Yearly Winter Fruit Tree Care & Maintenance || Black Gumbo
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- Опубліковано 13 січ 2023
- If you want to grow successful fruit trees in your backyard, you must work hard to maintain your trees in order to give them the best chance to thrive. I'll show you how we take care of annual winter tasks. We will weed, feed, mulch, prune, and paint a protective coating on our fruit trees to prepare them for the upcoming growing season.I will also introduce you to one of my favorite products, IV Organic’s 3-in-1 Plant Guard. If you like what you learn about this product, you can get 10% off your order from there online store using the promo code below. @IVOrganic
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Just FYI. I kept saying "crown" but meant to say "collar." Mental brain fart. Sorry.
Protecting trees from sun scald sounds like a good idea in light of the scorching sun we had last summer. Thanks Scott!
worm castings are definitely worth using. I have found that having a worm "farm" is an easy way to create your own. Doesn't take up much room and won't take long to create enough castings for your personal use. One day, I would like my own space with fruit trees... Have a great day.
I plan to start a worm bin soon. :-)
My small back yard in Philly is concrete so everything is in raised beds. Twenty plus years ago I made them out of wood but they eventually rotted and became infested with termites. Slugs were also a problem. I replaced them with 27 gallon black plastic storage bins and got rid of the slug and termite problem. They work very well. I have a 55 gallon black plastic barrel with holes drilled all over it that I put all my yard waste and kitchen scraps into. I also shred brown paper supermarket bags and brown cardboard when I need some extra carbon. The worms somehow find their way into the barrel and multiply. In the spring I sift the compost being careful to rescue as many worms as possible to put back into the barrel with anything that didn't break down yet, and then start a new barrel for the following spring. I turn it often enough to get plenty of oxygen and I've noticed "dog vomit slime mold" a couple of times and recently I noticed all the white mycelium growing in the pile. I hate to disturb it but once it's in the raised beds it's no dig/no till with a layer of straw mulch once the plants are big enough to not get damaged putting down the mulch. This year I'm planting two kinds of onions started from seed, since I use so many of them when I'm cooking. I always grow some Anaheim Chili peppers for my wife and try to fit in some tomatoes and cucumbers somewhere. Last year I grew long beans and bitter melon for her. (She's Asian). I have an Asian pear tree I grew from seed in a large barrel and I get some very nice, sweet fruit. Normal size. I also have a mandarin orange tree started from seed about 12 years ago that is doing very well but hasn't produced any fruit or flowers yet. 🤦🏻♂️And a couple of Kaffir lime trees that she uses the leaves for her traditional Indonesian food. I bring the citrus trees into the house every fall before the first frost and put them under grow lights until the spring. Happy Gardening !
I'm planning to put in some bareroot fruit trees for the first time this year. Thank you so much for these videos and book recommendations. I feel so much more confident in my own backyard orchard thanks to you.
hello, I'm from Indonesia, Mr. Scott, the way you take care of trees is really a very moving thing, in my country trees thrive without needing such care. But sometimes my people are still lazy to garden. Cheers Mr Scott!!!
Excellent DEMO Scott! We’re so happy to be a part of your growing success! 🌱🙌
I got tired of paying for worm castings so I started a worm bin 6 years ago. I use them mostly in my up-potted seedlings and worm casting tea
Glad to find a fellow Texan growing an orchard in their backyard. This is timely and useful information. I am in North Texas (8a). I have a number of fruit trees, mostly dwarf. I am growing my apple and pear trees as espaliers. Keeping my stone fruit small as well. I was thinking it was time to spray them, but maybe I need to use the paint on IV Organics instead. I will certainly look in to it.
I started following Charles years ago when I started preparing to get lemon trees. He's a great teacher.
If you put the water in 1st when mixing before the powder, It will eliminate the dry patches, Just like mixing dry-wall plaster !
Happy they make this product in brown. Personally I hate seeing white painted trunks on trees. I feel it takes away the beauty of the tree.
Your trees are looking great Scott. -- As you worship Jesus today. Please lift me up to Him. I am seriously ill. Thanks Ray Sussex County NJ USA
I will keep you in my prayers also.
I will Ray, even right now.
Praying for your healing 🙏❤🙏
@@ScottHead Thank you Scott. Off to the cardiologist in 2 hours 1/17 23
@@lauramccament1381 Thank you
I like that unlike Charles Malki (who DOES have lots of great videos!), you clearly show the process of making the IV Organics 3-in-1 tree paint.
And you give me courage to prune my new Home Depot 4-in-1 pear tree way down! It has a single leader of Bartlett pear, but I’ve heard that multi-grafted fruit trees should always be pruned to a goblet shape to balance the multiple grafts. So I will boldly cut down that tall central leader to leave one lateral branch of Bartlett to match the branches of the other 3 varieties! 💪
I like the IV Organics product. It smells great and does a good job on my trees!
I just discovered you..saw your Sauerkraut video!! Thank you !
I live in Italy and all this info is welcome
So nice to see you again. Thanks for the tips; hope you’re well. Hugs to phoebe Sharona!
There is a paint company "real milk paint" , that is supposedly non-toxic. I reached out to them last year about painting fruit trees, they said it was fine, but I wasn't super confident in the response. I have some IV Organics I'll be trying this spring, but if you had a bunch of trees, it may be worth looking into the milk paint. Cheers, Scott.
I read Grow a Little Fruit Tree, and don't remember her saying worm castings keep pests away. Good thing I watched your video!
Its almost at the very end of the book.
I live east of ATL and have noticed the buds swelling on my fruit trees this weekend. I was thinking it's just about time to trim and spray them with dormant oil. I've had a lot of trouble with plum curculio on my peach, plum and almond trees (I ended up using a systemic insecticide last year because it was so bad). All of them have damage at the base and I'm not sure if it's from rodents, weedeaters or bugs. I've lost so many fruit trees over the years that I've started moving them to large pots.
With your recommendation, I'm giving a shot to the 3 in 1 paint and I'm going to try the worm castings as well.
Thank you for your videos.
Very good lesson on pruning and shaping for efficient and safe fruit picking in the future.
Thanks for the info Scott! First winter with fruit trees of my own so I'm definitely in the learning phase. Started with apples, expanding to peaches and cherries this fall, hopefully.
Thanks Scott!
Timely info! Your trees look great.
Never heard of worm castings - interesting video, well done!
Take a garbage can, cut the bottom out of it, put it a few inches into a garden area, put your kitchen scraps (veggies, fruit, no meat, paper towels) into the can, keep a lid on it, preferably a shady area, and the worms will come, and turn your scraps into a great home grown worm bin, coffee grounds ok too, just easy on citrus peeling, crush your egg shell.
I live in the Arizona desert, and from hay, alfalfa pellets, wood chips, cover crops my every square inch is crawling with worms, the live in the layer of decomposing organics.
@@johac7637 Thank you for that wonderful, practical and cheaper idea! That’s what is hard about gardening - sometimes the cost, when there are simple cheap organic ways to accomplish goals….if u can discover them. 👍
Hey, do you think you could use that on your squash and melons to keep the vine borers off them? You know, put some around the base where the vines emerge from the ground?
Not sure, but might be worth a try. I'm skipping squash this year though.
question I have been trying to grow a rasphberry plant the last 2 years, from seed by the way, this year they are still growing I have rounded them around some sticks to help climb but still no flowers, when will the flowers come?. help oh and my single seed challenge butternut pumpkin has now 3 leaves to it... so excited.
I don't know much about raspberries since I can't really grow them here. But fruit from seeds is usually a slow process as opposed to fruit grown from cuttings or other propagation methods. You get a more mature plant that way.
Scott, Steve Russell here been away for a few weeks. I got diagnosed with Covid 19 the day before Christmas, and I am slowly getting out of bed now. My planned garden is out the window. Going to buy some transplants from Laurel's Heirloom Tomato Plants. Maybe 10 of them. I'll also plant a few seeds right into Pots If I Can. I'm threw the hard part they tell me so well see, But I'll be watching and make this into a learning year . Well, try to start this fall; I expect to learn much between now and then. Keep up the good work! PS I might try the single seed contest Ha! Ha! Ha!
Hope you get to feeling better ter soon.
Had to bring my trees in pots.
Then, had to bring them in garage. Need to put up more lights for them.
Reason? Chem trails. They de-hydrate everything.
My garden (EVERYTHING) suddenly grew distorted and twisted fruit with brown spots. 🤯😡
I'm in Kerrville (hill country, Texas).
As always you have good tips. Where do you buy the bare root fruit trees? Thank you.
Various online nurseries. Ison's is a good place to look, also Willis Orchards.
We are in Southeastern Minnesota. Any advice for us? We just moved here. We have an apple tree we got a large harvest from and a cherry tree we got nothing but blossoms from.
Same pruning advice for stonefruit, apples are another subject. I keep my apples small and the pruning and shaping is much more than for folks who have larger, established trees.
Can I use cypress mulch around my fruit trees?
Yes but know that it’s retains so much water it can keep irrigation from reaching the roots of your trees
What if you see that where you trimmed that it is dead,?
Trim back gradually until you find live wood. Best to wait until the tree buds to show you more accurately.
Phoebe's hips look like a million dollars man!!!
About $6000 actually, after surgery. Ugh.
@@ScottHead well spent brother!
What is the name of that for trees?
Don't understand the question, can you re-phrase it?
I just bought the IVOrangic and used your code.
@@deborhasmith6285 Thank you so much! I hope you like the stuff. Its a little hard to mix up, I prefer to fill it up about 3/4 full, seal the lid back on and shake it like paint. Let it sit for a while and it will incorporate the remaining dry particles. Its great stuff.
@@ScottHead you're welcome!
First? Haha