty.
😊😊💖💖👍👍
Day by day you transform to Apple Grandpa😂
Do you have deer infestation?
All around not inside the orchard.
Some of that orchard is growing Old Man's Beard moss ... and started growing on you ....
Please stop eating while filming, manners, manners.
Let him enjoy himself. Some say bad manners are coming into someone else’s home (channel) and being rude 😅
It is ok,it is normal,don't sweet the small stuff, isn't a big deal. Greetings from Chicago
Beard is a good look 👍
How did you establish the milkweed?
Native and easily self propagates by seed in our area.
Is there any science on the nitrogen fixing trees or is it anecdotal?
There are several studies about the amount of nitrogen fixed by different species.
I can clearly see black locust helping one of hazelnuts compare to othets without legumes near by.
Always love your inspiring and educational videos. Miss seeing your whole smiling face in this one, though. God Bless!