Growing dwarf apple trees in the backyard & protecting from pests by netting. This variety is the Golden Dorset and I also conduct a taste test after harvesting the fruit.
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My dad always used long bamboo poles around the apple tree under the new to keep the met off the tree.
thank you for shering, they look like a loverly tree
Keep us up to date on how you go (with your solution), need to prepare my newish trees for next year and am contemplating using retic for either a hoop house (~12 trees) or hoops for each tree. Reports of fruit fly infestations here in WA of late…
You realise we could be making cider with those apples?!
Thanks for sharing John. I have tried to grow apples and peaches here. I found it was too much trouble for me. Best wishes Bob.
I've never seen a fruit fly invasion like the one we had this year. Not in the garden, in the home, from fruits and veggies from the store or local market!!! I'm still catching them in my house!! They have never been a problem here, and it's terrible now. Just when you mentioned raising the netting, I was thinking the same thing, and when my fruit trees go in this spring, I will be allowing for covering them the same way. Mine are going to be very short trees too. Kind of like how you grow grapes. I'm way too short to be trying to get up to even a dwarf size fruit tree. I can't even consider fruit from the store anymore, it actually tastes terrible. The skin is so tough that I can't even chew it! I guess where I live everyone takes it for granted that everyone can grow a fruit tree, but I learned years ago that not everyone can. I'm so happy that you can have fresh fruit right from the tree, there is noting in the world better than fresh off the tree. Beautiful apples too! Bless, Sheila
I've just planted a few baby apple trees, can't wait until they start growing apples….. they're just big sticks at the moment.
Apples in the subtropics! Very impressive, Mark! I really like your idea of building a frame for the netting over the tree. Those fruit flies must be nasty buggers. I'm glad we don't have them here.
So glad UK Here we grow recommended your channel. I am a transplanted Kiwi and just love to hear you talk. Sounds like us. Ha ha. Anyway, enjoy your channel so very much. The net idea is great and will try it on our dwarf trees although I don't think we are ever bothered by fruit fly. We do however lose some to the birds and other bugs. I know the net works great on our sour cherry tree.
That is a nice harvest.
Top Job Mark… I like your idea about the cage over the tree, it makes sense to me. We don't suffer from the fruit fly over here in the UK – or at least the apple tree on my plot doesn't seem to suffer from any pests. BUT… I dont get 10kg of fruit from it… I might get about 10 apples a year …. which for me is enough. I hope you had a good Christmas and New Year mate. Cheers, Adam
I can see a rob Bob style structure helping out this problem. 4 star pickets left in all year if you want with a crossed irrigation pipe between them higher than the net. It will stop the rubbing on the tree and give the tree room to move without growing through the net. Great haul anyway
Something I have noticed, in the recent years about store bought apples is the peeling is getting tough as shoe leather, for some reason, and it doesn't seem to matter the variety! I need to start growing my own like you do, Mark!
Nice looking harvest mate. My daughter loves apples but like you I'm unimpressed with supermarket fruit. I usually only buy my apples in winter from the markets when they are in season. Although none of them are In long term storage you can tell they're getting a bit older as Spring approaches. I have a tropical variety too but it's had some die back but still alive. Why don't you stick 4 long star posts in the ground and slip some irrigation pipe over them to form 2 hoops to drape the netting over? Might not be cheaper than a wooden frame but would be quicker to build and last longer.
Very good harvest off such a small tree. I don't know if you follow Woody's Allotment in the UK but I'm always amazed at the apples he gets off very small trees.
I love that crunchy sound Mark….yum! How did the mangoes go? Are they ripe yet?
Hello mark, just came across your videos I live in a tropical climate & wonder if its possible to grow apple tree from seed alone (apples bought in supermarket). Are your apple trees grafted or from seed?
So you must have a issue with spotted wing fruit fly too hey ?
I hate fruit flies they destroyed my whole jujube harvest for this year!
Great work Mark. I have the same two varieties as you and got my first apple this year. I just bagged the fruit with a netting bag to keep the fruit fly out. Something ate a hole in the bag and gnawed the fruit. As it was the only apple, i picked it, cut off the gnawed bit and shared the remainder between us. I'm aiming to net the tree next year, so will be watching your channel with interest in case you build a frame. I'm aiming to use water pipe over start pickets for a frame. I think the water pipe needs to be 2 inch, to fit over the start pickets.
Have You looked at Japanese apple bags? They might be more reliable than trying to cover the whole tree.
My fruit salad tree has blossoms on it now. When should I net it? Should I leave room for further growth? Fruit fly got to my tomatoes last year ;(
Great Video! I am am Your new subscriber. thanks for the video
Hey Mark great vid when do you net the tree? Also where do you get the nets from for a reasonable price?
What types of fruit trees need to be netted from fruit flies
You would love red Macintosh. Tart, sweet, juicy and thin skinned
Here in Canada we get apple maggot and yellow jacket wasps. Nasty surprise when on a latter
I love your channel it inspired me to start growing vegetables and fruits. However my zone climate is really hot in summer reaches about 120 would a verity like Reinee des Reinettes apple tree adapt to such harsh weather??
Hey so I live in Australia. Is it possible in anyway to plant, grow and harvest apple trees? I really want a apple tree.
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