From Planting to Harvest: Unlocking the Secrets of Home Orchard Management Part 1
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- This series will cover step by step instructions on how to plan, plant and manage a home orchard.
Host: Gary L. Heilig, Horticulture Educator (retired) for Michigan State University Extension specializing in fruit and vegetable production shares his 34 years of knowledge and experience with all of you. (and I am still learning).
Part 1
Class Outline (chapters)
0:00 - Intro
1:38 - Class Objective
Why grow your own fruit
2:03 -The Challenge
2:57 - Fruit Quality Standards
5:14 - Use of Pesticides
5:55 - Sharing Skills with the Next Generation
7:46 - Self Sufficiency
8:39 - What to do with Excess Produce
Planning the Orchard
9:11 - Selecting the Best Site
9:16 - Light Exposure and Problem Plants
10:13 - Black Walnuts
11:21 - Elevation and Slope
12:20 - Soil Drainage Test
13:16 - Fruit Tree Tolerance to Wet Soils
14:07 - Water Source
14:36 - Soil Fertility and pH
16:04 - Soil Test Recommendations
18:14 - What to Plant: Fruit Differences and Hybrids
24:15 - How Many Trees are Needed & Expected Yields
26:15 - Tree Classification by Size
27:01 - Tree Growth Habits
28:23 =Cultivars and Fruit Use
30:41 - Final Considerations: What do You Like to Eat &
Brief Discussion about Heritage Apples - Навчання та стиль
Awesome Video! Glad to hear your back out in the orchard! Take care!
Always look forward to your videos, Gary!
Thank you so much for educating us! I have just killed my second peach tree, I already learned a lot.
I purchased a home with a small orchard - an overgrown pear never pruned with many branches growing straight upright no space in between and smaller totally neglected apple trees. Squirrels get all the apples off a very very old apple tree from the original farm home. Your show is like a master garden class! Thank you.
Thank you very much for this informative video!
Gary you are the best. I have found 2 sprays a yr. Fall copper with a horticulture oil. Spring spray of horticulture oil, neem oil, fish and kelp. 2 oz each to a gallon. Equally to the tree and soil around the tree. I do lime every spring.
Looking forward to the rest of the series. Started my fruit trees 3 years ago, ate the first apple today, a pristine. Thought it must have been wormy, yellow compared to the rest of the apples, but it wasn't. Nice and sweet for a early apple. And I like beans!
Thanks for the lesson Gary. Planting a 70 ft line of espaliered fruit trees. Trained post and wire. I'll be trying Asian pears, apples and plums or peaches. Skipping the apricots based on your lesson today. I'm in z5b MA where we commonly get late frosts...where summers are hot and humid.
Can't wait to watch the remaining episodes in the series.