GROWING PEACHES OUTDOORS AT -40C!!!

Join Bernie Nikolai in Edmonton, Alberta as he shows you a technique that allows him to grow peaches outside in zone 3b. The Siberian Method Explained.

[kristianjegodtka]

Thanks a ton for posting this man, when you grow stuff here in edmonton you gotta get crafty

[jotsntittles]

Thank you Edmonton is my hometown
I now live in Northern BC zone 4b
Having a video on harvesting the fruit will help add more understanding to this "Siberian method"
eg: How the shrub supports heavier fruit etc (without having thick branches)

[mumstheword]

Would love to see a video of your peach and fig trees in the summer :). Thx for the videos.

[dougatfuto]

this is very cool to know about, and similar to how grapes and blackberries are winterized in zone 3. definitely adding some peaches next year to my orchard in MB

[gregmartin]

This is a good method for fig trees too. They also bend very nicely.

[Zelda]

Wow this is an amazing lesson! Thank you from Alaska. I think I'll try it

[halehsasani]

Thanks for all you learning videos on trees, please teach us how to prune fruit trees and best fertilizer for them 🙏🙏

[JayBrau]

I want try this out in southern Manitoba. What time of year would your plant the tree?

[paulcharpentier]

I've never tried peaches but I've tried apricots and I'm going to try it with them and some peaches I find up here in Northern Saskatchewan my apricots keep dying back until eventually the whole plants die and in all the years that I grew apricots and it was a lot of them I only had apricots one year and I only had three of them so I'm looking forward to trying this method

[Shepherdia]

Many questions about this method. You can use the method of sewer tee or special fertilizing with manganese. In this case nothing will break. But I use another method - cryoprotector.

[JodiSehn-pmrh]

I am in southern Alberta and am trying your peach Siberian method. I covered my peaches and just uncovered them yesterday. They survived but rodents got them. Could you please do a video on how to use the hardware cloth to cover the trees when you stake them down? I just am wondering how you are able to keep the mice/voles from getting at them. Thanks!

[kingjames]

interesting. I've heard of a similar method for harder trunk trees where they dig a trench and a hole around the roots then bend the whole thing over into the trench below ground level. always seemed like such a PITA tho lol.

[andrewschoenfeldt]

Thanks for this. I wonder how peach would be upright in unheated greenhouse zone 4 left upright.

[BarneyJo]

I am so excited to try this!!! I have two bare root peach trees coming next month.
How soon after planting should I cut the trunk (above the graft)? Right at planting? Or do I wait for the tree to break dormancy?

[charronfamilyconnect]

Thanks for the video! I wonder what varieties I can use this method for. I live in growing zone 4b. Thanks again fellow canuck!

[JP-Ross]

Is it possible to use this technic with apricot?

[danacarbone]

Would have to bend the peach branches above the graft, Any new branches below the graft you would not know what type of peach or fruit would be on the new branches or stems

[elisafetsch]

Could this be done with nectarine trees? Not sure if they would be pliable enough to bend down?

[rambot]

Alright! Excited! I got my peech tree ordered. I was a bit confused; you do your initial cut just ABOVE the graft site right? Also, is there a benefit in letting it grow out the first year or just cut it at the trunk immediately?

[marc-andrepelletier]

Would it work if you plant the tree in a pot and just tip the tree down at winter time? You then keep the older wood and get a bigger tree