On purchasing fruit trees.
Don't be put off by ugly "end of season sale" trees at some of these home and garden stores. Some good deals can be made, and if the tree has been exposed but balled in the lot for several months and it's still alive it shows strength of character and resilience.....lol. Your choices may be limited but fruit of any kind in hand is better than no fruit at all. Keep in mind that the average amount of time before they start to produce is seven years. You can help correct a lot of abuse that has been given a sapling when they were pulled from the nursery in seven years. Who knows, the tree might like you and start producing in five.
Yeah fellas, I retired about two years ago and now have the opportunity to pick up a small tractor. I've got about five acres of old tobacco/corn ground next to the house that has been dormant for at least twenty five years. I sprouted two dozen chestnut trees from nuts off of five parent trees I have in the immediate yard. I see an orchard in the development.
Chestnuts are interesting. You can eat them raw, cooked like little potatoes, dried and ground for meal, and the best is you can even convert them to protein on the hoof! Looking forward to fattening up old Velvet ears when the nuts start dropping.
Don't be put off by ugly "end of season sale" trees at some of these home and garden stores. Some good deals can be made, and if the tree has been exposed but balled in the lot for several months and it's still alive it shows strength of character and resilience.....lol. Your choices may be limited but fruit of any kind in hand is better than no fruit at all. Keep in mind that the average amount of time before they start to produce is seven years. You can help correct a lot of abuse that has been given a sapling when they were pulled from the nursery in seven years. Who knows, the tree might like you and start producing in five.
Yeah fellas, I retired about two years ago and now have the opportunity to pick up a small tractor. I've got about five acres of old tobacco/corn ground next to the house that has been dormant for at least twenty five years. I sprouted two dozen chestnut trees from nuts off of five parent trees I have in the immediate yard. I see an orchard in the development.
Chestnuts are interesting. You can eat them raw, cooked like little potatoes, dried and ground for meal, and the best is you can even convert them to protein on the hoof! Looking forward to fattening up old Velvet ears when the nuts start dropping.