Pruning, Planting and Fencing - A Few Peaceful Days on our Off-Grid Smallholding 

Harriet and Mauro! BRAVO FOR THE CLEANING OF THE OLIVE TREES!

No Matter What.. Try to keep as many trees as you can. In my opinion we all "GROW SOIL"... Everything that comes from it is a bonus. You cannot go wrong by Mulching, Nature does it season by season. Your doing a great job. One step at a time. Treat your vision & ideas with your passion of the land and future. Thank you for the videos. Love the content.

Olive branches are great for wood stove, even the olive leaves, awsome fire starters. Keep them in a box or pale.

General rule basically pruning nearly all fruit trees is to cut branches growing towards inner tree and leave 3-4 strong branches with open middle to the tree. Also suggested is to desinfect all cutting tool before going to next tree, not to pass any diseases. When planting new trees careful not put the trunk too deep, especially citrus trees. Good cutting tools are worthwile investments, like Fiskars etc

Like it the way u r cleaning up the mess.

Top dress with a good mulch 4-5inches at the base of all the trees. This will help to retain moisture and also feed the tree. Get some fertiliser and feed the pruned tree this will combat any dubious pruning. By making the tree healthier will help it defend itself against disease. Use as much as you can of the property resources as possible. Grass cutting or leaf mulch are fantastic for trees. Even wet shredded news paper is better than nothing. You have compaction and the trees are suffering from lack of water. Get rid of large rocks. Try to break up the surface so the water doesn't run off.

Your amazing like energizing bunny claim your whole land give every tree n Bush there room to grow trees especially clone n need to be helped love your stuff

Great work! I always had trouble pruning, I didn’t want to take too much off. To transport branches, put a large branch down first with heavy end pointing in direction you want to go. Then pile remaining branch’s on top with the ends the same way. Tie them with a rope to keep together, and they are more easily dragged by holding the bottom branch end.

You're working zo hard! Deserving all the success and happiness you coupe want!

Main thing with any restorative pruning is to remove all dead, diseased wood first, then open up the trees /bushes to light, remove crossing branches etc. try to re/create the form and structure of each tree/bush (usually think of a wine glass sort of shape). You will get a reduced crop the following season or two, but the plants will come back healthier over the next few years.

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Hi Harriet. Love you videos. I wish I was there to help. You working very hard and your garden is getting shape and structure. You are blessed to have those matured olive trees. You will learn along the way because there are alot of people giving you good advice. Looking forward to more videos taking this journey with you. Felicity Jacobs, Cape Town, South Africa

Wow, Harriet, amazing amount of work you’ve done! For the dead hedge, if you take some stout branches and pound them vertically on either side of your row of dead branches, every so often, it keeps them more tightly contained. You can add more branches on top as the older ones decay.

I have really enjoyed your videos (and your newsletter) immensely. It's taken me a few weeks, but I've watched and read most, if not all, of your works. Keep it up. You are perfect in your role as a teacher. Thanks.

Hola me llamo alejandro, un aficionado a la jardineria, los arboles y el campo en general. Lo primero felicitaros por ese maravilloso trabajo que estais haciendo, soy de valencia de un pueblecito cerca de la capital, en cuanto a los olivos la forma tipica de poda es la forma de vaso que consiste en podar todas las ramas interiores del arbol que crezcan hacia dentro cruzadas o directamente hacia arriba, para facilitar la aireación del arbol y prevenir las enfermedades de hongos, luego los almedros que teneis les haria la misma poda para sanearlos ya que se ben muy envejecidos. Podriais utilizar una biotrituradora de alquiler y triturar en un dia todas esas ramas que no sabeis que hacer con ellas. En youtube hay muchisima informacion sobre las podas de olivos, almendros y arboles frutales. En cuanto al abono verde yo creo que solo dejandolo caer sobre la tierra no germinaria muy bien seria interesante intentar labrar la tierra con un motocultor antes de sembrar las semillas para garantizar mejor el exito. Un saludo y espero ver mas videos vuestros me encantan. Por cierto hay bastantes tiendas de alquiler de maquinarias agricolas cerca de valencia.

He visto sus vídeos desde el principio de cómo limpiaron la casa y la finca y cómo fueron arreglando todo.y es muy agradable ver como ha cambiado todo.Se ve acogedor y bonito.Felicidadrs pareja por vuestra ilusión y trabajo.

No leave the olive branch Let it grow full inside and out Olives tend to give olives every second year. Sometimes weather plays a role too. Go easy on trimming trees. My dad used to do the trees in late Feb, and he preferred getting an expert to do them . Olive trees are very rarely trimmed, and usually in sept after or during harvest. Do not worry about the tree shape or lights, the fuller it is the better it will give.

Hi Harriet - I'm so pleased you are making things safer for Tofu ; going wandering can be so dangerous, especially in places where there are hunters. An accident can happen so quickly. I dont know much about pruning olives but I remember reading one of Annie Hawes' books where she talks about the traditional method and the modern method, in her region of Italy. So basically I dont think you can do much harm. Remember also that many types of fruit trees work on an alternate year cycle for fruiting, to give the tree time to recover . For your end question, green manure is a lot of work, because to be efficient you cut the plants and dig them in ! Maybe try feeding round the trees first with a good layer of mulch / manure/ straw and then think about the green manure a bit later. And a liquid feed would probably be very beneficial, as well as being less work. Comfrey ? Nettle ? Keep on - its coming along so nicely

La poca producción de los olivos es normal, se debe a un fenómeno llamado veceria, le pasa a los olivos y a algunas otras especies, y lo que ocurre con la veceria es que un año producen mucho y al año siguiente muy poco, pero tranquila no es que hayas hecho nada mal. El año que viene tendrás una gran cosecha. Un saludo, estoy enganchado a vuestros vídeos.

The small olive trees thatbibsaw do not need major pruning. Yet they need major clearing of weed at the base, with circular space that is clear from weeds. Leave them until next Sept Oh that branch should have been left on. Let the olive trees grow until next Sept. They need to grow to produce more olives. I say leave them because the branches seem new and still have a lot of room to grow before the need for maintenance.

I like the fence idea you put up all those olive tree branches 👍I have a suggestion for the wild asparagus put the asparagus under the branches it will grow up in that area 👍 that area where the olive trees and almond trees are I would look for a local beekeeper to set up Their bees During flowering seasoning 👍 on your olive trees I would have cut them back last year after you harvest the olive you’re doing it right by cutting all The center out so more sunlight an air can flow through 👍 If you have fig trees right now is the time to take cuttings and put them in the ground for about eight months to the roots and then you can transplant them 👍✌️🤟🤙

Cutting off the tips for new growth will stall the length of the branches and could increase fruiting. It does work with regular trees like figs, pears, and others. Olives are harvested in winter, so the cuttings should be started in Feb if the natural seasons are there.

Hello and congratulations on the channel. I live slightly north of you and have a few olive groves, I'll try to resume a bit... We burn olive prunings because they attract a boring (barrenador/corc) insect which can then infest the trees, you can see the boreholes on the dead branches shortly after pruning, any keeping firewood I store as far away from the trees as I can and already chopped up. On olive pruning, I prune half the trees one year and half the next so as to have a more or less constant yield, the shape of the trees depends on... Do you need to drive a tractor under them, are any branches a nuisance, are you picking by hand, with combs or machine, do you want to use a ladder.. 20 years ago the pruning was done to grow trees 4/5 m tall and were picked with ladders and hand scrapers, nowadays I don't think I have any more than 3 m tall and pick with pneumatic or battery powered combs. Hope to have been of some help, although a bit long.

You are doing Great Job! You are an inspiration to us!

No temas. Tienes que podar los olivos. Todos los años un poco, el olivo es un arbusto no un árbol. Necesita guiarlo.

perfecto, muy didáctico. La naturaleza va dejando paso al huerto, con vuestro esfuerzo diario.

Hi Harriet! Great your videos 😉 super hard work 💪 I used that green fence in the veg garden last year and now it's breaking apart, I live close to Alicante and I think it's because of the heat and wind, hopefully you'll have better luck than me! ☘️ My advice, try it on for a while before fencing more parts of your campo 😊

Hello Harriet... you're like a duracell robot... working so hard... so much energy. Its an amazing landscape and it seams to be a calm area where you have the finca. Nice to see both of you again. Rickard 🇸🇪

Me encanta vuestro videos, a seguir con este bonito proyecto 💪🏻💪🏻

Boa tarde, Você precisa urgente de um triturador de galhos para produzir cobertura vegetal e colocar ao redor de suas plantas, cobrir o solo desprotegido. Abraço.

He visto todos sus videos y el hermoso trabajo que están haciendo, felicitaciones por esa energía que inspira. Un saludo desde Chile

Lots of work done again! Seeing you prune the olive trees, I remembered that you can clone/propagate them from cuttings. You could keep them for yourself or sell them, around here they are quite expensive! The green manure seeds, I would spread in a moist area. Dry ground won't germinate the seeds.

Almond /olive terrace green manure:- if you have neat pretty mulchlike wood chip spread it, and cast the seeds into the top layer of mulch and rake lightly. Otherwise you could "rough mulch" with the tree prunings and cast the seed, reason being you wont be doing anything there for a few years as you say, and rough mulching takes a lot longer to break down and will simply help by shading the earth. Tge important thing is to get the seeds in this spring,,,, you could lay the branches there, let the leaves dry, jump on them for a bit, take the branches away and dry leaves stay behind leaving a good mulch to plant into,,,,,

Really enjoying your content ❤

Love the olive trees. I have about 12 of them in my yard, from 1-6 years old, and I live in Seattle-US. But my family is from Calabria, Italy, thus the olive trees (plus my grape vines, orange trees, fig, almond and willow trees). Really wanting to retire/quit my day job and do what you are doing, hopefully soon, but right now am growing lots of starts.

First, congratulations on your work rate! Lots of good advice here on pruning, but if you are in doubt about removing a branch, sleep on it before the chop - can't glue it back on after😒. Absolutely agree with Michelle re green manure question - works well if you dig it in (you can use "chop and drop" but I think your climate is not ideal for that). I would be inclined to get a couple of comfrey plants, use the leaves to make liquid manure (nettle not, in my view, quite as good but you may have loads of it😊). Give the almond? trees at least one more season before offing them - prune a couple fairly hard to see if there is a good growth rsponse, then do the rest next year if ok, else think about replacing them then.

Hola, hace poco que sigo tus vídeos y me encantan, buen trabajo! Te quiero aconsejar en alguna cosa que tendrías que priorizar, como por ejemplo la poda de los olivos y almendros, cotar las ramas que van hacia arriba sin miedo, y deja el árbol a una altura como para cosechar a mano. He visto las habas que sembraste, prueba a sembradas a final de octubre más o menos como los ajos, verás como van mejor y gonsigues más producción. No se por que zona está tu finca, pero deduzco que por la zona de Castellón, creo que igual estamos cerca pues yo soy de Alcora, si es así estáis invitados a venir a mi finca cuando queráis. Un saludo y suerte con la huerta, a ver si los tomates se hacen bien gordos. Besos y abrazos!

quizas os iria bien algun chirimollo o nipero o quizas higuera van bien en el clima mediterraneo

Hola Harriet Un pequeño consejo relativo a los olivos. El panorama no es alentador porque como nadie ha podado ni recogido las olivas año tras año, las hojas caen al suelo y una vez secas, son tóxicas para la tierra. Por eso, la gente que tiene olivos, los podan cada año o dos años y quema lo podado. Intenta recoger lo más posible las hojas secas de olivo para evitar que empeore y poder regenerar el olivar.

Hello, you can collect olive tree leaves, very healthy on your tea

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Ten cuidado también con la poda del olivo si se seca genera barrenillo. Y puede infectar al resto de olivos.

Hola, buen trabajo, la próxima vez que caves palos de madera en el suelo , aunque estén tratados, quema la punta del palo, la que va justo enterrada, eso ayudará a que no se pudra con tanta facilidad, y también rellena el agujero con arena y piedras pequeñas , intenta no rellena con cemento ni hormigón porque no dejan respirar la madera

I'd suggest you get bees, they might help with pollination of almonds and olive trees, olive trees won't produce much after a heavy pruning though, so its good you are alternating and not pruning all of them at once

hola pareja. los olivos, como otros arboles tienen lo que se denomina "veceria", esto quiere decir que unos años tienen mas producción que otros, por otra parte la poda, se suele hacer en vaso dejando tres o cuatro ramas principales, si están crecidos en exceso hacia arriba es porque llevan mucho tiempo sin podarse, podéis recortarles las puntas para no dejarlos sin ramas y poco a poco ir dándoles forma, no tiene que ser todo de golpe, para los restos de poda la mejor opción es sin duda una biotrituradora, yo la he comprado este año para mis olivos y frutales y estoy encantado. mucha suerte

I would add new nutritious mold around those suffering trees and cover the area with wood chips, they looked like needing a pruning too, cut of all dead branches etc. I got my lemon tree driving by adding good mold around it & pruning, now it is full of lemons and looks super happy. Mine is in spain too.

Yo tengo olivos.por lo general dan mucha cantidad un año y al siguiente poco por lo menos por aquí en la rioja.sobre la poda y en ese olivo que preguntas esa va cortada.todo lo que vaya para dentro fuera.no se inglés así que no sé si ya te habrán contestado a tus dudas.soy nuevo por el canal pero vi que lees español.te ayudaré en lo que pueda con tus dudas cuando quieras.besosssss pareja

Harriet that I hear a gunshot at 1:20 on your video wow what's going on...also regarding fruit trees I have experience with fruit trees in California and I'm sure that would probably working your area I experienced Leaf curl one year and I had a friend tell me that I needed to start spraying with copper twice a year and believe it or not that did the trick I no longer live in California but for the time that I did the copper spraying twice a year worked great I had tons of fruit on all my trees peaches plums nectarines anyway try it I don't know what they do in Spain I really have enjoyed watching your videos you certainly have the patience of Job and I admire everything you're doing I don't think I could do it on the level that you do it you have a ton of energy girl... also just asking how did your generator get stolen I thought it would be a lot safer there in the country 🥂👍🙏🐈😎🐕

Solo hay que 🤔 podar las remitas que crecen en la base del árbol y las que crecen el las ramas base del olivar. Es decir unas ramas que crecen largas hacia arriba de las ramas que Dan frutos....

"The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. " - Thomas Jefferson

You may wish to consider weaving some of the olive cuttings into a panel for fencing, maybe use a carrier for the seeds like chopped straw, which will mulch down and also start the process of building the soil

Your videos are getting better so fast! Congrats! I was thinking of putting green manure on my place as well. I'll be just putting it out after a rainy day and will be covering it with some mulch (leaves and dead branches). You can also mix the seeds with some soil to help them getting started.

Hola , soy aficionado y creo que para sembrar , lo primero que debes hacer es regar , poner la tierra en tempero, para ponerla en tempero , que es ni muy mojada ni muy seca , después de regar debes esperar más o menos una semana y cuando veas que esta en tempero labrarala un poco y retira las piedras que puedas , después planta las semillas y sino llueve en unos días vuelve a regar a mantas . Un saludo , espero haberte ayudado un poco

Estas posando las ramas principales.....

Sobre como desmalezar las terrazas, lo cual te insume mucho tiempo te diré que existen pequeñas desmalezadoras que se unen a algun pequeño tractor con impulso hidraulico o mecanico( es mas barato) que te ayudará mucho para lo mas extendido. Sobre como podar los olivos busca en internet donde hay muchos tutoriales.-

Get a couple of goats and some lightweight electric fencing,mthey will cleanup all of it

Sobre la terraza de almendros y olivos te diria que primero debes sacar todas las rocas pequeñas (tamaño una mano) y luego mezcla el abono nuevo con el mantillo y desde la fuente de agua para poderlos regar con frecuencia.- eso seria el minimo para que no mueran y podar lo inútil de su estructura para que no gaste energía en ramazón inútil.-

Hola,me gusta tus videos te voy adar unas sugerencias respecto al tratamiento de los olivos, soy de andalucia concretamente de Jaen tierra de olivos ,debes de cortar todas las ramas que vallan hacia el interior ,para aclarar, las ramas que vallan hacia arriba hay que acortarlas para que la salud de la planta se reparta de medio arbol para abajo que es donde da la produccion de aceituna,en cuanto acuracion y preparacion para la cosecha siguiente se le aplica sulfato de cobre para el hongo,abono foliar e insepticida para las plagas propias del olivo, un saludo.

Y como conservar el pasto o malezas de las trrazas te aconsejaria una pequeñísima majada de ovejas,, ( no CABRAS) las cuales te daran otros beneficios , pero deberias hacer un cerco perimetral a la propiedad( de piedra o alambrado)

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The rotten wood there will make great Hugelkultur beds

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Get some metal buckets.

Have you tested the soil Ph?

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