hello everyone sam here and angela and welcome to our channel welcome to another video of
us building our tennessee homestead today we have something fun and very homesteady
planned for you guys what are we going to do today it's something that i've always wanted and
never really had we are going to build our little mini orchard
okay build as in plant the trees in the ground we're gonna be digging some holes let's go
we are up here in our i don't know i'll say front yard or front field it feels huge compared to what
we're used to but we're up here and close to the road kind of close you can see the gate behind
us what is our plan of attack what is the plan for stan well we are going to be getting a fence to go
right at the road so we're going to kind of ball park where that fence is going to be and measure
off of it to kind of get our first row of trees so we're going to use some flags and kind of map out
a little bit of where the first row is going to be that way sam can use the trail mower and get us
cut down a little bit easier for digging and stuff yeah plus it kind of also reminds us or anyone
who may come through the area um as our home is constructed or moved as far as being on a property
that there is something here probably don't drive through it
and we're just trying our best to preserve them right all right so we can get up over the bike
so what we're doing is we have our 100 foot tape measure set to 30 feet and we are walking pretty
much i am where the fence is going to be angela is out there at the 30 foot point that's where we're
going to start the first row of trees that way it gives us pretty much about 45 feet off the road
but most importantly 30 feet off of the power lines which is right what i'm walking under
right now that way we are well outside of the utility companies right aways and they
don't come hack our orchard apart how far are we going i'm just yakking i'm right below the line
such hard work there we go there is our first row that's where it's going to start and it's going
to go from angela towards our garden towards the camper in the workshop all right we have our rows
flagged out i was just holding the tape measure walking around you were the brains behind this
operation we went ahead and gave four rows just in case we decided to do it that way i don't know so
we have enough yeah and we will also have enough room to add on later if we want to so now you get
to ride and zip us some strips i'm gonna start zipping strips then where's the strip zipper
it just doesn't want to quit there we go that earthquake mower made super quick work of this
it actually does really really good i know it's a rough cut brush mower but i mean hey it looks
pretty good out here on the field with all the grass and everything we got it cuts clean and
we've got ourselves some nice rows that we can now lay out space and plant our orchard
cool i'm gonna leave this hooked up because i will probably do a lot more mow with this
today might as well it's out sun's out and the grass is tall we're going to go
ahead since sam has mowed i'm going to space out the trees about 20 feet apart
so everywhere we put a flag we are going to plant a tree we're going to start from
the front or at the road and fill in from there that way i have room to add on later when need be
yes
alright
i'm going to do to be the digging man to dig the holes for the plants
are you gonna do all of them how are you gonna dig show us a little skills
you have to do that and put your feet on here and jump and pull it up and don't
make sure it don't get in the hole there you go that's how you dig right cool
all right we have all of our flags flagged out we decided to do like i guess a staggered pattern
um so if you got what we have five per row yeah so there's five and then there's four that are i mean
staggered hopefully that makes sense it does so you've sorted your trees how many of what do we
have and what's the plan for that we have six pear and eight apple there's like kind of two varieties
each i think apple there might be a little more but we're going to go ahead and pair them together
i like that and so keep the pears on one side keep the apples on the other and then as we
add on to the orchard we'll be able to keep pears to their side and apples to their side
yeah which it's worth saying that we mowed and we flagged more spots than the trees we have
so it sounds like we may very soon be going back and get more trees found another place in
east tennessee that has a lot of these same trees listed for sale so that was cool yes nine dollars
a piece i mean it's not really worth linking it because it's kind of like a yard sale flea market
and probably by the time you guys see this they're probably gone so sorry to rain on your parade but
for us we're hoping to go and stack some more and really fill this out at that point we fill
it out how many trees would we have up here um 20 20. nice and it's like feels like a small little
corner of the property that's what i want though and i want my own little orchard at the side and
it's going to be right near the garden not too near that it's going to shade it or anything
but you know we have our little homestead area oh yeah so let's go
all right there is science to digging holes for trees but this is not the channel to learn about
science for digging holes for trees we are just going to dig the hole and sit the tree in it
this whole property was soybean field and before that it was corn so this is very very good looking
tillable soft soil so we're just gonna dig plop and drop and honestly we think they're gonna do
great because the soil up here is really nice so let's just dig a hole plop and drop a tree
now that isn't me it's doing back and forth
can you tear it apart the bag at the seam
i forgot to leave him
so this is the graft area gotta keep the grass above ground
can you step it
uh i wouldn't step it too much yeah a little lightly
what in the world
this is what happens when you use your hands instead of a shovel
hey you know you got a rooster tail you gotta roost your toe i lost my hat cause the wind
hey the wind feels good out here this whole day feels good i mean it's beautiful weather it's nice
breeze and we've got 14 fruit trees in our ground and we need six more and that'll give us the even
20. it will so give us wait that'll give us eight pear trees uh-huh and then 12 apple trees right
sweet so we hope to get those within the next week or so we'll fill out the rest of our little
rectangle that we've kind of plotted out and that'll be it for the fruit trees now remember
we do have how many pecan trees nine so there's nine pecan trees we're gonna have to figure out
a place for those and we'll show you guys when we plant those later but it'll be after the house is
put in yeah it will it will we're not sure exactly which way they're moving the mobile home on the
property it's supposed to be over there which is why we were safe doing this but anything else we
need to wait a little bit longer so we probably should go and pot those probably i it looked like
these are pretty much bare root yep bare root and like some kind of like a sawdust sandy mixture so
they don't dry out so which is good none of them looks dead to me no they all looked well
good cool well they looked well well little trees so i believe i now have down pat which varieties
we have we have from pears we have moon glow kefir and bartlett and then for apples we have honey
crisp fuji gala and pink lady nice i knew i think i know about two of those but that's cool that is
really cool so these are all varieties that we normally eat so that will be awesome well thanks
for coming along as we started our orchard i'm so excited um if you have any questions or comments
leave them below otherwise we'll see you guys next time on one of the homesteads see you bye
elijah
no you don't come on trying our best to preserve them right um
that's it yeah that's it yeah that's it see you guys press it again okay
see you bye until we're a little bit closer to the road up here it is a little louder
okay what 20 foot between rows yes so 20 40 60 we're still about 80 feet from the road just
closer than we're becoming acclimated to being 300 feet from the road yes that's okay though