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In this video, we'll guide you through the essential steps to thin your fruit trees effectively, ensuring your orchard remains healthy and productive. Thinning is crucial for preventing disease, reducing limb stress, and improving fruit size and quality. 🌳 What You'll Learn:

+ Why Thinning is Important: Understand the benefits of thinning and how it impacts the health of your trees and the quality of your harvest.

+ Best Practices: Step-by-step instructions on the proper techniques to thin fruit trees.

+ When to Thin: Learn the best time to thin to maximize your orchard's potential.

Learn how to utilize your “ugly” fruit.

Make sure trees are ready for a lovely dormant season. Learn these important lessons in only a couple of minutes!

Properly planting a fruit tree gives it the best chance of a fruitful future. The process of removing sod, digging the hole, and adding amendments does not vary from season to season, whether planting a potted tree or a bare root tree. In this video, Matt (Giving Grove horticulturist) will teach you how to remove sod in preparation for digging a hole for your fruit tree.

Properly planting a fruit tree gives it the best chance of a fruitful future. The process of removing sod, digging the hole, and adding amendments does not vary from season to season, whether planting a potted tree or a bare root tree. In this video, Matt (Giving Grove horticulturist) will teach you how to PROPERLY dig a hole for your fruit tree.

Properly planting a fruit tree gives it the best chance of a fruitful future. The process of removing sod, digging the hole, and adding amendments does not vary from season to season, whether planting a potted tree or a bare root tree. In this video, Matt (Giving Grove horticulturist) will teach you the importance of soil amendments for fruit tree development.

Properly planting a fruit tree gives it the best chance of a fruitful future. The process of removing sod, digging the hole, and adding amendments does not vary from season to season. However, many trees shipped in the spring will be bare root (meaning there is no soil surrounding the roots). In this video, Matt (Giving Grove Horticulturist) will break down how to plant a bare root fruit tree properly.

Properly planting a fruit tree gives it the best chance of a fruitful future. The process of removing sod, digging the hole, and adding amendments does not vary from season to season. However, trees planted in the fall will likely be potted. In this video, Matt (Giving Grove Horticulturist) will explain how to plant a potted fruit tree properly.

Listen to Matt Bunch, Horticulturist for The Giving Grove, explain how much water we recommend you use weekly on your fruit trees. For first year trees, we recommend 5 gallons of water per week. This increases as the trees age and is always dependent on the weather conditions. We recommend sticking your finger in the ground to test the moisture level.

Listen to Matt Bunch, Horticulturist for The Giving Grove, explain how to calculate your flow rate on your hose and water your trees accordingly.

Don't forget there are several environmental conditions that will contribute to your orchard trees water needs. If the orchard is on a slope, more water will run off and it will need more water. Test soil moisture with your finger to determine if you need to water.