How To Plant a Red Haven Peach Tree

🍑 Ready to plant your own peach tree at home? In this video, we walk you through every step of planting a backyard peach tree — from choosing the right spot, digging through tough soil layers, and prepping the root ball, all the way to watering, fertilizing, mulching, and first-year pruning. We are planting the Red Haven peach tree we picked out in our last video:    • Choosing the BEST Peach Variety to Plant   beside an existing O’Henry tree to extend our peach harvest season from mid-July through September. You’ll learn practical tips on spacing, drainage, handling hardpan soil, and tree orientation to give your peach tree the best possible start. MORE PEACH GROWING TIPS:    • How to Grow Better Peaches   00:00 Introduction 01:00 Red Haven Peach Variety 01:08 Spacing Between Trees 04:25 X Marks the Spot 05:48 Hard Pan Layer While Digging 08:49 What If My Yard Dirt is Bad? 09:55 Why Our Hole is Twice as Wide & Deep 12:02 Removing Tree From Nursery Pot & Identifying the Graft 13:18 Separating The Roots 15:49 Using Grass as Green Manure Fertilizer 16:40 Orienting Tree in the Hole & Backfilling 17:45 Tamping The Soil 18:49 Watering In 19:20 Irrigation Systems 19:56 How To Add Fertilizer 21:54 Benefits of Mulching 25:31 Last Step is the Tree's First Pruning 26:14 Strategy for Peach Tree Structure 27:33 Controlling the Height of a Tree 28:28 Let's Prune 29:55 All Around Look at Finished Tree #peachtree #backyardorchard #gardeningtips #fruitgrowing #howtoplantatree #homeorchard #ediblelandscaping #zone7gardening #diygardening #redhaven #redhaven #peach #peaches #planting #plantingseason #plantingtips #fruittrees