Yum!

With an apple and a pear tree alongside each other if a plum was also planted would germination occur ok?

That is super tight for trees. I have my blackberries spaced further.

Those aren't prunes. They are plums or damsons. Prunes are when they are dried. You wouldnt call a grape a raisin.

Very informative video

This is contrary to the teachings of a lot of modern soil scientists.

To be brutally honest I think standards have moved on a lot, that's why a lot of old varieties are lost. Some of the new patented cultivars are really quite remarkable. I've tried many heritage varieties and have grown many and I understand the romance of keeping them around - they can be great too. A common trait for many I feel is the beginning of the bite is great but you are left chewing flavourless pulp for far too long.

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I also like a larger more vigorous rootstock. M111 is great. What are your thoughts on the B118 rootstock? My understanding is that it bears fruit a little sooner than M111 and also offers some resistance to fireblight.

I was working for the electric company cutting trees around the power lines once. Saw an apple tree in a man’s garden, the apples looked like perfect red Snow White apples. talking to him he said it was a very rare apple tree with the best apples around. I was sceptical and refrained from eating one (I love apples but have developed a minor allergy to them as an adult) after a college ate one and attested to how good they where I took a bite. Ended up eating two apples and the itchy throat and swollen gums were worth it.

Have you heard of the proverbial Christmas Goose? That stuff the goose was full of is running out of your mouth. Nitrogen is nitrogen whether it is what you like to call organic, or is ammonium nitrate! The salts you harp on are dissolved in 99% of the soils that are used to grow crops. If you use raised beds you have to clean them out every few years. These type KZbin pages are so you can blow smoke up our glory hole and receive money for minutes on KZbin with no authenticity! After reading the comments below I see I am not the only one offended by the constant chicken little rants! Sorry people who actually harm people's lives with their bull shit!

fantastic job, keep the information coming. Your doing a great job imparting good knowledge to everyone in short memorable bursts. Thank you.

Amazingly presented, very professional and easy to understand. Thank you!

Thx for video!

Hello Chiltern, thanks for your video. How do you prepare your foliar solutions? You talk about seaweed, how do you process it to extract the missing nutrients? This is very intersting information which goes alongside regenerative practices. I find most dificult to find guidance in designing the foliar solutions. Thanks

Hi Normally the planting hole is three times larger in size than the root ball. But your planting hole does not look so large as shown in the video, In your opinion this not necessary? Please advise. Thanks

Hi my 3 years old cherry plant has the lesion/wound on the main trunk about 8 inches above the soil. Do I need to do these: 1) put volcanic rock dust into the soil. 2) spray seaweed solution the wound?

I have a young peach tree currently that is suffering from multiple canker sores on the trunk. Is it worth trying this method or should we call it quits since it's in the trunk, not just a branch?

These cankers are usually covered with amber resin blobs, right? (Gummosis) Considering my orchards location, I do hope the cause is bacterial and not due to the sequence of extreme temperatures in Winter and Summer. Some trees have their bark cracked all over, from top to bottom, and it appears to me that lifted back may make them permeable for infections. But I don't remember seeing Gummosis on Apples or Pears. It's the Stone Fruit ones, like the poor Apricot, the Cherries and the Plum. Almonds come second. Should one conclude that horse manure does not cover for all basic nutrition needs including trace elements, then?

I felt very smug - no black aphids on my broad beans. Wrong! Almost overnight an infestation. Not a ladybird on the scene to help either😢

I have an established grapefruit tree that I'm told has canker and citrus greening. The quality of the fruit is compromised. The leaves have small spots. I'm not sure I'm seeing canker on the trunk itself. Will this method work on canker? Do you have suggestions on citrus greening. I'm in Louisiana.

Have you ever had a leaf analysis done on your trees?

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The tree will not kill the pear blister mite naturally, I dont know where you got that silly information from, but it is incorrect

How many pieces of rebar are needed to hold the wood floor joist to the blocks? In the one picture you showed it looks like you nailed the rebar to the side of the joist. Did you also drill holes through the joist and put the rebar through the holes into the blocks?

Thanks for the video but genuinely grossly not enough info!

A longer, more detailed video on this subject would be interesting!

Thank you for the video, but you didnt mention "how to improve photosynthesis". Only seaweed?

Super video!

The hat speaks and knowledge is imparted 👍

It'll be great to see these methods working side by side and the fantastic crops to come!

Perfect timing! Right what I am wanting to do in the next few years 👍😎

For how long you need this protection from sheep? How old tree needs to be so you can remove it without of fear that sheep are going to eat it?

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The hat speaks. 😎👍

Great video!!! How do you prevents birds from eating the fruits?

I love those little fruit buds

The hat is back! 👍😎 I would use aluminium guttering over plastic, as it is stronger and doesn’t fade or warp in the sun. 🤷‍♂️

Hello! Thank you for sharing this very helpful information! I have several young fruit trees with canker very low on the main trunk. It looks severe. I bought one tree like this unknowingly and it has spread. The rest of the trees look so healthy, but left untreated, in a year or two it looks as though the canker will eat right through the trunk. I will try this method (though I missed my opportunity to put down the volcanic rock). Do you think there is hope in saving the tree by using your suggested method?

How does this vole guard hold up over the years? I'm interested in this technique because subterranean pine voles are such a problem for me here. The idea of totally protecting the roots sounds great, as long as there aren't other detrimental effects! Hope to see more content from you soon, thanks!

Any proof??

So interesting. Glad I found your channel

Thanks so much for this information. I'm curious, when we see a leaf like this should we assume Iron deficiency in the leaf too, since we can assume it will be in the same oxidised and inaccessible form as the manganese in the soil. The leaf you show looks the same as what I have understood a deficiency in iron to look like, or are there subtle differences?

Thank you for sharing this! Live on a windy hill. Want to plant hedgerow in orchard

Piss poor soils benefit greatly from fertilizer. Many soils will not develop any organic matter if the plants dont get some N. In the real world heavy fertilization of Nitrogen 100lb-200lb/acre every year improves soil life. If you cant get enough manure or compost then consider some bagged urea. The other nutrients arent needed but once unless removed off farm via your pissnshit in the sewer,runoff, selling produce/hay/meat. Imagine everything you sell off farm in a year gathered in a big pile to compost. Thats what you must add back every year and you should probably triple that because you sold the most nutrient dense part.

What a godsend this video is. Been researching for sometimes now. I have an ornamental Prunus, in a very sorry state. Is about 20 yrs old, came with the house and has a big canker wound 10 cm wide on the trunk. Cracked and jaggered but no more gumosis. Has all the nasty symptoms, gunshots leaves, spars & brittle branches, small flowers & leaves etc. There are many U.S. videos advising to use copper fungicide. Whilst I live in 🇬🇧, I cannot get that nor do I want to use toxic chemicals that harm wildlife. So thank your video. I like to ask, should I cut away the canker wound on trunk, back to healthy wood? Only because I noticed you didn’t cut off the infected branches in your video. And if I do need to cut out the big wound, should I need to apply tree wound paint? Any recommendations for wound paint, if necessary? Thank you.

I wish I could post my last soil test where I have been growing continuous corn using commercial Ammonia and phosphate for 50 years. I plan to make 290 bu/ac this year. The last 2 year it made 34 tons of corn silage and 285 bu of corn.

Thank you

Thank you. I now realise I have to rethink my plans. I bought our trees without giving this enough thought or planning.

Very interesting information, thank you for that. I've read that some pear varieties need a warmer location in order to be able to really develop flavour. I was wondering if a fully grown hedge can help with creating a slightly warmer orchard and thus better tasting fruit? Is it then correct to put that a warmer location gives better taste for the same amount of sunshine? Is this true for all kinds of fruit (not only pears, also apples, plums...)? Thank you for sharing your knowledge.