12 Planting MISTAKES Killing Your Fruit Trees

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0:00 Intro
0:54 Planting too deep
1:29 Circular roots
3:34 Stomping the roots
4:40 Death by sun/invaders
7:09 Mulch volcanos
9:38 Permanent cages
10:16 Pot planting issues
12:13 Timing issues
12:51 Planting from pots
17:16 Staking the tree
18:51 Choking staked trees
19:41 Leaving tags on
20:51 Frequent shallow watering
24:22 Damaging the tree
25:01 Tree root surgery
29:10 A word from our sponsor
30:31 We covered a lot of ground
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[@AnneofAllTrades]

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[@user-sx9hu2nl8t]

30 years ago I purchased my fruit trees by Mail Order to Stark Bros in Missouri. These were bare-root trees, 2 different varieties of each for cross-pollination: Apple, Pear, Plum, Apricot, Peach, Pear, and 6 Blueberry bare-root plants. When the trees arrived I was stunned because they were at least 1" in diameter on the central leader, far larger than my local nurseries offered but at a fraction of the price through Stark Bros. What was hard for me was to take a leap of faith with the planting instructions Stark provided. These instructions thankfully were very detailed. First, the planting holes had to be 4 feet in diameter. This required me to rent a two-man gas power auger with a 7" screw drilled to about 2.5 feet depth. The clay soil was broken up and thoroughly mixed with compost, nitrolized Redwood chips, Jersey Greensand, Rock Phosphate, and some soil Sulphur. The bare root plants were hydrated for 24 hours in water with B1 vitamin. The instruction said to clip off the ends of some of the roots and cull any bad ones entirely. The depth of planting is critical as pointed out in this video. Each tree was staked to allow the wind to vibrate and strengthen the lower part of the tree especially the point where it exits the soil. The rubber guy wires are placed at a point about 1/2 way up the central leader. Then the instructions said to remove all branches from the central leader leaving only it. This would allow the tree roots to be forced to develop. The bark of the central leader gets enough sun to photosynthesize. Stark explained there are three parts of the tree using energy: the Roots, The Branches, and the Fruit. Each one represents 33% of the plant where you must create BALANCE. The sun's energy is 100% and divided into those three parts. Taking off the branches allows the root to use 100% of the sun's energy to develop a very strong root system. I read that I should not expect fruit or allow fruit on the tree for the first three years. Allow it to bear in the fourth year. In year one, two, and three, Stark has instructions how to "Train" the branches into the best for bearing and also to increase the branch strength knot of the central leader. This is necessary because when these fruit up they are so heavy, if not strengthened, they can break off and strip the cambium from the central leader severely wounding the plant. These first three years are critical to the heavy bearing and health of the tree. In the first year, you will see new branches. You will need to select branch exits approximately 120 degrees from each other on the central leader as viewed from the top of the tree. These small diameter branches are flexible and you will train them to become GRADUALLY more PERPENDICULAR to the central leader eliminating all but these three at this level. To train them you use notched sticks of different lengths between the central leader and each branch forcing the branch to about 60 to 70-degree angle from the central leader. These will be replaced with longer sticks in the second year to achieve an angle of 75 to 80 degrees then in the third year about 85 degrees. By this time the branch will be much larger in diameter, like 2 1/2" TO 3", Stark Bros sells these spacers. When looking at your tree you can allow branches at mid-level and up but keep them at three main branches at 120 degrees and stake as explained above. On some trees, like plums, you will in the the third year cut off the central leader above the first three branches to form a "Vase" shape. These and other types of fruit (but not all) love this shape and will be much healthier overall. My fruit trees are pruned annually to maintain a balance of energy to the roots, branches, and fruit. I trim back to reduce the fruit to do this. If you neglect to trim them you will have one year they will bear heavy then the next year you won't have any fruit. You will be doing yourself and the plant a favor by trimming them every year as they bud out. Don't worry the ones you leave on the branches will be incredible and you will have enough of them that's guaranteed! As a final note. my trees are mature now and in excellent health with 8 to 10" diameter central leader and bearing way more than I can eat with very large and delicious fruit. I hope this helps someone. And thanks for your video! It is excellent!

[@faithboldi1396]

Thanks so much, l appreciate the time that you put in writing in all this valuable information.

[@user-sx9hu2nl8t]

@@faithboldi1396 I loved your video! Hopefully, what experience I wrote for the fruit trees is helpful to everyone on your channel. The key is that you have patience in the first years to build a very strong tree. Remember, you will wait until the fourth year to allow fruiting. You must prune so that you do not allow all buds to develop. You will leave about 30% - 35% of the buds on the tree alone. This will allow more sunshine into the tree and better health and fruit size and sweetness. This will pay you dividends in a strong, healthy tree, bearing fruit every year for you! If you like I can give you some tips on pruning that will result of 100% healing of every branch and twig you cut. When I say 100%... one year later after you correctly pruned, the tree will show NO evidence that a branch was even there! I learned how to do this from a good friend of mine who is an Arborist Tree Surgeon. These procedures are simple but not well known and they only require simple inexpensive hand tools. Once you know how you can work on any tree and improve dramatically. Also if you go to Stark Bros they will send you a free catalog. They've been in business for over 200 years! I can give you the compatible cross-polination species which is necessary for each tree to fruit up. They also own the patent rights for the Red Delicious and Yellow Delicious Apple varieties from way back when. Just let me know and I will help you! I love the expanse of your farm there and what you're doing with these trees! Keep up the great work Faith!

[@lstroud454]

user-sx9hu2nl8t that is Greattt info from you - from your expierence and from from Stark Bros !! 👍 Faithboldi1396 - what a Great video - i am planting 4 Apple trees and 2 Peach trees "TODAY" ! 😱 y'all say a few 🙏🙏s pleaseeee !! i wish i'd had this Info 2 weeks ago , .... planted 3 Pear trees and an Apricot tree !! Thankkks again for "Sharingggg" this Wonderful info and experience !! 🤗👍

[@BillInmanArt]

@@user-sx9hu2nl8t Thank you for adding excellent instruction to an already fantastic video. I will be looking up Stark Bros. Is there somewhere others like me can read your tips on pruning?

[@tinkthefoxylilmiss6801]

Ahhh the details are excellent!!! Thank you. Does that fruit tree retailer still operate?

[@shapiemau2244]

This has been perfect information Anne. Folk have got to study nature more because the answers are already there. Take for example a peach tree, the peach will fall to the ground, it will remain on top of the ground and the flesh will rot around it. Come autumn and the peach tree will lose its foliage, these leaves will fall onto the pip and protect it from the frosts. Eventually spring comes around again and the seed starts to break out - nothing is compacting anything else. Nature has been doing this for years! Thank you both for showing this - we all continue to learn :)

[@angelas4681]

Anne, I absolutely love the humor you bring to everything. Informative and hilarious.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Glad to hear it, I get a lot of eye rolls from my husband 😂

[@NinaHansen2008]

I bought a house that had a very large tree that had been supported by a tomato cage. By the time I came there the metal of the cage was deeply embedded in the bark; there was no way to get it out. One day during a windstorm, the tree gently toppled over. The roots were shallow and I could tell that that the poor thing never had a chance!

[@dandavis8300]

Maybe it would have been OK if they'd trimmed it to keep it small?

[@rachelmunoz]

Oof! This also makes me ask myself… What are the girdling roots in my own life? 😮 I’m learning that so much spiritual depth is displayed in nature and gardening! God knew exactly what he was doing when he created all of this. Whoa.

[@bluwtr]

When I've planted my trees I dig a large deep hole in a square shape. My local soil has a clay pan anywhere from 6-18" down. I backfill the hole with compost I make, then clean the roots and splay them out at the correct depth. I DO gently step on the soil to firm it up though. I mulch the top without the "volcano". I ❤ the cardboard idea. Thanks for a great video.

[@Ishiisan]

Went out and checked on my Fuy Persimmon that wasn't look too great. It was rootbound. I did my first chiseling of a tree root. I hope she makes it 🤞 UPDATE: IT’S ALIVE! it's looking so much healthier!

[@rachelmunoz]

“Especially when they’re really young…” “so if you scratch the bark or damage the roots, that can be present in the tree for its entire life.” Wow. That hit deep! Seems like a reflection of how we are as humans too. If we are hurt when we are young, those wounds appear to be present throughout the rest of our lives too. Thankful for healing that can be had!

[@lisarodriguez8681]

Ditto❣️

[@homesteadrevivals]

For seniors or people with disabilities or chronic illness, buying potted trees may be best. When you buy bare root trees, it's important to get them into the ground asap. The trees don't care about your physical limitations. Getting them in pots buys you a little time to get rested or get through the worst of your flare, or to find someone to help you plant.

[@amberafonso2903]

Im disabled and i get around this by digging the holes before the trees arrive for example you could order 5 trees and dig a hole every few days or even 1 a week for the 5 weeks leading up to delivery just make sure to cover the dirt pile so it doesn’t blow away if u have light soils. This also works if you top dress or mulch the trees after planting keep the pile u need right next to the tree hole to just push onto when planted

[@Ishiisan]

i disagree. Bare-root is the way my in-law's family has been doing for ages. They're from east TN and they're DIYers than anything else. they're legally disabled but still do the planting. it all comes down to how well you plan.

[@tigrlily]

I've lost both types, if you know ahead of time, dig before they arrive. Some times, the large pot, thus large hole can be a hardship, lifting and digging. It's hard to ask for help, but if you have a nephew/niece, maybe you can make their favorite treat/meal as a thank you for them helping digging, etc.

[@homesteadrevivals]

@@Ishiisan you can't always plan for the days your spinal cord inflammation leaves you unable to function. I'm glad your in-laws are able to plan around their own disabilities, but not every disability is the same.

[@carolday3381]

Agreed. As far as I am concerned planting a tree regardless of pots or bare roots etc etc is the point. Plant a tree. Just plant one. Plant 2 if you can. The best tree is a tree that got planted. Let’s grow together. 😊 Now a useful video would be how to plant a potted tree addressing checking for girdleing etc right at planting that way it won’t be having a problem 15 years later. If you plant a bare root tree wrong with roots bunched up it too could grow with a girdled root.

[@kathysweet]

I have learned so much from your videos. Thank you for being humble enough to share your failures with us. I knew I wanted bear trees, but I didn’t know they were available to the average Joe want to be permaculturist:

[@janiceh3995]

Im in the UK and have just got my first ever allotment. There is sooo much rubbish, weeds, etc on it but once ive sorted it out, the first thing im going to do is plant my six fruit trees that have been in pots for a year or so now. This was a great video and it was just in time for my planting !

[@CrazyAuntVal]

In addition to Ann's amazing instruction, you might want to check out the wealth of information that Charles Dowding @CharlesDowding1nodig has to offer from his home &/or allotment in the UK. While gardening/farming/homesteading share many universal truths, gardening in the UK vs North America presents different challenges and incredible rewards. All that rubbish, and all those weeds... are sharing some important diagnostics about your garden. Charles's videos can safe you years of loss and frustration, especially when you're starting from scratch. No-dig gardening seems counterintuitive at times. When you look at the science behind it though, the benefits - to both your garden and your aching back - become obvious wins. Congratulations on your allotment! Happy growing!

[@Ishiisan]

I was about to leave to get some fruit trees and Anne had to release a new video. 😂 Thanks for this awesome video!

[@defective6811]

I swear, your channel is like 90% of the things I'm currently working on and I think I might be binging your backlog now lol. Got 60 small fruit and nut trees growing in my screenhouse that I started this year for my own burgeoning orchard 🤣

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Great minds think alike!

[@thetexianpatriot2201]

I’m getting prepared to plant 15 King Mulberry trees. I propagated them from a bare root tree that I planted 3yrs ago.

[@philkillen5016]

Are you going to eat some of those berries. Or are you just going to watch them come down on your yard things . I like it when they come down on my daughter's picnic table. If I could get enough berries at one time. I'll bet you could stain a picnic table purple and I think it would look good. What do you think?

[@deboz8793]

Great information. I’m battling with deer eating the apples and the peach branches. And it doesn’t help that a buck decided to rub his antlers on the peach trunk and broke a branch off. 😢

[@AgnesMariaL]

If you don't have any grazing animals (sheep, goats etc) to worry about, plant yew bushes. The deer LOVE them and are not affected by the toxins. My last place had a yew hedge and the deer would browse that rather than come into the yard for the gardens and fruit trees ;)

[@christineferrario1700]

Same. Misery loves company. I've RESTAKED.. MORE BETTER-ER I hope.

[@loribethartist6353]

My peach trees bloom every year and start making fruit, but they will shrivel up and fall off. My Nannie grew them from peach pits she threw out in the garden so I’d love for them to thrive.

[@Jacq892]

Some fruit trees need a second male tree.

[@honeylocustlavenderfarm]

If that's the case, I believe you have tons of fruits forming, yes? So, just like trimming back sucker's on the tree, the branches can only support a few fruits per branch. Without more information like your growing zone, late frosting events will kill fruits, and also any pests encountered on your tree. I suppose the last the most important thing to keep in mind is that as you stated you grew your tree from a pit opposed to a store bought which is a tree graft from a proven big fruiting tree. Your tree may only grow small fruits or you don't have adequate pollinators like honey bees. Best of luck. ...one more thing it takes a seedling around 2-4 years to be mature enough to fully bear fruit so depending on the age of the tree. Hope this helps.

[@kjones2008]

Anne and Daniel … how timely. Many thanks!

[@jonas3333]

This video alone has changed everything for me and will be saving me so much time & money!!!

[@AnneofAllTrades]

So glad to hear it!

[@rootedlifehome]

Ann... Yes. I GOT MINE FROM HOME DEPOT... bought the same one and had a cherry and thought it was a mini plum. Surprise.

[@cindyspiess9963]

😳

[@NatalieClewley]

This video was extremely helpful, thanks Anne & Daniel! I'm getting ready to plant a few apple trees in Maine and I feel more confident now! Just found your videos and I'm enjoying watching you and how you shed light on so many innocent gardening faux pas. You're funny and sweet . . . don't change . . . and don't work yourself to death. 💚

[@AnneofAllTrades]

So glad you are here Natalie!

[@kirstypollock6811]

Awesome video. I could watch Daniel all day. So knowledgeable and such a lovely manner.

[@justinwest4923]

YESSSS!!!! I've been waiting for this one ever since you teased it! I realize the room for it on this channel may be limited, but I'm here for any tree content you want to put up!

[@jtf267]

Thank you. Gophers ate the fig tree i grew from a stick. My mulberry tree is gone. Im finally ready to try again... but do gophers like other fruit trees. I don’t expect to get fruit in my foggy cooler area but i was hoping for a pretty spring blossom show each spring.

[@bowtielife]

I’m sure it was staged but I LOVED ❤ that you addressed MULCH VOLCANOES up front in the teaser. Always hated seeing those, especially from real ‘landscapers’! This is the best video I’ve ever seen on planting and arranging the roots of a new tree! 🌳 This guy is a real treasure! (Well, you, too 😊 ) I enjoy all your content but this series is AWESOME! I agree with the other commenter who said hurry hurry hurry with the next part!

[@tinat-l2150]

Thanks for this video. Finally understand why some of my trees are not successful

[@karenturner8302]

Incredible video thanks - everyone should watch this before planting any kind of tree. I knew some of this but awesome!!!

[@dariuszdata1431]

I plant apple and peach seeds in the regular compact soil, the strongest trees survive, thrive and even bare fruit on the second year (peaches 🍑)

[@VeganMatrix]

1:58 the roots @needtobreathe & 15:27 yuppp my favorite band!!

[@carpeinferi]

What I've done to protect my trees from string trimmers & deer has been 4" diameter sections of drain tile (helps keep mulch away from the trunk too) and cages made of chicken wire or welded wire 3-4ft diameter for the first several seasons till big enough to survive deer grazing.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Smart!

[@brieanastraiton3665]

This auto played while i was busy cleaning up. I dont have any fruit trees yet but i do have a pink lemonade blueberry bush. Took listening to this to remember i never cut the tag off! I ran back to the berry garden so fast lol. Luckily its only in its 3rd year and hadnt boared its way into the trunk yet. Thanks for the reminder!!

[@arcobalenonellorto8994]

Thank you for this video. I knew that daffodils are good to protect the trees from wild animals so I started to plant some around my fruit trees, now I will transplant also the strawberry plants that are too many in my garden under some plum trees.

[@valnpaulvanorden]

Air pockets .. need earthworms!!!

[@valnpaulvanorden]

Squirrels enjoy eating bulbs...some people plant bulbs in chicken wire cAge. 😊

[@valnpaulvanorden]

Mulch ring. Not mulch volcano

[@arcobalenonellorto8994]

@@valnpaulvanorden I have squirrels but they never touched my bulbs, I have also other wild animals but they respect my garden

[@arcobalenonellorto8994]

@@valnpaulvanorden I have very big earthworms

[@skypixie6223]

Omgsh Love the cardboard and plant garlic and bulbs strawberries around the tree 🌳 ❤

[@dominickfiorenza2639]

at the end of the year around fall time start colecting ur cow pies ,a.k.a cow poops and put a bunch in ur garden and till it in before the winter, ur victory garden will flurish ... my gram made me doo it every fall and we had the best biggest vegges and other small crops... peppers were great .. GOD BLESS GOOD LUCK WIT UR FARM.. FROM A OLD FARM HAND IN PA. 😇😇

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Your gram sounds like a treasure ❤️

[@LisaSimplified]

Hurry hurry hurry with the next video please. 😊 I learned so much today and you probably just saved 4 cherry trees! How old does the tree have to be before it can be propagated? Thank you so much!

[@thetexianpatriot2201]

You can propagate fruit trees any time you prune. Check how old your tree has to be before it’s recommended pruning. Most trees can be pruned after its first year in the ground,but. You can take cuttings from a potted tree that you just bought.

[@LisaSimplified]

Thank you!@@thetexianpatriot2201

[@thetexianpatriot2201]

@@LisaSimplified you’re very welcome. Best of luck!

[@valnpaulvanorden]

Girdling roots.. root bound.

[@gernotfrohlich6978]

We use to plant trees always in October! Best month to plant .... ;)

[@AnneofAllTrades]

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today ;)

[@AnneofAllTrades]

(But I do agree)

[@Gwendy1171]

Thank you for this. Wow! I have just learned a LOT on one morning and I am still in my bed drinking coffee. We are going to replant an apricot tree we put in the garden about 3 weeks ago. Now we are going to redo that and hopefully do it right this time. I’m a fan! Love the channel.

[@robertawestbrooks9531]

Wow, Ann you guys are great teachers, thank u 4sharing ❤

[@besoamy1]

Very interesting regarding daffodils and yes I love flowering ground covers; have never had to use a weed Wacker in 28 yrs.

[@ecoendeavour8]

Great video! I did not know the roots could girdle itself.

[@user-vq1xy4ue2y]

Tschuess ! Anne are you German? I came to Michigan in 1961. Learned gardening without assistance. But love to hear from people like you. Thanks for your video’s

[@failscript]

I like how Anne roasts for her poor lake every other video 😂

[@avivat3010]

What a great bunch of very useful and important information! Thank you so much! This will be shared! xoxo

[@michelleprull4105]

Love the planting of fruit trees! I always put lots of mulch around trees if I have it. Not volcano but just thick all around. “Back to Eden style” has never given bad results. I think we have all made the mistake of root bound trees. When you get the end of season potted trees cheap and they are just a massive ball of circling roots , all you can do is slice and try to pry apart a little and hope for the best. Bare root trees are the best for sure but not always the easiest to find in what you want and when you want it.

[@ElHuertoJFPR]

For trees in harsh ground we do side pipe... a pipe that goes under the roots 1ft under..and comes out 1 ft away from the tree.. by watering under the roots will attract the roots down rather than around and choking the tree

[@kellydice1723]

Excuse me while I go fix a few fruit trees I planted this past week. GREAT video with helpful information.

[@franktobar8764]

Hello Anne , I appreciate your videos and the enthusiastic energy and approach for subject, topic and content. keep up the good work. Love from Texas

[@btcropper]

This video was so great! Very informative. I learned a ton. Thank you for sharing.

[@user-un6gu8th4d]

Callandulla are in Merrigold family perennial healer great self seeding enable leaves, boil for healing oil for bruises cuts and reduces scarring,

[@thedreamcatchers3916]

So excited for the next video!!! Do you have a video on how you started your nectarines? Really curious where they stayed during their propagation 👍🏼

[@sleepydrJ]

This is perfect timing- I am planting about 7 fruit trees this weekend, which have been in pots for a year. Hoping to give them a good start in the ground.

[@fibi8346]

Great content! So many questions i've had have just been answered! Shallow and wide, not deep and narrow... Thank you Anne and Daniel.

[@mbh0422]

This video is very timely as we are going to start our small orchard soon. This is full of needed information!

[@w1.0]

Well Bless your little heart!!!!

[@peggymatela7188]

Excellent video, great information.❤

[@bijou737]

Great video. THANK YOU!

[@mikegear7286]

These fruit tree videos have been awesome for me. I hope the next video comes soon! I moved into a property with a bunch of 50+ year old fruit trees (apples, plums, high bush cranberry specifically) that are not doing very good, and are throwing up hundreds of root suckers. I'd love to know what to do with them to start an orchard, at least as root stock.

[@sunnyday1639]

Informative and entertaining! Thank you!

[@TimPiggott]

Awesome episode Anne and Daniel ❤

[@pollyjazz]

Thank you 👍😊, very informative! I'm really loving this series you're doing with the various experts vs. your past mistakes and good humor. The best way to learn is from making mistakes and not enough KZbinrs let us see what they did wrong. The expert's advice is the icing on the cake. Once those trees get established that pond is going to be like a little paradise. Probably a really nice and cool spot to rest on those wicked hot summer afternoons.

[@dontknowdontcare2531]

great video, thanks. i'll fix the trees i planted too deep yesterday as well as untangle the container tree roots

[@heatherjolly8389]

Every one of your videos is so well thought through so well presented absolutely fantastic and encouraging information!

[@AnneofAllTrades]

What a compliment! Thank you!

[@lisacarden1309]

Thank you guys! I love your videos 😭🤣 God Bless You 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

[@flamedenise19]

We love Daniel! Loved the first video, and loving this one even more. We'll be waiting for the next one!

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Oh this is the third one, did you see the winter pruning video? He’s a rock star.

[@caroleckler8984]

I love your channel!! Such a happy, funny, honest, informative site! I have planted only a couple fruit trees and some berries and I use weed fabric and then mulch and sometimes put cardboard under the fabric too. Is using the weed fabric good for the trees and plants. I live in Georgia, east of Atlanta

[@enjoythevibez5605]

i've nedeed this advice before, but i'm glad to have it now, very informative

[@chelagurnee]

So helpful, thank you!

[@exarmymedic1]

I can't tell you how valuable the visual of the girdling was! I couldn't picture it, so thank you! ALSO, I just had my husband plant a couple hundred bucks worth of fruit trees and I'm panicking about how well he did. 😳 I sent him this video, so we'll see how much we can fix, lol. 🥴 ❤your vids, sis!

[@AnneofAllTrades]

So glad you’re here!

[@terencechandler845]

Thankyou great info . I'm going to plant garlic strawberries and some Lily's around my fruit trees. Have you got any magical remedy for possums 😂

[@MichaelLeo]

love seeing new videos pop up!

[@user-mg6il8uk3t]

I like the parody song...The tree planting knowledge is pretty awesome as well.....

[@sanjawidmer8806]

Thanks for the close up on the gurdling root and all the detailed information. I learned a lot from this video! I planted a little apple tree from seed in a pot and today i transplanted it into the garden. As I got it out of the pot I remembered this video and decided to take a look at the root. And lo and behold... There was a gurdling root. I took it off, but the tree might not make it... Luckily it was only 6 months old, so I'm glad I saw this now rather than in 6 years. What can cause a gurdled root in a seedling? (Btw: i know that this apple tree is not true to seed, but i wanted to try it anyways and see what happens 😊)

[@sampletaster5093]

Lots of good info. I actually learned a few things

[@dhansonranch]

Great information Daniel and Anne! I was kinda hoping that a discussion about the grafted trees would have been had. I have found mixed opinions on whether to bury the graft or leave it out of ground by up to an inch. But being that the trees are grafted onto hardy rootstock, they typically say the rootstock needs to be buried or you will have succulent growth. I have planted trees both ways but am curious what the opinion is. I am also in zone 3b. But none the less, some great information. Will check out Daniel's site. Thank you both.

[@Coltrabagar]

I learned a lot from this video and will be planting trees differently in the future.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

So glad to hear it!

[@dshollins5864]

Thank you!

[@jcjcarlson2141]

Anne I am so grateful for your planting videos, thank you! I need some of those pants you wear, it looks like they are reinforced at the knee. Can you share that info as well?

[@Bookaddic]

This is so helpful, thank you ☺️ Also, Please tell me where you got your sweatshirt and jeans!!! I love them both!!

[@joshua511]

Oh, I like the shout-out to Billy at Perma Pastures Farm! Their comfrey has been growing great for me.

[@Gypsydragon76]

lots of solid info on your channel... love your green sweatshirt! Where can I get one?

[@beejud8562]

Oh dear. 😢Super informative video which just popped up on my feed today but two weeks too late. Aggh! I’ve just planted six fruit trees and I’m recognising a fair number of those mistakes. Think I might have to go back and make a few corrections. Great info thanks.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Glad it was helpful!

[@christineferrario1700]

INSANE QUALITY CONTENT! oh my gosh... THANK YOU.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

So glad you found what you needed ❤️❤️

[@whitebird357]

I left the tags on my trees and the trees just popped them off. But, most of the tags were on little branches which never outgrew the slack in the tags.

[@TuyenJerardU.S.Education]

Great vide ! How could you water the top small plants( strawberries, garlic) without not watering too often for the trees?

[@doggiefamily908]

Wow! I've always heard to plant your tress in the native soil, don't add anything to the hole, so the roots will go and search for nutrients.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

They will ultimately go searching, when they are first planted, they often need a little boost to get going though.

[@williamlinder5180]

I loved this episode. Does Daniel have any advice of which fruit trees are best for growing from seed?

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Check out his channel, @beyourownarborist :)

[@generalnewsense5264]

I'm about to start planting so Thanks! because I would have made all of these mistakes.

[@cristicion3333]

I love Anne!

[@TaylorParnell]

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@lydiaahubbell8545]

I thought I just saw you today, but I saw this a few werks ago, i did not know you lived in my general area. Subscribed!

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Glad to have you here! Though you definitely didn’t see me today, I almost never leave the farm and I’ve been hermiting at home for a couple weeks ;)

[@lydiaahubbell8545]

@@AnneofAllTrades Lol-i meant sad you on youtube!! I think it was the tree pruning video where I first saw you, not this one, i have watched 4 of 5 of your videos today and checked out your blog,

[@quintalanne-marie7668]

J’ai fait tellement d’erreurs mentionnées ici lors de la plantation de mes 3 arbres à fruit l’an passé. Des corrections seront à apporter rapidement. MERCI pour tous ces précieux trucs. N.b. Parmi mes erreurs, les étiquettes sont encore autour du tronc de mes arbres! 😮

[@robertalynch5433]

This explains why most of my baby trees die. Thank you!

[@davidguzman5097]

Question about something that was said in this video about growing these fruit trees from seed... wouldnt you be able to graph or I should say cut and clone the tree from snipping new growth from its newly sprouted branches or cuttings by snipping below the nodule where its branches fork, and then root hormone and plant, when roots establish then transplant Into the preped area? Is this possible with these kinds of fruit trees? Or just grow new trees from the fruits seeds? What would be more practical and work best?

[@mariaaceves8463]

I was afraid of digging out a tree I planted to close to another, but you gave me confidence that is going to be ok. What season is best to do the dig out. Autumn- Spring? Or Autumn-Winter. Thanks

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Ideally in fall, winter or very early spring.

[@guntravis9092]

$120 t0 $200 for a tree that size?!? Here: $800 to $1200. Gotta love these Southern California nurseries! Excellent video, by the way. Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

[@pearlygates_city]

Great video! Loved it even though I compared it to watching a vid of nurse delivering a new born baby 😯. Aren't the trees tightened too tight? I kind of feel that they need to have the freedom to somewhat move with the wind a bit so that they can learn to stand strong against the wind. No offense Anne but I noticed that your assistant had no globes. Nothing like direct contact with the tree 🥰🥰. I preferred to grow trees from the seed. I love to see the beautiful magic of them growing. Some people when they start with a seed, they first place it in their mouth, that way the tree knows the DNA of the owner. Just a thought.

[@roeboy8212]

Would be OK to plant these plants like strawberries around grafted trees? Would be afraid about the graft getting covered, or is it OK to cover with a plant just not buried below the graft?

[@franciscodanconia4324]

I have a plum tree that is about ten years old now. It’s about 12-15 ft tall and around. Every year I get a good crop of plums that make it to about grape size. But after the spring storms here in North Texas in March and April they all end up on the ground. I’ve literally never gotten an edible plum off of it. The tree is between my house and back yard fence so it’s not completely exposed to the wind. Is there any way to keep them on the tree? Am I missing something in my clay soil that would make the connections of the fruit stronger and able to stay on?

[@ocpbmuse]

Great video Anne! Any thoughts on the method of burning a deep rock filled pipe to enable deep watering? …looking to plant some apples here in Asheville this month.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Seems like more work than it’s worth to be totally honest

[@thesetruths1404]

So, for smalll #5 apple, peaches and plum trees, that i want to keep short and bushy on 3 sides, should i keep the tops at like 6' and pull/anchor all major limbs to 90 degrees? I just planted them today. They are about 5' tall at present. I planted 3 trees in a triangular pattern on a 4' diameter hole. I filled hole with good compost and half native soil. I want to pull many of the interior limbs down to point horizontally and outward. I want the middle to not get crowded, and have the 3 trees grow outwardl away from each other. Make sense? So can I just keep trimmimg the main trunk while I pull all other branches outward and down?