Building Garden Fertility is EASY with Permaculture Chop and Drop

Another master class (haha) on the chop and drop process, this time in my peach tree guild. Building soil, improving water holding capacity, opening up to light and improving air flow are just some of the benefits of this permaculture techniqeue. 0:00 Introducing the days project 0:14 Reasons for chop and drop 1:50 Under storey plants to take care of 2:41 Chopping the first tagasaste 6:03 Attacking a wattle tree (acacia) 7:01 Pruning a large acacia 9:29 On to another acacia 10:44 Introducing new equipment for chop and drop 11:27 Using the new mini chainsaw with the final tree, a tagasaste 12:52 Talking about the drop part of the process 13:56 Introducing a second new piece of equipment 14:39 Putting it to work 16:21 Final wrap up - results and future project 17:12 Outro • Pruning tagasaste (tree lucerne) and acacia: Using a pole pruner to safely drop high canopy branches without crushing delicate young under storey plants. • Using a couple of new pieces of equipment and accessing their value in the chop and drop process. • Managing light and microclimates: Opening up vital solar access for budding stone fruit and improving air flow to reduce fungal issues ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO HUTTONS VALLEY PERMACULTURE Join me on the journey to bring back nature's abundance. 👉 Subscribe:    / @huttonsvalleypermaculture   If you enjoy my content consider a donation. It will help me diversify my plantings in the food forest and through out my gardens. Thank you!! Link below. https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted... #homestead #melbourne #coolclimate ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #ChopAndDrop #PermacultureFoodForest #PermacultureOrchard