Make Your Garden Pop This Year Organically! Check it out! Gardening Ideas From Stoney Ridge Farmer

hey guys it's Josh Stoney Ridge farmer coming at you again today we're gonna be spreading some manure around our orchard I want to show you how to dung your trees it's January the 4th and I want to put a little fertilizer so our trees get some good nutrition to their roots for the coming season I've got an orchard here I have about 50 fruit trees planted and we'll talk to you a little bit about the orchard - so check it out that's what's going on today on the farm so the first step we always have to do is pump our wheelbarrow tire up because it doesn't seem to hold air very good I have a pear tree behind me right here the goal is to put manure around the tree here so that the root system gets plenty of nutrition also later on how come and trim some of my stragglers here that the branches that are undesirable I have rebar staked up beside each tree it's trying to pull it out but the rebar is here because the deer will take their horns and gouge the tree unless I have some rebar right here and when they hit that rebar they'll stop so there's a tip on how to keep the deer from gouging your trees this also is a piece of pipe and that keeps the rabbits from eating the bark off the trees we had some rabbits out here and they killed probably 10 trees by nibbling the bark off so that's how you keep your rabbits and mice and stuff from nibbling the bark off your fruit trees and we'll dumb this tree show you what we're going to do I'm just gonna take my manure shovel large flat shovel here and lots of manure we get this manure from a local horse barn I've got a guy that will come out here and dump it a huge load of manure for 60 bucks well worth it I like to figure out a way to get it for free but right now have a way some some trash is in this manure but it's okay we'll sift through the trash they'll be once in a while like a Gatorade bottle or a piece of matting that's from inside the horse stall but anyhow lo the wheelbarrow full and we'll go to each tree and we'll put some donut around so let's focus on one tree I've got one scoop of manure I'm gonna put the majority on the uphill side and then some on the downhill side here and that's basically it we'll let this manure it's actually broken down pretty well we'll let that provide nutrition for our tree we don't want to cover up our root graft which is underneath here we don't want to put manure above that because we'll get a full-grown tree versus the smaller tree this is supposed to be a dwarf tree so that we don't get a gigantic pear tree we have peaches pears apples and plums so the thought process behind putting manure versus chemical fertilizer on our trees is that the manure will release its nutrients for a longer amount of time nice and slow the rainy season is coming here we're in January so we should be getting lots of rain here for the next couple of months here in North Carolina the foothills of the Blue Ridge so the biggest thing is that we're providing nutrition for our trees root system and in the spring when they take off they should flower vigorously and we get some vigorous growth out of these trees this is year number two on these trees I started getting a little bit of fruit last year but this year I should be getting much more fruit you'll notice that there is a fence all the way around this place and I'll do another video on the fence you can see it right here once I get it posted probably take this fence down this year and build a bigger fence encompassing the whole yard because we'll be planting blueberries blackberries raspberries and several other types of berries later on so the good thing about having a farm is you got your gym built-in shoveling this manure I'm already breaking a sweat and getting a little out of breath it's a good time so hopefully we get some good delicious screw down here we'll use any sprays on our fruit this year we won't use any chemical fertilizers and we'll have some delicious fruit for the family when you're when you're planting apple trees and pear trees it's important if you're doing a like a family orchard like this let you buy trees that will produce at different times of the year so different apples mature earlier some but or in June July August September October and on into November so it's good practice to think about the trees that you're planting don't just go to Lowe's and pick out a tree actually do some research before you do it we've got a local apple tree grower here that has just a vast variety of knowledge we'll try to do a video with him someday he's probably 45 minutes away but man that guy's a fountain of knowledge when it comes to planting orchards and apple trees so that's it this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer getting my workout in here shoveling manure done in my apple trees and my peach trees and my pear trees thanks for watching subscribe to the channel I appreciate you [Music] sweet that's the way supposed to be Stoney read [Music]