Fruit Trees Part 3, homesteading, survivalist, peak oil, economic collapse
Posted by admin on Sep 30, 2009
Robert Henry of the Survival Report brings you the third part of a series of videos on starting out with fruit trees. He includes tips on buying the right types of trees for your area, how to care for them, irrigation solutions as well as information on diseases and treatments. With the ever growing possibility of an economic collapse or depression and with food shortages currently being a daily news item, now more than ever it’s important to works towards some level of self-sufficiency with …
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Another thing about having more than you need is being able to barter your stuff. Also during economic crises is that those FEMA camps outside the major citys are for the city slickers to keep them out of the country because it is the country folk that grow the food and we cant have refugees over running the farms. We will be growing not just for ourselves but our neighbors. It is good to have a alliance with you neighbors for emergency preparedness.
You can get a harvest basket for about $6. I use one on the end of an extension pole to get the higher up stuff.
Robert, I have nursery men in my family and we watched your video which has a small lack of information so far. 1)use as many dwarf trees as possible 2)prune them back to manageable size so youre not needing commercial tools to harvest and 3) thin your fruits so that the best ones are exquisite. If you thin out 50% the tree can focus on higher quality. They also make netting to keep birds off your fruit and the rest can be “recycled” like you mentioned to pigs, rabbits and chickens
1. I’ve had better luck with semi-dwarf and they seem more hardy to me. Most of my dwarf trees didn’t last.
2. Any of my trees we can harvest with nothing more than a ladder, but of course you can prune ANY tree to make it how you want it.
3. Sometimes nature and/or the trees “thin” on their own. We rarely have to do it. Thinning for “quality” is different than thinning for survival purposes too
Thanks
hey are hybrid trees genetically modified? i always thought they were, please if you can help me know how to buy fertile trees that could have fruit that can reproduce more friuit trees, thank you! i already have a bunch of “standard” fruit trees as the site called them, thank you!
LOL, no not to my knowledge. They are “grafted” trees. As to whether or not they will produce more. SOME- not all- of the “suckers” that have grown up have produced fruit- SOME not all. I know a pastor that grow fruit trees from seed, but most people graft.
coffee can with a V notch screwed to long stick,about 5 cents
My first yr, my semidwarf apple and pear are all doing fine, and my dwarf pear are on the edge. I’m going to lose one of the dwarfs entirely. I don’t know if they came to me sick (from a local seller) or it’s weakness in dwarf stock, but they’ve never been right.
Semidwarf are hardier and will produce for 20 – 30 yrs. Dwarf produce sooner but reportedly for shorter period of time. I would try dwarf in patio or inside.
SurvivalReport is doing it – and 100-tree orchard says it all.