Fruit Tree Guild overview - what to consider before choosing your plants
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- čas přidán 10. 10. 2022
- Planting under trees is not a new concept but planting in this permaculture style is not as well known yet. Consider these few principles when planning and designing your own version and remember variety is the key! Hope this video gives you a bit of inspiration and tips!
All the best, M.
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Excellent thank you. Great to find an Irish channel for inspiration! ❤
Hi, thank you very much 😊 💚🌿
I'm also here after watching Niall's Garden! You explained tree guilds beautifully. I took on an allotment in the south of England at the beginning of this year and planted some dwarf fruit trees as bare roots. I have plum, cherry and apricot. Achillea, lemon verbena, catnip, fennel, oregano, mint and wormwood are planted around them. I have Comfrey planted nearby, and plan to use the leaves as a mulch or to make a feed for my other plants. Looking forward to watching some of your other videos.
It sounds as a lovely combination of plants 😃 the Fruit tree guilds are fantastic plantings and really put the tree in the centre stage. Thank you for your lovely comment. Best Wishes, Maiju 🌿💚
I could listen to you talk all day! This is my new favorite gardening channel 😊
Aaw, thank you so, so much 😊 Thats very kind of you 🥰💚🌿
The more I study, the more I realize that I neef to know more. I grew up on a farm raising produce, with a small orchard, berry patches. I enjoyed yer info, I just heard of permaculture & guilds a wk ago. I'm desiring to put out a few fruit trees, etc. !
Thank you very much ☺️ 💚 Life is a constant learning, right?
There is more to know about petmaculture than my head would take 😅, but I do love the guilds and small scale food forests 💚 Planting trees and shrubs is beneficial to nature all around, so I definitely support that 🥰💚🌿
Your borders look lovely, the whole planting works well.
Interesting to know that the lupins are in the Legumes family.
Hi! Thank you, it's a bit more like cottage garden border on one side (that is longer) as it has lettuce, chard and corn plants intermingled with yarrow, cosmos and calendula.
So beautiful garden!!😚💗
I love flute tree!👍
I grow up pomegranate 😍
Thank you so much 🤗 We can't grow it here but we love eating pomegranate 🌿💚
Here from Nialls garden! You have a gorgeous space x
A huge welcome and thank you 🥰💚
Your property looks beautiful, I look forward to seeing more of it in your other videos :) -Cara
Hiya! Thank you very much Cara 🤗💚🌿
Love it!! I’m going to try this in my garden. Thank you very much for all the information. 🥰
That's brilliant 👏 I hope it will bring you as much joy as it does to our garden 🥰💚🌿 best wishes, Maiju
Thank you for great explanation
By “ mistake” I did plant some flowers and some herbs and some pumpkins under my fruit tree… they did well.
Here there is the belief that under a tree there’s dry shade and the trees leaves no water and nothing grows. I will be braver from now on and plant more in my or orchard. I am glad I found you through Neil’s vlog
Hi! 😀 Sometimes those '' mistakes'' really show us what can be grown! The only thing really when using hungrier plants - pumpkins/rhubarb is to mulch heavily during autumn-winter to replenish the nutrients in the soil. I think underplanting fruit trees in much more rewarding than mowing the grass 😉🌿💚 Best Wishes, M
@@spudsandroses thank you😍😍
Love your gardens!!
Thank you very much ☺️ 💚 🌿
It's so beautiful!!💕☺️
Your garden is awesome!!🥰🌹
Thank you so much for your kind words 🌿💚🤗
Great video and your garden is absolutely beautiful!
Thank you for your kind words 🥰🌿💚
Just found your channel through Niall. Great content. Well done.🤗🇨🇦
Thank you 🥰 very kind of you 💚🍀 Niall is fantastic 🌷
Also directed here by Niall's Garden. I am VERY inspired! Such an informative video. Thank you for sharing. I've just planted three fruit trees at the back of my allotment plot and now I definitely want to create a fruit tree guild. So I've already put a pear, apple and cherry along a strip that is 6m x 1.5m - there's quite a good gap between them so my plan was to put currant bushes (one redcurrant, one blackcurrant) between and then build around the pollinators, smelly herbs, and deep-rooted plants - do you think the currants will work? I saw a fruit tree guild with a blueberry bush, so this seems similar... I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by my new plot, esp because I'd like to use some permaculture design - this makes it much easier to get started.
Thank you 💚 so very kind of you 😊 So nice to hear you got inspired by it 🤗 as this doesn't need to be complicated and the talk about permaculture feels you need to take a full course before you could even start any planting (which is true for large scale designs) but for backyards, home gardens, allotments guilds and cottage style are perfect! What you have planted already sounds lovely and currant bushes will indeed work very well in there 😀 You probably would want to assess the sunlight levels for the herbs and ensure they're getting plenty as the fruit trees grow, they will start casting shade (which currants are totally happy with). Hope this helps, but any questions, let me know 💚💚 Best wishes, Maiju xx
I have visited your channel after watching Niall’s garden. What a beautiful idea. Definitely going to try it on my allotment next year. By coincidence I had heard that growing borage and chives near the base of your apple trees helped their productivity so was planning on doing that next year but having seen your video it must be the same principle. Having a fruit tree in a flower bed with many natural components to help it thrive - natural fertiliser, pollinators and mulch can only be a thing of beauty. Thank you for sharing.
Hi! Thank you so much for such a lovely comment 🤗 anything better than just grass under the trees is always a win-win in my mind and permanent planting is so much less hassle. We love our plantings and that's what I wanted to share - so that everyone could get a bit of inspiration. Best Wishes, Maiju 🌿💚
Confrey is edible...tastes like cucumbers
Hi 👋 How much in quantity and what parts? There's a lot of information out there about the potential toxins for kidneys in Confrey...
It's very edible. Eat ass much as you want. The ones saying it's dangerous are the same ones saying other things are "safe". Grandma been having a smoothie a day here while life.
Came over from Niall’s Garden ... Lovely garden and great idea on the Fruit Tree Guild !
Welcome and thank you so much 🤗 Love the tree guilds 🌿💚
@@spudsandroses Most welcome !
Kiitos ihanasta puutarhastasi. Katsoin juuri Niallin ohjelmaa ja huomasin nimesi. Ihanaa, että viljelet ihanaa puutarhaa Irlannissa. Itse viljelen Etelä-Saksassa. Rakastan kaikkia kiinnostavia puutarhaohjelmia, joista saab uusia ideoita. Kiitos!
Kiitos paljon ystävällisistä sanoistasi 🤗 It is great to get new ideas though seeing other people gardens indeed 😊 you would have much colder weather in Germany though, shorter growing climate. Is it warmer than the area of Finland you grew up in? 🌿💚
@@spudsandroses I live in Bavaria and we have rather warm temperatures also because of the rivers Danube and Inn in our town. We have much warmer temperatures than in the south of Finland, Helsinki region, where I come from.
Hello! Love your plot and the guilds. Can I ask what rootstock you went for? And what age of tree did you initially plant? Would you recommend 1 year maidens or 2 year olds? I’m turning my plot into a mini orchard :-)
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Hello! Just seen you on Niall’s Garden. Love your mix of ornamentals with veg.
At the start of the video you were deadheading calendula. Can you tell me what variety they were?
Thanks in advance.
Debs
Hi Deb, thank you for watching and coming over to my channel ☺️ They were definitely by Unwins but I have a reel in Instagram showing how a lot of them didn't come through in seed 🌿💚
Your welcome from India.
Thank you 🤗🥰💚🌿
Hi lovely to discover you on uTube after watching Niall, I have a question for you, the bright orange flowers you have an array of are they Calendula? The flowers in question were filmed in a previous Episode. 👩🌾
Hi! Thank you so much 🤗, yes they are Calendula. They were supposed to be 1 specific variety but looks like a bit of mix up happened in the seed factory 😊 So there are some that are typical orange and others look like the ''packet'' now I just let the naturally self-seed 🌿💚
Thank you for sharing, It’s a great concept. I was wondering if I can add strawberries as a ground cover.
Hi 😊 Strawberries are a wonderful addition, and really perfect as a ground cover in the permaculture plantings. I have a plentiful supply of slugs and birds to attack the strawberries 🤣🤣 that is the only reason I haven't added any to mine, but otherwise, they are perfect, go for it 👌💚🌿 Best wishes, Maiju
@@spudsandroses Thank you 😊
looks like it makes it hard to get to the plant to pick fruit.
Hi, Thank you for making an interesting observation 💚. I can see why you'd think it. My guilds in the kitchen garden are small, really small, as I'm trying to keep the trees themselves as compact as possible. Harvesting fruit off those is so far very easy. If you'd have fruit trees taller than 2m height, probably ladder is needed for pruning, you can get away for harvesting without a ladder, there are garden gadgets for picking fruit off high branches.
For larger guilds, because the tree itself is bigger, usually a mass planting of same varieties is easy and if you'll end up trampling on some of the plants, there would be plenty as spare still☺🌿💚
I'm wondering what the minimum size of a fruit tree guild would be. I have only a community plot to grow in, maybe I could free up 1m^2? 😅 Thank you for the video!
Thank you very much 😊 The size should depend by the size of the tree as the reason for the guild is to cover the ground under the tree that otherwise is over the root ball area.for example if you have a freestanding tree in the grass and would create a circle all the way around where the branch work finishes,that would be your guild size =the bigger the tree,the bigger the plants you could add to it...join up all these guilds with more plants and you start getting closer to a food forest 😀 One of my guilds is a triangular shape and the tree is going to be kept small (you would need a dwarfing rootstock tree for that) 1m2 (1mx1m)might just be a little too small as when the tree is in the middle you'd only have 50cm at either side for planting and you cannot plant right against the trunk of the tree. I think my triangle is about 2-2,5m2.if you could squeeze a bit more space out 😀 Hope this helps 🤗💚
@@spudsandroses It does help, thank you so much. 🌟
I planted 1 apple, 1 plum and 1 pear tree last autumn. I want to keep them as small trees. Can I start planting around them now or do I have to wait for the tree to establish a bit before I plant the other plants around?
Hi, you could start planting right away, leave at least 1ft or 30cm perimeter around the tree trunk empty, make sure you keep watering in dry weather conditions and mulching the area after planting will help to keep the soil environment moist.hope it helps, best wishes, M.💚🌿
@@spudsandroses it does, than you. I'll try some onions and chives first and then we'll see :)
For the large-leaved plants - could you use pumpkins or squashes?
Hi, and thank you for your question 😊
I suppose it would really depend on your climate. Would it be warm enough for the squashes to cover the ground for most of the year?
As for zone 8-9 the leaves would last for just 5 to 6 months 😊. What would cover the ground for the rest of the months?
Squashes are also incredibly hungry and would need a lot of mulch and manure yearly, so you'd have to see how the rest of the plants would cope with that 😊 I hope it helps 💚🌿
Thanks! I have much to learn about permaculture and this helps a bunch. @@spudsandroses
Just found you from Niall's channel. Subbed. You have a beautiful garden. Funny, I just left a suggestion on guilds on your Niall video. Now I'll listen to yours. I wonder of you'll mention my suggestion. It was a mistake I made in the beginning.
Hiya! I have to re-read Nialls video comments as I haven't come across it... but the Guild video came out a few weeks prior to Nialls.... All the best 🤗 🌿💚
I'm getting a night elf mohawk for my guild...
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Can you recommend any good fruit tree guild books for Irish growers?
Hi, I have not come across of any Fruit Tree guild books specifically, but anything in regards to Food Forests and Permaculture will give you more context as the Fruit tree guilds are like a mini, simplyfied foodforest. The beauty about them is not to overthink and stress, just pick your favourite plants that fill the 6 requirements mentioned, and then, depending on your area/the size of your tree, multiply the plants or add more varieties to have a bigger diversity😊💚🌿
I have heard horseradish is invasive so I have avoided in my guilds. How have you found it?
Hi, if you have a large area, i.e., you could give approx the space of a fully grown Rhubarb plant in your guild, I wouldn't consider horseradish invasive 😊 I suppose the other side is about harvesting it- you would have to be able to move around the other plants to get to the horseradish roots, which are really the only part of the plant you'd want. The more you break the roots and they'll stay in the ground, the more chances you have that you are also multiplying it.....I would plant horseradish if you can freely walk under and around your tree. My guilds don't have that space, and I'm not planting anything where its roots need harvesting 😊 Hope this helps 💚🌿
Just wondering what rootstock the trees are please?
They're M26, a very comfortable and manageable size. The trees I have are about 4 years old
@@spudsandroses thanks v much
I have to disagree with one thing. It was something that even Jeff Lawton never taught and that is there are trees that don't like much water. Trees that will get root rot and die if they're watered too much, especially if a person's soil is slow draining. I almost killed an Apricot and Hazelnut tree by planting "whatever I wanted" in the guild. In those cases it's important to choose other drought happy plants in those guilds.
Hi! Thank you so much for your comment 🌿💚 you must have a really different climate if you can grow Apricot trees 🌱 This year we had rain for whole month of June and even our apple trees found it hard to cope, especially one variety. We have to keep adapting all our plantings with the changing climate. Thank you again and best wishes! 🌿💚
@@spudsandroses Apricots have a wider range of growing zones than apples do. I would say if you can grow apples, you can grow apricots.
@@lesliekendall5668 it would be amazing to have fresh apricots 😍 I would try to grow them if I had a larger greenhouse.... at the moment only tough and less care needing plants are growing here 🌿💚 BEST wishes, M 🤗
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Hello! Love your plot and the guilds. Can I ask what rootstock you went for? And what age of tree did you initially plant? Would you recommend 1 year maidens or 2 year olds? I’m turning my plot into a mini orchard :-)
Hi 👋 Thank you so much for your lovely comment 😊 For the guilds the apple trees are on the M26 rootstock, which is really standard type from the Garden Centres bought trees. They where about 4 years old trees, now 6 year old 😊 You can plant any age trees, even 1 year old, just will need more patience before they'll start to fruit and you will need accurate pruning to shape the tree 🌳 😉 for the dwarfing rootstock you need solid staking and for the orchard rootstocks a good ladder and more work for maintenance 😀 the larger the tree, the bigger guild you can build around it 😊 Best of luck with the planting 🌳💚