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  • UCCE Master Gardeners of Amador County presentation about maintaining a small space orchard. Discusses deer fencing, keeping fruit trees short for easy access, bird netting, fruit thinning and easy harvesting.
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  • @msyke
    @msyke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Finally! A video showing an established small orchard, not someone showing their 1-2 year old trees. Great video with great info.

  • @nonamemcgee4842
    @nonamemcgee4842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    It's funny, I'll spend hours pruning my trees deciding which parts to cut and which to leave. I get some fruit but not an overwhelming amount. This gentleman took hedgetrimmers to his tree and had bountiful amounts of fruit!

    • @tristans_jungle6924
      @tristans_jungle6924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      😂😂 I was just as shocked as you were probably, I have hours doing the same thing. Now I'll be using a hedge trimmer

    • @clbhat7517
      @clbhat7517 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tristans_jungle6924 ⅞

    • @margaretmarshall3645
      @margaretmarshall3645 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh, but didn’t you notice how he carefully maneuvered the hedge trimmer so as to make each cut about 1/4” above an outward facing bud? Yeah, me neither, lol.

  • @jannawgarden
    @jannawgarden 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    And here I am contemplating every cut with my pole saw…hedge trimmer here I come! Dennis Miller is great, and I appreciate his knowledge!

  • @rogerkenworthy6380
    @rogerkenworthy6380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    YIKES!!!!! Everyone else on YT...now, cut about 25% at a 34-degree angle after the summer solstice close to 8 pm at night. Meanwhile... crank up the hedge trimmer/chain saw. Love this guy, this is how we trim fruit trees in Thailand as well. Cut it..it'll grow back in spite of us. A+ for this video!!!!

  • @bondiagarden
    @bondiagarden ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for this video! What a beautiful orchard! Those plums look delicious! Well said: "How many fruits do you need as a home orchard?" 14 trees have been packed into our 1,000 sq/ft garden and plan to add 4 more in Spring. And you guess it: there are plums and pluots! :)

  • @mealbla7097
    @mealbla7097 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Please bring him back I want more details so amazing!!

  • @sherrieblake8674
    @sherrieblake8674 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great idea to keeping them short. Thanks!

  • @YalisCommunity
    @YalisCommunity 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This orchard is amazing!!! Definitely love the idea of having trees that are a height that is accessible and the bird netting and tips for rats it was all fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

  • @thisorthat7626
    @thisorthat7626 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good advice to keep the trees smaller as we only get older. :). Dennis looks healthy and fit for being older. I like that he is growing Gravenstein apples. Keeping the variety live in No Cal. His property is beautiful.

  • @mercyantony3322
    @mercyantony3322 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very wise ideas and amazing garden

  • @PAS7gardens
    @PAS7gardens 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just found this video. So great to see how it is possible to successfully grow small fruit trees. I would love if you could do a new tour showing where you pruned from the very beginning. Where were initial cuts for the first year or two.

  • @Realdavidart
    @Realdavidart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Extremely impressive and inspiring. Just starting my orchard.

    • @yonkamacho9842
      @yonkamacho9842 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How has your first year been? I'm just getting into the research to start my own

  • @MrsMika
    @MrsMika 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Another benefit of keeping the trees 6 ft is that if your fence is 6-8 ft tall no one will know they are there in case of SHTF.

  • @coachcal4876
    @coachcal4876 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for sharing. Love the backyard orchard culture size. 🤩

  • @kenoyurembam9366
    @kenoyurembam9366 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent farming and harvest👍

  • @farhatshah3759
    @farhatshah3759 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love your passion for gardening.
    Important point which you shared is to keep the height of trees less than 06 feet so that you may not facing problem while harvesting especially WHEN YOU ARE OLDER CROSSING 70.

    • @elizabethblane201
      @elizabethblane201 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly. Even though we doing our yoga and other balance exercises, we just aren't as agile as we become "seasoned".

  • @orchardtvchannel
    @orchardtvchannel ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting concept .I come from a commercial side large orchard and I have down sized a lot . Like yourself I also like short trees 5 to 10 ft is my speed.

  • @xmenfile
    @xmenfile 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you sir for your demolition and sample of small trees. I just started my backyard 4yrs ago with this idea. I have better vision with your video,

  • @orangewatchie
    @orangewatchie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    G'day there.
    I really enjoyed the video and got some useful information from it.
    Thanks very much from Australia.

  • @erindewan6758
    @erindewan6758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video! Thankyou.
    These trees are beautiful and this guy is the real deal.

  • @skmccuen
    @skmccuen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So helpful. Just the information I needed. Thank you. Lovely orchard, sir.

  • @bonebusta2467
    @bonebusta2467 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love and Miss you Pop's..Ty for the Video

  • @pjd2709
    @pjd2709 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love that you keep these fruit trees at a certain height, a great idea. Thank you for sharing you knowledge with us.

  • @00Recoil
    @00Recoil ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When the master wants to top a tree, he reaches for a chainsaw. Gotta respect that. The productivity speaks for itself. (I see now that it is a gas-powered hedge trimmer. My new weapon of choice in the coming zombie apocalypse.)

  • @raymondchilds7719
    @raymondchilds7719 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just planted my orchard in the Catskill mountain region of NY. This is a very impressive and informative video!!

  • @michaelfoort2592
    @michaelfoort2592 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    An important thing that I take from this is to keep harvests smaller by pruning fruit early....

  • @mah_2620
    @mah_2620 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you and God bless you.

  • @lettyva6840
    @lettyva6840 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for the video. Very informative, I didn't even know about bird netting.

    • @margaretmarshall3645
      @margaretmarshall3645 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I did, but I never thought of hedge trimming first for a uniform height, or of wrapping the netting around the trunk to keep mammals out! Startlingly new ideas.

  • @johnkruger773
    @johnkruger773 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    💕 from Sweden. Great tips

  • @SwamsOrg
    @SwamsOrg ปีที่แล้ว

    ... You n yr orchard is impressively inspiring. Wat an energetic gardener. Mind blowing 👌🏻👌🏻. Beautiful... Specially the last plum..

  • @floydlholt9829
    @floydlholt9829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This video been extremely helpful for me. I have the same size land and thinking about planting 100-200 orange trees. My neighbor keep feeding the deer and I been trying to come up with ways to combat the deer. They will destroy everything in a single night.

  • @PapaSmurf63B
    @PapaSmurf63B 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. 👍👍

  • @GrowingWithNick
    @GrowingWithNick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this!

  • @josemarquez8413
    @josemarquez8413 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very beautiful orchard

  • @Phonkodd
    @Phonkodd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow 👏 very nice fruits trees 🌳...how many times of fertilizer per year?

  • @careya
    @careya หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is wild!

  • @tanamankebun
    @tanamankebun 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very organized, every tree are in reach if it set fruit, I like it

  • @chip63us
    @chip63us 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's one thing I don't have is a deer problem. In town in eight years. Thanks

  • @chefbless
    @chefbless 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this info

  • @luchopiza
    @luchopiza 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome 👏

  • @makersoutpost
    @makersoutpost 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @SaintOrCinema
    @SaintOrCinema 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So inspiring

  • @memberson
    @memberson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have been looking for a video like yours for years. I know that this is what I want to do with my trees I have dwarfs and almost sent me to us and they are 20 ft tall I always want to bring them down but there was no videos that will confirm that it could be done.

  • @protovack
    @protovack ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i totally understand why you chop all the up-going shoots, but personally I like to let my trees attain full height (dwarf or semi-dwarf, so 10-15ft mostly), with a lot of accessible fruiting branches at around shoulder height. I will often clip off juvenile fruit on the upper part of the tree, and then the lower fruit which i intend to ripen, I will bag individually. If I want more yield, I may get out the orchard ladder and bag more fruit higher up, but other times I will just let them go. as you said, how much fruit do you really need? I've found that an orchard ladder is so wide and stable, that i have no problem using it. in fact, it's kind of fun. I also feel like the trees are a bit healthier and more productive if they aren't wasting energy into producing shoots that are doomed to be cut. but i can see if you are older, and/or have limited space, you may not want to be hauling an orchard ladder around your trees.

    • @margaretmarshall3645
      @margaretmarshall3645 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And his trees sure do seem to be healthy and productive! Nice to see the results with our own eyes, so to speak.

  • @chinooksilver
    @chinooksilver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks. What is the dormant spray you use?

  • @PsychoPlantLady
    @PsychoPlantLady 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm just starting out making my home orchard. So far I just have a lemon tree. Do you have any tips on where to plant a lemon tree. I live in Florida.

  • @draganrajcevic5602
    @draganrajcevic5602 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have fruit apples and they became rotten every spring do you spray them with some

  • @elizabethblane201
    @elizabethblane201 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have seen these short trees on Paul Gautschi's videos and I thought, "That is the height of tree that I want."

  • @wandarmanwanabdullah7735
    @wandarmanwanabdullah7735 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How do you control pest?

  • @frankleepower2333
    @frankleepower2333 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I miss Farmer Fred. Sunday mornings aren't the same anymore.

    • @Realdavidart
      @Realdavidart 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is that why his podcast are not updating? He's no longer on air?

    • @frankleepower2333
      @frankleepower2333 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Realdavidart Yes, it seems he retired from radio. Still active in the gardening community just not on radio.

  • @JD-ps4uq
    @JD-ps4uq ปีที่แล้ว

    I try to keep my trees small but barely get any fruits. Very low fruit production

  • @pamelahoffman7058
    @pamelahoffman7058 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What spacing is being used between the trees?

    • @hallinasjournal7795
      @hallinasjournal7795 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was wonderin the same

    • @hallinasjournal7795
      @hallinasjournal7795 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @juliosdiy3206
    @juliosdiy3206 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I hope to live long enough to eat my fruits i have about 20 fruit trees everyone thinks im crazy laughs at me but sure enough some of the trees already got good fruits from it. Evidently a family member just brought a thief over n stole a few of my fruits!

  • @bettygilliland456
    @bettygilliland456 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    STOP THE DOGS BARKING IN THE BACKGROUND!! CANNOT HEAR WHAT HE’S SAYING!!!