Expert Tips: How to Grow Fruit Trees for Deer | Steve Bartylla @deerhuntingmag

www.deeranddeerhunting.com Grow 'em Big with Steve Bartylla. Fruit and nut trees are awesome improvements for deer hunting land, but they can be tough to plant and care for. Today, Steve Bartylla shares outstanding tips for getting them to grow. Season 4. Episode 22.
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[@kokadjooutdoors620]

Got 30 fruit trees. Mostly apples and pears. Few peach and just added a crab apple. Property already has lot of oaks so is nice addition with few small food plots. Deer love pears the most

[@grdelawter4266]

That’s a pretty good explanation for not being a nurseryman. I began planting fruit trees in 2010. Every year I learned more as I planted more. I found close outs for great deals and continued planting! Now it’s been so many years, my hay field is so much smaller, that I’m forced to buy hay but I now have the most spectacular orchard-deer attractant! Every deer within 5-10 miles knows about my farm and comes to visit! It’s like coming to the county fair! I have about 150 fruit trees, untold numbers of red osiers dogwood, hay, clover, water, privacy, screening and plenty of females! Just since the season ended about 3 weeks ago, I’ve captured on trail cams about 8 Boone & Crocket bucks and about another dozen or more state records that survived the season as antlers began to fall! All right here on my little piece of the pie!

[@kokadjooutdoors620]

Get any sheds?

[@lightloveandawake3114]

💗😊💕I’m vegetarian, so no plans of hunting. Looking for planting success. Thank you for learning and sharing what you have learned, brother. 💕😊💗

[@charleywalker2982]

Helpful hint#21. Use the black zip ties outside instead of the white ones. The black ones stand up to UV better.

[@vfrav8r]

Fabulous, I found going big on the fencing makes a happy tree, branches expand and promotes growth. You hit it right, 5:1 ratio of survival!

[@mikeytrappingtime6908]

Thank u 4 sharing your videos.

[@markpiersall9815]

Consider installing a Screech Owl nest box. Owls eat rodents which host ticks and attract pit vipers.

[@droptinestv1105]

Awesome video

[@ThirdLawPair]

What's the best thing to put on your property? Whatever the deer can't get on the surrounding properties.

[@sandych33ks1]

I have mostly hay fields for 40 acres, but attached to my fields i have 15 acres of wild apple trees and tall grasses n brush. I just tried pruning those wild over grown trees . They are wild trees and are way over grown covered in vines. Now a year later after pruning those trees the apples produce more than the deer can eat. I have food ,cover , water etc. My only problem is the Amish kill everything thats brown. You have any ideas on stopping the yearly Amish slaughter of everything ??

[@Vanislehunterman]

Robot deer? Should scare the amish away.

[@randymachtan1716]

All you can do is endorse trophy hunting. If all they want is meat you have to hold the deer on your land or their dead. Sometimes you have to find a different area where your neighbors endorse trophy hunting or better yet dont allow hunting. I agree with you this is very disheartening.

[@markpiersall9815]

To attract Deer and Turkey or provide feed for swine, poultry and sheep consider the trifecta White Swamp Oak, Chestnut and Persimmon trees.

[@stevegaines-vq3bd]

add Kieffer pears

[@carsonschulz6498]

Is that supposed to be a chestnut tree or horse chestnut (that has the flowers going up from the leaves/branch)? Or what nut trees/fruit tree varieties are you showing?

[@TomSutts1969]

Great video Steve! Curious do you do any podcasts? You're very well versed, perfect for podcasts!!! Cheers Tom.

[@macknisely4085]

Tom Sutts he's done some with wired to hunt. Great deer hunting podcast

[@lucasskinner9673]

Does that black plastic you put down prevent the tree from getting enough water?

[@allen3784]

It’s for suppressing weed growth around the base of the tree I think.

[@georgehelzer7569]

tree at 4 min was planted WAY to deep

[@longfootbuddy]

did that deer just poop another deer