I throw black oil sunflower seed in my apple trees when they are dormant. This attracts wild birds who spend the entire day scouring my trees and the ground below them for seeds. I assume that they are also finding overwintering moth larvae and eating those. My codling moth and apple maggot damage is a lot less than it used to be.

This was great to see what your doing and also to identify the kinds of damage you see. Helps me understand what's going with my apples.

I would like a tutorial on that plum ketchup on hausfrau please!! Thanks. Love your videos and your spirit! I want to jump into your garden and just glean your wisdom. I hope you heal and feel back to yourself soon. Much love from Idaho.

@Atimatimukti

2 жыл бұрын

I was also curious about that ketchup!!!

You've convinced me! Now I need to purchase bags. This year was our first real apple crop, but so many had the coddling moths.

THANK FOR SHARING, APPLES, I VERY LOVE APPLE

Blessings to all!

I have a huge issue with those fricken moths in silverton . I have a 4 in one apple and 2 other unknown apples but every year most of the apples look exactly like the un bagged ones you showed. I did bag about 1/4 my apples this year and it seemed to work very well. Considering apples are like $3 each for organic ones in the store its definitely worth the effort to protect them. Im turning all of mine into apple chips which is a ton of work with a couple hundred apples but will last till next year. Thanks for your video

Such beautiful apples! We have a stray kinda-rootstock quince which has huge fragrant white-to-pink blooms and grows huge fruit, but it does get nasty fireblight strikes, so we have to keep an eye on that along with our pears. Our quince fruits are like wood and never soften before cooking, so chopping and seeding is quite a workout for our hand injuries. Ahhhh yes - but the scent when you cook it! So much rose-fruit fragrance!

Yay I found this video, it would be great if you linked this in your previous one. Thanks for much of this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am in Eastern Washington and we are required by law to spray certain fruits including apples and pears because of the agriculture here and I have been looking for any way to avoid that and I think bagging all the fruit could be a way to help farmers and obey the spirit of the law, but also avoid spraying.

This worked pretty well for my peaches using the same bags. I did wind up losing quite a few anyway though. Also, I found that when the fruit got big it'd open holes in the top of the bags. Then the coddling moths would go to town.

Last year, I lost every single apple on my Spitzenburg tree to codling moth. Very disheartening, especially since it was the first year I had gotten enough apples to do something with. This year, I bagged my apples and got perfect apples. Unfortunately, I used the paper bags that I had used on my grapes last year. This didn't happen last year, but this year the bags disintegrated just before the apples were ready to pick. Fortunately, after codling moth season. I will try the mesh bags next year. Takes some time, but the results are worth it!

Do you have a link to your mesh bags? Thanks.

I love russet apples...I think I'm going to have to graft on a hudson's golden gem or ashmead's kernel to our trees. I have space for maybe 2 more trees (for four total), but I don't know if I could dedicate a whole tree to a picky variety (especially for varieties that are susceptible to bitter core). Is your Hudson's GG tree pretty carefree? It looks like that variety might have some good disease resistance.

| WOW | I planted 2 Jonathon Apple trees today. The Plum tree had been bought...no lie.

Found it. I'm wondering if this could work for my plum tree, it had bad insect damage last year and isn't so big that I could bag at least some of the fruit. Time to do some more research.

Do you have a link (amazon?) on where to buy this bag?

I just put in three apples this past winter and have been doing a lot of research on what to include in their guilds. I put in garlic chives specifically for scab (I’m west of Seattle) but later read it and other alliums repel coddling moths. So I’ll be putting in some Egyptian walking onions close to the trunks later this fall. I figure they will walk out from under the shade once the trees are big enough to cast much (!). Of course I haven’t had any fruit so can’t really say if it works…

@flaquis2729

2 жыл бұрын

I have garlic chives surrounding my apple trees and this is the second year that we lost all our apples. I even got traps that were for the moths but did absolutely nothing except kill every other insect, probably ones that I needed. I think we will be bagging our apples next season, otherwise it's not even worth having these trees, we did have an abundance of figs though, but I really love apples. I'm in Renton btw.

@Lauradicus

2 жыл бұрын

@@flaquis2729 Sorry to hear that.

@flaquis2729

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lauradicus It's a bummer but all part of learning I guess.

I gave up on euro fruits minus the nanking cherries, decolonized my garden in favor of pawpaw's, sasakatoons, nannyberrys, etc

It looks like some strains of beneficial nematodes (Steinernema feltiae) are good against codling moth. Probably have to get the timing right to break the cycle. The 3 species we used this summer completely took care of our June bug grubs. I think there are other biological controls for codling moths (such as Trichogramma wasps for the eggs). We'll probably have to use insect netting to protect our cherries from the Western cherry flies. If the codling moths end up being bad, I think bagging the fruit can be an easy (yet time intensive). I've got some surround WP Kaolin clay available too.

My apples turned out great. Fed me, the birds and the squirrel crew well. Do you have any videos about your watering strategy in the summer?

@ParkrosePermaculture

2 жыл бұрын

I don't water my fruit trees AT ALL after the first two years. First two years, they get watered once a week with a 5 gal bucket in the dry season. Then I stop watering.

@Brennannnnnnnnn

2 жыл бұрын

@@ParkrosePermaculture that’s great! Do you do drip on the veggies and smaller items? Hope you heal up fast!

Wondering where we can learn knowing the correct time to bag the apples (you know, before the moths get them)? Thanks!

@shoshanae3830

2 жыл бұрын

Follow a degree day schedule or the advisories that come out from your local Extension.

Would you mind sharing what type of bags you used? Thanks!

@ParkrosePermaculture

2 жыл бұрын

I got them on Amazon bc my MIL gave me a gift certificate. I’ll see if I can find the link

@plwood

2 жыл бұрын

@@ParkrosePermaculture thank you! If you can’t find a link, can you post a picture?

hey angela, what do you think is a good apple variety for beginners?

@ParkrosePermaculture

2 жыл бұрын

ooh, that's a good question. I think the most important factor is: what apples do you like to eat? I went to the Home Orchard Society (now called Home Orchard Education Center)'s fall fruit tasting and tried EVERYTHING (hundreds of varieties) and made detailed notes. I asked the orchardists there for disease and pest resistance and issues with varieties I enjoy tasting. Then, in the spring I went to the scion fair and grafted those trees. I KNEW going into it that AShmead's Kernel and Cox's Orange Pippin can both be prone to alternate-cropping or cropping lightly, and are susceptible to pest pressure, but I LOVED the flavors. Honestly, the apple that has had the least problems in my orchad, crops heavily, and is a FANTASTIC eating apple is Hudson's Golden Gem. It's my kids' favorite, too.

@jakemeeker4660

2 жыл бұрын

@@ParkrosePermaculture thank you for the recommendation, i will do my best to attend the fruit tasting this year and pick a good variety,

I am a PNW gardener and need help! What do you do about blackberry overgrowth?

@ParkrosePermaculture

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, I just diligently remove them when they're small. I put on my rose gloves and dig them up by the roots. We spent a LOT of time clearing out blackberries and quackgrass when we first bought our place, and now I stay on top of both of them so they don't get a foothold. As soon as I see a little one, it gets removed.

@evabonnes2614

2 жыл бұрын

@@ParkrosePermaculture ooh my … we have a bioswale on the property edge and it is full of blackberries. Maybe we will have to fence it to contain it a bit. Thank you for your quick response

Can I buy apples from you

In a low humidity environment such as Oregon various fungi and mildews that plague apples are not much in evidence My biggest problem was apple scab I found a reference to Chinese using wood ash Unlike many seemingly brilliant ideas this one worked. I can recommend it

Missed the point. Title said "how I grew perfect" etc. So wordy.....so was it the bags? so the bags worked but they didn't because of tying them on? too much rambling with side notes not addressing the method you were attempting to talk about? So grow quince next to your apple? is that the method? just didn't get it. Can you state in one sentence what the method was? thanks

@emmayeager5864

2 жыл бұрын

The mesh bags were effective.