First Time Pruning of Peach Trees - Overcoming FEAR in my Indiana Backyard Orchard

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Grow with Gordon - Indiana Permaculture Gardens

5 ай бұрын

www.treesaregood.org
ISA - International Society of Arboriculture
Grow a Little Fruit Tree by Ann Ralph
Midwest Urban Permaculture Food Forest located in Indiana.
Ecologically Sustainable soil building and preparation.
Properties are registered Butterfly Waystations and National Wildlife Refuges.
Focuses are perennial plants that provide food, composting and sheet mulching.
Additional interests are renewable electricity from solar panels and wind turbines as well as water catchment and carbon sequestration from managed forestry.

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@erwinbrubacker7488 5 ай бұрын

U need lopers, also upon making a cut, push pruner All the way in... when cutting thick branch.

@GrowWithGordon.JamesPanyan 5 ай бұрын

Going shopping today:) Would like to get a proper saw for this, too.

@michellealyea4250 5 ай бұрын

Do you have a favorite place to buy your fruit trees? I'm in Indy too

@GrowWithGordon.JamesPanyan 5 ай бұрын

Walmart in the Fall lol We have ordered through online nurseries like Gurney's but prefer Garden Gate, but that's in Peru. Since we will be pruning them to be so short, we might as well just buy online.

@andyroubik5760 3 ай бұрын

The average life of a peach tree in the United States is only nine years. This is mostly due to peach trees in ability to revegetate after heavy pruning. Apple trees fare better because they have dormant buds which produce water sprouts that can replace the trees vegetation. Never remove more than 20% of your trees live vegetation because that’s how your tree makes its food. heading cuts should only be used as a last resort to completely removing a branch or leader. Heading cuts are useful in training young Wood. A trees size should be dictated by its species or in the case of grafted trees by its route stock. The typical scenario that I see is someone buys a semi dwarf tree and then spend the next 20 years, trying to keep it small. That’s bad for the homeowner and bad for the tree. Both are working very hard. In the forest, most trees grow as a strong central leader. The strong central leader is the best way to grow a strong and long lived tree. If you don’t want a big fruit tree purchase a true dwarf tree. Dwarf trees produce much more quickly than do semi dwarf or standard trees, and need an extremely minimum amount of pruning. Happy gardening.

@GrowWithGordon.JamesPanyan 3 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you for all of that! I'll have to do a follow-up video on the trees that we pruned. There were some others that we pruned, like a few serviceberry and some bushes, and everything is going really well.