We agree! We have many more videos planned for Orin this coming year. Here's a link to a lot more of Orin's videos: agroecology.ucsc.edu/resources/instructional-videos.html
I have reoccurring nightmares about going back to college. Id love to go back to school to learn from orin. Thank you for spreading the knowledge for free.
Yer Welcome! Don't miss Orin Martin's award winning book, "Fruit Trees for Every Garden: An Organic Approach to Growing Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Citrus, and More". His book won the 2020 American Horticultural Society (AHS) Award, recognizing outstanding gardening literature. You can purchase the book here: a.co/d/glwePid And here’s the playlist for all of the tree care videos: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=9ioGcl7gHgc&list=PLdNOdHei9NV0QjOJDbUTx6wgD-qkiNGah
It's tough to stop the birds, especially with the pears. The birds will wait around the orchard until the fruit is just perfectly ripe and then descend in large flocks to peck a hole in every fruit. We have resorted to picking slightly early and this solves the problem, mostly. In the Hudson River Valley of New York, they use massive nets on wires that are pulled over the trees near harvest time and this completely eliminates the bird damage, but it's not cheap to install the nets and maintain them.
Cover cropping has many benefits, including nitrogen fixing, has been a part of the UCSC farm and garden program for 5 decades. Here's a video with Orin on "Orchard Floor Management" that includes info on cover cropping in the orchard: ua-cam.com/video/w96m9ZdJxVM/v-deo.html Also, search this channel for "cover crop" and you'll find another 10 videos, all about cover cropping.
I was actually referring to planting nitrogen fixers like honey locust ,Russian pea shrubs,sea buckthorn or other kinds of nitrogen fixing plants but not used as a cover crop . Rather planted as a companion to fix nitrogen.
The mulch will raise the soil level a few inches in the first couple of years. After a year or 2, the biological activity in the soil will decompose the chips so rapidly that there will be very little or no additional raising of the soil height.
Orin is the American David Attenborough of farming. Please, make as many videos with him as legally possible :)
We agree! We have many more videos planned for Orin this coming year. Here's a link to a lot more of Orin's videos: agroecology.ucsc.edu/resources/instructional-videos.html
I agree and i found this channel from Sweden It is very educational 🙂
I have reoccurring nightmares about going back to college. Id love to go back to school to learn from orin. Thank you for spreading the knowledge for free.
We think Orin's the best, too!
I'm so glad to know that there is nothing wrong with my apple tree. By your description you gave, it must be a russet. Oh, yay!
Yeh! A relief. And russet apple are some of the best varieties.
“There will be Good years, and Bad years.” Amen!
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Yer Welcome! Don't miss Orin Martin's award winning book, "Fruit Trees for Every Garden: An Organic Approach to Growing Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Citrus, and More". His book won the 2020 American Horticultural Society (AHS) Award, recognizing outstanding gardening literature. You can purchase the book here: a.co/d/glwePid
And here’s the playlist for all of the tree care videos: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=9ioGcl7gHgc&list=PLdNOdHei9NV0QjOJDbUTx6wgD-qkiNGah
Great video!!! how do you prevent birds from eating the fruits?
It's tough to stop the birds, especially with the pears. The birds will wait around the orchard until the fruit is just perfectly ripe and then descend in large flocks to peck a hole in every fruit. We have resorted to picking slightly early and this solves the problem, mostly. In the Hudson River Valley of New York, they use massive nets on wires that are pulled over the trees near harvest time and this completely eliminates the bird damage, but it's not cheap to install the nets and maintain them.
@@ucscagroecology Thank you so much!!!
Excellent video.
I’m curious as to your thoughts of incorporating nitrogen fixing plants as a part of a permaculture guild?
Cover cropping has many benefits, including nitrogen fixing, has been a part of the UCSC farm and garden program for 5 decades. Here's a video with Orin on "Orchard Floor Management" that includes info on cover cropping in the orchard: ua-cam.com/video/w96m9ZdJxVM/v-deo.html
Also, search this channel for "cover crop" and you'll find another 10 videos, all about cover cropping.
@@ucscagroecology thank you
I was actually referring to planting nitrogen fixers like honey locust ,Russian pea shrubs,sea buckthorn or other kinds of nitrogen fixing plants but not used as a cover crop . Rather planted as a companion to fix nitrogen.
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Orin without the UFW hat? Strange times indeed
I'll talk with the wardrobe department about that.
g morn. what do u do with the mulch over a period of time as it raises the level of the ground.
The mulch will raise the soil level a few inches in the first couple of years. After a year or 2, the biological activity in the soil will decompose the chips so rapidly that there will be very little or no additional raising of the soil height.
thanks for the kind reply. just wanted to know. do u mulch once or yearly? and if u do it yearly, will the 3 inches of mulch decompose every year?
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