New to Gardening? Learn your growing zone and season: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KUzd0YKfAos.html ⏰ Timestamps ⏰ 0:00 Introduction 0:12 Grow a Little Fruit Tree Book 1:00 Why I Chose This Method | Why the Growing a Little Fruit Tree Method is Awesome 1:40 Protecting from Late Frosts | Idea 2:38 What We’re Doing | Plans for this Video 2:52 Importance of Knowing your Last Frost with Fruit Trees 3:13 Planning the Prune for the Peach Tree 5:57 Why I am Trying a Fruit Tree Hedge 6:53 Pruning the Peach Tree 12:36 Experimenting and Learning 12:53 After the Prune | Reflecting on Cuts 12:38 Planning the Prune for the Nectarine Tree 14:25 Pruning the Nectarine Tree 17:50 After the Prune | Reflecting on Cuts 18:37 I Need Your Help Deciding how to Prune this Crab Apple Tree! 19:53 What I Hope to Share With You 20:35 Subscribe if you want to Follow the Progress of These Trees! And if you think I am crazy. 21:00 Learn Your Last Frost Date and Growing Zone | Important 21:14 Bloopers
Very cool. Good job on making it happen! I just finished this book and can't wait to prune my trees too. What time of year did you prune? winter solstice? I am in zone 6b, so winters are cold but also can be mild. Im thinking around then is when I will prune. Cheers. Looking forward to updates!
Thank you! I honestly don’t remember but it looks cold. Haha it just says 2 years ago. So it could have been around winter solstice. I have kind of forgotten a lot because since then we’ve moved. So I’m so sorry I won’t be able to give updates! And that’s one thing I regret, I miss my little trees! Ha. I was in zone 5. So it shouldn’t be too terrible! :) But there is a FB group “little fruit tree friends” that I made. I’m not active there anymore but I still manage it and it is a good little group. Don’t forget to answer the join questions!
Thank you for sharing how to prune a tree! I have a pomegranate tree that has overgrown, and I keep wanting to give it a trim, but never get to do it! Will trim it when the leaves fall in autumn, it looks easier to trim branches without the leaves 😊
Do also do some additional research as I cannot be 100% sure the grow a little fruit tree method works for pomegranate for sure, aaaaand I don’t absolutely claim to know I’m doing everything right. Hahah but I’m so glad that I helped you gain the confidence!!!
PRUNING RULE OF THUMB: RU-vidr “David The Good” says, “Winter and spring pruning is for shaping, summer pruning is for size control.” Basically the goal of pruning for size control is to create a wide candelabra shape like the crabapple trees. You can hang weights on the limbs like water bottles to encourage outward growth since trees naturally want to grow their limbs upward. To acquire this shape, make sure the lower limb is longer than the rest as you prune while pruning to a gradual tree shape as each layer of limbs will be a bit shorter like the infamous Christmas tree shape.
Hi Adrienne! I came over from Sandi’s livestream to visit you! I see you live in Oregon! I’m in No. California 🥰. Love your area. I really want to get started planting fruit trees especially lemon and lime. Love your channel! New Friend!
Very informative video :-) our orchard we prune all our trees but let them grow as big as they like too. We do like to sell our excess fruit though if we can.
That is awesome! If I were better at wanting to meet people, or people coming to me, that would be an ok way to go. But people out here are like "You live too far away for me to come there" which... I live only 15-30 minutes from the three closest towns. So I have found trying to sell stuff often not super duper worth it. But I think I just got the idea to try and sell plant starts this year. LOL. I feel I can do that easier than food.
Hi just come over frome mulberry branch farm going to look back on your videos we have alot of lemmon and orange tree so be good to see how you grow your fruit trees
I WISH I could grow fruit trees here! Do you have Pomello? I had purchased them from the stores in Germany when I lived there, and I have never seen them here in the US!!
Oh I didn’t even know this was a thing! I have never planted fruit trees before (or even tried gardening, lol). I will definitely try this with my MIL! We want to make our own jams & jellies. 😊
It is certainly a fun idea that I feel will really work well for me! I hope you do try it! I definitely recommend getting the book for sure: amzn.to/2OIX6mh (affiliate link). If you're even considering it. Now is the time to make sure and get those fruit trees ordered and such, but your local stores/nurseries that carry trees should be getting them sometime soon too!
I have, thank you! I had watched them all, but it was, unfortunately, more overwhelming for me than it did to really help me learn. But I've watched them! Haha, but felt more confused. 😂
Curious... what do you do/use to keep deer and other animals from eating your fruit trees? We planted about 6 a few years ago...even though they are growing, all the local deer devour anything on the trees. (We have fencing around the trees- but it doesn’t do anything) Thanks!
Fortunately... we have not had any deer problems in the 5 years that we've lived here. That could def. change any time. Should I start having deer problems I would put up a double fence, two t post fences about 3-4ft apart, with a strand of hot wire on both of them. I hear the double fence works wonders for deterring the deer and was suggested to me by a local farm a few years ago! I have fencing around them currently to keep the bunnies off them. I don't know yet what I will do about smaller jerks. Hahaha. Water bucket traps work well for mice. But I have yet to figure out a good way for packrats and ground squirrels. But, they haven't fruited yet, so ... the battle has not yet begun! haha
@@adriennesmith.artist Getting some started in a few weeks that storm that came through has me behind on all my plans but soon added about 15 of different kinds has a small tangerine here now but that's it.
I hope you get some for this year! Always hear the saying "the best time to plant trees is now!" ahha. The sooner you plant, the sooner you'll have producing trees!
