I have started a small Orchard also. A few years ago I took a grafting class at Seed Savers in Iowa. Hands on grafting and I brought home trees I grafted. Emla 7 root stock. Growing very slowly but still alive. I have been buying large potted trees from a local Nursery, Prudential, in Vicksburg, MI. I planted a Cortland last fall after picking apples the size a softball. I just went back yesterday and bought a Meteor cherry and a Red Haven peach. Planted 2 Blue crop blueberries this AM. Taking advantage of the rain in the MI forecast. Thanks for the great videos
Great video! 👍 I planted a pear, an apple, a couple of cider apple trees and a crabapple earlier in 2022 here in the south of the UK. The crabapple helps with pollination due to a long flowering time and the wildlife will enjoy the fruit. 🍎🍐
I know this is 2yrs old, the video popped up. I’m actually looking to start an orchard with various fruits. For myself and family/friends and as you mentioned maybe sell some fruits and fruit products. Now I have go through you videos to see the progress and pick up some tips and tricks to grow. Good video i just subscribed.
I would like someday to have apples, peaches, cherries sweet & sour, plums, pawpaws & avacado trees. And a pear or 2. Lol Already started with mulberry & grapes. Also hope to have almond & black walnut. Already growing are pecan & Filbert/Hazelnut. Really no room on my homes rented town lot but dreams are a beginning to the future.
I am researching my new orchard. Why such wide spacing? I understand that commercial growers are now planting fruit trees much closer together and getting higher per acre yields. Some home orchard as close as 2 to 4 feet. They are controlling height by pruning so fruit can be picked from the ground with out ladders. Enjoy your orchard!
Take corrugated drain tile tubing cut them to length then cut a slit down through lengthwise. It makes great rabbit barrier around the trunks of young trees. I have great success the ward off rabbits and mice.
I cannot stop visualizing Bon Ross when your videos are playing 😊 Love the progress of the orchard💚 I haven’t decided which trees I would like on my property as of yet. 🤔 I’m leaning towards dwarf varieties.👌🏾 Great video
You are extremely lucky rabbits haven’t girdled your trees. Several years ago we had a bad winter and the rabbit population we have girdled one of our favorite apple trees. Come spring we put wire cages around the remaining fruit trees. We also have a huge problem with stone fruit bores. They have killed two peach trees and a cherry tree. Kind of frustrating to say the least. Good luck with your orchid 💚🙃 I also live in Michigan and there are also a lot of peach tree orchids around here. While they don’t keep as well as apples, they do make lovely jam, pie filling and canned peaches. Oh the wonderful taste of your own canned peaches, nothing compares 💚🙃
Planted cherries and peaches last year. Purchased apples, plums, and pears yesterday. Making a hedge between our house and the neighbor using blueberries, goji, elderberry and bush cherries. Blueberries are here. Been raining for three days now so will have to wait a week or so. Great video and content.
Heads up on throwing fruit to the animals- I recommend cutting them in half, stepping on them or throwing them hard enough to crack open. The flat teeth of grazing animals don't have the best grip on smooth fruit and when they bite down it can cause the fruit to be slide back into the throat. I've seen our cows choke on apples that weren't smashed enough and growing up my dad had a family cow that died choking on an apple.
Any cons to doing a little of both methods? Planting established trees in your prime areas with 75-80% of the tree funds and planting a larger number of bare root 2 year old trees farther out or something? I could see a little extra work in managing two initial ages of trees but could be a nice multiplier.
Yeah I don't think I'm ever going to get pigs. I don't really think I would want anyway but after you got attacked by them I don't want any of those around my kids already got crazy goats that want to head but everything. Enjoyed the video.
Apple cider with your pancakes and maple syrup on frosty fall morning followed up by pork chops with apple sauce for dinner and baked apples for desert.
So a few questions if I may. it looks like you got really close with the tiller to your established trees, hope you didnt hit the root base, I’m sure you didnt. WHy take the chips away? I always cover the old chips with the compost, it helps break them down and create even more nutrients. I put a lot of bare root trees in my first few years, I wish I would have added a few mature trees then, I am just getting fruit now, 5 years later. You are right though, it will work out. Ill have a ton of fruit then they come in though to make up for the first few years.
Bees will help your trees bare fruit sooner. We have 3 apple trees that did nothing for a few years, until we got bees. Last year we had apples, ugly apples, but apples nonetheless.
Hi, I bought pear tree almost exactly the size of your trees with a few branches and a few leaves but after I planted to a different pot or bigger pot the leaves starts yellowing. Is this natural? We are in the fall season now or is there something else wrong with it? I planned to leave this tree in a pot for right now. Please help!😊Thanks
I have a huge problem with deer, goats and rabbits eating the bark on my young trees. what I found works good is buying an extra roll of metal goat fencing and cutting it to go around the base of the tree.
If you use those tree guards don't leave them on too long. I bought a property and the fruit trees had them, the sap was oozing underneath them--pests would get in and eat at the tree.
Was a good watch, we are putting 7 fruit trees into the front yard, I got sick of the grass, but they are multi grafts so we will have 15 different fruits. Although it was nice to know someone else uses the tape measure technique to get the spacing. We are lucky in terms of pests, we are in Australia, we don't have to worry about deer here and the rabbits don't enter the suburbs, but we have to deal with flying foxes, large birds and possums stealing the fruit. Was also interesting your reasoning of the more mature trees, we ended up with the smaller versions, as from experience they tend to grow a lot faster and stronger than the mature, but the mature you can get crops from a hell of a lot sooner. Guess its a balancing act.
But dont cover the graft! 😃we use 6 inch corrugated pipe cut into 2 foot lengths, and split on one side for guards. They are cheap, flexible, and last several years. Its also great protection from weedeaters.
Awesome video... minus the first part with the super relaxing music and tractor noise. I was just about to fall asleep till you started talking and scared the bejeezus out of me. Lol
I hate my lawn and want to get rid of more of it each year. I will also garden in all of that space and as the trees grow they will shade it out and it will be a nice wood chipped area
SSLFamilyDad i was actually going to ask if you were going to plant smth in that area since the soil is all tilled and amended and trees are small. What are you planting?
Remove the tags/labels off the tree before the tree gets too big and chokes a limb out. I place the tag name of species on a stake next to the tree or on the cage around the tree
I have started a small Orchard also. A few years ago I took a grafting class at Seed Savers in Iowa. Hands on grafting and I brought home trees I grafted. Emla 7 root stock. Growing very slowly but still alive. I have been buying large potted trees from a local Nursery, Prudential, in Vicksburg, MI. I planted a Cortland last fall after picking apples the size a softball. I just went back yesterday and bought a Meteor cherry and a Red Haven peach. Planted 2 Blue crop blueberries this AM. Taking advantage of the rain in the MI forecast. Thanks for the great videos
you englishmen use the word nursery for everything no?
Great video! 👍 I planted a pear, an apple, a couple of cider apple trees and a crabapple earlier in 2022 here in the south of the UK. The crabapple helps with pollination due to a long flowering time and the wildlife will enjoy the fruit. 🍎🍐
I know this is 2yrs old, the video popped up. I’m actually looking to start an orchard with various fruits. For myself and family/friends and as you mentioned maybe sell some fruits and fruit products. Now I have go through you videos to see the progress and pick up some tips and tricks to grow. Good video i just subscribed.
We buy some every year to build up the orchard. Whatever mant we can afford we get just like you! Great investment. Greetings from Wisconsin. Karen
I would like someday to have apples, peaches, cherries sweet & sour, plums, pawpaws & avacado trees. And a pear or 2. Lol Already started with mulberry & grapes. Also hope to have almond & black walnut. Already growing are pecan & Filbert/Hazelnut. Really no room on my homes rented town lot but dreams are a beginning to the future.
Beautiful orchard. Great job.
I am researching my new orchard. Why such wide spacing? I understand that commercial growers are now planting fruit trees much closer together and getting higher per acre yields. Some home orchard as close as 2 to 4 feet. They are controlling height by pruning so fruit can be picked from the ground with out ladders. Enjoy your orchard!
Take corrugated drain tile tubing cut them to length then cut a slit down through lengthwise. It makes great rabbit barrier around the trunks of young trees. I have great success the ward off rabbits and mice.
I cannot stop visualizing Bon Ross when your videos are playing 😊 Love the progress of the orchard💚 I haven’t decided which trees I would like on my property as of yet. 🤔 I’m leaning towards dwarf varieties.👌🏾 Great video
Bob was great!
You are extremely lucky rabbits haven’t girdled your trees. Several years ago we had a bad winter and the rabbit population we have girdled one of our favorite apple trees. Come spring we put wire cages around the remaining fruit trees. We also have a huge problem with stone fruit bores. They have killed two peach trees and a cherry tree. Kind of frustrating to say the least. Good luck with your orchid 💚🙃 I also live in Michigan and there are also a lot of peach tree orchids around here. While they don’t keep as well as apples, they do make lovely jam, pie filling and canned peaches. Oh the wonderful taste of your own canned peaches, nothing compares 💚🙃
Nice video! You’re going to have a beautiful orchard
Planted cherries and peaches last year. Purchased apples, plums, and pears yesterday. Making a hedge between our house and the neighbor using blueberries, goji, elderberry and bush cherries. Blueberries are here. Been raining for three days now so will have to wait a week or so. Great video and content.
Sounds awesome! Good work
Heads up on throwing fruit to the animals- I recommend cutting them in half, stepping on them or throwing them hard enough to crack open. The flat teeth of grazing animals don't have the best grip on smooth fruit and when they bite down it can cause the fruit to be slide back into the throat. I've seen our cows choke on apples that weren't smashed enough and growing up my dad had a family cow that died choking on an apple.
Thanks for the illustration. I would love to know what the tractor was for or if it’s ok to just dig a whole by hand? Thanks
Family farm and home fruit trees, its where I got mine as well
Nice video,we camp up north and we drive around to find wild apples my wife makes pies applesauce, good stuff, that white Jeep is way too clean!
Nice Jeep!
Any cons to doing a little of both methods? Planting established trees in your prime areas with 75-80% of the tree funds and planting a larger number of bare root 2 year old trees farther out or something? I could see a little extra work in managing two initial ages of trees but could be a nice multiplier.
As always another informative video thanks for sharing
I planted 1 apple tree last year. This year, I planted another apple, a cherry and a peach. I'm taking it slow like you.
Good luck with your orchard!
Yeah I don't think I'm ever going to get pigs. I don't really think I would want anyway but after you got attacked by them I don't want any of those around my kids already got crazy goats that want to head but everything. Enjoyed the video.
More apple trees!!!! Liked it!
How exciting!
Apple cider with your pancakes and maple syrup on frosty fall morning followed up by pork chops with apple sauce for dinner and baked apples for desert.
Have you ever considered a mulberry tree they are delicious and grow well here in ny. Also chestnut trees produce alot
yup, we have one that is technically on the neighbors property but hangs over the line so we share:)
So a few questions if I may. it looks like you got really close with the tiller to your established trees, hope you didnt hit the root base, I’m sure you didnt.
WHy take the chips away? I always cover the old chips with the compost, it helps break them down and create even more nutrients.
I put a lot of bare root trees in my first few years, I wish I would have added a few mature trees then, I am just getting fruit now, 5 years later. You are right though, it will work out. Ill have a ton of fruit then they come in though to make up for the first few years.
Rabbit guards... I hadn't thought of that. I need to!
South West Michigan is great for growing apples, pear, peaches, grapes, exit 66?
Bees will help your trees bare fruit sooner. We have 3 apple trees that did nothing for a few years, until we got bees. Last year we had apples, ugly apples, but apples nonetheless.
What do you think about the honeycrisp babies? Firestorm,Evercrisp,Cosmic crisp
Great vid, keep it up!
was the type of root stock ever mentioned?? dwarf, semi dwarf full tree ect.. we can about 90 qts of apples a yr and another 80-90 qts of apple sauce.
Hope to have space for a small orchard when we find a place with some more land.
Hi, I bought pear tree almost exactly the size of your trees with a few branches and a few leaves but after I planted to a different pot or bigger pot the leaves starts yellowing. Is this natural? We are in the fall season now or is there something else wrong with it? I planned to leave this tree in a pot for right now. Please help!😊Thanks
Hey man nice video. What is the the music you played in the first part?
I have a huge problem with deer, goats and rabbits eating the bark on my young trees. what I found works good is buying an extra roll of metal goat fencing and cutting it to go around the base of the tree.
Wow, You are a Hard Worker Tractor Family Daddy.
You Could Get Your Tractor Front Bucket with Claws for Dual Purpose Shallow Digger and Scooper.
Question, I believe I know but how do you plan to take care of the leaves. Because I know we would remove our leaves
Apple pie, cider, donuts.
Bing Cherries and a cross pollinator get my vote. And my Mom who was raised in Michigan always said the Peaches were the best.
Have you thought about just planting seeds and just grafting from your other trees onto the rootstock?.
where are you from?
How are the deer?
Just started mine this year. Upper or lower Michigan? Hello from WI
Mid-Michigan
@@SSLFamilyDad Thank you very much for showing how to plant fruit trees.
West or East Mitten ? God's Blessings !
Are your trees dwarf, semi-dwarf, or standard. I had semi-dwarf, now only dwarf because as I get older, pushing 70 now, harder to prune taller trees.
They are all semi-dwarf. I don't mind if they get taller though, I will harvest what I can and let animals eat whatever falls
do the wood chips need to be aged/broken down or not ?
Nope, they are a top dress to hold in moisture and keep down grass and weeds
If you use those tree guards don't leave them on too long. I bought a property and the fruit trees had them, the sap was oozing underneath them--pests would get in and eat at the tree.
Sweet music bro
Reminds me of don potter
how are the trees doing in 2020?
Was a good watch, we are putting 7 fruit trees into the front yard, I got sick of the grass, but they are multi grafts so we will have 15 different fruits.
Although it was nice to know someone else uses the tape measure technique to get the spacing. We are lucky in terms of pests, we are in Australia, we don't have to worry about deer here and the rabbits don't enter the suburbs, but we have to deal with flying foxes, large birds and possums stealing the fruit.
Was also interesting your reasoning of the more mature trees, we ended up with the smaller versions, as from experience they tend to grow a lot faster and stronger than the mature, but the mature you can get crops from a hell of a lot sooner. Guess its a balancing act.
They make good fire wood to Hard Wood smells good to .. After 35 years ours stop Kicking them out Getting ready to cut the Last 1 down..
love u tractor
But dont cover the graft! 😃we use 6 inch corrugated pipe cut into 2 foot lengths, and split on one side for guards. They are cheap, flexible, and last several years. Its also great protection from weedeaters.
Awesome video... minus the first part with the super relaxing music and tractor noise. I was just about to fall asleep till you started talking and scared the bejeezus out of me. Lol
Tin foil is a cheap effective tree guard, that I heard my son squirrels supposedly don't like climbing up and on the trunk
why did you till the whole area instead of just marking where each was going and dig the holes?
I hate my lawn and want to get rid of more of it each year. I will also garden in all of that space and as the trees grow they will shade it out and it will be a nice wood chipped area
SSLFamilyDad i was actually going to ask if you were going to plant smth in that area since the soil is all tilled and amended and trees are small. What are you planting?
I know some apples & pears are able to pollinate each other.
I used 4 inch tile chunks on the base with zip ties! I have 4 inch tile around in case I have to fix a field tile!
Remove the tags/labels off the tree before the tree gets too big and chokes a limb out. I place the tag name of species on a stake next to the tree or on the cage around the tree
It's 2023, prices of everything have doubled or tripled.
You forgot to turn your house lights off???
Extra Money? Ain’t no sucha thing!
hmm....home made apple sauce to market some day?
You can't buy a 4-5 year old tree for $30.00 the trees you are buying are 2 years old for $30.00
horses can't eat too many apples i hope you didn't learn this the hard way
Nice Jeep!