This was some of your best work I've seen so far. Permaculture in action. Thank you so much for proving and demonstrating the benefits of this way of farming.
@@janew5351 he does offer payment plans on all the courses and you can start each course for free. So if anything there is still a bunch of free content if you go through each of the free sections.
Been watching your older videos. Thanks for the update. I learn a lot from you. I’m just starting mine. I have planted 24 trees and working on my fruits and flowers. Can’t wait to learn more.
My dad and I stumbled across your dandelion video some months ago. We couldn't find you again for what seemed forever. Once I did, I subscribed. I appreciate your laid back "mistakes happen" attitude. It has really helped me feel better about having the same attitude toward my own mini-farm. I live in a city on a tiny little lot and when I moved in, it was "dead". That is the lawn was already crispy from a three week drought and the shrubs that existed had little vibrancy. I started by killing the creeping invasives. The next year, I over seeded the lawn in white clover and a super low growing alfalfa. The wood violets liked this so much that by the third year my lawn was completely purple from mid-May to early June. I have a street tree that shades the front yard so much the ground was bare, so first I set out to fill in shade loving plants under it. Now Hosta, Pulmonaria, Polygonatum, and Trillium grow in wood chipped areas with massive shade. A cotton wood was planted at the drip line of big street tree, so when the city decides it's going to chop the trees on my street because they are too big and causing sidewalk damage, this fast growing replacement can be shading my front yard again in less than five years. I've turned the narrow strip between my house and my neighbor into a shrub highway for wildlife to connect between the street trees and the trees along the alley way. Roses provide a deterrent to human intruders under bedroom windows and blueberry bushes will give lovely blooms and sweet fruit in that shrub row as well. I left the large Arborvitae along the property line that hides my view of the neighbor's garage with these new plantings filling in along that same line. I have a peach and plum 2-in-1 tree that I want to plant outside my kitchen window, but for the moment it lives in a five gallon bucket while I decide if I want to install central air first. In my back yard, I topped a white pine that was horribly over pruned due to an overhead powerline and left the snag 8-10' tall. I've hung bird houses from it and put potted flowers on the stumped trunks. The cut away branches were taken to the city shed for "disposal", and I retuned with a truck load of freshly chipped mulch. My city is gracious in providing such an exchange service. I have a raised bed vegetable garden installed under that old snag along with a massive double compost bin built from old pallets. Weeds are allowed to grow freely in between the beds. One bed is nothing but perennial herbs ... Even my cilantro self seeds ever year at this point. I want to expand this area, but the electric company is doing work the next two summers. I therefore have to wait to see what they do with overhead and possibly now underground lines before I start more work along the alley. My garden was recently approved for the National Wildlife Federation Wildlife Habitat Certification, and my efforts now have several homes on the block allowing more natural landscaping with some posting homemade "feed the bees" and "wildlife friendly" signs. Your channel is such an inspiration for those of us who are working on a small scale to make a.big difference in how our communities view and interact with nature and our food sources.
Fantastic! Always great to hear of good stewardship of land. Compost, wood chips and "weeds" do wonders for any soil and can return the most barren site back to health. Your example is contagious to the neighbourhood. Keep it up, bravo.
I still live at home but once I’m finished school and making money I’m totally setting this up for myself. The diversity and health of the orchard is incredible
Love your channel, and in the last 24 hours I’ve learned that 1. your farm is in Quebec, and 2. so are wildfires. Your channel and your farm and your personality are incredibly inspiring to me and I am keeping your home’s safety in my thoughts 💜
That is awesome! We’re in an agricultural region with a lot of open fields and sparse wooded areas. The wildfires are mostly at least 2 hours north of us in the mixed and boreal forest zone where spruce and pine dominate. They are often forests that need fire to naturally regenerate, so they were due for a fire. This is an unusually dry spring.
I have 3 gooseberry bushes out in full sun and have been since planted over 12 years ago. They love it. Don't know what variety it is, but it rocks. Hugest, sweetest, green berries I have seen on any bush!
I’m trying have planted a few hundred trees but my babies are in the front yard about 3 dozen fruit, nut trees, and berry bushes planted on the old family farm. Only problem is last two year we have had recorded cold winters and snow which is uncommon and record heat/drought in the summers. For example we didn’t have any rain between June 2 and September 1. 3 months no rain and I can’t water everything or travel the 4 hours to do it as often as I need to. It’s tough
I really enjoy your videos. I'm taking your advice on one of your previous video about putting up a fence barrier, before planting my fruit trees. The darn deer have already chewed up my rasberry plants, and my Red Oaks and Red Maples. I'm in progress today putting in 3- 6 ft T posts around each tree, to give a 4 ft diameter space, that I will enclose with 5 ft tall fence. I transplanted my survived raspberry plants inside this space. When I get these 6 trees enclosed, I'm going to setup an enclosure area for fruit trees. I liked someone's comment of using 100 lb test fish line between his posts, that was freaking out the deer because they couldn't see the line, but they sure felt it. So.....I plan to try it, first, and see how it affects the deer, before I spend the money on my trees. GOD Bless
Your orchard looks stunning. Thank you for being so generous with your UA-cam channel. I have learnt so much from you over the years. Keep slipping in some information for me in the future.
Trying to recreate something similar here in PEI. I have planted about 15 fruit trees - peach, apple, pear and plums - in the last couple years. Adding nitrogen fixers and bushes as I can. Building slowly over the next 10-15 years so I can have a retirement income. I already see a change in birds and amphibians. Weare a couple weeks behind you so looking forward to the bloom season in the next week or so.
Thanks! I never prune our apple trees, because I don't want to destroy any of the fruiting branches. It's nice tobhear that I can just break the rules. We get plenty of apples! Like TOO many!
Enjoy it because it will not last long, my apples and pears are 1'' and I've done my grafting and air layering already. Seems to be a buggy year as my fruit trees been under attack since the bloom set. Hope all your trees do well. 🍎🍎
Love it! Planted my orchard earlier this spring, inspired by you! Lots of culinary apples, cherries, Chinese peach, and sea berries as nitrogen fixers. Then a whole host of perennials in between- and lots of free wood chips for mulch (fun fact- poison ivy survives the chipping process rather well). But my favourite are the cider apples- Dabinett, Brown Snout, Ashmead's kernel, Porter's perfection, etc. Have you tried making hard cider with your apples? Anyways, thank you for these videos, "just start" really is great advice.
Bees are important even though I’m scared of them. In Texas I have to watch out for the Africanized honey bees. They are so aggressive. However, where I’m at in Fort Worth there are mostly European honey bees, but Africanized ones occasionally come over. Just moved to Texas from Michigan.
It looks beautiful! I remember you mentioned that the reason your apple trees can be successful is because there is no hail. We are in Denver where it is fairly dry zone 5-6 area and gets hail a few times each summer. I was wondering if you had any fruit tree recommendations for places with hail.
I saw orchards in Switzerland that would not be insured unless they had hail protection netting over the whole orchard. You can get double use of bird netting as hail protection.
I don't know if you'll see this comment/question but if anyone can help I'd appreciate it. We were inundated with grasshoppers and they ate one apple tree's leaves severly. Then all the remaining leaves turned brown/red on the edges. I've checked and it's not too dry or too wet. The other trees are fine. I worry that maybe the grasshoppers transmitted fireblight. If it's fireblight can I just take off the affected leaves and spray the rest and save the tree, or do I have to do severe pruning? It's a 2 year old tree but in ground its first year. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. I wish I could afford the master class but things are tight right now. But thank you for all your videos! I've learned so much.
No worries, lots of great info on the UA-cam channel. Sounds like fireblight. Best to check online with photos of fireblight and prune off the branches. Just removing the leaves won't remove it, it's in the branch. I have a video on fireblight in pears.
Huh i always thought gooseberries needed full sun. Mine have always been in full sun, huge crop. Made 4 batches of jelly, and 15 liters of juice on just 1/3 of the plants harvest. Couldnt use them all i had such a glut of stuff i was preserving.
I dug a 4' hole, no water. A wk later we had 2" rain, I rechecked hole, had 2.5' water in it. I didnot notice any evidence of surfave water run in. Whats yer opinion ? Thanx Sir.
Shameless plug : after editing his propagation course I can say that he shows several “easy” grafting techniques. You can even start that course for free now on Permaculture.Study
Yea me too , love it, but sry i have few questions .. In one of your old videos you said that starting with a small section and adding lot of companion plants around the trees is a good way of starting strong trees .. are you sure? I don't understand why then having the trees surrounded by weeds has the opposite effect. You stated this too, that growing wild plants near the your trees damages them, so isn't this a contradiction? Do your trees want to grow with plants around or not? Are you sure your first trees grew up badly and small for other reasons, instead of being caused by the weeds? I would love if you explain why companion plants are good but natural wild plants are instead harmful to the trees.
@@StefanSobkowiak you maybe didn't read my comment xD i know that, and it seems a contraddiction. You now stated the exact issue i was talking about in my comment, but if you don't know how to answer then your concept is probably wrong. Maybe your plants grew up badly the first time becouse the soil was bad and you did it badly.
just get rid of the damned grass in your yard and you will be able to plant something fruitful. even a tiny patch can house many types of berry bushes and many of them do not even need full sun. of course it is better with a standard 1/4 acre lot. i only have 1 acre and i am adding fruit trees every year. if you are in a town you have an advantage as you can get arborist chips for free to compost. i have tons of birds... they follow me around if i am digging so they can hunt for worms. i have some rare birds here now too. i am also getting a lot of native bees and pollinators. i was considering doing videos but then i found stefan here... listen to him... he knows of what he speaks. i just don't use plastic because i can get wood chips as i am on the edge of a town. they say apple trees get old and do not produce. i have found that is not true... my wood chips have revived all the old apple and pear trees that were old when i bought this property in the early 80's. they have been giving huge, sweet, juicy fruit and i never have to water my trees at all... i am in the mountain north west of usa... 5 months of no rain at all and dry heat. cheers 🙂
I used to weed out the couch grass... But since I now have a flock of Budgies and chickens grass and the weeds are a very valuable food source... probably more so than the fruit
@@annburge291 my entire orchard area ground is planted with wildlife food. the deer come and give birth at my place and raise their babies here because they know it is safe. same family of deer been with me... i have watched many of them be born. they keep the low stuff nicely trim and fertilize my orchard. they actually killed the Japanese knotweed infestation i had on one side of my land. i just have to protect my small trees until they are tall enough. the deer get so much food that they don't bother high stuff. to me, the only way to truly succeed is by working with nature not against it. sounds like you are on the same path 🙂
@@AlsanPine Sounds like paradise. Enjoy your earth care. My wildlife is a little smaller here in dry lands, Chihuahua Mexico...ants, mice, voles, squirrels, grass snakes, grasshoppers, dragon flies, finches, an odd hawk, bats...we used to have in the distance coyotes, hares, rattle snakes and vultures but the neighbours were a little trigger happy and I haven't seen any in a long time.
@@annburge291 ah... trigger happy neighbors... i live in n. idaho... i know of what you speak. still... the closer we are to nature, the better life is. live well 🙂
I have used your videos to develop a small permaculture orchard on my property during these last few years. At first, I valued the educational value of the videos, but recently, since my orchard is developed and maturing… the entertainment value of the walkabouts were my biggest draw to the channel. I am a little sad to see the commercialization and shift to pay-site and master classes, but I sincerely wish you well. Good bye.
This was some of your best work I've seen so far. Permaculture in action. Thank you so much for proving and demonstrating the benefits of this way of farming.
Wow, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed this one. Less edits but the new camera gear definitely does the orchard justice now
@@ZaneMedia The video quality is amazing!
Sorry, your course fees are beyond my budget!
@@janew5351 he does offer payment plans on all the courses and you can start each course for free. So if anything there is still a bunch of free content if you go through each of the free sections.
Been watching your older videos. Thanks for the update. I learn a lot from you. I’m just starting mine. I have planted 24 trees and working on my fruits and flowers. Can’t wait to learn more.
Woot woot way to go, 24 trees. Well done. Soon you will taste an abundance.
Yes we’ll done! You’ve “started” 👍👍
Because of you I know about permaculture! Thank you !
My dad and I stumbled across your dandelion video some months ago. We couldn't find you again for what seemed forever. Once I did, I subscribed.
I appreciate your laid back "mistakes happen" attitude. It has really helped me feel better about having the same attitude toward my own mini-farm. I live in a city on a tiny little lot and when I moved in, it was "dead". That is the lawn was already crispy from a three week drought and the shrubs that existed had little vibrancy. I started by killing the creeping invasives. The next year, I over seeded the lawn in white clover and a super low growing alfalfa. The wood violets liked this so much that by the third year my lawn was completely purple from mid-May to early June.
I have a street tree that shades the front yard so much the ground was bare, so first I set out to fill in shade loving plants under it. Now Hosta, Pulmonaria, Polygonatum, and Trillium grow in wood chipped areas with massive shade. A cotton wood was planted at the drip line of big street tree, so when the city decides it's going to chop the trees on my street because they are too big and causing sidewalk damage, this fast growing replacement can be shading my front yard again in less than five years.
I've turned the narrow strip between my house and my neighbor into a shrub highway for wildlife to connect between the street trees and the trees along the alley way. Roses provide a deterrent to human intruders under bedroom windows and blueberry bushes will give lovely blooms and sweet fruit in that shrub row as well. I left the large Arborvitae along the property line that hides my view of the neighbor's garage with these new plantings filling in along that same line.
I have a peach and plum 2-in-1 tree that I want to plant outside my kitchen window, but for the moment it lives in a five gallon bucket while I decide if I want to install central air first. In my back yard, I topped a white pine that was horribly over pruned due to an overhead powerline and left the snag 8-10' tall. I've hung bird houses from it and put potted flowers on the stumped trunks. The cut away branches were taken to the city shed for "disposal", and I retuned with a truck load of freshly chipped mulch. My city is gracious in providing such an exchange service.
I have a raised bed vegetable garden installed under that old snag along with a massive double compost bin built from old pallets. Weeds are allowed to grow freely in between the beds. One bed is nothing but perennial herbs ... Even my cilantro self seeds ever year at this point. I want to expand this area, but the electric company is doing work the next two summers. I therefore have to wait to see what they do with overhead and possibly now underground lines before I start more work along the alley.
My garden was recently approved for the National Wildlife Federation Wildlife Habitat Certification, and my efforts now have several homes on the block allowing more natural landscaping with some posting homemade "feed the bees" and "wildlife friendly" signs. Your channel is such an inspiration for those of us who are working on a small scale to make a.big difference in how our communities view and interact with nature and our food sources.
Fantastic! Always great to hear of good stewardship of land. Compost, wood chips and "weeds" do wonders for any soil and can return the most barren site back to health. Your example is contagious to the neighbourhood. Keep it up, bravo.
I still live at home but once I’m finished school and making money I’m totally setting this up for myself. The diversity and health of the orchard is incredible
You can start a small nursery while at home. We started all our shrubs in an 8'x8' $40 greenhouse. It gets your project started beyond a wish.
For self-sufficiency. So important at this time.
Absolutely.
100%
Love your channel, and in the last 24 hours I’ve learned that 1. your farm is in Quebec, and 2. so are wildfires. Your channel and your farm and your personality are incredibly inspiring to me and I am keeping your home’s safety in my thoughts 💜
That is awesome! We’re in an agricultural region with a lot of open fields and sparse wooded areas. The wildfires are mostly at least 2 hours north of us in the mixed and boreal forest zone where spruce and pine dominate. They are often forests that need fire to naturally regenerate, so they were due for a fire. This is an unusually dry spring.
I have 3 gooseberry bushes out in full sun and have been since planted over 12 years ago. They love it. Don't know what variety it is, but it rocks. Hugest, sweetest, green berries I have seen on any bush!
I’m trying have planted a few hundred trees but my babies are in the front yard about 3 dozen fruit, nut trees, and berry bushes planted on the old family farm. Only problem is last two year we have had recorded cold winters and snow which is uncommon and record heat/drought in the summers. For example we didn’t have any rain between June 2 and September 1. 3 months no rain and I can’t water everything or travel the 4 hours to do it as often as I need to. It’s tough
Absolutely stunning! We saved part of a dead crab apple tree in the chicken run that serves as a perch for the hens. They love it!
Just watch your movie for the first time yesterday, what a change ! You've created a wonderfull orchard !
Thank you my friend we are working on a “documentary” style video of the orchard and are hoping to release it for free here on UA-cam this fall/winter
Exciting times. Looking forward to seeing this
Bloom & more bloom. Looking forward to your enthusiastic experience of this amazing aspect of the flora reproductive cycle.
Glad to see you coming out of winter hibernation with full of energy and great videos for this season
Us too! Yes winter is long here. Not a lot to show in the orchard during winter.
I was really impressed how soon you responded to my former questions.
I really enjoy your videos.
I'm taking your advice on one of your previous video about putting up a fence barrier, before planting my fruit trees.
The darn deer have already chewed up my rasberry plants, and my Red Oaks and Red Maples.
I'm in progress today putting in 3- 6 ft T posts around each tree, to give a 4 ft diameter space, that I will enclose with 5 ft tall fence. I transplanted my survived raspberry plants inside this space.
When I get these 6 trees enclosed, I'm going to setup an enclosure area for fruit trees.
I liked someone's comment of using 100 lb test fish line between his posts, that was freaking out the deer because they couldn't see the line, but they sure felt it.
So.....I plan to try it, first, and see how it affects the deer, before I spend the money on my trees.
GOD Bless
This looks beautiful
We reinvested a good amount to boost the video quality and do the orchard justice 🥂
I appreciate all your advice and passion. This year I'll be starting to develop a few acres to replace my crappy job.
Thanks so much for your orchard feast. Stunning 🌸🌸🌸❤️
Merci beaucoup Stéphane good teaching bravo
Absolutely beautiful. Discovering your show confirmed a penny-dropped moment in fifty years of being vaguely interested in ppermaculture. Essential.
Welcome aboard! Lots to binge watch.
Yes we’re glad you’re enjoying the content! Lots of new videos still to come 🥂
Thank you for this video!
We’re glad you enjoyed this one 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Your orchard looks stunning. Thank you for being so generous with your UA-cam channel. I have learnt so much from you over the years. Keep slipping in some information for me in the future.
You are so welcome! Will do.
We have a BUNCH of new content coming and we’re excited to share 🥂
“Break the rules” I never liked rules anyway. Maybe that’s one of the reasons I like permaculture so much.
Trying to recreate something similar here in PEI. I have planted about 15 fruit trees - peach, apple, pear and plums - in the last couple years. Adding nitrogen fixers and bushes as I can. Building slowly over the next 10-15 years so I can have a retirement income. I already see a change in birds and amphibians. Weare a couple weeks behind you so looking forward to the bloom season in the next week or so.
Fantastic Julie-Anne, great plan. Slow and steady wins the race.
That’s an awesome retirement plan!
I just adore nature 🥰🥰🥰🥰
It’s awesome to be able to film content in the orchard now with all the birds and wildlife it attracts
I look forward to learning more about the masterclass!! Will look into it!!
Wonderful! It's packed full of great info. Try it, if it's not what you expect just ask for a full refund.
Thanks! I never prune our apple trees, because I don't want to destroy any of the fruiting branches. It's nice tobhear that I can just break the rules. We get plenty of apples! Like TOO many!
Like Arnold Schwarzenegger said “break the rules not the law” haha 👍
Much appreciated
Merci beaucoup Stéphane, j'ai commencé mont verger
Bravo Stéphane. Commence à considérer l’abondance qui va suivre. Continue l’entretien des 3-4 premières années, c’est le plus important.
You are such an inspiration. Greetings from Mexico.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this wonderful video. I love the passion you bring to this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yes glad you enjoyed the new style of walkabouts
Your orchard looks great! Thank you for these videos.
Glad you like them! Darn auto correct.
@@StefanSobkowiak oops, yep... orchard!
Thanks for the awesome feedback always nice to hear 🥂
Enjoy it because it will not last long, my apples and pears are 1'' and I've done my grafting and air layering already. Seems to be a buggy year as my fruit trees been under attack since the bloom set. Hope all your trees do well. 🍎🍎
One of our Apple trees does not fruit anymore, but acts as a trellis for the grapevine.
Good alternative
Nature at work
Love it! Planted my orchard earlier this spring, inspired by you! Lots of culinary apples, cherries, Chinese peach, and sea berries as nitrogen fixers. Then a whole host of perennials in between- and lots of free wood chips for mulch (fun fact- poison ivy survives the chipping process rather well). But my favourite are the cider apples- Dabinett, Brown Snout, Ashmead's kernel, Porter's perfection, etc. Have you tried making hard cider with your apples? Anyways, thank you for these videos, "just start" really is great advice.
I don’t drink so we let juice ferment and then add mother to make cider vinegar. Good to know about chipping poison ivy.
Bees are important even though I’m scared of them. In Texas I have to watch out for the Africanized honey bees. They are so aggressive. However, where I’m at in Fort Worth there are mostly European honey bees, but Africanized ones occasionally come over. Just moved to Texas from Michigan.
We will actually be releasing a mini “documentary style” video about bees in the coming weeks. Maybe you’ll find it helpful 🥂
@@StefanSobkowiak I will I look forward to it. I know they are arguably the most important insects.
Always a fan 🌺🌻🌸
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Glad you’re enjoying all the content 🥂
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Thanks for the love 🥂
You have finally got me to subscribe Stefan !!! :)
Thank you.
Welcome aboard.
It looks beautiful! I remember you mentioned that the reason your apple trees can be successful is because there is no hail. We are in Denver where it is fairly dry zone 5-6 area and gets hail a few times each summer. I was wondering if you had any fruit tree recommendations for places with hail.
I saw orchards in Switzerland that would not be insured unless they had hail protection netting over the whole orchard. You can get double use of bird netting as hail protection.
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Glad you liked this one 👍👍
I don't know if you'll see this comment/question but if anyone can help I'd appreciate it. We were inundated with grasshoppers and they ate one apple tree's leaves severly. Then all the remaining leaves turned brown/red on the edges. I've checked and it's not too dry or too wet. The other trees are fine. I worry that maybe the grasshoppers transmitted fireblight. If it's fireblight can I just take off the affected leaves and spray the rest and save the tree, or do I have to do severe pruning? It's a 2 year old tree but in ground its first year. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. I wish I could afford the master class but things are tight right now. But thank you for all your videos! I've learned so much.
No worries, lots of great info on the UA-cam channel. Sounds like fireblight. Best to check online with photos of fireblight and prune off the branches. Just removing the leaves won't remove it, it's in the branch. I have a video on fireblight in pears.
Write a book!
Huh i always thought gooseberries needed full sun. Mine have always been in full sun, huge crop. Made 4 batches of jelly, and 15 liters of juice on just 1/3 of the plants harvest. Couldnt use them all i had such a glut of stuff i was preserving.
What are your favorites for fresh eating plums? Sorry if you already answered this.
We have mostly Mount Royal, there are many more I haven’t tried. Grow as many as you can try.
@@StefanSobkowiak thank you, and that is my plan
Hi Stefan, what rootstock do you use and what are the planting distances in your orchard?
M26, M106. Too close spacing. Give more space than suggested.
@@StefanSobkowiak Thanks a lot!
What's the spacing distance in metres between tree trunks?
Depends on the species, the cultivar, the rootstock, the climate and the soil. We use 2.5 and 5m.
I dug a 4' hole, no water. A wk later we had 2" rain, I rechecked hole, had 2.5' water in it. I didnot notice any evidence of surfave water run in. Whats yer opinion ? Thanx Sir.
It’s really based on does that 2.5’ of water soak into the soil over a couple of days or does it take a couple of weeks. Days ok, weeks not ok.
im doing it on less than 20,000 sqft since 2017, inspired by you then by Matt Powers
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What fruit trees do best in sandy with 10% loam soil in zone 3?
SK cherries, several cultivars of apple, pear and plum are hardy in zone 3. Check out hardy fruit tree nurseries, they give a zone guide for trees.
I've tried grafting a few years running, it does seem pretty simple, but my success rate is currently 0% unfortunately 😂
Probably the scions dried out too much.
Shameless plug : after editing his propagation course I can say that he shows several “easy” grafting techniques. You can even start that course for free now on Permaculture.Study
Yea me too , love it, but sry i have few questions ..
In one of your old videos you said that starting with a small section and adding lot of companion plants around the trees is a good way of starting strong trees .. are you sure? I don't understand why then having the trees surrounded by weeds has the opposite effect. You stated this too, that growing wild plants near the your trees damages them, so isn't this a contradiction?
Do your trees want to grow with plants around or not? Are you sure your first trees grew up badly and small for other reasons, instead of being caused by the weeds?
I would love if you explain why companion plants are good but natural wild plants are instead harmful to the trees.
Plants around can be good, grass around can be bad. Best to keep grass away for first three years.
@@StefanSobkowiak you maybe didn't read my comment xD i know that, and it seems a contraddiction.
You now stated the exact issue i was talking about in my comment, but if you don't know how to answer then your concept is probably wrong. Maybe your plants grew up badly the first time becouse the soil was bad and you did it badly.
just get rid of the damned grass in your yard and you will be able to plant something fruitful. even a tiny patch can house many types of berry bushes and many of them do not even need full sun. of course it is better with a standard 1/4 acre lot. i only have 1 acre and i am adding fruit trees every year. if you are in a town you have an advantage as you can get arborist chips for free to compost. i have tons of birds... they follow me around if i am digging so they can hunt for worms. i have some rare birds here now too. i am also getting a lot of native bees and pollinators. i was considering doing videos but then i found stefan here... listen to him... he knows of what he speaks. i just don't use plastic because i can get wood chips as i am on the edge of a town. they say apple trees get old and do not produce. i have found that is not true... my wood chips have revived all the old apple and pear trees that were old when i bought this property in the early 80's. they have been giving huge, sweet, juicy fruit and i never have to water my trees at all... i am in the mountain north west of usa... 5 months of no rain at all and dry heat. cheers 🙂
I used to weed out the couch grass... But since I now have a flock of Budgies and chickens grass and the weeds are a very valuable food source... probably more so than the fruit
@@annburge291 my entire orchard area ground is planted with wildlife food. the deer come and give birth at my place and raise their babies here because they know it is safe. same family of deer been with me... i have watched many of them be born. they keep the low stuff nicely trim and fertilize my orchard. they actually killed the Japanese knotweed infestation i had on one side of my land. i just have to protect my small trees until they are tall enough. the deer get so much food that they don't bother high stuff. to me, the only way to truly succeed is by working with nature not against it. sounds like you are on the same path 🙂
@@AlsanPine Sounds like paradise. Enjoy your earth care. My wildlife is a little smaller here in dry lands, Chihuahua Mexico...ants, mice, voles, squirrels, grass snakes, grasshoppers, dragon flies, finches, an odd hawk, bats...we used to have in the distance coyotes, hares, rattle snakes and vultures but the neighbours were a little trigger happy and I haven't seen any in a long time.
@@annburge291 ah... trigger happy neighbors... i live in n. idaho... i know of what you speak. still... the closer we are to nature, the better life is. live well 🙂
Wood chips are gold.
"hmm, mixing onion with rhubarb...(pause, doesn't finish sentence...). Note to self: do not eat onion with rhubarb
Pretty much, live and on camera.
Ahahaha BEST comment right here!
I have used your videos to develop a small permaculture orchard on my property during these last few years. At first, I valued the educational value of the videos, but recently, since my orchard is developed and maturing… the entertainment value of the walkabouts were my biggest draw to the channel. I am a little sad to see the commercialization and shift to pay-site and master classes, but I sincerely wish you well. Good bye.
I'm sorry to hear that. Great that you got a permaculture orchard started. Mission accomplished.