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@softtailtc88

29 күн бұрын

I've read your books and learned so much from them and your useful videos. Thanks for starting this class up, going to join now.

@davidthegood

28 күн бұрын

@@softtailtc88 Thank you

Cant believe the grocery row is so insanely full with growth after you just moved in this new place. Amazing job Dave remember when you planted it

To keep the neighbors a little less weirded out, I got myself an electric powered chipper for this just to retain the nutrients without having sticks lying around, which I would totally do if I lived somewhere more secluded.

@user-jz7ny1qc6j

29 күн бұрын

I think I would do the same

@thehillsidegardener3961

28 күн бұрын

I've tried one of those basic chippers that can handle branches of up to, say, 1.5", and it's VERY long and slow work chipping any sort of quantity. So I decided against buying one of those. If I was going to get one it would have to be a beefier petrol-powered machine, and I'm just not in the market for one of those right now. So basically anything I prune just ends up on the ground, around trees or, for bigger stuff, used to create berms of organic material to stop run-off, since my land has too much of a slope for digging swales. This feels like the best use for that material right now.

@juliannegill5486

27 күн бұрын

Me, too. However, I chip because the smaller pieces decompose faster and fit better in my raised bed garden. .

@ASpinnerASpinner

22 күн бұрын

Chipping/shredding is the way to use the nutrients from the clippings. The "method" in this video is the wrong way and the lazy way of pruning trees and could end in losing a good portion of your stock.

@Beefinator5000

18 күн бұрын

​@@ASpinnerASpinner I have a ton of trees on my property and the chop and drop method is so convenient it appealed to me immediately. Why would it result in losing stock?

I used your solstice pruning method last year on all of my fruit trees. My peach tree especially liked it and had a really great peach set and it's only a 3 year old tree. The black cherries fruited heavily but the birds got them all. I guess birds don't like peaches. 😊 Thanks for your videos and books. I continue to study and learn more.

@xaviercruz4763

29 күн бұрын

What container size are they?

@monicamayer977

29 күн бұрын

I thought I killed mine by taking out a huge center leader

@ursamajor1936

29 күн бұрын

@@monicamayer977 yeah, I've done that too. I found that it set the tree back for a few years but it did survive.

@ursamajor1936

29 күн бұрын

@@xaviercruz4763 I use plastic half barrel containers but people are using 5 gallon buckets and big farm buckets too. There's lots of videos if you search on KZread.

@xaviercruz4763

29 күн бұрын

@@ursamajor1936 sure I’ve seen the guy of Dave Wilson nursery using those half barrels but wanted to what container you were using since that seemed good based on how much fruit you got or how normal the fruiting is in your trees as you said

You prune your fruit trees like I do. I have an eight foot tall, eight foot wide mulberry tree -- with a one foot wide trunk -- that is about ten years old. It produces well, and even gets more berries -- at the tips of the cut off branches -- after I prune. I just pruned my tree too.

David the good, your my hero!! Keep on keeping on! Grow that food, pick that guitar, and have a wonderful time! God bless you and your wonderful family! From a Northwest Alabama Appalachian American!👍🤪 P.S. cassava don’t like north Alabama, but North AL loves your “jungly juice”! Lol! You have the most helpful gardening channel, just chop and drop! Genius!!

Planting trees is very addicting. Especially if you get them started yourself, and they are free or almost free. I have way too many fig cuttings rooting, mulberries rooting , blueberries and pineapple guava. Thanks David. You're by far my favorite channel.

@davidthegood

18 күн бұрын

Thank you. "Free" is a great thing.

Great info as always! Thank you! I would make so many new trees with those cuttings! I have 31 thriving new mulberry trees from cuttings off of my main tree I pruned a month ago

@christinemose7308

29 күн бұрын

Is it as simple as sticking some of the cuttings in good soil in a nursery pot? Keep the soil moist, etc.? Would like to propagate a few more mullberries as it supplements my rabbit's feed.

@SunshineCountryChickens

29 күн бұрын

@@christinemose7308 Yes theyre probably the easiest cuttings to propagate there is. I feel like Mother Nature out here effortlessly growing trees they make it easy lol!

@thadrobinson8343

29 күн бұрын

@@christinemose7308 Basically, yes; I use a dusting of rooting hormone to boost the success rate. Which might not be necessary given chop-and-dropped mulberry sprigs often root voluntarily.

Is that song about the backseat of a car actually a metaphor? I've been watching you for a while now, that's my favorite song of yours and this whole time I thought it was just about riding in a car but when I heard it today it got me thinking about the lyrics... and the more I think about it the more sense it starts to make. We're all just sitting here worrying in the backseat of a car but no matter what we do, we can never control where that car takes us. It's also a good hook! Respect from one musical gardener to another

@davidthegood

29 күн бұрын

Yes, thank you

MI gardener had a tree getting yellow leaves recently he determined it was a pH issue because the roots had gotten down to an old concrete pad. I remember your sidewalk project and thought maybe. He pounded in conduit to make a hole removed that piece and put in a new piece then poured in pelletized ???? to adjust the pH. My two cents is probably only worth a penny.

THANNNK YOU!!! I just saw this yesterday & you totally motivated me- I pruned ( hopefully not tooooo heavily) the mulberry’s after seeing this. Appreciate your guidance so very much!! ❤❤

I love ALL David The Good videos!

Larger branches can make excellent 🐓chicken perches,too! Even build ladders or other chicken toys🎉

@juliehorney995

28 күн бұрын

Garden stakes too!

My peach trees are loaded with fruit, they are so huge and out of control, they are three years old, with this being their second year in the ground. My figs are suffering hard from the drought, the three pomegranate trees dropped all leaves , new growth but I don't know what happened to them. The Mullberry trees produced like crazy. All the apples are tiny and mishaped, possibly still too close to the cedars. Elderberry doing so so, the drought here in Southwest GA really hurt us. It looks like we are eating chicken eggs, eggplant, and beets this summer. Oh, and peaches if the deer stay gone.

@gregleach5833

29 күн бұрын

I’m about 40 miles east of Albany and we finally got a little over an inch of rain today . It had been a while .

Thanks for the motivational video, I needed it! I just finished pruning five trees. 84° and 84% humidity right now in Central Florida, who's complaining? 😅

Another thing you could do with some of your larger branches is use them to make a wattle fence

Another use for those branches is tree hay for winter animal feed. A long slender withe around an arm full makes the bundle easy to handle. I lay them in the greenhouse to dry . Goats and cows both love them.

Yo yo yo, you gotta prune your plants, gotta stop that apical dominance! 🎶😄 I think about that classic rap song as I chop !

I just watched a video from 3 years ago and your garden was just 9 months old I think. Seeing it lush and green now is just incredible. I took over a large garden 3 months ago and have been applying your techniques, I am already seeing the results. I cannot wait to see the changes in 2-3 years!

Daisy should grab a bunch of those cuttings and sell them!

Love the garden maintenance videos. Well done keep up the great work.

😮😮😮 everything looks incredible!! Wow!!

Oh cool you you answered my question before it was even over. I guess I jumped the gun lol I will wait until Medspring after they’ve as soon as the berries are off then I will trim those through that Mulberry love this video, and I will check into all those things that you mentioned. Thank you, I hope you have a wonderful wonderful summer and the rest of your life❤

You all are awesome!

Awesome!

Thank you, i needed this 💚

Thanks for the reminder DTG! If we chopped and dropped all of the cuttings here in Louisiana, I think we'd have an issue with snakes. ❤ the song y'all picked to go with this video "I try to keep a smile on my face".

@kickfitlafayette8119

25 күн бұрын

I’m in South Louisiana. I was thinking the exact same thing. I put lots of leaves in my garden, but I’ve always got my head on a swivel.

I live in the desert of Arizona USA and we are now in 100s it’s we’re heading for 110+ and for a few weeks now it’s been getting warmer and warmer so now it’s today it’s going to be 108 we have already had 11010 113 114. I do have a lot of Woodchips around fruit trees, which consist of a Pakistani mulberry, which is huge and I really would like to keep it shorter but I like you said, I trim it in the winter when it’s all finally dormant, or else, we have to help it off with the leaves and then it starts growing like crazy and it’s just too big but I get a lot of mulberries but now it’s huge it’s probably 20 feet and I really need to keep it shorter and smaller because it does crowd out my fig trees. I have one on each side which I thought was going to be smaller because I talked about keeping the tree but they didn’t say anything about trimming it the people that I watched didn’t say anything about trimming it it was green now is it too hot here? I mean we’re very dry right now it’s June the end of June . So, would it be better for me to get someone up there to trim it this fall before the leaves come off or it is it too hot right now? In my area and dry it is very dry. Your place is so awesome I would love to live in a tropical type of setting I think lol we all have our drawbacks I guess. I have learned a lot of good things from you. I really work on the mulching and the composting the way you did it in the bed and layering and and I do totes that way those storage totes I layer and they’re always my best garden beds because I had this food scraps which I don’t do as much in my raised beds, but I am starting to dig trenches and put in the food scraps. But I watched one of your you just built kind of like in a pathway or something where you layer it a whole bunch of stuff to do your compost, and I thinking that that would be a good thing to do in some of my garden beds to just lay them and let them sit for a little bit so I don’t have to buy soil soil for my beds could easy cost me six $700 which on one hand is not worth it especially when you’re on a fixed income. I’m 77 so I can’t really do all that you do but boy sure wish all my kids would watch herchannel your family is awesome

@jenbear8652

29 күн бұрын

Regarding pruning trees to keep them the size you want- research has shown that immediately after summer solstice is the best time to prune to keep small. The closer to fall & winter, the less effective the pruning will be for keeping trees small. Pruning in winter encourages trees to get bigger & taller.

@jenbear8652

29 күн бұрын

Research shows that immediately after summer solstice is the best time to prune trees to keep them smaller/shorter. (You can prune 20-30% of a tree each year, I think). The further from summer solstice & closer you get to fall & winter, the less effective the pruning will keep the tree shorter/smaller. When you prune in winter, trees are stimulated to grow bigger the next growing season. The book David mentions explains this in detail. “Grow a Little Fruit Tree”. It’s a great resource!

We didn’t get our garden fence completed before our fruit trees bloomed this year so the deer have been pruning for us! We should have it completed soon so I guess we will have to do the work next year 😊Thanks to your training, we do have a plan.

Thank you, DTG I still need to get out to my Mulberry and get it off my Jackfruit. My dwarf Illinois does not seem to know it is a dwarf variety or it has a Napoleon complex.

David, my 8 yr old daughter, and I really enjoy your videos. We've recently discovered your channel. The other night we were watching, and her comment was "David the good? More like David the funny!" She has aspirations to start a seed stand, and she was wondering if you would be willing to share any vegetable, flower, or tree seeds to share with people in Missouri? Would you be willing to send us a selection if we paid postage?

Alabama Bonsai! 😊🌳🤭

I am absolutely amazed at how full and lush everything is after only a couple years! I wish I had the green thumb and blessings to be able to grow like that! I use my own compost and comfrey tea but my plants are nowhere near what yours are! I'm still learning!

@davidthegood

29 күн бұрын

You can get there! A big part of it is planting the plants that really love the climate.

I have a big live oak that makes dappled shade over my front yard for 8-10 hours a day. I wanted to put some raised beds under it and wondered if it would work or be too much shade. This video makes me feel like it will work. That’s how nature grows. Minus the metal raised beds 😂

@davidthegood

29 күн бұрын

You can grow some under a live oak, but they are pretty dense. Gingers don't mind, and many greens may do okay.

@KK-FL

29 күн бұрын

@@davidthegood where I want to put the beds is at the edge of the canopy and it actually gets more sun in the winter than summer due to the change in where the sun is so I think it might just be perfect. Can't hurt to try!

Thanks!

@davidthegood

29 күн бұрын

Thank you very much.

Mine need some pruning as well.

I've wanted to prune some fruit tress after fruiting in the summer and my elderly mom would scream at me that I would kill the trees. Thanks for showing me my instincts were right!! Now, I'm going for it ! Well, at least on those that have fruited. Some of my peach trees and figs, apples and pears will have to wait. David what are your thoughts on loquats? Do you grow them?

@almostoily7541

29 күн бұрын

His logo for the nursery he had was a loquat because he likes them so much...I believe he mentioned that in one of his books. I'm not sure about this place but he has definitely had them in the past. I have two seedlings in a small pot of tomato starts. I pushed them in there so they would be watered regularly 😂

I prune in summer for shape and winter for fruit here in New Zealand

I'd prune if the dang moose didn't prune them for us during winter. They don't seem to understand where they should stop !

I pruned my plums and apricot quite a bit a month ago. I wanted em to heal befor it started hitting 100s

Love that hat dude, you scoop that up here in Florida

@davidthegood

29 күн бұрын

Yep

Here we have coarse granite sand, so even the compost gets washed down in heavy rain. We never put any prunings in the garbage, but chopped up on the soil. I am hoping that the worms would mix up the clay 1-2' below with the plant debris as they work through the composted bits. I have a dream of sandy loam soil for the generation after me.

The challenging part is controlling radicular systems... some trees have such strong roots that constitute a risk to buildings and walls... I have space to plant trees but im bit worried... in the past we had to cut 4 trees because of that... i have fig trees in pots... but i dont dare to transplant them... P.S. Our climate here is subtropical.

Cane rum.. great for cleaning garden tools, and other uses..

Just got 6 more trees to "fit" in the back yard. Those mulberries would root here in WI, I swear. lol I feed them to the rabbits instead. Free food for my food and poo makers.

For mulberry, you can use the bending method, which promotes new growth along the stem. Takes more effort tho. I dont know if its more productive than pruning method

@davidthegood

29 күн бұрын

Yes, we've done that before. It's just a little tight in this space.

Here in NE Indiana, that yellowing would be from iron chlorosis or manganese deficiency. If treating these doesn't help and ph is high, add sulfur to aid uptake of chelated iron and/or manganese.

We leave our branches fairly large when I chuck them down for mulch. My simple reason is we have lots of mulch already in place, so I want everything else I apply to break down slowly. That way it takes multiple months to break down and I never have to bring mulch from outside for my food forest. I don’t have a “ Garden row as such” just a fairly large food forest.

@davidthegood

Ай бұрын

Good thought

I saw a few folks mentioned peach trees in the comments but i have a peach tree shaped like a Christmas tree. I need to cut out the central leader but have heard to wait until late winter to prune. I'm in central Bama and value your opinion...so you're telling me that I could trim it out now without killing the tree?😅

I have 10 uear old peach trees that hve gotten out of hand. The trunks are around 6 inches in diameter, and I can't figure out how to trim it. They need to be taken down quite a bit.

@davidthegood

29 күн бұрын

For something that big, you could prune it in late winter before it wakes up. It's more likely to survive.

David, do you grow any sweet corn and/or field corn? If so, what varieties? Thanks!

Can you do this to figs?😊

I was wondering, do you have chiggers in your Grocery Row Garden? Could be a deal breaker. 😝 asking from Missouri! 🥵 Thanks for recommending Ann Ralph’s book; it allowed me to believe I could have fruit trees!

@davidthegood

29 күн бұрын

No, we haven't had a problem with them.

I have a peach tree that’s 4 years old now and it all just toppled to one side this year, I guess I didn’t prune it short enough and when I storm came it just all leaned heavy to one side and the thickest branch snapped off. All the fruit is dying. Should I cut it back now?

Do you recommend this type of pruning for nut trees (specifically pecan) too?

@davidthegood

29 күн бұрын

I don't have enough information on it, but have seen a video where someone kept a pecan small.

I honestly never really know if I'm doing it right with my apple trees... I've watched videos, read guides but it never really seems to sink in as to what exactly needs doing. To this end I just clip off all the new growth that is growing vertically up every year at the start of winter, it seems to work?

Human height bonsai tree!

I like stripping the leaves off the jumk trees

I inherited some mature fruit trees that were allowed to grow tall and wild. Could I do this kind of thing to them, or are they a lost cause?

I was told your son makes and sells hand sickles. How do I get in touch with him. Thank you.

I'm wondering about a fig I just planted. It's fruit ripens in late July. I assume that I do this pruning back vigour after it's done fruiting? Even if that is in early Aug? We don't usually freeze till mid -Nov here in central Texas.

My dwarf apple, peach and cherry trees, which are all about 3-4 years old, have done nothing as far as giving fruit yet! I got small peaches early on but some kind of bug got my tree and I sprayed too late. Plus, they have all gotten much too tall (about 12' or higher) so it would be ok to go ahead and cut them all back now to a manageable height and then just spray early next spring to keep bugs off? Anybody have other suggestions for me? I'm in zone 7b, Georgia.

😊🌱💚🌻🐝

It looks so much better it's not a jungle anymore. What type of pruners are those?

@davidthegood

29 күн бұрын

Gilmour loppers from the hardware store.

@servofyah4392

29 күн бұрын

Thank you for responding

David! Thank you. I am following The Happy Little Fruit tree method but my friend came over yesterday who has taken master gardener courses and she said my trees need to flare out at the base and if they are not, then I've planted too deep. She said it is good that I did not plant the grafting site but I need to dig down to where the trunk flares at the ground. Your thoughts?

@davidthegood

28 күн бұрын

Do they seem happy now?

@Daniiellle25

25 күн бұрын

@davidthegood They do seem happy. I thought in a forest situation, as leaves drop and cover the base of the tree, it seems to reason that the soil level will creep up the trunk at times before breaking down, correct?

QUESTION: What about huge batches of black mold growing, from all this chop and drop?

@davidthegood

29 күн бұрын

I wouldn't worry about it.

@amessnger

25 күн бұрын

That's a good thing. It is decomposing the organic matter and building your soil.

I was wondering if anyone had insight on how to sell plants. I've developed a relatively decent ability to grow things, but how do I sell them?

Can we cut the top of the trees

Do you ever get scorpions with that mulch in the garden?

@arasdeeps1852

29 күн бұрын

As far as I know, scorpions don't even live in this part of the country.

Is there any way to UN - HUGE them?

I’m guessing you should wait to harvest before pruning. Correct?

Yeah you definitely dont want to cut and think at the same time. You might put your eye out kid. Oh yeah. Is that your fountain or just you sweating in the sweltering heat ?

The yellowing of the leaves on your mulberry tree could be a sign of it having an iron deficiency.

so...apples fruit in the fall? when do i prune?

@ursamajor1936

Ай бұрын

I believe he said after they fruit and that should work for apples too. It basically just reduces the height of the tree and the tree sends more of its energy into fruiting next year.

@davidthegood

Ай бұрын

I would prune them earlier in their lifespan to keep them small before they begin fruiting heavily later on.

GM David ☕️. 🦋🦋QUESTION🦋🦋 My elderberry is 3?4? Yrs old & I was getting beautiful flowers the small berries… then the birds found it 🥴 This last winter/ spring I pruned it back to a nice shape. Since my berries are gone & don’t see any more blooms, can I do some pruning on it now? It’s prob about 8 ft tall . The other one I just left sprawling. I’m in nw hot dry sandy windy desert of Nevada. Would appreciate some suggestions 🦋🦋👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

@davidthegood

28 күн бұрын

Yeah, I would prune it.

@deecooper1567

27 күн бұрын

@@davidthegood Thank you 👵🏻👩‍🌾

How do you avoid slugs building populations when you chop and drop? If I were to do this all my crops would be eaten by slugs and snails hiding in the chop and drop.

@davidthegood

28 күн бұрын

We have ducks in the garden. Also, the slugs aren't a big problem on perennials.

Can you prune an oak? I hear if you top a oak tree it will rot and branches fall on a roof is that true?

@wemuk5170

25 күн бұрын

Read the title - fruit trees.

When trimming the mulberry with yellowing leaves, you talk about cleaning the tools before moving on. Why would you drop those cuttings instead of removing them if the might be infected?

@davidthegood

28 күн бұрын

I do not worry too much.

I thought you were supposed to prune when there isn't rain expected? If it's wet, it could introduce disease or fungus 🤔

I live in middle Georgia, and my fig tree gets enormous! But the figs only grow on the new growth, and that is all the part that is way too tall for me. And if i trim it now, i will get zero harvest later this summer.

@herelieskittythomas3726

Ай бұрын

Southwest GA here, I got two figs off of 6 fig trees so far. Even with watering, this drought has ruined this season for me. I am so sad.

@AuntNutmeg

29 күн бұрын

Try trimming after you harvest. That way *next* year's harvest will be easier to reach. 😉

@cheriekalel9578

29 күн бұрын

@AuntNutmeg I keep cutting it back every winter, and every spring it just grows back even more, with fruit even more out of reach. I'm to the point where I just feel like starting over.

@AuntNutmeg

29 күн бұрын

@@cheriekalel9578 when does fruit harvest end for that tree?

@cheriekalel9578

29 күн бұрын

@AuntNutmeg late July through the end of September. There are just small green figs on it now. It is o believe a Brown Turkey variety that I've had in the ground for 10 years.

my goats are crying right now

I don't see how i could prune my apple tree right now--it's full of apples! I'd be cutting them all off. I'm 🤔 confused

10:11, what if the back seat of the car is the planet , and we have no control of the car, and the driver is joe biden ? ... some people don't get metaphors.

@thadrobinson8343

29 күн бұрын

When my time comes, I hope to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

@TaLeng2023

29 күн бұрын

​@@thadrobinson8343💀😂

@davidthegood

29 күн бұрын

I don't think President Biden is driving anything anymore.

@Shane_O.5158

29 күн бұрын

@@davidthegood he wouldn't know what he's driving, but i bet he sniffed the seat.

@TaLeng2023

29 күн бұрын

@@davidthegood he's driving America - into the ground. 😋✌️

Can I purchase the sickle your son m😮ales?