Hello Paddy. Good to hear from you. I'm still mostly in one piece. Between tree planting, cutting wire for weeks on end to create tree cages and then lots of decorating and gardening around the house, my poor hands need some R&R. It is good to see the trees progress. I hope all is well with you. All the best.
@@GubbFarm yeah it was good to get an update from you. Was wondering how things were going. You’re tough to be putting in all that effort. It’s worth it though fair play to you. All well here thanks, grand sup of rain! Take it handy.
@@anthonywestofireland2503 fingers crossed it works out. It is going to take a few years to get it how I would like, but I'm settled in for the long haul. As for the rain, it was needed and welcome. All the best.
Delighted to see them doing well. We bought a cottage on 3,5 acres back in March. Lots of rushes, docks, thistles, nettles and what have you. Was hoping to grow hazel without making too many changes to the soil but was worried that it wouldn't work but you seem to do ok despite the rushes!
Hello Linda. Congratulations on purchasing your new home and hopefully you will have many happy years there. As for rushes and poor soil, from what I have observed, it looks like the hazelnut trees are hardy and if you give them half a chance they will grow. Whether or not that results in yield is another question that only time will tell. Should you decide to plant hazelnut trees, you should consider joining the following Irish Nut Growers WhatsApp group: bit.ly/irish-nut-growers-chat All the best.
Good to see that the trees do well. One takeaway I had from watching an Austrian channel who is expert in tree planting is the importance of a broad variety in covercrop between rows. It will deter pests and promote microbial live in the soil. So instead of focusing on clover you'll probably should go for a mix.
Hello. I fully agree with your comments. The long term plan is to create a permaculture orchard by interplanting a broad mix of herbs, shrubs, flower etc. It is going to take a few years and on the next pass I want to focus on getting nitrogen into the ground and adding more berry shrubs interplanted. An interesting observation is that we are seeing more wildflowers coming through in the fields naturally each year. Possibly that is because we don't have livestock on the ground or maybe it is because we are cutting back the rushes now after years of overgrowth. All the best.
Suppressing the grass around the trees might stop competition for moisture as well as nutrients. Lack of moisture hasn't really been a problem this summer though!
Hello DB. I was keeping an eye on the moisture levels around the trees during the heatwave. It looks like the long grass may have helped keep the ground moist during the last heatwave as areas with short grass were starting to dry out, but the big winner on that front was the wood chip. At the end of the heatwave, when I dug into the woodchip, the ground still felt quite moist and the area with long grass had a lesser level of moisture - but still some. Since I recorded that video I noticed some yellow tinges on some of the hazelnut tree leaves, so I'm going to get a leaf analysis done to see if it was the drought or a nutrient deficiency, possibly caused by grass competition. I am currently in the process of cutting back the grass and then I will mulch around the trees to feed the soil and reduce grass competition. Going forward I plan to keep the grass short around the trees and mulched while leaving the middle of the alleys for wild life / bio diversity. All the best.
Yeah the long grass can act as a mulch - it doesn't take too much moisture out of the ground once it has enough energy to produce seeds, whereas the short grass keeps sucking everything up as it frantically tries to grow enough to flower and set seed.
Hello Bob. Good to hear from you. With regards to the bioreactor, it must be almost a year now, so I should do a follow up video to see how it is progressing. I did check earlier on in the year and I saw lots of mushrooms, which I assume is good. I hope all is well with you. All the best.
Great video, really enjoyed seeing hard work paying dividends. I don't know these trees but isn't the foliage you are seeing at the moment a reflection of the plants original energy store? I think you'll have a better sense of how happy they are when they begin framing. I don't know what you have planned for mulch, I can recommend composted woodchip, calcium sulphate, eggshell and a large amount of bird manure. Applied it and the trees won't stop throwing out new branches. Are you going to create any guides around the trees? Rhubarb would enjoy all that water, does it grow well on your area, is there a market fot it?
Hello Andrey. That is an interesting comment about root energy determining the foliage. I now need to have a walk around the trees planted last year to compare the foliage having now got one growing season under their belt. With regards to mulch, I am developing a Willow coppicing forest, primarily based on the reported benefits of salicylic and indolebutyric acid which are said to improve tree health. I am also currently looking into adding a mixed kelp product to add micronutrients along with eggshells and possibly rock dust (but I think the kelp will negate the need for rock dust). With regards to manure, I am not immediately planning to add it as I don't want too much nitrogen, but over time I plan to introduce pasture-fed chickens to both contribute toward fertilisation while also controlling nut weevil. I have no plans to create guides for the trees and will focus on pruning them to create the goblet structure that I'm looking for. As for rhubarb, it is very easy to grow in Fermanagh and I do love rhubarb jam, which sells in the local shops. Thanks for your comment. All the best.
We composted all our ingredients together over autumn and winter. It's been raining on and off for the last week and they've grown another half a foot. The no longer have great flocks of birds over wintering in the woods and raising their young in spring, but if we did, this is what they would contribute to the forest floor. Do you need micronutrients, is that what your soil test is suggesting? How the bioreactor, that should be a good source of fertility.
Love the videos and updates thank you. Considering planting some on a patch of land that’s too wet & soft for grazing cattle. How many acres did you plant in the end?
Hello Sinead. I planted about 17 acres so far and some of the trees were planted in very wet ground. It will be interesting to see if they make it and yield, but only time will tell. So far they look happy in the wet fields. All the best.
Hello Sinead. I bought the trees from Andi Wilson at Fruit and Nut, who has now passed away. John Clearly who supplied Andi with the trees might have some or Future Forest is another option. You should consider joining the Irish Nut Growers WhatsApp chat group (bit.ly/irish-nut-growers-chat). It is a mixed group with everything from market gardens through to larger orchards and is a good source of knowledge. John Clearly is in the group and you can see if he has any stock at the moment. If you can buy Irish grown stock, do so, because we have seen one instance over the last year of imported stock having disease issues. All the best, Dary.
The trees seem to be doing well for their 1st year and should only get better from here. The raspberry canes that grow this year should fruit next July. You might even get a few raspberries from it this fall. After the canes bear fruit during the summer, those canes are done and can be cut down to the ground. Starting in your 3rd year, they should really take off with fruit and spreading.
Hello Martin. I plan to propagate the suckers by layering them and if I get overrun, cut them back. The plan is to build up enough stock to plant some more land over the coming years... assuming they yield nuts in the interim. I hope all is well.
Hello. The shrubs on the shortlist to interplant between the trees include: Aronia Blackberries Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum, Ben Sarek) Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum, Ebony) Blueberry Cherry Cranberry Elaeagnus x ebbingei Elderberry (Sambucus nigra Walfinb) Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa Hinnonmaki Red) Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa Hinnonmaki yellow) Haskap (Blue Berry Honey Suckle) Juneberry (Amelanchier stolonifera) Lingonberry Mulberry Raspberries Raspberry, Creeping (Rubus pentalabus) Sea Buckthorn (aka Sea Berry) Siberian Pea Ugni berries I have reservations about blueberry shrubs because my soil is probably not acidic enough. The big issue that I'm facing in Northern Ireland are restrictions from bringing plants from the UK, so I'm currently trying to source plants on the island of Ireland, but stock levels aren't great when I last phoned around. All the best.
Hello Liam and good to hear from you. I did look into propagating hazel through cuttings, but the research that I read suggested it was very hard to achieve. What I plan to do, it propagate through layering the suckers that come up around the newly planted trees. I also would like to have a go at cross breeding wild and commercial cultivars and using the resulting nuts to see what the outcome is. All the best.
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I was just about to say “I’m glad to see you’re still in one piece” but then I saw the taped up hands lol.
Nice to see a bit of growth on the trees
Hello Paddy. Good to hear from you. I'm still mostly in one piece. Between tree planting, cutting wire for weeks on end to create tree cages and then lots of decorating and gardening around the house, my poor hands need some R&R.
It is good to see the trees progress. I hope all is well with you. All the best.
@@GubbFarm yeah it was good to get an update from you. Was wondering how things were going.
You’re tough to be putting in all that effort. It’s worth it though fair play to you.
All well here thanks, grand sup of rain!
Take it handy.
@@anthonywestofireland2503 fingers crossed it works out. It is going to take a few years to get it how I would like, but I'm settled in for the long haul.
As for the rain, it was needed and welcome.
All the best.
Delighted to see them doing well. We bought a cottage on 3,5 acres back in March. Lots of rushes, docks, thistles, nettles and what have you. Was hoping to grow hazel without making too many changes to the soil but was worried that it wouldn't work but you seem to do ok despite the rushes!
Hello Linda. Congratulations on purchasing your new home and hopefully you will have many happy years there. As for rushes and poor soil, from what I have observed, it looks like the hazelnut trees are hardy and if you give them half a chance they will grow. Whether or not that results in yield is another question that only time will tell. Should you decide to plant hazelnut trees, you should consider joining the following Irish Nut Growers WhatsApp group: bit.ly/irish-nut-growers-chat
All the best.
Good to see that the trees do well. One takeaway I had from watching an Austrian channel who is expert in tree planting is the importance of a broad variety in covercrop between rows. It will deter pests and promote microbial live in the soil. So instead of focusing on clover you'll probably should go for a mix.
Hello. I fully agree with your comments. The long term plan is to create a permaculture orchard by interplanting a broad mix of herbs, shrubs, flower etc. It is going to take a few years and on the next pass I want to focus on getting nitrogen into the ground and adding more berry shrubs interplanted.
An interesting observation is that we are seeing more wildflowers coming through in the fields naturally each year. Possibly that is because we don't have livestock on the ground or maybe it is because we are cutting back the rushes now after years of overgrowth. All the best.
Suppressing the grass around the trees might stop competition for moisture as well as nutrients. Lack of moisture hasn't really been a problem this summer though!
Hello DB. I was keeping an eye on the moisture levels around the trees during the heatwave. It looks like the long grass may have helped keep the ground moist during the last heatwave as areas with short grass were starting to dry out, but the big winner on that front was the wood chip. At the end of the heatwave, when I dug into the woodchip, the ground still felt quite moist and the area with long grass had a lesser level of moisture - but still some.
Since I recorded that video I noticed some yellow tinges on some of the hazelnut tree leaves, so I'm going to get a leaf analysis done to see if it was the drought or a nutrient deficiency, possibly caused by grass competition.
I am currently in the process of cutting back the grass and then I will mulch around the trees to feed the soil and reduce grass competition. Going forward I plan to keep the grass short around the trees and mulched while leaving the middle of the alleys for wild life / bio diversity. All the best.
Yeah the long grass can act as a mulch - it doesn't take too much moisture out of the ground once it has enough energy to produce seeds, whereas the short grass keeps sucking everything up as it frantically tries to grow enough to flower and set seed.
Good to see the plants doing allright. Glad to hear from you again. By the way, how's the bioreactor doing?
Hello Bob. Good to hear from you. With regards to the bioreactor, it must be almost a year now, so I should do a follow up video to see how it is progressing. I did check earlier on in the year and I saw lots of mushrooms, which I assume is good. I hope all is well with you. All the best.
Great video, really enjoyed seeing hard work paying dividends. I don't know these trees but isn't the foliage you are seeing at the moment a reflection of the plants original energy store? I think you'll have a better sense of how happy they are when they begin framing. I don't know what you have planned for mulch, I can recommend composted woodchip, calcium sulphate, eggshell and a large amount of bird manure. Applied it and the trees won't stop throwing out new branches. Are you going to create any guides around the trees? Rhubarb would enjoy all that water, does it grow well on your area, is there a market fot it?
Hello Andrey. That is an interesting comment about root energy determining the foliage. I now need to have a walk around the trees planted last year to compare the foliage having now got one growing season under their belt.
With regards to mulch, I am developing a Willow coppicing forest, primarily based on the reported benefits of salicylic and indolebutyric acid which are said to improve tree health. I am also currently looking into adding a mixed kelp product to add micronutrients along with eggshells and possibly rock dust (but I think the kelp will negate the need for rock dust). With regards to manure, I am not immediately planning to add it as I don't want too much nitrogen, but over time I plan to introduce pasture-fed chickens to both contribute toward fertilisation while also controlling nut weevil.
I have no plans to create guides for the trees and will focus on pruning them to create the goblet structure that I'm looking for.
As for rhubarb, it is very easy to grow in Fermanagh and I do love rhubarb jam, which sells in the local shops.
Thanks for your comment. All the best.
We composted all our ingredients together over autumn and winter. It's been raining on and off for the last week and they've grown another half a foot. The no longer have great flocks of birds over wintering in the woods and raising their young in spring, but if we did, this is what they would contribute to the forest floor. Do you need micronutrients, is that what your soil test is suggesting? How the bioreactor, that should be a good source of fertility.
The calcium sulphate was mined, we went light on this, it just ensures the mycelium has a ready supply.
Love the videos and updates thank you. Considering planting some on a patch of land that’s too wet & soft for grazing cattle. How many acres did you plant in the end?
Hello Sinead. I planted about 17 acres so far and some of the trees were planted in very wet ground. It will be interesting to see if they make it and yield, but only time will tell. So far they look happy in the wet fields. All the best.
@@GubbFarm thanks so much. Your videos are so informative, will let ya know how I get on too! 👍🏻
Can I ask where did you buy or order your trees from?
Hello Sinead. I bought the trees from Andi Wilson at Fruit and Nut, who has now passed away. John Clearly who supplied Andi with the trees might have some or Future Forest is another option.
You should consider joining the Irish Nut Growers WhatsApp chat group (bit.ly/irish-nut-growers-chat). It is a mixed group with everything from market gardens through to larger orchards and is a good source of knowledge.
John Clearly is in the group and you can see if he has any stock at the moment. If you can buy Irish grown stock, do so, because we have seen one instance over the last year of imported stock having disease issues. All the best, Dary.
The trees seem to be doing well for their 1st year and should only get better from here. The raspberry canes that grow this year should fruit next July. You might even get a few raspberries from it this fall. After the canes bear fruit during the summer, those canes are done and can be cut down to the ground. Starting in your 3rd year, they should really take off with fruit and spreading.
Thanks Steve. It would be great to see some fruit next year and thanks for the tips on how to look after them. All the best.
What are you going to do to stop the suckers constantly sending up shoots all around the base of its trunk?
Hello Martin. I plan to propagate the suckers by layering them and if I get overrun, cut them back. The plan is to build up enough stock to plant some more land over the coming years... assuming they yield nuts in the interim. I hope all is well.
I got 3 one year old hazelnut trees this year and been watching your videos and finding them very helpful.
You are doing a great job.
Thanks@@martinbarrett1527. All the best and good luck with your trees.
Have you thought to do sea Berry? Or blueberry?
Hello. The shrubs on the shortlist to interplant between the trees include:
Aronia
Blackberries
Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum, Ben Sarek)
Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum, Ebony)
Blueberry
Cherry
Cranberry
Elaeagnus x ebbingei
Elderberry (Sambucus nigra Walfinb)
Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa Hinnonmaki Red)
Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa Hinnonmaki yellow)
Haskap (Blue Berry Honey Suckle)
Juneberry (Amelanchier stolonifera)
Lingonberry
Mulberry
Raspberries
Raspberry, Creeping (Rubus pentalabus)
Sea Buckthorn (aka Sea Berry)
Siberian Pea
Ugni berries
I have reservations about blueberry shrubs because my soil is probably not acidic enough. The big issue that I'm facing in Northern Ireland are restrictions from bringing plants from the UK, so I'm currently trying to source plants on the island of Ireland, but stock levels aren't great when I last phoned around. All the best.
Did you have any success propagating Hazel from cuttings?
Hello Liam and good to hear from you. I did look into propagating hazel through cuttings, but the research that I read suggested it was very hard to achieve. What I plan to do, it propagate through layering the suckers that come up around the newly planted trees. I also would like to have a go at cross breeding wild and commercial cultivars and using the resulting nuts to see what the outcome is. All the best.