Hugo Morvan

Porridge and herbal tea or coffee.

50 something peachtrees
20 something apples
20 plums
some cherries
many more coming

Hi Steve Thorn.
With the weather getting more eratic those late frosts seem to be a bigger problem every time. I never understood why we as gardeners have to put up with these early flowering varieties. If you're an orchard i understand you want to be the first, because you can charge top dollars. But we as amateurs should have late to extremely late flowering fruit trees. I'd love to eat peach from june to october. Instead of everything at once.
For apples i got some late flowering long keeping variety like court pendu gris(french). And i tried to get apples that are hanging around Christmas and get better after the frost, but i'm not yet super skilled with grafting, and took them too early so they died.... I've got two late cherries, but with peaches i have no info on it.
Any thoughts?

Shower over bath. Sauna for relaxation and then cold shower to cool off. Bath could do too, but takes too much place. In the sauna i throw water with essential oils or just plain hydrolats on it for medicinal value.

The thing is, i planted these in a hedge row, it functioned as a wind break. I didn't think much about it at all. They were just there doing their thing, catching sun, vibing, growing, making mycelia friends. So patience, i don't know. First there were a few apple trees and now - many and more to come.
Like a gift that keeps on giving, like nature is. Generous. I'm not impatiently waiting for it. It's a technique i put into place and it takes me somewhere.
My friend is a grafter and taught me a bit, he is planning on helping me.
Plant it and they will come. More abundant then we can imagine.

This drawing on the photo was the idea.
But the tree grew straight up from the roots. Leaving the bent bit an afterthought.
Hence the messy growth.
Since I've cut the straight trees , so I'll be moving towards some system more similar to the one in Michael Cox his video.
I've got Bittenfelder as a variety adapted to my acid poor soils. They sometimes send out air roots from shoots if weather is wet.

It got out of control, my rootstock apple trees went wild. It was really messy. I've bent down several branches and they rooted here, there and everywhere. I had to come in and rip it out by force. Anyway, 2 hours of work has led to 50 young trees ready to grow another year in my mini nursery or pots. The most decent ones went into pots, to root another season away from the mothertree. The weirder grown ones get a chance to fend for themselves close to a temporary filling water ditch which is partially shaded for a year, then they'll be put into foodhedges.
But look at this gorgeous mess!

You could check out Going To Seed's adaptation gardening seed swaps. Very exciting seeds for landraces and odd stuff. In Us, UK and Europe, so far.

Exactly. There are people who fail.at growing a tree from a seed and there are people who grow many trees from seeds. And if the tree is no good, just cut it down to feed the soil to help the other trees.

I do like to plant seeds a few days before full moon. I noticed they come up a lot easier and en masse.
A fellow gardener once did a test and they do come up easier, but harvest wise there was no difference.
Try it in flats and see, easy enough to do.
I'm a seed saver, so mostly have abundant seed, but if you have to buy seed it seems to me to be of greater importance.
The ancestors not long ago where i live used to cut down trees at certain moons for wood to last much longer, my neighbor says they were super sure about it.
It was a question ten years ago when i came to this site and hoped for answers too, but it's still about the same, it's weird. Could be because there are so many variables, so much pressure and stresses on people, so many things to think about, in the past lives where harder, they had less, but also , less distraction, and were more traditional, but people had to be observers, the base of permaculture.