Finally! A video showing an established small orchard, not someone showing their 1-2 year old trees. Great video with great info.

@ryandalion8379

Жыл бұрын

It's like a unicorn!

YIKES!!!!! Everyone else on YT...now, cut about 25% at a 34-degree angle after the summer solstice close to 8 pm at night. Meanwhile... crank up the hedge trimmer/chain saw. Love this guy, this is how we trim fruit trees in Thailand as well. Cut it..it'll grow back in spite of us. A+ for this video!!!!

@margaretmarshall3645

6 ай бұрын

😂

It's funny, I'll spend hours pruning my trees deciding which parts to cut and which to leave. I get some fruit but not an overwhelming amount. This gentleman took hedgetrimmers to his tree and had bountiful amounts of fruit!

@tristans_jungle6924

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂 I was just as shocked as you were probably, I have hours doing the same thing. Now I'll be using a hedge trimmer

@clbhat7517

Жыл бұрын

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@margaretmarshall3645

6 ай бұрын

Oh, but didn’t you notice how he carefully maneuvered the hedge trimmer so as to make each cut about 1/4” above an outward facing bud? Yeah, me neither, lol.

And here I am contemplating every cut with my pole saw…hedge trimmer here I come! Dennis Miller is great, and I appreciate his knowledge!

Please bring him back I want more details so amazing!!

Great idea to keeping them short. Thanks!

Thank you for this video! What a beautiful orchard! Those plums look delicious! Well said: "How many fruits do you need as a home orchard?" 14 trees have been packed into our 1,000 sq/ft garden and plan to add 4 more in Spring. And you guess it: there are plums and pluots! :)

This orchard is amazing!!! Definitely love the idea of having trees that are a height that is accessible and the bird netting and tips for rats it was all fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

Good advice to keep the trees smaller as we only get older. :). Dennis looks healthy and fit for being older. I like that he is growing Gravenstein apples. Keeping the variety live in No Cal. His property is beautiful.

Thank you for sharing. Love the backyard orchard culture size. 🤩

Very wise ideas and amazing garden

Thank you sir for your demolition and sample of small trees. I just started my backyard 4yrs ago with this idea. I have better vision with your video,

Great video! Thankyou. These trees are beautiful and this guy is the real deal.

G'day there. I really enjoyed the video and got some useful information from it. Thanks very much from Australia.

Interesting concept .I come from a commercial side large orchard and I have down sized a lot . Like yourself I also like short trees 5 to 10 ft is my speed.

Extremely impressive and inspiring. Just starting my orchard.

@yonkamacho9842

2 жыл бұрын

How has your first year been? I'm just getting into the research to start my own

Another benefit of keeping the trees 6 ft is that if your fence is 6-8 ft tall no one will know they are there in case of SHTF.

When the master wants to top a tree, he reaches for a chainsaw. Gotta respect that. The productivity speaks for itself. (I see now that it is a gas-powered hedge trimmer. My new weapon of choice in the coming zombie apocalypse.)

Just found this video. So great to see how it is possible to successfully grow small fruit trees. I would love if you could do a new tour showing where you pruned from the very beginning. Where were initial cuts for the first year or two.

I love that you keep these fruit trees at a certain height, a great idea. Thank you for sharing you knowledge with us.

Love your passion for gardening. Important point which you shared is to keep the height of trees less than 06 feet so that you may not facing problem while harvesting especially WHEN YOU ARE OLDER CROSSING 70.

@elizabethblane201

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Even though we doing our yoga and other balance exercises, we just aren't as agile as we become "seasoned".

Excellent farming and harvest👍

Love and Miss you Pop's..Ty for the Video

Just planted my orchard in the Catskill mountain region of NY. This is a very impressive and informative video!!

So helpful. Just the information I needed. Thank you. Lovely orchard, sir.

This video been extremely helpful for me. I have the same size land and thinking about planting 100-200 orange trees. My neighbor keep feeding the deer and I been trying to come up with ways to combat the deer. They will destroy everything in a single night.

... You n yr orchard is impressively inspiring. Wat an energetic gardener. Mind blowing 👌🏻👌🏻. Beautiful... Specially the last plum..

Thank you and God bless you.

💕 from Sweden. Great tips

Thank you for the video. Very informative, I didn't even know about bird netting.

@margaretmarshall3645

6 ай бұрын

I did, but I never thought of hedge trimming first for a uniform height, or of wrapping the netting around the trunk to keep mammals out! Startlingly new ideas.

An important thing that I take from this is to keep harvests smaller by pruning fruit early....

That's one thing I don't have is a deer problem. In town in eight years. Thanks

Great video. 👍👍

Very beautiful orchard

Very organized, every tree are in reach if it set fruit, I like it

This is wild!

Love this!

Wow 👏 very nice fruits trees 🌳...how many times of fertilizer per year?

Love this info

Thank you

Awesome 👏

i totally understand why you chop all the up-going shoots, but personally I like to let my trees attain full height (dwarf or semi-dwarf, so 10-15ft mostly), with a lot of accessible fruiting branches at around shoulder height. I will often clip off juvenile fruit on the upper part of the tree, and then the lower fruit which i intend to ripen, I will bag individually. If I want more yield, I may get out the orchard ladder and bag more fruit higher up, but other times I will just let them go. as you said, how much fruit do you really need? I've found that an orchard ladder is so wide and stable, that i have no problem using it. in fact, it's kind of fun. I also feel like the trees are a bit healthier and more productive if they aren't wasting energy into producing shoots that are doomed to be cut. but i can see if you are older, and/or have limited space, you may not want to be hauling an orchard ladder around your trees.

@margaretmarshall3645

6 ай бұрын

And his trees sure do seem to be healthy and productive! Nice to see the results with our own eyes, so to speak.

So inspiring

I have been looking for a video like yours for years. I know that this is what I want to do with my trees I have dwarfs and almost sent me to us and they are 20 ft tall I always want to bring them down but there was no videos that will confirm that it could be done.

I have seen these short trees on Paul Gautschi's videos and I thought, "That is the height of tree that I want."

I miss Farmer Fred. Sunday mornings aren't the same anymore.

@Realdavidart

3 жыл бұрын

Is that why his podcast are not updating? He's no longer on air?

@frankleepower2333

3 жыл бұрын

@@Realdavidart Yes, it seems he retired from radio. Still active in the gardening community just not on radio.

Thanks. What is the dormant spray you use?

I'm just starting out making my home orchard. So far I just have a lemon tree. Do you have any tips on where to plant a lemon tree. I live in Florida.

How do you control pest?

I have fruit apples and they became rotten every spring do you spray them with some

What spacing is being used between the trees?

@hallinasjournal7795

3 жыл бұрын

I was wonderin the same

@hallinasjournal7795

3 жыл бұрын

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I try to keep my trees small but barely get any fruits. Very low fruit production

I hope to live long enough to eat my fruits i have about 20 fruit trees everyone thinks im crazy laughs at me but sure enough some of the trees already got good fruits from it. Evidently a family member just brought a thief over n stole a few of my fruits!

STOP THE DOGS BARKING IN THE BACKGROUND!! CANNOT HEAR WHAT HE’S SAYING!!!