Homestead Orchard Spring Walk Through
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- čas přidán 28. 04. 2021
- Today I am planting 2 Apple trees to replace 2 that died last year of fire blight. Then I need to do some much needed pruning. But while I am out here let's take a look at the orchard and how all the fruit trees are laid out.
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I have had fruit trees in the past. One thing I learned, after many failures. ALWAYS disinfect your pruners after you finish pruning each tree.
Dip them in a 10% bleach solution
Hmmm. I will keep this in mind
@@cathiwim won't that sour the fruit at the end?
@@nicohellmuth5275 no, it will not. It will just make sure you do not pass infection across.
Better disinfect it before you start pruning.☝
I have 35 fruit trees! 12 peaches, 3, plums, 2 pears, 7 apples, 6 sweet Cherry trees, 2 apricots,
Same here my yard is growing with more fruit trees every yr i will prob end up with a divorce from a very angry wife!
Definitely give hazelnuts a try. Don’t take up much space but are full of nuts in their third year and the catkins in the winter provide great wildlife food!
After you put the tree into the hole, fill the hole with water then backfill. The water gets rid of air pockets around the roots so they can function properly. The deep water gives the tree a long constant supply of moisture. Same concept for garden transplants.
Soak them good....surface watering is not enough for this season. Twice a week deep soaking. Clean your cutting tool as you move from one tree to the other. Liberty is a excellent pollinator. Wait until summer and prune, it will minimize suckering. Cut that branch off completely, and a healthy branch will likely grow out of the side of the trunk where you cut it off. Fungus out of a branch is bad news, it will not recover, and you do not want to take chances of spreading. Once you cut it off, and if it does stop the spread, and it stays healthy, you can also graft a twig (Zion) to it. Alternatively, cut the entire tree and start fresh. Put tree guards onto those small young trees. Cover your skin when you're spraying....your skin is your largest organ and chemicals virtually are absorbed instantly, also wear a mask.
Sounds like good advice. I came here to mention that he should be wearing long sleeves, goggles, and safety glasses. But, what do I know. I'm not a orchadontist.
Very awesome homestead orchard.... More people need to do exactly this! I planted 19 fruit trees, and 18 survived the transplant. This video was inspiration.
I miss my dad's fruit trees. Your trees are looking good. Take care. Thank you for the video. God bless❤
The orchard has really grown.
Beautiful orchard setup! I'm attempting to setup a mini orchard in my backyard with ~6 trees. I may expand a bit after I can prove to myself I'm capable of keeping 6 alive haha. Thanks for sharing!
Got a few to replace here this year. Pruning is done. Spray schedule started. Adding more to a new orchard I'm building this year. Keep up the good work.
I love update videos! Thank you! It's nice to see how things go
Your orchard is exactly what im working on here in Oklahoma city. Please keep posting.
You know what would really be the icing on the cake at the homestead, a nice flagpole with old glory blowing in the breeze right by the log cabin.
Right on. A cross on the wall wouldn't be bad, either ...
Great job Evan, orchard looks good, hope you have a great harvest. Keep up the watch on that apple tree, it can do so much harm so fast. Thanks for sharing with us, Fred.🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋
I was taught you can cut suckers out at any time but to treat the cut. I like your orchard. It's always fun to walk through an orchard during summer months with an eye out for possible disease.
Great variety of fruits!! Boy, you guys always have something to do! I live in North Florida. Back in 1984, the azaleas were blooming full force in April, and we had snow, with flakes the size of a quarter to a 1/2 dollar or larger. Talk about a gorgeous thing to see, with those flakes hitting all that "pink."
By the way ... In my last professional job, I spent 19 years cooped up in a little 8 X 8 X 8 office, the first three years had no air conditioning at all; the last five years, I had a vent over my desk with A/C blowing so hard, at the end of the day, I would go get in my HOT car with the windows up, to warm up. While my job was important (I managed a college advertising program to bring in students), I would much rather have been outside doing what you are doing. Now I am too old and crickety to do much of anything ... Thanks so much for all your videos. You give some hope and life to those of us who can only dream, and look forward to The Millennium.
Trusting we both get to be in millenium, have you heard of the angel to Laodicea, bro William Branham ?
Hi..... Evan , thank you for sharing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍
Your place is looking great. Especially on a sunny day😄👍❣
Orchard is looking great!
Beautiful orchard!
Good morning
The orchard looks good. 🙌🙌 Be well. God bless. 👍🙏☝️
Now you’ll have fruits to go with. All the meat you are also raising! Won’t be long and the garden will be producing too! A well rounded homestead. Nice job as always! Thanks for always showing us around. I hope watchers understand that this is real life as it happens. Not always perfect and made for “television”. Which I am very thankful for...again thanks Evan & Rebekah!
I WISH my soil was like this! SO jealous!
...lookin' great, nice work, stay safe
The fifth year is the golden year for any tree you plant, but with fruit trees it is especially awesome! You should do your first spray at "green tip" and every 10 days after that until bloom. You should try to prune when the trees are dormant or you risk more disease. If you prune to a 'flat top' form, you can mow right under your trees and it will be easier to prune/pick.
Yes, I normally prune in the winter. But to busy with fencing and other projects. the orchard got forgotten about.
Wow ! Nice Orchard
You guys are going to need a cider press, we would make gallons of juice every fall. I also worked in the kitchen at school and I saved the boxes that the apples came in to store apples in. Great orchard.
Great looking orchard Evan. Y'all have a nice variety of fruit planted. I hope the birds don't get to it first. Thanks for sharing this walk about. Have a Blessed day.
Great information
Thanks
I’ve only just pruned my apple trees too just always a job I put back then get to it when I have a spare bit of time
I'd love to have an orchard, I love apples, and elderberries! They are a pain to process, but the juice is soo good, and so good to beat a cold.
❤ thank you for video. Great information.
Dry out the limbs of your fruit trees and use the wood in your smoker!
Good morning from Grand Forks
Love your channel
I hope you gave your goats a treat with the fruit branches with the leaves
Good mornin Evan👋🏻
Love ❤️ you two
thanks for sharing
That’s a nice orchard.
Really nice place you guys have made. Nice job Evan. Oh, how I miss Menards. None in Florida.
Yes please update us about the netting of the cherries. I have wondered if that would work
Nice tour
My journey with fireblight lol. Copper sprays are organic and saved my pears and apples. You can spray from your tractor, but after EVERY RAIN as long as the temps are below 50 at night, the blight spreads. Once nighttime get warmer than 50, you can slow down or stop spraying.
I lost a granny Smith to it. Now that I have copper sprays, they live again!!
You can't eliminate it with pruning. Sprays will control it however.
Looks good Evan i especially like the way you got it set up the spacing works for me Here in Queensland Australia to warm for Apples so i grow bannas
good morning Evan! Just a little fyi; the birds also eat plums before they have a chance to grow much bigger than a pea :(
Net the tree!
The orchard looks really good and I think from the looks of the orchard, you should have a bumper crop of fruit.
Your Granny Smith apple tree would be empty if I was around. I eat them without baking.
Nice orchard. We have a pecan orchard.
Very Nice 🙂
Granny Smith's were created in the Sydney Suburb of Ryde way back. We eat them as they are.
My daddy woul say put a 5 gallon bucket of water in that hole just after you loosen the root a bit. Set the tree in that dissipating water and continue watering the top. He believed in Epson salts to bolster tree's immunity system.
I've tried looking up what benefits they could offer, I'm so new to all of this so forgive me... sort of like a fertilizer in with water?
Take your old Cd collection and hang them from strings all throughout your trees . The spinning and flashing will keep the birds away
Try a few honey chrisp Apple trees. Omg bro they are awesome here in door county wisconsin
We took the camper up to door county and stayed for week, just before we bought this property. Beautiful up there. We would definitely go back there.
Nice
When the apples get 1 inch to 2 inches, go through and thin them to let the rest get bigger. It works!
When pruning trees with leaves on them remember to take the pile of branches to the goats as it will reduce the food costs for a day or so as they happily munch of the leaves, bark and softer wood.
Starting next year you will probably have to start topping the trees too, else you will have to use a ladder to gather the fruit. Ask me how i know.
Could you graft some of the good branches onto the other side of that apple tree, if you need to remove that branch? I love the variety of trees you have! :D
That a good area for a couple bee hives for natural sugar.
1:44 Function before fashion! 😉👍🏻
There are probably complimentary plants that you could put in to help with tree health
Great video Evan ! You better fix your hat ! LOL!!!!
Good morning,I see that bad boy is still around. I hope the ducks are keeping their guard up. Matter of fact all the animals should be on the look out. Have you planted your garden yet .....? God bless,
That is the girl dog. She is a lot better behaved, as long as she isn't with the male.
No I haven't planted the garden yet. Hopefully this weekend.
Get yourself a tarp when you’re pruning, makes for an easier clean up!
Not sure Evan but in our climate here in the northern panhandle of W.Virginia I was told you prune apple and peach trees around February the 14th. Not for sure that is correct. I've not had a lot of success with pruning maybe the Feb 14 is right.
A good idea is to spray your fruit trees with white oil whilst they are dorment in winter
put a screw where the "y" is on that apple tree, keeps the branch from splitting off. I had a tree guy do it on a red bud, he said it will not harm the tree.
Orchard is looking good. How are the seeds you planted do? I’m guessing you’ll be planting the vegetable garden soon.
we have a montmorecy cherry tree with a problem with ants. we learned to wrap the trunk of the tree with duct tape with the sticky side out to solve that problem.
I've heard to Prune so you can Throw a Cat through the Tree LOL :)
I tried to start a small orchard on my property last year but the Texas grasshoppers killed 3 out of my 4 trees. At the leaves and then ate the bark. I need to figure out how to keep them at bay before I spend more on trees.
Hello! Good to see the orchard is doing well. I was wondering what size Apple trees/root stock you have (dwarf, standard)? You mentioned 30’ from one outside to tree to another, so they are 15’ between each tree? Are you guys happy with the spacing? We have been trying to plan out an orchard. I find the 9 tree sections an interesting idea. Thanks for sharing!
Sharing is caring...don'cha know.
You can always prune in the spring and then more in summer if needed . It’s good to do pruning in dry times because bacterial canker is active during wet season and on rainy days , also spray your trees with copper before winter and in spring once to keep them healthy and disease free . You have too much space between trees in my opinion but it’s your choice 😂
Have you tried Prairie Magic? A great producer and good pies and eating.
YOU PUT IT ON
Better to do summer pruning in fruit trees, since winter pruning can cause over vigorous water shoot growth
Evan. Ya need to slow down a little bit. Your what 45 ! I have a cousin that was 42 yrs old and worked his ass off and ended up passing away at the age of 42 on the same day he was born. So slow down a little bit. Anything that can be done today can wait until tomorrow !!
For fire blight removal, you can scrape the skin of the fire blight infected area and you will notice an orange color and a bit of an odor. keep scraping the bark until the cambium is clear without streaks and a light yellow or greenish color without any odor. That's how far down you have to remove in order to remove all infected areas of fire blight. Even if you cut down to the trunk, an established tree will likely come back quickly as long as the infection is completely removed.
Great video!!! How do u prevent birds from eating the fruits?
Concerning fire blight, How did you treat? I had some on one of my apple trees which I had to take off some limbs. At the first I didnt know what it was. But I sprayed the tree bark that looked infected down with bleach water. The blight looks to be halted and the tree hasnt turned any colors. Now with my spraying I may spray the areas that was trimmed or exposed to the blight with a fungicide. Seems to be working.
You can preacher wash the black self off the tres and it will be a lot easier to tell
You need a atomizer for the threes.
The problems I'm facing is rabbits girdling my trees. Like if I forget to put a tree gaurd up before winter(cuz it all of a sudden got cold and snow). Everything is usually good til it starts to thaw and the rabbits come put looking for food. They go rights towards the fruit tree bark.
Love the trees 🌳 I have 2 apple trees, never get edible apples, what's the best spray to use??
Je moet ze snoeien. Anders kun je er straks niet meer bij. En dan heb je een trapje nodig om te oogsten. En dan krijg je ook groter fruit
Your goats might enjoy those branches
Yes, I am sure they would have.
Would I have to use fertalome all the life of the tree? Mine got sick it’s ok for now I cut it down @ three years old it’s a pear 🍐 there is only ten inch stub and has come back nice
I was under the impression that fire blight was pretty much a death sentence for apple trees if you don’t catch it fast enough. I’ve heard that it spreads through the flowers by the pollinators.
I had a cherry tree and the only time we beat the birds to the cherries is the year the 17 year cicadas were out. I imagine the birds got full eating them and didn't touch our cherries. Then, don't know if it was the cicadas or what happened but over winter that tree died. It went from the best production ever to never coming back. Not 1 leaf.
That freeze will likely hurt your peach crop, but your apples and pears should be ok. I don't have any experience with plums, so I don't know about that.
you might be over-pruning some of your trees, a couple look like they're sending up a lot of water shoots which is a sign of over-pruning.
Any livestreams in the future ?
We are planning our new homestead and I'm trying to figure out what to do for ground cover. Do you just have a regular grass that you mow frequently or is it a more low mow variety? We will have 15 trees and I'm just gathering ideas.
Back in day, they say that people would hammer a nail into the trunk of a tree to make it produce more. But I don’t know if it’s true.
Has anyone ever tried drilling a hole in a tree? It might help to install an electric tuning fork. Plants might be musical.
Tell Rebecca to duck down a lil bit while mowing grass in the orchard. Lol
What sprays do you use on your orchard for insects and disease like fireblight?
Granny Smith is a baking apple?
Love the orchard Evan. Got mine starting pretty good. Only I grew mine from seeds so they were never transplanted. Took off perfectly once they got pass year 5. Just planted some more seeds from last year's harvest to give to neighbors and place on field across street from us.