How to Plant Hazelnut Trees to Ensure Pollination | Tree Planting Plan | Irish hazelnut orchard
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- Опубліковано 23 січ 2021
- I am establishing an organic hazelnut orchard as part of the first phase of my regenerative farming strategy. I now need to finalise a planting plant to ensure pollination.
Hazelnut trees cannot self-pollinate, therefore you need to select varieties and distribute them based on when their catkins release pollen and the female flowers are receptive to pollination.
The following video talks through my proposed planting plan to try and achieve this.
At Gubb Farm, we are planting five varieties of trees, mainly Nottingham, Webbs, Cosfords, Halls and Red Zeller. The Nottingham, Webbs, Cosfords and Red Zeller have been selected because they are considered reliable croppers suited to Irish climatic and soil conditions, whereas the Halls variety has been selected to aid pollination. Halls are said to be variable croppers that can produce big crops, however, they are not popular because they produce thick-shelled nuts and their yield variability, so the only reason they are in the mix is to aid pollination.
Nottingham and Webbs flower mid-season, whereas Halls, Cosford and Red Zeller flower between mid and late season. The Halls female flowers can only be pollinated in the late season, which means high winds early in the season may be the reason for them being a variable cropper.
The trees are grouped in corridors. Each corridor has two or three varieties that flower within the same window to ensure pollination.
A different tree variety is allocated to each row, with the Halls distributed among the mid to late season flowering trees.
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Can you make more Videos with the kubota
Coming soon Jon. If I tried to use the Kubota on the fields right now, the video would be 15 seconds of me driving into the field and an hour of me trying to pull it out with the digger, which I suspect you would enjoy! I just thought of a perfect music track for that should I ever get stuck.
Joking aside, the tractor will be coming out soon and I have a work in progress video that I need to get edited. I'm going to be putting the Kubota to work using a stoning cart.. it will be interesting to see if it can handle it. All the best.
Nutella ad, wow Ai!
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Sounds amazing suggested this idea to my 4yr old this morning that we should plant hazelnut trees.
Awesome! Sorry to hear your nurseryperson passed away, glad you can still get all those seedlings and support to get them. Good to see your layout for pollination and flowering time. Looks like a good plan, in terms of pollination and density. Your lanes are similar width as mine (5m) in a smaller hybrid hazel orchard. Good luck to us, the world could use more hazels!
Hello Robbie. Fingers crossed it works out; worse case, I have created a very pretty forest around my home and hopefully it will dry out the land. I'm busy measuring out the staked out tree rows and I have a sinking feeling I haven't ordered enough trees!
Hi Dary Long way from Brighton !!! Trust you and family well.
John
Good man John. You will have to pop over the Fermanagh when this Covid madness passes. Hope you and your family are good. All the best!
I am about to plant a row of trees and I will definitely use your fence post method to measure them out. Thank you for sharing!
You are welcome Nicole. Another idea for you to consider is putting some tape on a line at set distances. I have a long line with tape at 3.5m intervals, which is handly for marking out the trees within the rows.
2:48 good (ish) news! It looks like a lot of long days when the trees are delivered, but you seem about as prepared as anyone can be. Good luck with it. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks Bob. The long days have already begun and I'm currently out measuring the rows to confirm the planting plan. I just spent an hour putting some tape on a line at 3.5 metre spacing - exciting stuff!
Unfortunately (or fortunately?) it is snowing at the moment so once I've finished measuring everything, I will call it a day. Just popped in for a cup of tea to warm up!
Are you planning to put down wood chips in the areas that are holding excess water? (help soak up the water) If not, what is your plan? I saw you dug a drainage channel in another video. I ask because I don't think hazelnuts will like soil with standing water. Hopefully in another month or 2, you can get some worms for your Johnson SU bioreactor.
Hello Steve. I plan to dig in some drains in the areas that are not draining freely, but I will wait until the ground dries out before doing that. There is however one spot that I might dig in a shallow drain by hand to let the water away before planting.
From what I've observed from the first phase of planting, the trees seem hardy enough to excess water. If anything, it looks like the trees in the wetter parts of the fields are thriving better than those in the drier parts, which is a bit of a surprise.
As for worms, I went looking for them. Dug up some compost, then some soil and to my surprise they where not there. I have now learnt that they hibernate or dig off during the winter due to the frost and I will go at it again in a month or two.
where did ya source them trees? Cheers and fair play
Hello Davi. A local Irish grower that was supplying Andi Wilson, is going to provide the trees. His name is John Clearly and he can be contacted on +353 87 689 0321.
@@GubbFarm Thanks a lot. Much Appreciated. Also, the plan for planting is to drop compost around trees and heel them in? How much would you dig them in? By hand?
Asking because we want do plant lots of trees this next months and wanted to pull a mole plough first to form the alleys. But far too wet to do this and really wanted to get that soil job done before to set trees to a great start. We should have done this in autumn i think. Now we are considering potting all trees - lots of work - and waiting till the soil is workable to plant them.
Hello Davi. When it comes time to plant, I will set the tree on the ground where it is going to be planted, then make a note of which way the roots are pointing. I will then open up the ground with a spade along the direction of the roots. At that point, I will put compost into the slits in the ground and then stomp it in with my foot before setting the tree in. Note that the ground will be very wet and malleable when I'm planting. I will record the process when the trees arrive.
@@hazeldavi8479 using a machine to mark out the roots sounds like a great idea, but my land is too wet this time of the year, so I'm doing is by hand and lining out the rows with a piece of string, walking up and down and up and down and up and down the rows. A great exercise in the heavy wet ground!
Would love to see an update ,please
Hello Super Keen. I have a few update videos in the pipeline, and with the evenings getter shorter now, I'll have some time to edit them. Coming soon!
I hope all is well.
@@GubbFarm fantastic thanks,
Probably a crazy idea because I don’t have any documented proof: you could buy one small black and one small white truffle, ‘small’ because it’s expensive, and fragment or pulverize them, and inoculate every planted hazelnut tree with a bit of the material... it’s a lottery I know, but you also have a lot of trees with the right identity for truffle (oak, hazelnut...) and with a little bit of luck and climate changing conditions... who knows ;-) greetings, and all the best with the non-crazy part of your project :-)
Hello Bru. Oddly enough I did look into truffles, as I liked the idea of rooting around trying to find them. My soil conditions unfortunately are not suited to them. I found the following information by Andi Wilson helpful for those considering this:
fruitandnut.ie/truffles.html
Gubb Farm - Yes I can understand your point. This website you gave was quite interesting. Actually my truffle comment was based on a ‘Dragons Den’ sequence I saw some years ago about a researcher Paul Thomas who actually realized such a truffle plantation. Just have a search on UA-cam about Dragons Den, Dr Paul Thomas and truffles... all the best.
hey, i'm currently planning to start an organic hazelnut orchard myself, somewhere in Romania. I will be following your progress with much interest. :) How many hectares are you planting and how much do you reckon will take you to do that?
Hello Adi. I would love to see some photos or videos of your orchard to see how things are done in Romania. This phase of planting will take me up to about 6 hectares of hazelnuts trees. I need to sit down and work out how much it costs per hectare to plant and I will do a video on that later.
@@GubbFarm Would love to see them myself :). Will shave once i have them. Are you planning to plant 6 hectares manually? If not,how?
@@RigaCrypto1 I will be planting manually. It is a lot of work. I was going to get in some help but due to the current Covid lockdown, I'm going to do it myself. I will be recording the process and will put up some videos of it over the coming weeks.
@@GubbFarm How much you estimate it will take you to plant them all by yourself? You think you can finish this spring? I was thinking about it myself,but nobody seems to even consider it around here. It's good to come across someone actually doing it. I'll be using you as benchmark :).
@@RigaCrypto1 I can plant around 200 trees per day, so it should take me 10 days (allowing for unknowns). I will soon know!
Hi any idea of good supplier of hazelnuts for England?
Hello DJ. I did buy some trees from a nursery in Devon, but they have closed. I asked some other nut growers and here were there recommendations:
- roughwayfarm.co.uk/ are starting to propagate Kent Cob
- www.agroforestry.co.uk/?s=Hazel&post_type=product
- kentishcobnutsassociation.org.uk/suppliers/kentish-cobnuts-trees
Hope this helps.
All the best
Dary