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This is what all farmers need to learn and do, (in my opinion). It makes a world of difference.
Leeks work against all those animals, too. Plus, you get to eat them!
Great video, Billy!
Billy.. I have established wild plum trees that I really need to prune. They are 15-20 ft and I am thinking of taking them down to about 8-10 ft. Is it ok to prune them after leaf fall? I’m in zone 8..was wondering if the winter would be too harsh to prune them now or should I wait until closer to spring?
Billy! Proving yet again that “conventional thinking” really means “not well thought out” Just frequently repeated.
Thanks so much for the info on how to make my fruit tree area so much better. I do OK in the garden, but I'm struggling with my fruit trees. I have lost a plum, a peach and my cherry trees this year and at about $50 each, it hurts. I put in elderberry bushes and comfrey between most of the fruit trees and they are doing great. Live and learn and keep on growing!
I caught that voted out…LOL
That’s exactly how I planted mimosas around my fruit trees. Now they’re taller than my fruit trees (which are already bone sauce treated). Turkey and chickens pluck every last one of my onion, walking onion and garlic plantings. Have to start over on those. Hoping the daffodils return in spring.
Also trying to find some pear scion wood to graft onto my Bradford pear tree.
looking good, i never new this imformation.i have 10 apple trees 2 peach, 2 pair, 2 plumb trees and black walnut and mamosa trees for 25 years .
Deer love to eat Mamosa tree tender leafs. I watched a doe reach up and pull down branches for her twin fawns to eat.
Permaculture doesnt work, try agroforestry.
you are going to regret that mimosa had 1 pop up in the yard now i have 50 and i cannot get rid of them
Mimosa does great at 4000 ft on a southern in ashe county . I've never had a problem with invasivness
Have you guys ever looked into the medicinal properties of mimosa? Apparently it's called the Happy Tree in Asia. I've got tinctures on my shelf right now using mimosa flowers.
hey youtube friends #Tip A Pimp! Thanks Billy for the Info.
Love it Billy! And it’s so easy to cut back mimosas and chop them up.
awesome! I've been learning about black locusts and their fast growing ability (and use for firewood)…..mimosa?! permaculture in ac tion!!!!
Mimosa's are the devil 😃
They probably will get vote out. I see you billy. Lol
I experiment in gardening also
As long as you do not let the mimosa go to seed it should not become invasive. Our sheep love it and a medicine for depression can be made by combining the flowers and bark.
I like mimosa trees. They grow like crazy here, but I never thought to put around my fruit trees! Don't reallyhave room though as I was working for more variety with smaller trees=packed in.
I used a mimosa to feed a young black cherry tree. The cherry shot for the sky and eventually overwhelmed the mimosa. Perfect nurse tree.
It's interesting to see where Mimosa grows. It's all over here in Chattanooga. But if you go north or higher elevation it seems like it changes to locust trees that fill that nitrogen fixing slot.b
That stuff works right there where you are but like you said Billy those plants may not work that way in other parts of the country. All people have to do is some research in their area to find out what are good productive, nitrogen fixing plants/trees and other plants that grow well and start off with them then see how they do in the first year or two of growth and maybe after that start experimenting with other plants and trees that aren't known to grow in their area normally just to see what happens maybe they might stumble onto something that will grow because they planted like you show in y'all videos. I hope that made sense. Anyways thanks for sharing this video with us I'm looking forward to seeing if those mimosas will grow on y'all's property as well. May y'all have a good one. Have fun take care
Ignorant question. What will happen down the road when the trunks of the trees collide? They won’t stay small diameter forever.
Glad I'm not the only one who has a list of things to catch up on 😆
Definitely going to have to try that with mimosa near my fruit trees. Mimosa is hard to grow in OH though because of the cold winters. But I've got one that made it
I wish mimosa was as invasive as people think. I have one tree and I keep hoping for more. After several years still no volunteers.
The hummingbirds and butterflies LOVE my tree. I would love to have a couple more.
I live in northern NJ and they are a scourge up here. Almost as bad as the tree of life. Dig those things up and burn them.
True. Many things you can buy is for people that arent willing to learn or work hard
Nitrogen fixing is the reason I planted a cover crop of white and crimson clover in my elderberry field. It's my hope to not need to add nitrogen fertilizer to my field, or at least reduce the amount I need to add. It does require that I mow the cover crop like it was a lawn, but that is a small price to pay to have nature fertilize my elderberry plants for me.
Next year, I hope to start generating compost on site to use for making compost tea to water my elderberry field. I'm hoping that feeding the soil will help feed my elderberry plants.
Loving the thr experiment
Morning
Billy, thank you again for these wonderful videos. It is uplifting and motivational; since, you show different perspectives and avenues to thrive. Have a great day and look forward to the next video.
One year old growth on black locust does break down rather quickly. I use my battery powered hedge trimmer (pole mounted) to trim my black locust volunteers. I just leave the sticks lay, and they are gone in 2 years. Older wood lasts longer. 🙂
Many of my black locust trees are polarded when the branches are a good 4 inches around, perfect for firewood.
And I do the same with all of my volunteer trees. You ain't crazy, you are savvy.
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Thanks for the Video Billy! #tipapimp
Great video my friends. Breaking the rules yet still coming out on top, I guess this goes to show us that rules are made to be broken especially when it makes more sense to do so. Enjoyed yet another informative video my friend. 😇🙏🏻🙌🏻👍🏻 I like you way of growing stuff, I think it’s the way GOD ultimately designed it in the beginning. Thanks for sharing!! 😇🙏🏻😇🙏🏻
Love this! just started planting my orchard this past spring I am going to be adding around them this fall
You seem to be sold out of Comfrey and Rice knives.
Any time line on when you might have more?
Keep breaking ALL the rules Billy! Thanks for so freely sharing your information and different ways of thinking about the garden.
So are you going to let the mimosas turn into a tree or keep them cut? ( I lived in eastern NC and had a huge mimosa tree, loved it)
Guild goodness 🍎 thank you
Billy has the attention of the deep state, he had a red dot on him!!!
We are struggling with brown rot on our stone fruit – help!!!
Every neighborhood needs this knowledge.Thanks for the work you do ! ! !
I’ll be really curious to see if the mimosa trees survive the winter at your altitude. If they do you know where to find more and yes they are just about coming out our ears!
This was like an abbreviated plant guild class like the one in Tennessee. It's one thing to read books and watch videos, but a hand's on class will make it all make sense.
Mimosa is the only NFT(nitrogen fixing tree) that grows well in the NW Florida gulf coast area. I make tinctures with some of the flowers, but it would be nice to find something that likes to eat the seed pods. They literally spread like wildfire here.