2016 Pruning Class - Back To Eden Garden - L2Survive with Thatnub
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- Paul Gautschi shows us the way he prunes his Back to Eden garden orchard. He explains why and how to make each cut.
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I love the story around 1:13 about learning from a master vs learning from a book or a novice. And Paul is learning from THE master and sharing with us. Anyone else blessed? Invaluable videos to me every time thatnub.
I am sooooo inlove with this chanel.
I love how he quotes the scriptures and how he talks to God.
He radiates such love and peace makes me happy.
I even missd my exit on the subway because I was distractet watching the videos😂
Love love love it
There is no such thing as God.
This is like watching a painter create a painting, you're not sure why he's doing it until he cuts a big one out and then the whole space opens up. In Asian art, the space with "nothing" in it, is actually the balance of the painting. So "nothing" is part of the painting or art form. It's stunningly beautiful to me.
its not just asian art. its called negative space ;)
Stilgar, I think you may be right. I want to thank L2Survive for posting all of Paul's videos. They are all amazing. Thank you again.
As Paul was pruning, he taught the idea of taking out everything that he didn't want. If we allow it, God does the same in our lives. He will remove the branches and suckers from our lives, so the end product is productive, full and rich. Great life lesson.
I just pruned two large blossom trees and one umbrella tree using these methods. Had never done it before. His methods totally gave me confidence and a plan. Can't wait to see them in bloom :) THanks again for taking time to make these videos.
L2survive, thank you for posting this, I think you can't imagine how much this means for those who follow paul's work. I wanna thank God first of all for loving us unconditionally, paul for doing this and opening up to him and especially asking the questions and ofcourse you L2 for uploading them vids and writing down those viewer questions and asking paul.
kind regards M
+mitrovdan Everyday I am thankful that there are people like yourself who get some meaning and a way to better their lives from my videos. It is very humbling and I will continue to do my best to help you all as long as you want me to.
Thanks for uploading such inspiring video not just for he consumption but also for the soul. My long time desire was rebuild but in a different prospect now in a different goal. God bless this man.
ihave watched almost all of your videos with Paul (my homework for the past few weeks) and im so very thankful to you for sharing it and to him for everlasting spirit and readiness to answer the same questions over and over again! :) helps me learn to hear it more than twice! ;) he is just so lovely! and it is so painful for me to watch him loosing his health. may be if he went ALL raw vegan it would help! i know coz i recovered my daughter from a neurological disorder that doctors told me she will always be in diapers.... and my raw vegan food not nearly as great as his!
praying for him!
I see trees pruned by nature all the time. Deer are aggressive pruners. Wind, heavy fruit breaking branches, animals, other trees falling, and people are all natural pruners placed in the garden. Thank you for the videos
Took the class. Applied what I learned to a nectarine tree. Looks good January 2016 ( dormant ). Looking forward for the results. Thank you both, Gary.
+Robbie H Let us know how it works out for you.
+L2Survive ~I hope Paul shared a Bookmark with you that I made for him, just kidding, I can get you a bookmark anytime you want! My husband, Gary, will let you know how his nectarine tree did soon, THANKS!! LOVE all your videos, Robbie
Any updates?
I love to watch this to refresh my memory. thanks again.
Now I can prune my peach and pear tree. Hope to get started tomorrow. Thanks for sharing.
And how did that go? Did it work for peach trees?
great as always to hear and see Mr. Gautschi at work. so much experience and knowledge all in one place. awesome video thanks
I wish I'd seem this back in the 70's! I do wood chip gardening, and have to fight with my daughter every year about it, as she thinks the chips will sap something or other or bring in diseases. I'm old now , so she just humors me ...thankfully.
Thanks a million Paul! Love your approach. Thank you for your loving generous sharing. 🙏😊❤️
So many lessons in one great video, thank you. I have to get on of those saws Paul, you make it look so much easier than the saws I have been using and fighting with for the past several years. Your idea of the fruit at an easier to pick level is so great and I love not having to climb a ladder at my age but the squirrels, raccoons, skunks, possums and wild turkey and deer are impossible to keep away. They will take every bit of fruit that grows on the trees and leave us with nothing. The squirrels like to rub it in and laugh when I chase them away. The dogs will help some but not enough. I do plan to get more wood chips than what I have though after listening to Paul, easier would be nice. Great tutorial Paul your a wonderful teacher.
Thank you for sharing all these videos. I am sold on using these methods that the Lord created from the beginning of time. I live in Maine and because I have shared these videos with others around me, many more will be doing the same thing. Thanks again and may God bless you.
I really love his simple grafting method. I will try it later this year.
I quit school because it was all available online... I have made a great living and am content with my life
This is an awesome video. Those trees are beautiful.
Another great video!! Thanks for taking the time. God Bless.
Excellent video!! Thanks
I enjoy the Paul Gautschi videos. Watching this video is like spending time with a good friend. Just wish I could be there. There is one thing he mentioned in passing. He referred to his other property. You have not been there for a two or three years. Do you plan on going back and up dating that property. Thanks for all your videos. Tell Paul thanks for all his time and effort he shares with us.
+Gerald Pierini You are correct. The last time I was there was in Nov of 2014 czcams.com/video/NM3c6uhztOw/video.html I will make an attempt to go there this year. The main reason I do not get out there is because I hang out with Paul after the tour is over and we talk until it is dark. This is where I am able to get the answers to the questions that you all send in to me. Another reason is that Paul does not make it to that property often enough to keep it as maintained as he does his house. There is a couple living there in a Streamline trailer who are trying to help maintain his garden now so, I may make a special trip just to see what they are up to this year.
Thanks.
Enjoyed the video and all the pruning tips, also the grafting lesson.
I am in my second year of a Back-to-Eden garden and finding it works well.
Here in Florida my blueberries, cantaloupe and banana trees are thriving.
Thank you for this video. ~Nancy
great knowledge! i love these videos thank you
Thanks for these videos
My pleasure!
Great advice, I never could leave a stump, all those sprouts, and so ugly. So nice to hear affirmation! Everything, I cannot wait to train my trees to my picking height:)!
Thank you for posting this video!
Best garden advice ever:)!
awesome, am trying the wood chip gardening after seeing this!
Thank you for sharing.
Would love to see how the looks in Spring, Summer, Fall
51.50 Grafting Genius!
It is always the simple solutions.
tkanks for posting, great job :-)
I have gotten all excited about starting my garden up this spring, but now I am being told I cannot put woodchips on the property because it causes termites. Is this true? I have read it can attract termites the wood chips are against a house. I am being fought to get this garden started but I know who is behind it. I got the devil using my loved ones to work against me because I gotten close to my Father and I feel that he has even been closer to me. I just felt that God was urging me to start with this gardening and was led to Paul's videos and it was by complete accident. I am adamant about this even if I have to go on my moms property to prove a point. I really feel God is bringing all of his children together. Even if I get called home early or whatever I can leave it behind for my whomever needs the food and storage I have been preparing little by little. I am saving up for a generator also and a woodstove. Believe somebody will appreciate it later if not me.
+Sherry M Paul does not have any issues with termites but, they are not that big of a problem in Western Washington. If you live in an area that has an issue with termites already, you already have an issue with termites. Adding woodchips to a garden is not going to give you more of a problem than you already have. It is important that people start growing some of their own food and there are a lot of different methods you can use to grow food organically (even if it is not a Back to Eden garden). If God is urging you to do one thing and your fiancée is urging you to do something else, you kinda got to ask yourself who you are going to listen to.
Wood chips do not attract termites. They go after dry wood and your wood chips should be damp the majority of the year 😁👍🏼
+L2Survive thanks for responding back so quickly. I prayed about it and I slept on it. We do not have problems with termites, but he had an old home he lived in that did get termites and he is a little worried about this. I am going to start growing a few things in pots and my fiancée came in this morning from work and said he will let me have what I want but we have to start out small. I am being urged by God and nothing will stop me because I cannot deny our creator his wishes. Tell Paul he is a blessing and thanks for his service to this country as my Dad also served in Vietnam and he also has problems now from the agent Orange. Thanks to you also for being let by our God to put this out for the whole world to watch as you are a blessing too. Have a Blessed Day from South Carolina.
+Chris Thomas It depends on what kind of termites. Some termite specie can go after live roots and trunks.
Sherry Murphy you will not have termite problems
Did you say in one of your more recent videos that you now graft as soon as you take the cutting?
great reviews of those tools thanks
Great video this has really helped me. Thank you. Could you ask where does the fruit grow on the tree, are they tip budders as there is a lot of branch but not a lot coming of the branches? Thanks
"Yeah this is getting crowded"
*Continues to cut the whole tree down*
:D
So when you have a new dwarf tree, how tall do you let the main trunk get? Is it all based on what you can reach? And does the tree need to be a certain height to be able to start bearing fruit?
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Thank you guys, so much, for this information, I am creating my own BTE garden here in New Zealand and sharing what I am learning with others at our community garden. I have a chook composting system underway and am accummulating quite a biit of beautiful compost. I was wondering if spring or autumn is the best time to apply the sifted chook compost?
+Garry Foster apply when your garden needs it, my chook compost always goes to the annual garden, before winter, chips goes around trees and perennials.
+Garry Foster Autumn would be the best time because as it decomposes, the rain and snow will wash all of the nutrients and minerals into the soil.
Paul mentioned that he’s pruning in January...was this video shot in January?..and if so, then what is growing on the ground in the green patches on the ground?
Weeds. Lots of vegetation still grows slowly through the winter depending where you are.
@L2Survive I see a lot of green growing on the ground in this orchard. Are those weeds or purposeful plants of some kind? I am looking for garden items to plant under trees. Many thanks in advance for your reply.
Wow, pruning in January? Here in Czech Rep lots of people says that pruning should be done during spring or right after the harvest (well that applies for apricots, apples could be pruned during fall), but none would say that pruning could be done any time. Im amazed. What about wounds? Do they heal easily? There is no sap in wood during winter, so how it heals?
Trees don't really heal. They callus over and eventually the surrounding bark grows over the cut. You can see that happening to Paul's old cuts. So actually, if you think about it, making a cut when there is no sap flowing allows it to dry out better. You won't have a disaster if you prune at the "wrong" time, but there is definitely strategy to pruning at certain times a year based on the tree's specific growth habits.
Any good sources of fruit trees Paul and others recommend?
Raintree nursery and burnt ridge nursery. Find nurseries local to you
Does Paul ever allow those smaller branches that are growing upwards on the lowest limbs to stay so they won’t grow into the ground? ..I mean how low will he allow the branches to get? And if he’s trying to get his limbs up, then wouldn’t he allow that r not?
Please help. Hi L2Survive, love your channel! Thank you so much for posting all of these videos with Paul. They are so, so appreciated.
I haven't found a video yet where Paul specifically addresses the steps needed to convert an existing orchard into a wood-chipped BTE orchard. My dilemma:
I'm in Arkansas. I have a fruit tree orchard grown in grass. The grass in Arkansas is frustratingly strong and invasive--10x worse than any weeds I used to have up north. I want to convert my orchard by using the self-sustainable BTE method by adding wood chips, therefore cutting my need for water down. (1) Do I need to use cardboard as my first layer if I put a thick layer of wood chips down (6-10 inches) to not only suppress, but to take the place of the grass? Or is a thick layer of wood chips (6-10 inches) sufficient without the cardboard for no weeds? (2) If I did need to use the cardboard and a good amount of wood chips, how would this work with my already existing fruit trees? Do I lay the cardboard all the way up to the trunk of the tree? If I do this, knowing the cardboard will take a bit of time to break down, this will prevent water from being able to reach the roots of my fruit trees before that cardboard breaks down. It gets extremely HOT in the summer here, and they need a lot of water during the summer. What do I do? If I do use cardboard, how close to the trees do I lay the cardboard? What season should I start this? I have a lot wood chips on hand right now in January to do it. I know this is a lot of questions, but I have no one to ask about this. Thank you for your time.
He may not say it all in one video but, he talks about the process all the time. Paul says to put woodchips down 8 inches or more to kill off the grass. He says to put cardboard or newspaper down first if you have stubborn vegetation. He says to put woodchips in your orchard before or after you have trees. Last, he says the best time to put down woodchips is last fall and the next best time is today. If the grass grows through the cardboard and/or woodchips, it will be easier to pull out because the soil will be looser or you can just put more woodchips down. If you search my channel for the "Karma" videos, you will see that in my future orchard, I started with grass, puncturevine, and sagebrush. I mowed everything down as low as I could then started adding woodchips. When they got leveled or broke down, I added more, No cardboard for me. Most of the grass right now is dormant so, it would be a good time to start. If you are really worried about it, try a couple different test plots and see how they turn out.
Thank you so much!!! This was extremely helpful. I truly appreciate your time. THANK YOU!!
If you are worried about the cardboard, you could just put down a few layers of newspaper right around the trees. That works the same way but will break down faster. Also you may have heard somewhere not to put wood chips right up against the trunk, but Paul says you can and should. That is what he did with an 18 inch layer of wood chips and his trees are just fine. There is enough air in the wood chips so the trunk won't rot.
The master
58:51 P.H.D biologist that's post hole digger here in Alabama lol😀
When the trees are young does Paul train them down before they fruit?
No. The most he does it to cut the leader at arm's reach high. The weight of the fruit on new branches is what creates the bend in the branches. So, I guess nature trains them.
@@L2Survive cool got my whole urban yard turned into a back to eden gardening machine. Thank you guys so much for your videos.
@9:20 “Nip in the bud”
Hi, Did you film a pruning of a 1st time tree pruning? I'm interested in how he shapes a brand new fruit tree to get to these beautiful colossal trees. Or when he cuts the center branch I guess.
+A'Bama Gardener Most of these trees have been there longer than I have known Paul. I have seen a couple of new trees planted since I have known him and there are a few things I have noticed. He gets fruit the first year they are on the property. The fruit is so heavy from water and minerals that he has to prop up the branches or remove fruit so that the branches do not break. The center leader bends with the weight of the fruit so, there is no need to cut it.
L2Survive Thanks, I noticed last years pruning video he was doing a lot of grafting. I'm not an "artist" and I'm just scared I'm going to prune the wrong branch. LOL or maybe I'm just not listening to our creator. How's he feeling these days? I've notice he really doesn't have much gray hair. now that would be a fun topic to ask him about. Thanks for posting. I love these videos
How about a link to the double holster? Thanks
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Do you have a link for the scabbard he uses to holster his saw and shears? I've been looking everywhere for something just like that!
It looks like on some of the old cuts of BIG branches that he applied something black on them, do you know if he does that?
He puts nothing on his trees.
Thank you, I didn't want to miss something :)
Can you prune a mulberry tree the same way as this? Or is this just for apple trees?
how far apart does Paul recommend that you pant fruit trees
Paul has said elsewhere ideally 17' between dwarf apple trees.
+Chris Thomas Are all of his fruit trees dwarf?
+Matthew Cavanaugh yes they are all dwarf. He says that in his productive soil semi-dwarf and standard trees would get too big for him to care for well (he has some physical challenges from his time serving in Vietnam). That said, there's no reason why you or others couldn't just grow gigantic apple trees 😝
+Chris Thomas Do you know if Thatnub has ever made a video of paul talking about how to start fruit trees?
Matthew Cavanaugh yes they are out there
has paul ever considered tall spindle pruning for his trees?
Good joke about the smell over by the chickens at the end.
+Robert Thornton We had a good chuckle about it too.
Hi Paul, what is the brand of your Japenese saw called? Many thanks.
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I am confused, is this an old video or was it made this year? For some reason I feel I've seen this video before. . Thanks for your time! God bless you
That was from January of 2016. Every year in January Paul gives these pruning classes and I have been to 3 or 4 of them so, you may have seen those videos.
has he done the class this year yet?
Arioska Guzman yes, you are right. :) It was more confusing bc he is standing and the last I saw he wasn't able to walk. It's good to see him up and tending the garden. please say Hi to Paul next time you see him. I've learned a lot with his videos, and thank You for sharing them.
I've only just recently started reading up on and watching about the BTE method. I have a peach tree that currently has two dozen or more fruit. Since I didn't know about this in January, is there anything I can do now for my peach tree? I'm in metro Atlanta, GA. Thanks, all.
+Georgia Hunter You can prune any time of the year. Paul does it in the winter because there are no leaves on the tree and he has nothing else to do in the garden in January.
No limb breakage from the weight of the fruit?
munchkin5674 just remove apples if they droop too much
Hi. I have a question, how can I grow my apple trees tall and fast. Reason for that is to grow it out of reach of moose that keep chomping at it in the winter. If I cut off all the branches will that make it shoot straight up?
+Pavil Reutov If you cut off all of the branches, the tree will send root suckers up all over. There is not a natural way to gain something like 5 feet worth of growth in a year. Putting down the woodchip mulch will give your tree just about everything it needs to grow. As for the moose, hunters all over the world have been trying to figure out how to grow game animals and you are doing it without trying. Hunting season will come around soon enough.
the moose I have coming around are all female, not legal to hunt. For now I fenced off most of my apple trees. I cut off all the branches on 2 trees we'll see how they grow this summer. :) The wood chips covering is a godsend btw. thanks for the feedback
Can standard fruit trees be pruned like your dwarf trees?
Hey I know it is unrelated, but does anyone know what Paul does with dog fleas? It would be great to hear is words on that. Where I live it is quite humid and they thrive in that humidity.
+James Blyth Garlic is amazing for keeping fleas and ticks and mosquitoes away. Get some garlic into your dog's diet.
+Katie Sauce Hey I've heard about garlic. There are some bad rumours going about it though. I've found that those who are against it have not tried it, I was thinking of giving it a go regardless. However I'm still uncertain.
Lavender detracts fleas. Some people plant lavender in places where the dog frequents so that he rubs up against it.
Is pruning techniques all the same across the board no matter what kind of fruit tree?
+Philip I've only seen him prune a fig tree differently ( czcams.com/video/QcumqO6PvzY/video.html ). Also, he doesn't prune his cherry trees. Otherwise, he does it the same way for everything.
+L2Survive That's interesting...Do you know why he doesn't prune his cherry trees? I'm about to plant mine soon and would love any deets you can provide.
Why does he get rid of the pruned branches instead of piling them at the root of the trees as wood chips?
Etty Bien-Aime it's not tidy
And he says it is a tripping hazard
What does he mean by having a screen? What materials did he use to make it?
+David Carroll He uses half inch hardware cloth to screen his compost long with shovel and wheel barrel.
Do you know if Paul cleans its pruners?
I know that he does, he has mentioned it in pruning videos before. I think it is after every tree.
And how does he do it? Water, cloth, some kind of product? thank you for answering
Francisco, I use wd40 for sappy firs/pines with a brass brush then I spray alcohol to remove the wd40. Don't forget to spray alcohol on the brass brush too to purify it. With fruit trees I bet he just uses alcohol between trees. That's what I do. He actually probably doesn't use anything between his trees because they're so healthy! Either way a little WD40 and a brass brush will clean your tools. Happy growing!
What if you live in a tropical zone? Would you prune in the dry season?
You can prune anytime of the year. Paul does it in the winter because he has more time, the trees are dormant and there are no leaves to get in his way.
Are they weeds growing on Paul's woodchips at 17.40?
wood chips are free, but you have to pay the trucking fee, if you live farther then the land fill, witch is $70 an hour for the truck and its not a big dump truck, the tree cutters only have at most a 1 ton truck, I pay a lot for little wood chips, and I am sure as the demand starts for wood chips they will start charging for the wood chips too and top dollar, supply an demand like everything else
Arnold Romppai Then rent a uhaul for one day and get your own from the woods. or get a wood chipper for a day or 2!
Arnold Romppai start by filling up garbage bags and pop them in the trunk
There is always a tree limb approaching power lines somewhere. With an active request on Chip Drop and some patience, you'll be closer than the landfill at some point... and your load of chips will be free.
It has been two years since your comment. Wood chip deliveries are still free, and the local municipality here still has a mountain of wood chips available year round from the city's tree cleanups after wind storms.
There are a million reasons why something might not work, given the right scenario... but worry about that if/when it happens. For today, get your chips delivered and enjoy your bountiful harvest. “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:34
@@brandongarrett8050 if treetriming is needed on power lines, that is all done by the powr company it self, and you dont have a hope in hell getting there chips, theyhave there rules, set in stone, they go to the land fill know mater how far it is, there thinking as a big coeporasion is the same as the big bread/bakeries, if they give to one they have to give to all, so the old breads ends up in the dumpster, not like the old says you could go to any bakery cofffee shop and get truck loads to feed your live stock..
@@samnikole1643 i rent a huge wood chipper and a mini ex with a thunb o feed it at least once every 3 years and spend a weekend cleaning parts of my land making a huge chip pile
what kind of pruning is this? Is this the "Central leader system" pruning technique?
+pinalo2009 Paul doesn't have a name for it and he doesn't cut the center leader of his trees because all of the limbs bend with the weight of the fruit.
+pinalo2009 I think this is "Open-Center Pruning System"
+Philip L2Survive is right.. it's technically neither because the central leader is still there but not dominant once it's bent over like the rest of the branches.. open-center would be more cultivating the branches out and up like a goblet-shape... I think Paul's posture is pruning each tree as an individual for the purpose of growth/fruit production and ease of access.
Yes, I've realized that now after watching one of the vids where Paul said that he doesn't ever prune the central leader. Would love for a better close up on Paul's trees' architecture..
how does Paul replace trees? Most of these trees he says are young, 3-7 year old trees.
Paul only has about 30 or so trees in his orchard. From time to time he will find a new variety to try and will cut one down that has grown out too far or something like that.
+L2Survive an you ask how long it took for dwarf trees to produce fruit? I want to get a cherry apple and pear. Even though I have time to wait, I want to know how long before I see something?
needs to employ tall spindle pruning style for max volume and max yields. wood chips + tall spindle = win.
When is the best time of year to visit paul's garden?
thegrovestead September, the Apple are ripe
thegrovestead He said June to Sept
Do you you know what kind of scabbard Paul uses?
+Nathan Schuler Samurai Ichiban 330Mm Pruning Saw Scabbard. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BAFD6E/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001BAFD6E&linkCode=as2&tag=l2su-20
+Nathan Schuler I believe the actual scabbard was custom made for him but L2survive could confirm that...I think he mentions it somewhere on one of his videos
I learned how convenient it is to not have a wood chipper after my wood chipper broke.
+frijebai pruning those twigs and medium branches are like therapeutic to me too
hi what prunning shears is he using?
+Azz93a www.l2survive.com/garden/back-to-eden-garden/how-to-prune-a-tree/
As an arborist this is incorrect. Suckers come from improper pruning techniques. A few min later he has a different answer in regards to the branch collar. In the beginning he said he flush cuts rather than pruning to the branch collar. Most arborists start from the trunk and work their way out. That was another false piece of information. He should sharpen or replace the blade on his saw. Pencil thin branches are one stroke of a sharp saw, not 10 strokes. Pruning is scientifically proven. Advice from a master pruner.
L2Survive, please help me out. I have a peach tree that the main part died, now I have 20 limbs coming out around the base. should I cut all but 3 and wait. I know if I cut all the way to the ground it will be another 20 limbs next year. if you know please let me know or if paul has an idea, let me know or if you make another video let me know on it.... whatever is better for you.
I really do not have any idea. I have never had this issue before and I do not remember Paul ever talking about it. My guess would be exactly what you said. Cut all but a couple and pick one later to be the new tree. If the old tree was on a different root stock, you might not get the same type of peaches though. You could treat each of the three or four shoots as it's own tree and graft a different type of peach to each one. I would suggest that you contact Paul directly and ask him. Let us know what he says.Paul Gautschi
411 Craig Rd.
Sequim, WA 98382
1.360.683.4477
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thanks
I called and left a message, let ya know about it, or ill make a video or both
yep we was right cut all but 3 leadeers
ill make a video tomorrow
26:00. There’s no selective pruning in nature either buddy.
Momo Ali man is a part of nature. Part of mans role in nature was to have dominion over creation. He is demonstrating his God ordained role by having dominion over his trees and having them serve him. It is indeed, nature.
@@gmcgee13gmj Good one. that is strong.
Paul absolutely uses fertilizer. It’s called chicken shit and he uses compost from it.
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36:50 coyote kills to survive on its native land. We clear land and raise foreign sheep and then send them to a slaughter house. dont think the coyotes action was that terrible.
Confused, he keeps saying the tree is low because of "the weight".. and then turns around and keeps saying (and showing) removal of anything growing "up".. The whole premise of his "Eden" gardening, is to let things grow the way nature (God) designed it, and yet he's pruning in a way directly contrary to that. Just confused. No doubt of his results, but the behavior / actions and some of the "Philosophy" seem to contradict each other. food for me to think on
+David Corbett Paul doesn't want to have to climb trees to get his fruit so, he prunes any branches that go up off. He wants to have it easier for himself and the sun to access the leaves so, he prunes some branches out of the way. The lateral branches that are left will bend down from the weight of the fruit to the point where newly planted trees have branches break off.
David Corbett if your read the Bible pruning is heavily promoted and the basis of religious teaching. the Israelites grew olives and figs and were a pruning culture.
David Corbett his tree branches bend down because his apples are so full of water and minerals that they weigh more than normal. there is nothing you can do about it.
Aren't you torturing the tree?