That was an interesting walk through your property. I'm wondering if you have similar apple varieties to what is on my property, of 5 acres in Bridgetown, Australia. Bridgetown is a region of Australia where apples, pears, stone fruit and other temperate climate fruits and nuts can grow well. Landowners/hobby farmers do generally have to be mindful of the predatory birds and medfly and other pest insects that are also here. I first commented and subscribed to your channel because I'm somewhat interested in hazelnut growing. I note that you were growing the American hazelnut. I don't know if the American hazelnut would be grown anywhere in Australia because of the tiny nut size. I would be interested in growing some American or hybrid varieties. I need to plant my European variety hazelnuts fairly soon as they are in containers. I note you mentioned persimmon. I was not familiar with the fruit except there was a single persimmon tree on the property, there were many fruit on the tree, but they didn't impress me with their flavour. I have since removed the tree and I'm now regretting doing that because perhaps I could have grafted the variety where the ripe fruit is jelly like, which I like. I think the tree variety was fuyu, but not sure. There was a great amount of interest when I advertised to sell the persimmon tree. There are a couple of blood plum trees and come spring I intend to graft some plum tree scions to an almond tree. Regarding apple trees there are perhaps 30 or more mainly pink lady apples on my property with some other varieties, fuji, gala and Granny Smith with perhaps a few others that I'm not aware of. There is a Cox's orange pippin variety which is supposed to be a very good English heritage variety. I will be interested to see what fruit and nut trees bare this coming spring/summer as there is a lot of other fruit trees represented such as citrus and also several nut tree varieties, several macadamia trees which I just very recently planted and almonds, pecans, European chestnuts and a small pistachio orchard of about 40 trees, 4 or 5 male and over 30 female pistachio trees. The latter pistachio orchard being somewhat quirky because I thought pistachio trees required 40C plus temperatures in the summer and down to 0C in the winter. During winter the temperatures can get to freezing but the summer temperatures wouldn't quite reach 40C. I don't know if you have a nuisance weed called Musky Storksbill or Erodium Moschatum, but that is a nuisance weed which I have to remove or kill if I can do it without affecting fruit trees in the vicinity. I would prefer to manually remove it but only if I'm assured seeds aren't still in the ground for it to grow again. The soil is loamy clay towards the top and clayey about 50cm or 1 foot 8 inches depth. My neighbour uses a tractor and slasher to cut it back.
What do you do with the 1 year persimmons in the nursery bed? I have some as well, not as large... do you plant in late fall or put them in pots and bury them to plant next year?
I will try to find homes for them this Fall, ideally. If I leave them overwinter, some will probably die from the cold (Chestnuts suffer high losses overwinter in these beds). They could also be heeled-into soil somewhere or potted up, but potted plants also have high mortality if not buried into woodchips or something.
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That was an interesting walk through your property. I'm wondering if you have similar apple varieties to what is on my property, of 5 acres in Bridgetown, Australia. Bridgetown is a region of Australia where apples, pears, stone fruit and other temperate climate fruits and nuts can grow well. Landowners/hobby farmers do generally have to be mindful of the predatory birds and medfly and other pest insects that are also here. I first commented and subscribed to your channel because I'm somewhat interested in hazelnut growing. I note that you were growing the American hazelnut. I don't know if the American hazelnut would be grown anywhere in Australia because of the tiny nut size. I would be interested in growing some American or hybrid varieties. I need to plant my European variety hazelnuts fairly soon as they are in containers. I note you mentioned persimmon. I was not familiar with the fruit except there was a single persimmon tree on the property, there were many fruit on the tree, but they didn't impress me with their flavour. I have since removed the tree and I'm now regretting doing that because perhaps I could have grafted the variety where the ripe fruit is jelly like, which I like. I think the tree variety was fuyu, but not sure. There was a great amount of interest when I advertised to sell the persimmon tree. There are a couple of blood plum trees and come spring I intend to graft some plum tree scions to an almond tree. Regarding apple trees there are perhaps 30 or more mainly pink lady apples on my property with some other varieties, fuji, gala and Granny Smith with perhaps a few others that I'm not aware of. There is a Cox's orange pippin variety which is supposed to be a very good English heritage variety. I will be interested to see what fruit and nut trees bare this coming spring/summer as there is a lot of other fruit trees represented such as citrus and also several nut tree varieties, several macadamia trees which I just very recently planted and almonds, pecans, European chestnuts and a small pistachio orchard of about 40 trees, 4 or 5 male and over 30 female pistachio trees. The latter pistachio orchard being somewhat quirky because I thought pistachio trees required 40C plus temperatures in the summer and down to 0C in the winter. During winter the temperatures can get to freezing but the summer temperatures wouldn't quite reach 40C. I don't know if you have a nuisance weed called Musky Storksbill or Erodium Moschatum, but that is a nuisance weed which I have to remove or kill if I can do it without affecting fruit trees in the vicinity. I would prefer to manually remove it but only if I'm assured seeds aren't still in the ground for it to grow again. The soil is loamy clay towards the top and clayey about 50cm or 1 foot 8 inches depth. My neighbour uses a tractor and slasher to cut it back.
What do you do with the 1 year persimmons in the nursery bed? I have some as well, not as large... do you plant in late fall or put them in pots and bury them to plant next year?
I will try to find homes for them this Fall, ideally. If I leave them overwinter, some will probably die from the cold (Chestnuts suffer high losses overwinter in these beds). They could also be heeled-into soil somewhere or potted up, but potted plants also have high mortality if not buried into woodchips or something.
@@pjchmiel awesome, i have chestnuts as well on small airprune beds... so i will get them in the ground in the fall