30 years ago I purchased my fruit trees by Mail Order to Stark Bros in Missouri. These were bare-root trees, 2 different varieties of each for cross-pollination: Apple, Pear, Plum, Apricot, Peach, Pear, and 6 Blueberry bare-root plants. When the trees arrived I was stunned because they were at least 1" in diameter on the central leader, far larger than my local nurseries offered but at a fraction of the price through Stark Bros. What was hard for me was to take a leap of faith with the planting instructions Stark provided. These instructions thankfully were very detailed. First, the planting holes had to be 4 feet in diameter. This required me to rent a two-man gas power auger with a 7" screw drilled to about 2.5 feet depth. The clay soil was broken up and thoroughly mixed with compost, nitrolized Redwood chips, Jersey Greensand, Rock Phosphate, and some soil Sulphur. The bare root plants were hydrated for 24 hours in water with B1 vitamin. The instruction said to clip off the ends of some of the roots and cull any bad ones entirely. The depth of planting is critical as pointed out in this video. Each tree was staked to allow the wind to vibrate and strengthen the lower part of the tree especially the point where it exits the soil. The rubber guy wires are placed at a point about 1/2 way up the central leader. Then the instructions said to remove all branches from the central leader leaving only it. This would allow the tree roots to be forced to develop. The bark of the central leader gets enough sun to photosynthesize. Stark explained there are three parts of the tree using energy: the Roots, The Branches, and the Fruit. Each one represents 33% of the plant where you must create BALANCE. The sun's energy is 100% and divided into those three parts. Taking off the branches allows the root to use 100% of the sun's energy to develop a very strong root system. I read that I should not expect fruit or allow fruit on the tree for the first three years. Allow it to bear in the fourth year. In year one, two, and three, Stark has instructions how to "Train" the branches into the best for bearing and also to increase the branch strength knot of the central leader. This is necessary because when these fruit up they are so heavy, if not strengthened, they can break off and strip the cambium from the central leader severely wounding the plant. These first three years are critical to the heavy bearing and health of the tree. In the first year, you will see new branches. You will need to select branch exits approximately 120 degrees from each other on the central leader as viewed from the top of the tree. These small diameter branches are flexible and you will train them to become GRADUALLY more PERPENDICULAR to the central leader eliminating all but these three at this level. To train them you use notched sticks of different lengths between the central leader and each branch forcing the branch to about 60 to 70-degree angle from the central leader. These will be replaced with longer sticks in the second year to achieve an angle of 75 to 80 degrees then in the third year about 85 degrees. By this time the branch will be much larger in diameter, like 2 1/2" TO 3", Stark Bros sells these spacers. When looking at your tree you can allow branches at mid-level and up but keep them at three main branches at 120 degrees and stake as explained above. On some trees, like plums, you will in the the third year cut off the central leader above the first three branches to form a "Vase" shape. These and other types of fruit (but not all) love this shape and will be much healthier overall. My fruit trees are pruned annually to maintain a balance of energy to the roots, branches, and fruit. I trim back to reduce the fruit to do this. If you neglect to trim them you will have one year they will bear heavy then the next year you won't have any fruit. You will be doing yourself and the plant a favor by trimming them every year as they bud out. Don't worry the ones you leave on the branches will be incredible and you will have enough of them that's guaranteed! As a final note. my trees are mature now and in excellent health with 8 to 10" diameter central leader and bearing way more than I can eat with very large and delicious fruit. I hope this helps someone. And thanks for your video! It is excellent!
@@faithboldi1396 I loved your video! Hopefully, what experience I wrote for the fruit trees is helpful to everyone on your channel. The key is that you have patience in the first years to build a very strong tree. Remember, you will wait until the fourth year to allow fruiting. You must prune so that you do not allow all buds to develop. You will leave about 30% - 35% of the buds on the tree alone. This will allow more sunshine into the tree and better health and fruit size and sweetness. This will pay you dividends in a strong, healthy tree, bearing fruit every year for you! If you like I can give you some tips on pruning that will result of 100% healing of every branch and twig you cut flush from the central leader When I say 100%... one year later after you correctly pruned, the tree will show NO evidence that a branch was even there! I learned how to do this from a good friend of mine who is an Arborist Tree Surgeon. These procedures are simple but not well known and they only require simple inexpensive hand tools. Once you know how you can work on any tree and improve dramatically. Also if you go to Stark Bros they will send you a free catalog. They've been in business for over 200 years! I can give you the compatible cross-polination species which is necessary for each tree to fruit up. They also own the patent rights for the Red Delicious and Yellow Delicious Apple varieties from way back when. Just let me know and I will help you! I love the expanse of your farm there and what you're doing with these trees! Keep up the great work Faith!
user-sx9hu2nl8t that is Greattt info from you - from your expierence and from from Stark Bros !! 👍 Faithboldi1396 - what a Great video - i am planting 4 Apple trees and 2 Peach trees "TODAY" ! 😱 y'all say a few 🙏🙏s pleaseeee !! i wish i'd had this Info 2 weeks ago , .... planted 3 Pear trees and an Apricot tree !! Thankkks again for "Sharingggg" this Wonderful info and experience !! 🤗👍
@@MichaelDavis-x5i Thank you for adding excellent instruction to an already fantastic video. I will be looking up Stark Bros. Is there somewhere others like me can read your tips on pruning?
“Especially when they’re really young…” “so if you scratch the bark or damage the roots, that can be present in the tree for its entire life.” Wow. That hit deep! Seems like a reflection of how we are as humans too. If we are hurt when we are young, those wounds appear to be present throughout the rest of our lives too. Thankful for healing that can be had!
This has been perfect information Anne. Folk have got to study nature more because the answers are already there. Take for example a peach tree, the peach will fall to the ground, it will remain on top of the ground and the flesh will rot around it. Come autumn and the peach tree will lose its foliage, these leaves will fall onto the pip and protect it from the frosts. Eventually spring comes around again and the seed starts to break out - nothing is compacting anything else. Nature has been doing this for years! Thank you both for showing this - we all continue to learn :)
Im in the UK and have just got my first ever allotment. There is sooo much rubbish, weeds, etc on it but once ive sorted it out, the first thing im going to do is plant my six fruit trees that have been in pots for a year or so now. This was a great video and it was just in time for my planting !
In addition to Ann's amazing instruction, you might want to check out the wealth of information that Charles Dowding @CharlesDowding1nodig has to offer from his home &/or allotment in the UK. While gardening/farming/homesteading share many universal truths, gardening in the UK vs North America presents different challenges and incredible rewards. All that rubbish, and all those weeds... are sharing some important diagnostics about your garden. Charles's videos can safe you years of loss and frustration, especially when you're starting from scratch. No-dig gardening seems counterintuitive at times. When you look at the science behind it though, the benefits - to both your garden and your aching back - become obvious wins. Congratulations on your allotment! Happy growing!
Oof! This also makes me ask myself… What are the girdling roots in my own life? 😮 I’m learning that so much spiritual depth is displayed in nature and gardening! God knew exactly what he was doing when he created all of this. Whoa.
I bought a house that had a very large tree that had been supported by a tomato cage. By the time I came there the metal of the cage was deeply embedded in the bark; there was no way to get it out. One day during a windstorm, the tree gently toppled over. The roots were shallow and I could tell that that the poor thing never had a chance!
When I've planted my trees I dig a large deep hole in a square shape. My local soil has a clay pan anywhere from 6-18" down. I backfill the hole with compost I make, then clean the roots and splay them out at the correct depth. I DO gently step on the soil to firm it up though. I mulch the top without the "volcano". I ❤ the cardboard idea. Thanks for a great video.
Great information. I’m battling with deer eating the apples and the peach branches. And it doesn’t help that a buck decided to rub his antlers on the peach trunk and broke a branch off. 😢
If you don't have any grazing animals (sheep, goats etc) to worry about, plant yew bushes. The deer LOVE them and are not affected by the toxins. My last place had a yew hedge and the deer would browse that rather than come into the yard for the gardens and fruit trees ;)
This video was extremely helpful, thanks Anne & Daniel! I'm getting ready to plant a few apple trees in Maine and I feel more confident now! Just found your videos and I'm enjoying watching you and how you shed light on so many innocent gardening faux pas. You're funny and sweet . . . don't change . . . and don't work yourself to death. 💚
Thank you. Gophers ate the fig tree i grew from a stick. My mulberry tree is gone. Im finally ready to try again... but do gophers like other fruit trees. I don’t expect to get fruit in my foggy cooler area but i was hoping for a pretty spring blossom show each spring.
Are you going to eat some of those berries. Or are you just going to watch them come down on your yard things . I like it when they come down on my daughter's picnic table. If I could get enough berries at one time. I'll bet you could stain a picnic table purple and I think it would look good. What do you think?
For seniors or people with disabilities or chronic illness, buying potted trees may be best. When you buy bare root trees, it's important to get them into the ground asap. The trees don't care about your physical limitations. Getting them in pots buys you a little time to get rested or get through the worst of your flare, or to find someone to help you plant.
Im disabled and i get around this by digging the holes before the trees arrive for example you could order 5 trees and dig a hole every few days or even 1 a week for the 5 weeks leading up to delivery just make sure to cover the dirt pile so it doesn’t blow away if u have light soils. This also works if you top dress or mulch the trees after planting keep the pile u need right next to the tree hole to just push onto when planted
i disagree. Bare-root is the way my in-law's family has been doing for ages. They're from east TN and they're DIYers than anything else. they're legally disabled but still do the planting. it all comes down to how well you plan.
I've lost both types, if you know ahead of time, dig before they arrive. Some times, the large pot, thus large hole can be a hardship, lifting and digging. It's hard to ask for help, but if you have a nephew/niece, maybe you can make their favorite treat/meal as a thank you for them helping digging, etc.
@@Ishiisan you can't always plan for the days your spinal cord inflammation leaves you unable to function. I'm glad your in-laws are able to plan around their own disabilities, but not every disability is the same.
Agreed. As far as I am concerned planting a tree regardless of pots or bare roots etc etc is the point. Plant a tree. Just plant one. Plant 2 if you can. The best tree is a tree that got planted. Let’s grow together. 😊 Now a useful video would be how to plant a potted tree addressing checking for girdleing etc right at planting that way it won’t be having a problem 15 years later. If you plant a bare root tree wrong with roots bunched up it too could grow with a girdled root.
Went out and checked on my Fuy Persimmon that wasn't look too great. It was rootbound. I did my first chiseling of a tree root. I hope she makes it 🤞 UPDATE: IT’S ALIVE! it's looking so much healthier!
at the end of the year around fall time start colecting ur cow pies ,a.k.a cow poops and put a bunch in ur garden and till it in before the winter, ur victory garden will flurish ... my gram made me doo it every fall and we had the best biggest vegges and other small crops... peppers were great .. GOD BLESS GOOD LUCK WIT UR FARM.. FROM A OLD FARM HAND IN PA. 😇😇
I have learned so much from your videos. Thank you for being humble enough to share your failures with us. I knew I wanted bear trees, but I didn’t know they were available to the average Joe want to be permaculturist:
YESSSS!!!! I've been waiting for this one ever since you teased it! I realize the room for it on this channel may be limited, but I'm here for any tree content you want to put up!
I’m sure it was staged but I LOVED ❤ that you addressed MULCH VOLCANOES up front in the teaser. Always hated seeing those, especially from real ‘landscapers’! This is the best video I’ve ever seen on planting and arranging the roots of a new tree! 🌳 This guy is a real treasure! (Well, you, too 😊 ) I enjoy all your content but this series is AWESOME! I agree with the other commenter who said hurry hurry hurry with the next part!
Hurry hurry hurry with the next video please. 😊 I learned so much today and you probably just saved 4 cherry trees! How old does the tree have to be before it can be propagated? Thank you so much!
You can propagate fruit trees any time you prune. Check how old your tree has to be before it’s recommended pruning. Most trees can be pruned after its first year in the ground,but. You can take cuttings from a potted tree that you just bought.
This is perfect timing- I am planting about 7 fruit trees this weekend, which have been in pots for a year. Hoping to give them a good start in the ground.
Thank you for this video. I knew that daffodils are good to protect the trees from wild animals so I started to plant some around my fruit trees, now I will transplant also the strawberry plants that are too many in my garden under some plum trees.
I love the way Anne talks! Such a yapper, so endearing! Thank you for the video. I just bought a small Ylang Ylang sapling (barely 12 inch tall) and it already got transplant shock within minutes of transplanting to a garden pot. I hope it survives.
Love the planting of fruit trees! I always put lots of mulch around trees if I have it. Not volcano but just thick all around. “Back to Eden style” has never given bad results. I think we have all made the mistake of root bound trees. When you get the end of season potted trees cheap and they are just a massive ball of circling roots , all you can do is slice and try to pry apart a little and hope for the best. Bare root trees are the best for sure but not always the easiest to find in what you want and when you want it.
My peach trees bloom every year and start making fruit, but they will shrivel up and fall off. My Nannie grew them from peach pits she threw out in the garden so I’d love for them to thrive.
If that's the case, I believe you have tons of fruits forming, yes? So, just like trimming back sucker's on the tree, the branches can only support a few fruits per branch. Without more information like your growing zone, late frosting events will kill fruits, and also any pests encountered on your tree. I suppose the last the most important thing to keep in mind is that as you stated you grew your tree from a pit opposed to a store bought which is a tree graft from a proven big fruiting tree. Your tree may only grow small fruits or you don't have adequate pollinators like honey bees. Best of luck. ...one more thing it takes a seedling around 2-4 years to be mature enough to fully bear fruit so depending on the age of the tree. Hope this helps.
Thank you for this. Wow! I have just learned a LOT on one morning and I am still in my bed drinking coffee. We are going to replant an apricot tree we put in the garden about 3 weeks ago. Now we are going to redo that and hopefully do it right this time. I’m a fan! Love the channel.
Thank you for this video. I am going to have to dig up my black tartarian cherry tree. The instructions said to leave it in the burlap "bag" for planting, but it hasn't grown much at all. It could be for a few reasons. We shall see come spring.
Tschuess ! Anne are you German? I came to Michigan in 1961. Learned gardening without assistance. But love to hear from people like you. Thanks for your video’s
Thanks for the close up on the gurdling root and all the detailed information. I learned a lot from this video! I planted a little apple tree from seed in a pot and today i transplanted it into the garden. As I got it out of the pot I remembered this video and decided to take a look at the root. And lo and behold... There was a gurdling root. I took it off, but the tree might not make it... Luckily it was only 6 months old, so I'm glad I saw this now rather than in 6 years. What can cause a gurdled root in a seedling? (Btw: i know that this apple tree is not true to seed, but i wanted to try it anyways and see what happens 😊)
I can't tell you how valuable the visual of the girdling was! I couldn't picture it, so thank you! ALSO, I just had my husband plant a couple hundred bucks worth of fruit trees and I'm panicking about how well he did. 😳 I sent him this video, so we'll see how much we can fix, lol. 🥴 ❤your vids, sis!
I needed this video! I planted ao many fruit trees and while the trees are thriving, I never harvested one fruit from them. It has been 7 years and no success!!!
Thank you for this very interesting video. I did know to make sure the roots were spread out but was not familiar with the term girdling. About a month ago I planted two peach trees. After watching this video I think I planted them to deep. I planted them the same depth as the root ball. Just got two pear and two plume trees this video will be so helpful. Love the expertise and the humor you put into this video and will be watching others.
Thank you 👍😊, very informative! I'm really loving this series you're doing with the various experts vs. your past mistakes and good humor. The best way to learn is from making mistakes and not enough UA-camrs let us see what they did wrong. The expert's advice is the icing on the cake. Once those trees get established that pond is going to be like a little paradise. Probably a really nice and cool spot to rest on those wicked hot summer afternoons.
This auto played while i was busy cleaning up. I dont have any fruit trees yet but i do have a pink lemonade blueberry bush. Took listening to this to remember i never cut the tag off! I ran back to the berry garden so fast lol. Luckily its only in its 3rd year and hadnt boared its way into the trunk yet. Thanks for the reminder!!
What I've done to protect my trees from string trimmers & deer has been 4" diameter sections of drain tile (helps keep mulch away from the trunk too) and cages made of chicken wire or welded wire 3-4ft diameter for the first several seasons till big enough to survive deer grazing.
As a Floridian in zone 9B it's really frustrating when people in gardening videos such as this use seasons considering we really don't have any seasons here. I think I just need to find more targeted videos but thank you.
@@AnneofAllTrades I'm trying I really surely hope it works out. I just bought a beautiful home and I have an acre I just want to create a balanced orchard to feed my children. It is overwhelming as a beginner to figure out which things I should add to what kind of soil it's a lot. I appreciate the videos tremendously
These fruit tree videos have been awesome for me. I hope the next video comes soon! I moved into a property with a bunch of 50+ year old fruit trees (apples, plums, high bush cranberry specifically) that are not doing very good, and are throwing up hundreds of root suckers. I'd love to know what to do with them to start an orchard, at least as root stock.
We're just getting started in planting fruit trees on land we've recently purchased. The fellow who had the land before planted a plum and apple tree directly into THE MOST clay rich soil you can imagine. Like 90 percent clay probbaly. We're talking thick, sticky clay. Somehow, without any aeration or addition of compost or soil, these things are massively thriving..
For trees in harsh ground we do side pipe... a pipe that goes under the roots 1ft under..and comes out 1 ft away from the tree.. by watering under the roots will attract the roots down rather than around and choking the tree
Anne, Have you ever utilized the Ellen White tree planting method? It works marvelously well. Granted, it is a lot of work but it goes along with exactly what Daniel is talking about. Tree roots need air and non compacted soil. You should check it out, if you haven't yet tried it or heard of it. God bless
Good video! This will help lots of folks. First time I've seen someone dig up and chisel a girdled tree. I've been planting out my food forest over the past 3 years, and it was a game-changer when I started using LOTS of wood chips! I have a question... you mentioned you have garlic you grew from seed? How did you get garlic seeds that actually work? Do you have garlic that puts out viable seed, or did you buy those seeds? I've never seen them. Everyone I know grows their garlic from cloves. My understanding is that most domestic garlic can't breed sexually any more? But I'd love to grow some garlic from seed and see what attributes emerge!
Thank you two so much for your videos... This is helping me professionally and I love this stuff... You're inspirational... I will better my life with your help
Oh dear. 😢Super informative video which just popped up on my feed today but two weeks too late. Aggh! I’ve just planted six fruit trees and I’m recognising a fair number of those mistakes. Think I might have to go back and make a few corrections. Great info thanks.
I love your channel!! Such a happy, funny, honest, informative site! I have planted only a couple fruit trees and some berries and I use weed fabric and then mulch and sometimes put cardboard under the fabric too. Is using the weed fabric good for the trees and plants. I live in Georgia, east of Atlanta
Hi I just found your videos, and I'm very glad I did as I have been wondering what to do with my 11 apples trees...to..be. How to trim them. 4 years ago I planted 11 pips from a apple I ate, inspired of my grandsons apple tree done the same way. I was thinking many would die but no they grew indoors the 1st year all 11😄. Now they have been outdoors 3 years but sadly we are moving to a apartment with a small balcony and I would love to take one with me.. you have such great advice planting trees from a pot into the ground. Would you have any advice for me to do the opposite? We will live in southern Sweden, so there will not be much snow there during winter if any but we are close to the ocean. I think I need to protect it from frost, not sure how much, I'm sure I can ask around but maybe you have some good advice about maybe cutting roots down a bit or anything else to stop it go bad. Thank you again for a very interesting videos👍
Great information Daniel and Anne! I was kinda hoping that a discussion about the grafted trees would have been had. I have found mixed opinions on whether to bury the graft or leave it out of ground by up to an inch. But being that the trees are grafted onto hardy rootstock, they typically say the rootstock needs to be buried or you will have succulent growth. I have planted trees both ways but am curious what the opinion is. I am also in zone 3b. But none the less, some great information. Will check out Daniel's site. Thank you both.
Question about something that was said in this video about growing these fruit trees from seed... wouldnt you be able to graph or I should say cut and clone the tree from snipping new growth from its newly sprouted branches or cuttings by snipping below the nodule where its branches fork, and then root hormone and plant, when roots establish then transplant Into the preped area? Is this possible with these kinds of fruit trees? Or just grow new trees from the fruits seeds? What would be more practical and work best?
I left the tags on my trees and the trees just popped them off. But, most of the tags were on little branches which never outgrew the slack in the tags.
I swear, your channel is like 90% of the things I'm currently working on and I think I might be binging your backlog now lol. Got 60 small fruit and nut trees growing in my screenhouse that I started this year for my own burgeoning orchard 🤣
I was afraid of digging out a tree I planted to close to another, but you gave me confidence that is going to be ok. What season is best to do the dig out. Autumn- Spring? Or Autumn-Winter. Thanks
Anne I am so grateful for your planting videos, thank you! I need some of those pants you wear, it looks like they are reinforced at the knee. Can you share that info as well?
I had one plum I planted back in February not put any greenery on. The tree seems to still be living. But the mistake i think I made was digging the hole a little too deep. So real soon here I am going to dig it up and raise the height of the tree. Hopefully I can fix it before its too late. Its a Toka plum and they are suppose to have a bubble gum like flavor. That sounded very interesting to me. Fingers crossed.
$120 t0 $200 for a tree that size?!? Here: $800 to $1200. Gotta love these Southern California nurseries! Excellent video, by the way. Just what I was looking for. Thanks!
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There are cherry plums and they are smaller that a regular plum. It looks like a great tree!
30 years ago I purchased my fruit trees by Mail Order to Stark Bros in Missouri. These were bare-root trees, 2 different varieties of each for cross-pollination: Apple, Pear, Plum, Apricot, Peach, Pear, and 6 Blueberry bare-root plants. When the trees arrived I was stunned because they were at least 1" in diameter on the central leader, far larger than my local nurseries offered but at a fraction of the price through Stark Bros. What was hard for me was to take a leap of faith with the planting instructions Stark provided. These instructions thankfully were very detailed. First, the planting holes had to be 4 feet in diameter. This required me to rent a two-man gas power auger with a 7" screw drilled to about 2.5 feet depth. The clay soil was broken up and thoroughly mixed with compost, nitrolized Redwood chips, Jersey Greensand, Rock Phosphate, and some soil Sulphur. The bare root plants were hydrated for 24 hours in water with B1 vitamin. The instruction said to clip off the ends of some of the roots and cull any bad ones entirely. The depth of planting is critical as pointed out in this video. Each tree was staked to allow the wind to vibrate and strengthen the lower part of the tree especially the point where it exits the soil. The rubber guy wires are placed at a point about 1/2 way up the central leader. Then the instructions said to remove all branches from the central leader leaving only it. This would allow the tree roots to be forced to develop. The bark of the central leader gets enough sun to photosynthesize. Stark explained there are three parts of the tree using energy: the Roots, The Branches, and the Fruit. Each one represents 33% of the plant where you must create BALANCE. The sun's energy is 100% and divided into those three parts. Taking off the branches allows the root to use 100% of the sun's energy to develop a very strong root system. I read that I should not expect fruit or allow fruit on the tree for the first three years. Allow it to bear in the fourth year. In year one, two, and three, Stark has instructions how to "Train" the branches into the best for bearing and also to increase the branch strength knot of the central leader. This is necessary because when these fruit up they are so heavy, if not strengthened, they can break off and strip the cambium from the central leader severely wounding the plant. These first three years are critical to the heavy bearing and health of the tree. In the first year, you will see new branches. You will need to select branch exits approximately 120 degrees from each other on the central leader as viewed from the top of the tree. These small diameter branches are flexible and you will train them to become GRADUALLY more PERPENDICULAR to the central leader eliminating all but these three at this level. To train them you use notched sticks of different lengths between the central leader and each branch forcing the branch to about 60 to 70-degree angle from the central leader. These will be replaced with longer sticks in the second year to achieve an angle of 75 to 80 degrees then in the third year about 85 degrees. By this time the branch will be much larger in diameter, like 2 1/2" TO 3", Stark Bros sells these spacers. When looking at your tree you can allow branches at mid-level and up but keep them at three main branches at 120 degrees and stake as explained above. On some trees, like plums, you will in the the third year cut off the central leader above the first three branches to form a "Vase" shape. These and other types of fruit (but not all) love this shape and will be much healthier overall. My fruit trees are pruned annually to maintain a balance of energy to the roots, branches, and fruit. I trim back to reduce the fruit to do this. If you neglect to trim them you will have one year they will bear heavy then the next year you won't have any fruit. You will be doing yourself and the plant a favor by trimming them every year as they bud out. Don't worry the ones you leave on the branches will be incredible and you will have enough of them that's guaranteed! As a final note. my trees are mature now and in excellent health with 8 to 10" diameter central leader and bearing way more than I can eat with very large and delicious fruit. I hope this helps someone. And thanks for your video! It is excellent!
Thanks so much, l appreciate the time that you put in writing in all this valuable information.
@@faithboldi1396 I loved your video! Hopefully, what experience I wrote for the fruit trees is helpful to everyone on your channel. The key is that you have patience in the first years to build a very strong tree. Remember, you will wait until the fourth year to allow fruiting. You must prune so that you do not allow all buds to develop. You will leave about 30% - 35% of the buds on the tree alone. This will allow more sunshine into the tree and better health and fruit size and sweetness. This will pay you dividends in a strong, healthy tree, bearing fruit every year for you! If you like I can give you some tips on pruning that will result of 100% healing of every branch and twig you cut flush from the central leader When I say 100%... one year later after you correctly pruned, the tree will show NO evidence that a branch was even there! I learned how to do this from a good friend of mine who is an Arborist Tree Surgeon. These procedures are simple but not well known and they only require simple inexpensive hand tools. Once you know how you can work on any tree and improve dramatically. Also if you go to Stark Bros they will send you a free catalog. They've been in business for over 200 years! I can give you the compatible cross-polination species which is necessary for each tree to fruit up. They also own the patent rights for the Red Delicious and Yellow Delicious Apple varieties from way back when. Just let me know and I will help you! I love the expanse of your farm there and what you're doing with these trees! Keep up the great work Faith!
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that is Greattt info from you - from your expierence and from from Stark Bros !! 👍
Faithboldi1396 - what a Great video - i am planting 4 Apple trees and 2 Peach trees "TODAY" ! 😱
y'all say a few 🙏🙏s pleaseeee !!
i wish i'd had this Info 2 weeks ago , .... planted 3 Pear trees and an Apricot tree !!
Thankkks again for "Sharingggg" this Wonderful info and experience !! 🤗👍
@@MichaelDavis-x5i Thank you for adding excellent instruction to an already fantastic video. I will be looking up Stark Bros. Is there somewhere others like me can read your tips on pruning?
Ahhh the details are excellent!!! Thank you. Does that fruit tree retailer still operate?
“Especially when they’re really young…” “so if you scratch the bark or damage the roots, that can be present in the tree for its entire life.”
Wow. That hit deep! Seems like a reflection of how we are as humans too. If we are hurt when we are young, those wounds appear to be present throughout the rest of our lives too. Thankful for healing that can be had!
Ditto❣️
This has been perfect information Anne. Folk have got to study nature more because the answers are already there.
Take for example a peach tree, the peach will fall to the ground, it will remain on top of the ground and the flesh will rot around it. Come autumn and the peach tree will lose its foliage, these leaves will fall onto the pip and protect it from the frosts. Eventually spring comes around again and the seed starts to break out - nothing is compacting anything else. Nature has been doing this for years! Thank you both for showing this - we all continue to learn :)
Anne and Daniel … how timely. Many thanks!
Hello Anne , I appreciate your videos and the enthusiastic energy and approach for subject, topic and content. keep up the good work. Love from Texas
Im in the UK and have just got my first ever allotment. There is sooo much rubbish, weeds, etc on it but once ive sorted it out, the first thing im going to do is plant my six fruit trees that have been in pots for a year or so now. This was a great video and it was just in time for my planting !
In addition to Ann's amazing instruction, you might want to check out the wealth of information that Charles Dowding @CharlesDowding1nodig has to offer from his home &/or allotment in the UK. While gardening/farming/homesteading share many universal truths, gardening in the UK vs North America presents different challenges and incredible rewards.
All that rubbish, and all those weeds... are sharing some important diagnostics about your garden.
Charles's videos can safe you years of loss and frustration, especially when you're starting from scratch.
No-dig gardening seems counterintuitive at times. When you look at the science behind it though, the benefits - to both your garden and your aching back - become obvious wins.
Congratulations on your allotment! Happy growing!
Anne, I absolutely love the humor you bring to everything. Informative and hilarious.
Glad to hear it, I get a lot of eye rolls from my husband 😂
Awesome video. I could watch Daniel all day. So knowledgeable and such a lovely manner.
Oof! This also makes me ask myself… What are the girdling roots in my own life? 😮
I’m learning that so much spiritual depth is displayed in nature and gardening! God knew exactly what he was doing when he created all of this. Whoa.
Yes!!!! So many spiritual lessons are found in gardening.
I bought a house that had a very large tree that had been supported by a tomato cage. By the time I came there the metal of the cage was deeply embedded in the bark; there was no way to get it out. One day during a windstorm, the tree gently toppled over. The roots were shallow and I could tell that that the poor thing never had a chance!
Maybe it would have been OK if they'd trimmed it to keep it small?
When I've planted my trees I dig a large deep hole in a square shape. My local soil has a clay pan anywhere from 6-18" down. I backfill the hole with compost I make, then clean the roots and splay them out at the correct depth. I DO gently step on the soil to firm it up though. I mulch the top without the "volcano". I ❤ the cardboard idea. Thanks for a great video.
Great information. I’m battling with deer eating the apples and the peach branches. And it doesn’t help that a buck decided to rub his antlers on the peach trunk and broke a branch off. 😢
If you don't have any grazing animals (sheep, goats etc) to worry about, plant yew bushes. The deer LOVE them and are not affected by the toxins. My last place had a yew hedge and the deer would browse that rather than come into the yard for the gardens and fruit trees ;)
Same. Misery loves company. I've RESTAKED.. MORE BETTER-ER I hope.
This video alone has changed everything for me and will be saving me so much time & money!!!
So glad to hear it!
I was about to leave to get some fruit trees and Anne had to release a new video. 😂
Thanks for this awesome video!
This explains why most of my baby trees die. Thank you!
This video was extremely helpful, thanks Anne & Daniel! I'm getting ready to plant a few apple trees in Maine and I feel more confident now! Just found your videos and I'm enjoying watching you and how you shed light on so many innocent gardening faux pas. You're funny and sweet . . . don't change . . . and don't work yourself to death. 💚
So glad you are here Natalie!
Thank you. Gophers ate the fig tree i grew from a stick. My mulberry tree is gone. Im finally ready to try again... but do gophers like other fruit trees. I don’t expect to get fruit in my foggy cooler area but i was hoping for a pretty spring blossom show each spring.
I’m getting prepared to plant 15 King Mulberry trees. I propagated them from a bare root tree that I planted 3yrs ago.
Are you going to eat some of those berries. Or are you just going to watch them come down on your yard things . I like it when they come down on my daughter's picnic table. If I could get enough berries at one time. I'll bet you could stain a picnic table purple and I think it would look good. What do you think?
For seniors or people with disabilities or chronic illness, buying potted trees may be best. When you buy bare root trees, it's important to get them into the ground asap. The trees don't care about your physical limitations. Getting them in pots buys you a little time to get rested or get through the worst of your flare, or to find someone to help you plant.
Im disabled and i get around this by digging the holes before the trees arrive for example you could order 5 trees and dig a hole every few days or even 1 a week for the 5 weeks leading up to delivery just make sure to cover the dirt pile so it doesn’t blow away if u have light soils. This also works if you top dress or mulch the trees after planting keep the pile u need right next to the tree hole to just push onto when planted
i disagree. Bare-root is the way my in-law's family has been doing for ages. They're from east TN and they're DIYers than anything else. they're legally disabled but still do the planting.
it all comes down to how well you plan.
I've lost both types, if you know ahead of time, dig before they arrive. Some times, the large pot, thus large hole can be a hardship, lifting and digging. It's hard to ask for help, but if you have a nephew/niece, maybe you can make their favorite treat/meal as a thank you for them helping digging, etc.
@@Ishiisan you can't always plan for the days your spinal cord inflammation leaves you unable to function. I'm glad your in-laws are able to plan around their own disabilities, but not every disability is the same.
Agreed. As far as I am concerned planting a tree regardless of pots or bare roots etc etc is the point. Plant a tree. Just plant one. Plant 2 if you can. The best tree is a tree that got planted. Let’s grow together. 😊
Now a useful video would be how to plant a potted tree addressing checking for girdleing etc right at planting that way it won’t be having a problem 15 years later. If you plant a bare root tree wrong with roots bunched up it too could grow with a girdled root.
Went out and checked on my Fuy Persimmon that wasn't look too great. It was rootbound. I did my first chiseling of a tree root. I hope she makes it 🤞
UPDATE: IT’S ALIVE! it's looking so much healthier!
at the end of the year around fall time start colecting ur cow pies ,a.k.a cow poops and put a bunch in ur garden and till it in before the winter, ur victory garden will flurish ... my gram made me doo it every fall and we had the best biggest vegges and other small crops... peppers were great .. GOD BLESS GOOD LUCK WIT UR FARM.. FROM A OLD FARM HAND IN PA. 😇😇
Your gram sounds like a treasure ❤️
Incredible video thanks - everyone should watch this before planting any kind of tree. I knew some of this but awesome!!!
I have learned so much from your videos. Thank you for being humble enough to share your failures with us. I knew I wanted bear trees, but I didn’t know they were available to the average Joe want to be permaculturist:
YESSSS!!!! I've been waiting for this one ever since you teased it! I realize the room for it on this channel may be limited, but I'm here for any tree content you want to put up!
Wow, Ann you guys are great teachers, thank u 4sharing ❤
Ann... Yes. I GOT MINE FROM HOME DEPOT... bought the same one and had a cherry and thought it was a mini plum. Surprise.
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I’m sure it was staged but I LOVED ❤ that you addressed MULCH VOLCANOES up front in the teaser. Always hated seeing those, especially from real ‘landscapers’!
This is the best video I’ve ever seen on planting and arranging the roots of a new tree! 🌳 This guy is a real treasure! (Well, you, too 😊 )
I enjoy all your content but this series is AWESOME! I agree with the other commenter who said hurry hurry hurry with the next part!
Hurry hurry hurry with the next video please. 😊 I learned so much today and you probably just saved 4 cherry trees! How old does the tree have to be before it can be propagated? Thank you so much!
You can propagate fruit trees any time you prune. Check how old your tree has to be before it’s recommended pruning. Most trees can be pruned after its first year in the ground,but. You can take cuttings from a potted tree that you just bought.
Thank you!@@thetexianpatriot2201
@@LisaSimplified you’re very welcome. Best of luck!
Girdling roots.. root bound.
This is perfect timing- I am planting about 7 fruit trees this weekend, which have been in pots for a year. Hoping to give them a good start in the ground.
Thank you for this video. I knew that daffodils are good to protect the trees from wild animals so I started to plant some around my fruit trees, now I will transplant also the strawberry plants that are too many in my garden under some plum trees.
Air pockets .. need earthworms!!!
Squirrels enjoy eating bulbs...some people plant bulbs in chicken wire cAge. 😊
Mulch ring. Not mulch volcano
@@valnpaulvanorden I have squirrels but they never touched my bulbs, I have also other wild animals but they respect my garden
@@valnpaulvanorden I have very big earthworms
I love the way Anne talks! Such a yapper, so endearing!
Thank you for the video. I just bought a small Ylang Ylang sapling (barely 12 inch tall) and it already got transplant shock within minutes of transplanting to a garden pot. I hope it survives.
Excuse me while I go fix a few fruit trees I planted this past week. GREAT video with helpful information.
Love the planting of fruit trees!
I always put lots of mulch around trees if I have it. Not volcano but just thick all around. “Back to Eden style” has never given bad results.
I think we have all made the mistake of root bound trees. When you get the end of season potted trees cheap and they are just a massive ball of circling roots , all you can do is slice and try to pry apart a little and hope for the best. Bare root trees are the best for sure but not always the easiest to find in what you want and when you want it.
My peach trees bloom every year and start making fruit, but they will shrivel up and fall off. My Nannie grew them from peach pits she threw out in the garden so I’d love for them to thrive.
Some fruit trees need a second male tree.
If that's the case, I believe you have tons of fruits forming, yes? So, just like trimming back sucker's on the tree, the branches can only support a few fruits per branch. Without more information like your growing zone, late frosting events will kill fruits, and also any pests encountered on your tree. I suppose the last the most important thing to keep in mind is that as you stated you grew your tree from a pit opposed to a store bought which is a tree graft from a proven big fruiting tree. Your tree may only grow small fruits or you don't have adequate pollinators like honey bees. Best of luck. ...one more thing it takes a seedling around 2-4 years to be mature enough to fully bear fruit so depending on the age of the tree. Hope this helps.
I think it might have a virus maybe brown rot? Seaweed soaked in water is an excellent tonic for virus diseases.
Thank you for this. Wow! I have just learned a LOT on one morning and I am still in my bed drinking coffee. We are going to replant an apricot tree we put in the garden about 3 weeks ago. Now we are going to redo that and hopefully do it right this time. I’m a fan! Love the channel.
Thank you for this video. I am going to have to dig up my black tartarian cherry tree. The instructions said to leave it in the burlap "bag" for planting, but it hasn't grown much at all. It could be for a few reasons. We shall see come spring.
Tschuess ! Anne are you German? I came to Michigan in 1961. Learned gardening without assistance. But love to hear from people like you. Thanks for your video’s
Thanks for the close up on the gurdling root and all the detailed information. I learned a lot from this video! I planted a little apple tree from seed in a pot and today i transplanted it into the garden. As I got it out of the pot I remembered this video and decided to take a look at the root. And lo and behold... There was a gurdling root. I took it off, but the tree might not make it... Luckily it was only 6 months old, so I'm glad I saw this now rather than in 6 years. What can cause a gurdled root in a seedling? (Btw: i know that this apple tree is not true to seed, but i wanted to try it anyways and see what happens 😊)
What a great bunch of very useful and important information! Thank you so much! This will be shared! xoxo
So helpful. I have a tiny yard, but I want to make the most of it. I've definitely learned about wome things I've done wrong.
Best tree planting video I have ever seen. Thank you both!
great video, thanks. i'll fix the trees i planted too deep yesterday as well as untangle the container tree roots
Every one of your videos is so well thought through so well presented absolutely fantastic and encouraging information!
What a compliment! Thank you!
Wow, Great video! Getting ready to put in an Apricot for the first time.
Thanks for this video. Finally understand why some of my trees are not successful
Great video! I did not know the roots could girdle itself.
We use to plant trees always in October! Best month to plant .... ;)
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today ;)
(But I do agree)
I can't tell you how valuable the visual of the girdling was! I couldn't picture it, so thank you! ALSO, I just had my husband plant a couple hundred bucks worth of fruit trees and I'm panicking about how well he did. 😳 I sent him this video, so we'll see how much we can fix, lol. 🥴 ❤your vids, sis!
So glad you’re here!
I needed this video! I planted ao many fruit trees and while the trees are thriving, I never harvested one fruit from them. It has been 7 years and no success!!!
Great video- the three different tree scenarios really helped cement the info and covered how to tackle different problems. Thank you!
Thank you for this very interesting video. I did know to make sure the roots were spread out but was not familiar with the term girdling. About a month ago I planted two peach trees. After watching this video I think I planted them to deep. I planted them the same depth as the root ball. Just got two pear and two plume trees this video will be so helpful. Love the expertise and the humor you put into this video and will be watching others.
Thank you 👍😊, very informative!
I'm really loving this series you're doing with the various experts vs. your past mistakes and good humor. The best way to learn is from making mistakes and not enough UA-camrs let us see what they did wrong. The expert's advice is the icing on the cake.
Once those trees get established that pond is going to be like a little paradise. Probably a really nice and cool spot to rest on those wicked hot summer afternoons.
This auto played while i was busy cleaning up. I dont have any fruit trees yet but i do have a pink lemonade blueberry bush. Took listening to this to remember i never cut the tag off! I ran back to the berry garden so fast lol. Luckily its only in its 3rd year and hadnt boared its way into the trunk yet. Thanks for the reminder!!
Most experts will suggest not putting any compost in the hole at all. I have tried it both ways, and have success and failures with them both.
What I've done to protect my trees from string trimmers & deer has been 4" diameter sections of drain tile (helps keep mulch away from the trunk too) and cages made of chicken wire or welded wire 3-4ft diameter for the first several seasons till big enough to survive deer grazing.
Smart!
As a Floridian in zone 9B it's really frustrating when people in gardening videos such as this use seasons considering we really don't have any seasons here. I think I just need to find more targeted videos but thank you.
All these tips apply regardless of what season you're planting in ;)
@@AnneofAllTrades I'm trying I really surely hope it works out. I just bought a beautiful home and I have an acre I just want to create a balanced orchard to feed my children. It is overwhelming as a beginner to figure out which things I should add to what kind of soil it's a lot. I appreciate the videos tremendously
These fruit tree videos have been awesome for me.
I hope the next video comes soon! I moved into a property with a bunch of 50+ year old fruit trees (apples, plums, high bush cranberry specifically) that are not doing very good, and are throwing up hundreds of root suckers. I'd love to know what to do with them to start an orchard, at least as root stock.
This video is very timely as we are going to start our small orchard soon. This is full of needed information!
Very interesting regarding daffodils and yes I love flowering ground covers; have never had to use a weed Wacker in 28 yrs.
Great channel. Thank you for all the valuable information!
Omgsh Love the cardboard and plant garlic and bulbs strawberries around the tree 🌳 ❤
We're just getting started in planting fruit trees on land we've recently purchased. The fellow who had the land before planted a plum and apple tree directly into THE MOST clay rich soil you can imagine. Like 90 percent clay probbaly. We're talking thick, sticky clay. Somehow, without any aeration or addition of compost or soil, these things are massively thriving..
We love Daniel! Loved the first video, and loving this one even more. We'll be waiting for the next one!
Oh this is the third one, did you see the winter pruning video? He’s a rock star.
Thank you dear for excellent information
For trees in harsh ground we do side pipe... a pipe that goes under the roots 1ft under..and comes out 1 ft away from the tree.. by watering under the roots will attract the roots down rather than around and choking the tree
Thanks for reminding us about this. I forgot this trick but am going to use it.
Thank you guys! I love your videos 😭🤣 God Bless You
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I learned a lot from this video and will be planting trees differently in the future.
So glad to hear it!
So excited for the next video!!! Do you have a video on how you started your nectarines? Really curious where they stayed during their propagation 👍🏼
Anne, Have you ever utilized the Ellen White tree planting method? It works marvelously well. Granted, it is a lot of work but it goes along with exactly what Daniel is talking about. Tree roots need air and non compacted soil. You should check it out, if you haven't yet tried it or heard of it. God bless
Good video! This will help lots of folks. First time I've seen someone dig up and chisel a girdled tree. I've been planting out my food forest over the past 3 years, and it was a game-changer when I started using LOTS of wood chips!
I have a question... you mentioned you have garlic you grew from seed? How did you get garlic seeds that actually work? Do you have garlic that puts out viable seed, or did you buy those seeds? I've never seen them. Everyone I know grows their garlic from cloves. My understanding is that most domestic garlic can't breed sexually any more? But I'd love to grow some garlic from seed and see what attributes emerge!
Thank you . Wish I had a place to plant a tree now
1:58 the roots @needtobreathe & 15:27 yuppp my favorite band!!
Callandulla are in Merrigold family perennial healer great self seeding enable leaves, boil for healing oil for bruises cuts and reduces scarring,
Great video. THANK YOU!
This video was so great! Very informative. I learned a ton. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you two so much for your videos... This is helping me professionally and I love this stuff... You're inspirational... I will better my life with your help
Great vide ! How could you water the top small plants( strawberries, garlic) without not watering too often for the trees?
Oh dear. 😢Super informative video which just popped up on my feed today but two weeks too late. Aggh! I’ve just planted six fruit trees and I’m recognising a fair number of those mistakes. Think I might have to go back and make a few corrections. Great info thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
I plant apple and peach seeds in the regular compact soil, the strongest trees survive, thrive and even bare fruit on the second year (peaches 🍑)
INSANE QUALITY CONTENT! oh my gosh... THANK YOU.
So glad you found what you needed ❤️❤️
I love your channel!! Such a happy, funny, honest, informative site!
I have planted only a couple fruit trees and some berries and I use weed fabric and then mulch and sometimes put cardboard under the fabric too. Is using the weed fabric good for the trees and plants. I live in Georgia, east of Atlanta
Well Bless your little heart!!!!
Hi I just found your videos, and I'm very glad I did as I have been wondering what to do with my 11 apples trees...to..be. How to trim them. 4 years ago I planted 11 pips from a apple I ate, inspired of my grandsons apple tree done the same way. I was thinking many would die but no they grew indoors the 1st year all 11😄. Now they have been outdoors 3 years but sadly we are moving to a apartment with a small balcony and I would love to take one with me.. you have such great advice planting trees from a pot into the ground. Would you have any advice for me to do the opposite? We will live in southern Sweden, so there will not be much snow there during winter if any but we are close to the ocean. I think I need to protect it from frost, not sure how much, I'm sure I can ask around but maybe you have some good advice about maybe cutting roots down a bit or anything else to stop it go bad. Thank you again for a very interesting videos👍
Great information Daniel and Anne! I was kinda hoping that a discussion about the grafted trees would have been had. I have found mixed opinions on whether to bury the graft or leave it out of ground by up to an inch. But being that the trees are grafted onto hardy rootstock, they typically say the rootstock needs to be buried or you will have succulent growth. I have planted trees both ways but am curious what the opinion is. I am also in zone 3b. But none the less, some great information. Will check out Daniel's site. Thank you both.
Thankyou great info . I'm going to plant garlic strawberries and some Lily's around my fruit trees. Have you got any magical remedy for possums 😂
Awesome episode Anne and Daniel ❤
Question about something that was said in this video about growing these fruit trees from seed... wouldnt you be able to graph or I should say cut and clone the tree from snipping new growth from its newly sprouted branches or cuttings by snipping below the nodule where its branches fork, and then root hormone and plant, when roots establish then transplant Into the preped area?
Is this possible with these kinds of fruit trees?
Or just grow new trees from the fruits seeds?
What would be more practical and work best?
I left the tags on my trees and the trees just popped them off. But, most of the tags were on little branches which never outgrew the slack in the tags.
I'm so invested, I need to know how these trees did this summer. 😮
Check out the summer garden tour videos ;)
That song was adorable :D
I swear, your channel is like 90% of the things I'm currently working on and I think I might be binging your backlog now lol.
Got 60 small fruit and nut trees growing in my screenhouse that I started this year for my own burgeoning orchard 🤣
Great minds think alike!
I was afraid of digging out a tree I planted to close to another, but you gave me confidence that is going to be ok. What season is best to do the dig out. Autumn- Spring? Or Autumn-Winter. Thanks
Ideally in fall, winter or very early spring.
Anne I am so grateful for your planting videos, thank you! I need some of those pants you wear, it looks like they are reinforced at the knee. Can you share that info as well?
I had one plum I planted back in February not put any greenery on. The tree seems to still be living. But the mistake i think I made was digging the hole a little too deep. So real soon here I am going to dig it up and raise the height of the tree. Hopefully I can fix it before its too late. Its a Toka plum and they are suppose to have a bubble gum like flavor. That sounded very interesting to me. Fingers crossed.
i've nedeed this advice before, but i'm glad to have it now, very informative
Oh, I like the shout-out to Billy at Perma Pastures Farm! Their comfrey has been growing great for me.
$120 t0 $200 for a tree that size?!? Here: $800 to $1200. Gotta love these Southern California nurseries! Excellent video, by the way. Just what I was looking for. Thanks!
I'm about to start planting so Thanks! because I would have made all of these mistakes.
Excellent video, great information.❤