Plant your fruit trees like this, it'll grow faster

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• TH

  @the-forest-gardener · 7 months ago (edited) · pinned

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• KU

  @KugelKatzenFisch · 7 months ago

  Tip against voles: add a lot of pebbles so they cant&apos;t get to all of the roots and their tunnels collapse! Of 100 fruit trees planted by me in the last 6 years none has been killed by voles and we have SO many of them. They love the mulch.

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• DE

  @deborahthoresen2860 · 7 months ago

  I have just planted three peaches, two nectarines, Mulberries, apples, blue berries, boysenberries, almonds, and that&apos;s just for starters. &nbsp;I&apos;m planting New Zealand natives along my entire properties perimeter with with elderberries spliced in amongst the natives. &nbsp;I can&apos;t wait for them all to grow and turn into my little native forest garden. &nbsp;I have some extra trees to plant just because I love them and they will attract the bees and native birds. &nbsp;I already have many established fruit trees with a beautiful sweet red fleshed heritage fig my Great Great Grandfather planted. &nbsp;I have the largest plum tree I have ever seem, heritage grapes growing over the old shed I use as a hen house....I am being greedy with three feijoa trees one of which is probably 50 years old, a lovely gritty tart but sweet variety and one that I planted when I moved here which is modern, , sweet, and large. &nbsp;I have banana palms, tamarillos, pears, apricots and citrus. &nbsp;I&apos;m very blessed to be able to continue to develop my families property that we&apos;ve owned since the 1870&apos;s. &nbsp;My Austrian ancestor that immigrated to New Zealand in the 1830,s was a botanist, orchardist, Seedsman and is well respected &nbsp;in the area for brining and establishing fruit trees into New Zealand especially the region I live in. &nbsp;So I want to honour his memory and continue his work by developing an almost blank canvas on the property that was once over grown with brambles. &nbsp;I&apos;m so excited for the future generations who get to appreciate the hard work I&apos;m putting to our historic property. &nbsp;(In New Zealand an 1870&apos;s prosperity is considered historic because Europeans really on just seriously began populating New Zealand around the time my Great Great Great Grandfather arrived here in the 1830&apos;s) &nbsp;my Austrian Grandfather was an explorer and was sent around the world to document and gather samples of plant life for his employers green house back in Austria. &nbsp;He arrived in New Zealand on the East Coast and couldn&apos;t leave as I imagine he feel in love with New Zealand, oh and the native women 🤭.

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• SS

  @SS-cb15 · 7 months ago

  Thoughtful tips here, i should have watched this twenty years ago, especially location choices.

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• DJ

  @djratino · 7 months ago

  I planted a Bing cherry tree. I didn&apos;t make the hole big enough. It got root rot, and I had to dig it up. I went wider this time and removed any clay soil. I also made sure that the graft point was even with the ground. Since the ground was pretty wet, I didn&apos;t add any additional water. Also, I planted a different variety that is self-polinating.

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• MA

  @Marvin_Grease · 2 months ago

  I grow native trees in subtropical Australia. Your technique is perfect for this sort of climate and all the points you talk about are very valid too. Most impressive!

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• JE

  @jessamalala6203 · 2 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3nVTaP7v3g&amp;t=345">5:45</a> A shovel. A different kind of shovel that fits the purpose.

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• CA

  @catfunksfabulousfinds97045 · 2 months ago

  That is how I plant trees.<br>I&apos;ve seen way too many people on You Tube dig a really small hole and not add any compost at all.<br>We have clay soil in Beavercreek Oregon.<br>Which helps the trees retain moisture if we get a really hot summer like a few years ago when it reached 116°<br><br>Thank you!<br>Im lanting 2 Fuji Apples.<br>I have them in big pots.<br>I got them bare root a couple months ago.<br>We had 90° weather so I &nbsp;put them in really big pots so the could be in the shade in the real heat of the day since I didnt purchase them until Early June.😊

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• VI

  @virusmyth4930 · 7 months ago (edited)

  You&apos;ve covered pretty much all the bases there. Well done!<br>The only things I&apos;d do slightly different is adding some fertilizer rich in P close to the roots, and also I&apos;d have planted the tree slightly higher, I know you&apos;ve mentioned that in the video but I&apos;d typically plant it even higher in a mound 10cm above the whole excavated ground and mix in some form of permanent drainage material such as pumice, lava rock, diatomite (silica), clay pebble or even pea gravel as well, because the excavated soil will settle down and compact even further during the following months, even if you water well and press the soil during the planting day, it will still settle down further. If I dont do that in my soil, it tends to form a basin over the first months and collect water around the tree, specially if you only add compost, which will decompose and vanish over the following months, contributing to the settling down of the whole excavated area. Some plants are extra sensitive to this effect and water collecting around its base, like cirus, peaches, avocados among others.

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• PR

  @prubroughton1864 · 7 months ago

  I have always planted my trees like this for over 60 years. It has always winced when I see people planting an orchard using a post hole borer. All they are are doing is making a supersized pot 😂😂

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• MA

  @mariaaldred68 · 2 months ago

  I am in zone 5b , Nova Scotia. Just planted goumi , haskap , gogi berry and hazelnut. Had to put wire around each of them because deer showed up. All is good now , plants are growing and deer are happy to eat the grasses.

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• PA

  @PaddockLife-Startingfrom-ib2ig · 7 months ago

  You have ideal condtions. If you are working in an open paddock with no access to water trying to establish &nbsp;a row of trees, Get a ripper blade on a tractor, do 10 passes breaking up the hard ground, plant tree, add mulch and a square of old carpet. Do it autum or winter.

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