That was well presented, informative and easy to understand. Great work, keep it up I'll be looking for more.👍🏻
@Limestone_Permaculture
4 жыл бұрын
Cheers Mickq
@thepermaculturepantry5891
4 жыл бұрын
Great tips there Brett that we can apply to our espalier apples...thank you👍
@Limestone_Permaculture
4 жыл бұрын
My pleasure Em :)
@danielapettus7693
4 жыл бұрын
Love your awesome little family farm
@Limestone_Permaculture
4 жыл бұрын
Cheers Daniela :)
@shoelessglo4343
4 жыл бұрын
Hey Brett, Glo again. I am fascinated with your farm! So beautiful. I keep watching your videos over and again. What a delight. Thanks so much for sharing them. I'm at this moment in the process of setting up my fruit tree guilds - much of the trees we will plant are native here. Very new to this and very excited! Our land is only very gently sloping and I'm planning (and digging - by hand!) the swales. The area of our property where we are setting up the guilds and dedicating to the 'food forest' measures about 26 meters by 59 meters or so. I guess that's about 1/3 the size of your land?(We do have areas where our house and my mom's house is that I am not including in the measurements here.) What I would like to ask is: How far apart have you placed your swales and how closely have you planted your main fruit trees? You seem to have so many varieties! - Oh, and I was just wondering perhaps you have implemented 'Backyard Orchard Culture' methods to plant so many trees? As I mentioned we only have a gentle slope. And I read in Toby Hemenway's "Gaia's Garden' book that: “compacted, nonabsorbent or clayey soils, runoff will be heavier, so bring the swales closer together.” Perhaps our soil is a wee more absorbent that what he describes but it is very clayey and compacted. In drought season it is hard as a rock and near impossible to get a shovel into. Topped with a fierce crawling grass - maybe worse than couch grass. It's horrid with the exception that it does keep the top layer (perhaps 6 inches) workable. Plus we have about 40 inches of rain a year and it can come down torrentially with summer periods of drought where the land cracks quite severely. Hoping to reverse this tendency. :-) We had a pond dug in the far end of the property 4mx7mx1.5m deep, and one rain filled it, and in the weeks since it has hardly dropped at all. That is how much clay is in the soil. My thought was to place 4 meters between swales (I've marked two so far that are on contour and do curve, so sometimes they will be less than 4 meters apart.) Swale one, part one is 1 meter wide and will reach 17 meters long when I'm done. Before I dig swale two I was hoping for your opinion. No pressure, lol! But any advice you might be able to impart would be immensely appreciated. Looking forward to more videos! Cheers! Glo
@Limestone_Permaculture
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Glo, thank you again :) best you email me with this & i will respond as soon as i get a chance :) limestone.permaculture@gmail.com
@stevewilliams5782
4 жыл бұрын
That's awesome Brett. Good, easy to follow instructions as always.
@Limestone_Permaculture
4 жыл бұрын
Cheers mate :)
@twandebruijn7714
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Brett, you are living in a paradise you've created. I'm Twan living in the very very South of the Netherlands: I'm having a 'traditional' garden but slowly getting into Permaculture things. My small garden offers room for various espaliers - mostly local breeds. Some palmier form (plums), some horizontal ones (apples, pears). I've planted them 6 years or so ago. However due to climate change and the evergreen hedge of Taxus Baccata next to it drinking a lot of water, harvest is disappointing due to drought and also late spring intensive short (morning)frost happening more often. My pruning is OK, judging by the enormeous amounts of flowers & insects visiting, but I wished I could have more & healthier fruits. I guess I need doing something with the soil coverage (now just weekly mowed lawn (well mainly 'weeds' since I don't use pesticides)) & maybe watering as to prevent from drying: the shake out of fruits during some hot intensive summers we had last 2 decades is just too much. (Last very wet summer was an exception). Any advise on healthier and more fruit is very welcome! PS The vertical structure is of wood of chestnut branches & drilled through them horizontal iron bars used normally in concrete, it was our own idea. All in it looks esthetically spoken very well and is around 4,5 m high. Next to nectar for insects, it provides shade, reduces noise, unwanted insight and looks well all year round!
@cchurch5037
4 жыл бұрын
Great to see you and your amazing farm on KZitem Brett, 👍
@Limestone_Permaculture
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks mate!
@kimbennett7318
4 жыл бұрын
I really admire your farm and it's design.
@Limestone_Permaculture
4 жыл бұрын
Thankyou :)
@jeromearucan6494
4 жыл бұрын
upload more videos pls from philippines
@xxxxxx-br6ix
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing work, very impressive. With the level of permaculture you've done with this space, would you or do you ever think about having more space to do more or do you feel this amount it plenty?
@ebonywaru160
2 жыл бұрын
Gorgeous video thank you
@shoelessglo4343
4 жыл бұрын
Lovely! I am also living in the southern hemisphere and am just setting up my first fruit guilds. Never considered espaliered trees! But now I think you planted an idea seed, Brett. Thanks! I am curious, if you don't mind, is your 'alley crop' bed (raised?) planted on a swale, and thus, is the espaliered fruit row on a berm? Really enjoy your channel! Cheers! Glo
@Limestone_Permaculture
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Glo, the alley crop & the espaliered apples are each on raised terrace beds sitting just above the first of 5 swaled orchard grow mounds. Both the raised terrace beds and swales are built on contour. Terraces slow but dont hold water, the swales can hold water for up to 3 days and sin the water much deeper. Either will work :)
@shoelessglo4343
4 жыл бұрын
@@Limestone_Permaculture Bless you for your reply! Thank you. Glo
@gauravbhai7798
4 жыл бұрын
What is the ideal spacing between plants on espalier?
@jemalkor7829
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Brett, are your espaliers on contour with swales?
@limestonepermaculture4902
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Jemal, all of our espaliers are on contour though sum are on excavated swales and some on above ground terraces :)
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