Food Forest Orchard Tour/Permaculture

In this video, I give a tour of my food forest. There are many examples of trees that may interest you. I have so many Asian Pear trees in my backyard food forest. I also show the trees that have issues with fire blight. This issue has killed 2 of my fruit trees. Hopefully, the tour will get someone interested in planting some fruit trees.

[@LifeSwitchUS23]

Looking forward to seeing you grow 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, LifeSwitchUS23!!! I appreciate it. Thanks for the support.

[@freshandfire]

Hey Bear! Awesome orchard tour! You've got some nice varieties out there. 👍🏾

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, Freshandfire!!! Thanks, I appreciate it. Hopefully, I will add a few more.

[@BrokeFarmer]

My pink lady apple died too, nice varieties of fruit trees

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

I don't know if I'm getting another one. Thanks.

[@NicoleGrow]

Awesome fruit tree collection! I have a Bartlett dwarf pear tree and looking to get another to help pollinate. Even though it actually produced fruit without a pollinator . Also my Honey crisp Apple tree is about 30 years old so its well established. I have plums and cherry tree too! I look forward to seeing your trees take off growing! Stay Blessed

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

I appreciate it. This is the first year that my peach trees have set fruit. I was so surprised. I thought one would, but nope, all 3 did. Wow 30 year old tree!!! How big is it? My pears got me nervous because of blight. You stay Blessed as well. Thanks.

[@TexasBroskiActual]

Squirrels ate every Nectarine I had last year 😂. I caught them in the act. They were my bros until that point. I would get corn for them, and stake them to the fence so they would leave my garden alone. But they eventually betrayed me. I got fruit netting this year… I’ll be watching them suckers closely.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

Hey, I'm sorry to hear that. 8 got voles tearing my raised beds up. I understand. I hope the netting works for you.

[@tonygutierrez3504]

My first year with my Asian pear I had the birds coming and pecking every single pear. The following year I got organza bags and put them on every single one of my fruits and now I’m the one eating Asian pears instead of the birds and critters

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY Tony!!! I'm glad you are eating the pears instead of the birds. I'm going to do the same thing. I thought about using bird netting. I like your bag ideas. Thanks for the tip

[@DanlowMusic]

I have a toka as well. Just got it last fall. I have a Nadi Plum and Santa Rosa Plum with an Anjou Pear for my grocery row garden row i started this year.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO DanlowMusic!!! That is great. I hear a lot of people plant the Santa Rosa Plum. I might have to check that one out

[@DanlowMusic]

@@GrowSomethingTasty I found it at Costco. I figured why not?. I'm currently waiting on 4 trees that will grow in zone 8 that aren't common in my area. (Mandarin, Ruby Red Grapefruit, a cold hardy Avacado and a Banana tree. So excited for these! I got a lemon last year and it survived so Im moving ahead with more and more. It's such an addiction. Lol

[@terrellwashington8507]

Nice lay out Brown. Could barely see trees. Maybe consider some true close ups to see progress. Otherwise awesome one take video and props on knowing what's what👍🏾

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, Terrell, thanks. I thought it would be hard to see. I'll work on close ups thr next time. I appreciate the feedback.

[@hopemorrison2367]

Hey Bear those wire structure in your garden do you make them yourself can you talk about them

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

,!!! If you are talking about the Arch Cattle panel trellis, I should know how to make them. The video is t titled how to make an arch Cattle panel trellis and type bear brown. It will come up.

[@DanlowMusic]

Honeycrisp and Fuji will cross pollinate so you should be good. I have those and a Cosmic Crisp.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

Thanks for the info on the cross-pollination. Cool, I wanted a Cosmic Crisp.

[@DanlowMusic]

@@GrowSomethingTasty so you have to find a nursery that has the legal right to sell them. They are a "copyrighted" from WSU. If you haven't had one, they are super good. They have honey crisp as a part of their profile so very similar. I'm up in WA for reference.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

@@DanlowMusic Thanks, I remember now that's why I did not get one

[@curlykiki8]

you have twenty trees?!? 😮

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, Curlykiki!!! Yes, I have 20. I need to replace the ones that died.

[@Brettv495]

Chili dogg all day!!

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, Brettv!!!! I'm going to try until I get it right.

[@wandamoses]

What zone are you in and when do you prune your fruit trees?

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, Wanda!!! I'm in 8a. I normally do it in winter when they are asleep. I'm late. I need to get going.

[@KJV7154]

Do you have any problems from your peach trees leaking sap. If my wood chips are touching my peach trees the borers come and attack them.

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HELLO KJV7154!!!. I have don't see any problems with that yet, but I have a vole problem that I'm worried about. I might move the chips back some since you are having that issue. Thanks for the info. Do you know how to deal with voles?

[@KJV7154]

No, i have all orange clay. Voles come nowhere near the stuff.@@GrowSomethingTasty

[@TheRealNolaD]

Where is my Watermelon?

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, TheRealNolaD, I'm going to start them inside next week. I think I am. It's great to hear from you.

[@bernadetteteague4859]

What about spacing?

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, Bernadette!!! They normally say to space fruit trees 15 feet apart. Most of my trees are 7 feet apart. I have a couple that is closer than that.

[@spidergreg]

What's a fire blight?

[@user-sc7fk5ys6x]

@Ni-dk7ni Bacterial disease?

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY, Spider Greg!!! It's a disease that can kill blossoms and shoots and cause diebsck of branches from cankers. It can kill the tree if it's very bad.

[@BrokeFarmer]

Cut down the tree for blight, only thing I've seen work

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

HEY Broke!!! I hope I cut enough of the tree back so the infection is gone.

[@user-sc7fk5ys6x]

Is that one of the diseases where a vinegar spray can help? Or would that cause acid burns?

[@GrowSomethingTasty]

@user-sc7fk5ys6x I don't know, but I will look into it. I hope i can find something that works.