Tree Planting & Gardening Tools

Series Summary

Planting and growing your own fruit trees can be a very rewarding gardening experience. They can add so much to your landscape. They add shade for the yard, produce usable fruit, can add a fragrance to your yard and even host more wildlife.

Learn how to care for fruit trees from a professional landscape designer. Our expert will educate on what tools you need and how to select and plant your new fruit tree. Learn valuable how-to tips for your fruit tree. See how to care for the tree by activating the soil. With all the luscious fruit dangling from the tree it can be an invitation for deer to come have a snack. Our expert will show how to protect your tree from becoming a treat. Pruning your fruit trees for maximum flowering and fruit bearing will also be covered. Our expert even shares how to cross-pollinate your fruit trees. This in-depth video will prepare you to plant, care for, and enjoy fruit trees.

Pruning is also a very important part of fruit tree growing. Learn valuable how-to tips for pruning your fruit trees for maximum flowering and fruit bearing.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I’m Gale, and I’m here to talk about fruit trees. These are fruit trees that you can plant in your home garden. The first thing I want to show you are the tools that I use to plant the fruit trees. When I’m working in my home garden, the first thing I want to do is use these flags to put a marker where I’m going to put a tree. And then I just kind of look at it for a couple of weeks to determine if I like that spot for the design- for my garden design. And then, the next thing is I dig the hole. And to do that I use these post-hole diggers. On a fruit tree, you want the hole to be as deep as the root ball and three times as wide. So I do that with this, get it started with that and then just use a standard shovel to go around the edges of the hole and get all the dirt out. And then after the hole is empty I add compost to some of the dirt I’ve taken out of the hole. So the other thing you want is- this is my favorite garden tool. A spade that I use for mixing, for weeding- I use this for every part of gardening and installing landscape. Then I’ve got a rake to clean up my mess at the end. This is my other favorite tool- those two are my favorites- and this I use to cultivate, to mix the soil; this is a very handy tool. And these are my garden gloves. I prefer the type that have rubber on one side- keeps my hands dry and the rubber lasts a long time, and it actually doesn’t feel bad on your skin. Fruit trees require pruning, so I have- this is the main pruner that I use, pruning tool. And then for the high branches, this is another one I use. And you untie this string and you pull the string and it manipulates the saw, so it’s a saw for high branches. And those are probably more tools than you need, and that’s all I use. "