I wish I could give more than one thumb up. That orchard is amazing. I have 12 fruit trees (3 apple, 3 cherry, 3 peach, 3 plum) all with 10’ space in between to give them a max diameter of 10ish feet each. Watching this video gave me a glimpse i to my future...and now I want to expand it to many more trees! My 5yr old peach tree got leaf curl so I picked most of those leaves off and now the young leaves are yellow and falling off. Instead of that black landscape cloth all over I have about 4-6” of mulch from my neighbor’s trees being cut down. I think the problem is that with all the rain I’ve been getting the mulch is helping the soil retain too much water. You are right about growing to learn. I am learning a lot...mostly that I screwed up. 🤦♂️
Hi Jeremy, don't look at something that perhaps didn't work out the way you anticipated, just take it as an answer to try something in a different way or look at it from another angle. As far as the wood chips, those are actually really good for the trees and the garden, the wood chips create a perfect environment for miselium, different kinds of fungi that break down the wood and by attaching to the tree roots get sugars from the tree and the tree can get all kinds of minerals and micro nutrients from the miselium that is spread out much farther then the tree roots can ever reach. For the peach tree leaf curl, spray them down with copper sprays when the tree starts to go in to dormancy and again in the winter and during bud swell. That should control it. I have lots of peach trees and different varieties and some will get it and some wont. Just pick off the ones that are bad, and it doesn't affect the fruit, just the leaves. We all are learning every time, its all good.
Hello John, I am not a commercial grower, just like growing different varieties of things. I like growing things just for the sake of trying something different from the normal, to understand how and why we should be doing something for either fruit production or to keep a certain size or shape of a tree or plant. I really do enjoy it.
Beautiful trees and orchard John. I would love to see a video on blueberry propagation if you can do that? Do you sell your fruit or do you just eat a lot of fruit? 😀
Thank you, yes, i will try to make a video on that. I recently built a heated rooting-propagation box and i was gonna test it out and make a video on it. I'll have to wait to collect some new growth for rooting material/Cuttings. As far as the fruit, we eat it fresh, share with family and friends, and store it for winter in different forms. What goes bad, goes to the animals.
I am not sure about how easy blueberries are to propagate but I have a 100ft fence full of blackberries and raspberries, half of which I just cut from pruning and stuck directly in the ground. I dip them in root grow, dig a hole 6” in diameter, amend the clay soil with 50% compost and a handful of bone meal, water them in with miracle grow and mulch over them. I’ve got about a 85% success rate. No electricity needed, just set ‘em and forget ‘em...until they need water. My neighbor loved it so much he had me do his entire fence line last week.
Wow, Looks amazing!
thank you! i'm glad you can appreciate it.
I wish I could give more than one thumb up. That orchard is amazing. I have 12 fruit trees (3 apple, 3 cherry, 3 peach, 3 plum) all with 10’ space in between to give them a max diameter of 10ish feet each. Watching this video gave me a glimpse i to my future...and now I want to expand it to many more trees! My 5yr old peach tree got leaf curl so I picked most of those leaves off and now the young leaves are yellow and falling off. Instead of that black landscape cloth all over I have about 4-6” of mulch from my neighbor’s trees being cut down. I think the problem is that with all the rain I’ve been getting the mulch is helping the soil retain too much water. You are right about growing to learn. I am learning a lot...mostly that I screwed up. 🤦♂️
Hi Jeremy, don't look at something that perhaps didn't work out the way you anticipated, just take it as an answer to try something in a different way or look at it from another angle. As far as the wood chips, those are actually really good for the trees and the garden, the wood chips create a perfect environment for miselium, different kinds of fungi that break down the wood and by attaching to the tree roots get sugars from the tree and the tree can get all kinds of minerals and micro nutrients from the miselium that is spread out much farther then the tree roots can ever reach. For the peach tree leaf curl, spray them down with copper sprays when the tree starts to go in to dormancy and again in the winter and during bud swell. That should control it. I have lots of peach trees and different varieties and some will get it and some wont. Just pick off the ones that are bad, and it doesn't affect the fruit, just the leaves. We all are learning every time, its all good.
You really inspire me. This is what my vision is for small space short wide trees, but don’t know how to get there. Help
You just need to start, go get some dwarf or semi-dwarf trees and just plant them
I see that you have deer-proofed your orchard; smart move. Are you a commercial grower?
Hello John, I am not a commercial grower, just like growing different varieties of things. I like growing things just for the sake of trying something different from the normal, to understand how and why we should be doing something for either fruit production or to keep a certain size or shape of a tree or plant. I really do enjoy it.
Beautiful trees and orchard John. I would love to see a video on blueberry propagation if you can do that? Do you sell your fruit or do you just eat a lot of fruit? 😀
Thank you, yes, i will try to make a video on that. I recently built a heated rooting-propagation box and i was gonna test it out and make a video on it. I'll have to wait to collect some new growth for rooting material/Cuttings. As far as the fruit, we eat it fresh, share with family and friends, and store it for winter in different forms. What goes bad, goes to the animals.
I am not sure about how easy blueberries are to propagate but I have a 100ft fence full of blackberries and raspberries, half of which I just cut from pruning and stuck directly in the ground. I dip them in root grow, dig a hole 6” in diameter, amend the clay soil with 50% compost and a handful of bone meal, water them in with miracle grow and mulch over them. I’ve got about a 85% success rate. No electricity needed, just set ‘em and forget ‘em...until they need water. My neighbor loved it so much he had me do his entire fence line last week.