5 Beginner Gardening Mistakes to Avoid When Growing Fruit Trees
5 Beginner Gardening Mistakes to Avoid When Growing Fruit Trees
I wish I knew this when I first started growing fruit trees! If I knew the 5 things I share in this video I would have saved years of time and frustration. Learn from my mistakes and spend more time harvesting.
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I just love your little dog following you around.
Thanks, informative video. I’ve made some of these mistakes myself. Have you considered drinking half caff before shooting?
I just love watching your videos, I’m new at gardening and i really enjoy it, So i just want to say thank you,you are my go to when i’m not sure what’s what .. And tuck is my fav love the little guy..
I would say, get your trees from a local nursery, not a box store. I bought both my peach trees at a local nursery and I noticed the tag read that the tree needed only 400 chill hours. The nurseryman told me that Bakersfield, California does not get many chill hours and those particular trees would produce fruit while a tree needing 700 chill hours would not. I notice that the tags on the peach trees at the box stores do not tell one how many chill hours the tree needs.
why don’t you compost the fallen fruit?
James, I’ve been following you for years. You’re getting better every year, love all you do. Thanks again!
Love your videos! Thank you for this one, I wonder about how you apply the wp surround kaolin clay to your tree. I have a 50 year old tremendous apple tree, here in Long islnad, NY , It was supposed to be dwarf. . but it has two types of trunks, so must be combination from the root plus trunk portions growing into numerous trunks after all. …..The tree is so tall now not sure how to manage. Loads of apples every year, cannot eat any . Apple damage looks like same pest -plum Curculio you mentioned. I have wanted to buy more fruit trees but have been concerned all would have same pest issue, so have not done so, yet. Now I feel somewhat encouraged by your video. .
IDK about #4. I hear you, tho I inherited some yummy apple trees for some year, some years ago, and approached it like you at first, leave it natural and it had like thousands of great apples for some years, then 2 years or so the snow load on the long branches broke off big portions, probably lost more than if I pruned 😉 and maybe w those amazing years, its because before me it was opened and the deer could easily get in and prune it. So maybe it had a lot of built up energy and I leave the extras on the ground to go back into the trees after the bugs are done with them. Historically it was said 7 years before fruit trees are "really ready" to be picked from. the fence was only for the dogs
Hey James can you post a couple of links to some reputable companies that sell bareroot trees?
Where or who do you order your fruit trees from? I am new to gardening in general. I have no idea where to get my fruit tree from. I am glad to hear I shouldn’t go on the cheap whatever fruit trees available from local big box store. Thank you in advance.
Tnx a lot!
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Thank you for your great tips!
Hey James, is everything going okay. Haven’t seen you in awhile.
This is why you have to look at different garden people and get an idea what they’re really talking about, and so far you have proven you’re the best good job
Putting garlic under your trees keep pests out of apples, we comb the back roads for garlic seeds every year, get a couple gallons, and throw out every spring under umbrella of the tree
Kicking much knowledge.
What you use to protect fruit tree from bug and laternfly? Specially cherry 🍒 tree
Speaking of reliable suppliers – which nurseries do you recommend?
Hi James, I have a question. Can I grow apple trees while living n the lower south east Ga ??
I sure did get a lot of value from this video! Thank you!!! I purchased my first 5 bare root tree this year!
Love your little terrier garden helper. I have a Cairn terrier. Have to be careful, though. Her specialty is hole digging and " unplanting".
Excellent video. New here. Albuquerque New Mexico
Hi love your channel. I have a question I have a apricot fruit tree for the last two years its covered with flowers but finally e erythi h fall off and no fruit what could be the reason do i need to fertilize it when it’s floering or am I doing something wrong or not doing something. The three is about e to 4 years old . Same thing the nursery sold it to me as a p,um treat and it the ed out to be an apricot tree . Appreciate a reply from you than you
Thanks for the great information.
Does anyone have a a proven business, where I can buy good quality, bare root trees from?
Thanks
i’m french, did you know where i can find williams pride seed please ?
thanks for this! You saved me a ton of time waiting for seeds to grow into unknown (and full sized) with your fruit tree vids.
Can you do a disease resistant variety feature for your garden?
WOW I would love to have a bite of that beautiful apple,good information will do this this year.
Why’d he eat the apple like that
Why do u show your dog. We did not come here for your dog. Half of your words are unreadable
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I just bought 2 twisted apple trees from Lowes. *sigh* I’ll do what I can with them! I want some peaches too, will go to the Tree Farm as I originally planned to.
Am I too late to start pruning my peach tree? It’s just starting to bud and has a few flowers.
Bare with me I’m a total garden mess:
I know you said spray the trees at night with the sulfur for brown rot, but how does that not hurt the bees the next day when they show up to pollinate, obviously you have beautiful trees and plenty of fruit but I’m just curious.
Ive never got any fruit off my trees, except for one year with a older pear tree my dad planted years ago, if any do start to produce it either falls off in early spring storms when they are super tiny, or grows a bit and gets eaten by squirrels, deer etc… Brugge it’s anywhere near ripe, they can raid a tree quickly or I end up with brown rot. I think I have 4 peach trees and 3 pear lining my driveway that I bought from Lowe’s through the years so I have no idea what variety they are and they have definitely never been pruned properly. I pretty much just gave up on them.
I do understand a little more about pruning after watching this, but I guess it’s to late right now since spring is so close here in central MO?
Does he get more and more aggressive with his intro each video or is it just me? ❤️🙌🏽
I heard that it is better to prune the trees in spring cause they have more juices and they will heal faster and better.
When I Purchased my first cherry tree I had no idea why I was doing..
I bought a sour cherry on a a normal root stock.. 😂 I rent and have a tiny garden! So I kept it in a pot for 3 years
This year I bought a Victoria Plum on a pixy rootstock. They do really well where I live and I love a sweet sour plum! So second time I did my research.
I was watching your other video tapping snot all the food forest food and those apples, you were so excited. I kept waiting for you to bite into one of those apples!!! I have fruit trees that are crazy. Thank you for the videos!! I always enjoy watching!
You may have mentioned this and if so, I apologize but what sites would you recommend for ordering good quality bare root trees from as well as seeds for veggies and fruit?
Hello From Oregon, Your enjoying we enjoy just as much fruit as we can so this year we put in twenty grown purple asparagus, ten pink strawberries, had to do a new blueberries and we planted two pink limonaid blue berry , we finally found Rubarr it just hasn’t been around. Our Family Garden growers for plants doing well but for Our Food Farmer’s aren’t growing this year again. It has nothing to do with worker’s but no water rights our Govener dumped our lakes took out river dams so the biggest fight of feeding food processing plants have had them close down for good. So learning from you to help bost more for good we thank you.
On rule 4, why not pinch/destroy the flowers before the small fruits develop so the fruit tree doesn’t waste energy on fruit that is just going to be picked off later? Also, a note to add on rule 4, even if you can get away with being greedy to some extent, meaning you can have a large amount of heavy fruit on a tree that fully develops instead of partial development, branches can snap off the tree due to the weight of the fruit. This is especially true with persimmons, citrus, and any tree that sets large fruit! If branches snap off in fall or near rain events, this is especially bad because it can introduce eupta dieback and other pathogens that can kill the entire tree! Rule 4, in my opinion, is the most important to follow. DON’T BE GREEDY!
I genuinely love your channel 😅❤ you’re so energetic but great at teaching people.. 👏
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I bought a plum that needs a partner and it’s been there 4 years and no plums.😂🤣 I’m going to take it out this year. I got a baby barefoot real plum.
Im only halfway through watching, & I have learnt so much already! Fabulous, informative video! cheers from Sydney Australia..
Excellent video! TY
Great advice. Very helpful. You should google the Ellen White method for planting trees. It really does work.
need to know where to find healthy fruit trees to plant?
Thanx for all the good information. I’m interested in doing some similar work where I live in Northern VA. Are you welcome to visitors and learning a bit in person?
Vertical high density planting experiment is great for grapes is that something worth trying.
Thank you so much I’ve learned so much from you