How to Plant Fruit Trees for MAXIMUM Growth and Harvest

Late winter and early spring are the best time to plant fruit trees and bushes. In this video, I'm showing you how to plant a bare root fruit tree, plus what to look for when choosing your tree, and how to properly care for, fertilize, and water your tree once it's planted.

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Howdy! I'm so glad you're here. I'm Melissa from Pioneering Today and a 5th generation homesteader where I'm doing my best to hold onto the old traditions in a modern world and share them with others.

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[niharikarao]

the part where she explained how roots "realize" that one spot is fertile than the other and so they wont spread was mind blowing.

[lulabellegnostic]

Tip for you. Put some sacking or plastic sheeting down, and put the soil from your hole on it. That way you save the spadework of back filling the hole- you just lift & tilt the sheet.

[rrbb]

👍 Another really good practice when planting grafted trees, is to position the tree in the hole so that the graft bulge faces AWAY from direct sun and strong winds.

[dufreebell]

Packed with ton of useful information. Not even a second wasted in your 19 minute video. Thanks for sharing.

[DrScottBland]

I’m moving more rural this summer and cannot wait to put in some trees! I also really appreciate you showing the actual work involved and not just talking about it. Thank you ma’am!

[BeOutsideLving]

The best video by far. No nonsense, tips, showing exactly and why, this is perfect. Thank you for taking the time.

[rogerspaulding]

Try digging a square hole. It will help to keep the roots from circling tin the hole. They grow into the corners and then into the undisturbed soil.

[almoody]

We just bought two bare too pluot trees and I just happened to pick up a a power auger for a fence job. Worked nicely for digging the holes for the trees. Three holes per tree and easy to dig out the middle with the post hole digger

[sharonodom]

That's amazing! Ive been in a panic, cuz my husband brought home a bunch of fruit trees(apple, plum, blueberries, grapes) & every video I've seen talks about treating the soil for at least a wk or 2wks before
THANK YOU!

[DonnaRatliff]

Melissa, I just found you on the web looking for knowledge on Fruit Trees & berry bushes! I was listening to your Podcast.
I'm thrilled you have a U Tube channel And Most of all that your a believer in Christ. Yeah! I'm subscribed! 😊✝️🙏❤️🐾

[creamofthecrop]

I use to live in the Pacific Northwest my husband was in the military so we were at Fort Lewis....beautiful place

[AustinTexasGardening]

I got 15 fruit trees in my suburban backyard. Somebody stop me!

[Koi-onwg]

Thanks Melissa! This was very helpful.

I just received 2 of my 3 orders. Will be planting 20+ trees/bushes tomorrow.

[adm]

We lost our 80+ yr old apple tree last year. 😢 it was MASSIVE! Blew over due to high winds. We cleared a few trees around it a few years back. Big mistake! Never in my life tasted an apple that good. We just bought some 6-7’ trees to replace it. I’ll be using your planting technique to give them a great start. 🤞 thank you!

[rickcorcoran]

I fell deeply in love when she stuck the shovel in the ground and stomped it to keep it standing when she was done digging the hole. What a woman !

[solsalia]

Ive been taking a master gardner class and just had a class about planting trees. This was awesome!

[growaswego]

I have trees ordered to plant this weekend! This video is right on time!

[HeatherNaturaly]

I had 100% success at keeping deer out of my orchard by putting up bird suet feeders with a cake of Irish Spring soap in them, original scent. I had one by each tree.

[TMesser]

I’ve been binging on these type videos as we have several fruit trees to plant. I think the only thing I’ll do different is add wet cardboard under the mulch to prevent weeds. Thank you very much!!!!

[kingachybraky]

We found that purchasing trees from Orschelns, Lowes, Walmart, and Home Depot gave us a head start on our orchard. These trees are already leafed out and you can see how the branches are already set. They come in large pots with much more rooting than barefoot stock. We were careful to watch out for bugs and oddly shaped trunks and branches. We got the same tree types at half the cost of purchasing them, bare root, from mail order nurseries and got trees two and three times as tall since they did not have to fit into mailing boxes.