Showing the location of a planned food forest/permaculture garden area and asking advice for an Apple tree. The video is cut off at the end because I began going into things that I really am not ready to publish yet.
VIDEO: My plans for a food forest, permaculture garden
Showing the location of a planned food forest/permaculture garden area and asking advice for an Apple tree. The video is cut off at the end because I began going into things that I really am not ready to publish yet.
I wish I could help you with the tree, but I don't know anything about them. Hope someone watches and is able to help you out. Looks like a nice place to have a garden. I like your ideas.
check out this youtube channel, stephenhayesuk he's in england.
pm him maybe he can advice you or recommend someone in your area.
Here are some tree ideas from the book Restoration Agriculture, by Mark Shepard. These are for midwest USA but Germany has some similarities.
Chestnut as the tall canopy tree, apples as a medium tree, hazelnuts as understory, cherries plums and peaches as understory, raspberries and blackberries, gooseberries as shade tolerant shrubs, grapes as vines running up the tree trunks, and mushrooms on dead wood. He would also recommend cattle, sheep, turkeys and chickens but that won't work for you.
Also, bees.
When dealing with the Stadtverwaltung, you have to go in and start asking questions and be friendly but keep asking questions until they just want you to go away. Then take notes of who you talked to and when and what they said. Do I need a permit to plant a tree? Can I keep bees? How many cows can I keep on my land? Do I need to put a bell on my cow? (that will get them spinning). The Germans have too many crazy rules, thats why I don't live there anymore.
I think your best option cut the branches off and graft some good disease resistant apple varieties onto the trunk. The trunk looks ok and you can have fruit from your grafted branches in a year or two. Grafting is a necessity for most apple orchards as like you said, disease is common with apple trees but it doesn't always work it's way into the trunk. Best of luck with this endeavor!
the "they", sheeple that don't know a thing about the countryside, where their food, clothing, basically everything "they" take for granted,….one thing is developing "tepetate" non arable land(more stones than good soil) but another thing is to encroach on the prime agricultural land!!
The book is pretty good, and it gives you hope that there is an alternative to monoculture corn and soybean agriculture. It is a good intro to tree and bush crop permaculture. He discusses keylining and alley methods, combining grazing livestock on pasture between the tree crops, and leader-follower livestock grazing, which is cows->chicken/turkeys->sheep->pigs. I was hoping to see more about planting patterns and how to use each species. The book opened my eyes up to many possibilities.
From the book:
On a square one acre field:
9 rows of edible woody plants with a 23 foot wide alley between each row: 5 rows of chestnuts on 12 foot spacing, with currants and grapes between trees. 4 rows of apples every 24 ft with hazelnuts between every 4 ft and raspberries planted on the south side of the row every 2 ft, and grapes trellised on each apple tree. This results in 34 apple trees, 86 chestnut trees, 120 grape vines, 208 hazelnut bushes, 416 raspberry canes, 520 red currant bushs
Hiya! I don't have an answer about the bark sloughing on the apple tree, but you might want to check with folks on Permies.com ~ someone there's sure to have an answer. Best of luck!