Chicken-Proof plants for the orchard; how to select apple varieties

[@jennykate7286]

Do you have a birds-eye view or diagram of your garden lay-out? If so it be great to help understand your lay-out as we follow your garden Tour 🙂

[@ronaldfarmer7205]

You are an educator !

[@jeanque04]

Thank you so much for sharing. I do have chickens and i planted pear, figs, plum, raspberry in their area. Greetings from Belgium

[@devon932001]

Great review of plant varieties I will see about adding to my own garden. Thanks.

[@PermacultureHomestead]

Looking dense! Thx for the update

[@sharonross4535]

Hi Angela. Thank you for this video. You gave me lots of ideas and I will now be doing some research to see if it will fit in my area and state. Have a good day! God Bless

[@welshhymnspontrhyd]

Thanks Angela - watching from bed with flu feels like I’m not wasting time in this lovely prime planting season when I just want to get ON with it! this gave me lots to research about what of these will grow up in 8a/b in the west of Scotland. We are on top of a hill, so pretty windy, and the windbreaks are being planted as we go, ready to create microclimates, but it’s a big space, so may have to think about putting some wind tolerant shrubs close to my annual beds, while we clear the next bits of the 3 acres. Any recommendations, ( thinking the eleagnis perhaps?) we have full grown beech trees east and west, and a shelter belt wood to the south, house to the north - but a lot of space for wind in between!!( still it keeps the midges at bay :-) gotta look at the plus points!

[@falcolf]

I actually adore red seedless grapes. 😂❤ Concord grapes are too much for me flavour-wise, personally!

[@ronaldfarmer7205]

def great at narrating

[@aslfdjalskjflkajs134]

beautiful apple trees!

[@slimmette]

Can you do a video on how your acquired your various berry bushes/shrubs and fruit trees? Buying from nursery, or resources for garden groups? Mail order? I found that some of the websites that send bare root trees and berries aren’t compatible with my zone (Bay Area, zone 10a). Thanks!

[@PegsGarden]

Love watching these videos, thanks for all the info :0)

[@slimmette]

Btw I shared this series with my gardening mamas chat group and they love it :)

[@ChristopherJohnsonArtist]

This video really makes me want to buy dwarf fruit trees.

[@erikjohnson9223]

In the Southeast, "silverberry" usually refers to evergreen Elaeagnus, such as E. pungens. Those typically flower in October or November and ripen in March. Are you growing the Canadian native deciduous oleaster instead?

[@ronaldfarmer7205]

Great job on this video description is awesome . You need to write books

[@jennykate7286]

Hi Angela Thank you for these wonderful videos _ can you please tell me how wide your side poultry/duck/bee orchard garden is -Thank you

[@Meatherxc]

Will you do a video on how you grow from cuttings:)

[@sailorssmallfarm1867]

Super interesting plant info here - I have a single fruit tree in each of four large runsI have 50+ birds) - Iso clearly I could do much more!. Just wondering about all your nitrogen fixers. With all the nitrogen in chicken poop is it possible to go overboard with nitrogen in the soil and create the wrong conditions for the fruit trees?

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

well, I live in the city, so I had to get a poultry permit. I have a permit for 12 birds (the max you can have in PDX), so it isn't THAT Much manure. I do haul the manure/bedding out of the duck and chicken coops and spread it elsewhere in the garden. However, my soil was VERY nutrient poor when we moved in, so I Don't think it was possible to have too much manure. Since I do a lot of chop n drop, the manure gets mixed in with cuttings and woodchips and I think the C:N ratio is pretty balanced.

[@erikjohnson9223]

Most if not all nitrogen fixers will feed their symbiotic bacteria very little if they are able to get enough nitrogen from the soil. Nitrogen fixation whether industrially by the Haber process or biologically using prokaryotes (rhizobia types in legumes, actinorhizae in most non-legume fixers,and cyanobacteria in cycads, Gunnera, and Azolla) is extremely energy intensive. Legumes will shunt 25% of their total photosynthetic output just to feed their symbionts (if the soil is poor), so will look for opportunities to starve the bacteria and use more of the sugar for their own growth if they can. (Of course, other plants tend to outcompete them on rich soil.)

[@moemer8620]

Hello madam ! Am looking for fig wood do you have or where l can get some it’s for burning !

[@Meatherxc]

Have you ever had brown spots on your grapes? If so what did you do?

[@jacksonstacy3813]

What zone do you live in ?

[@lydialaub5475]

My pet rats love to eat mint 😂

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

😂😂😂