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Fruit Trees At Home: 2008 DIY Giant Squid Award Winning Lens
There's nothing better than growing your own Fruit Trees. Picking your own red apples, juicy peaches, yummy pears, or sweet cherries can't be beat.
Depending where you live there are many varieties of fruit trees. I prefer dwarf fruit trees because they don't take up alot of room and they bear fruit more quickly.
It's a great way to get your family involved with nature. Planting a tree helps our environment too. I would suggest getting tree varieties that are disease resistant. Spraying trees for disease and bugs is a pain.
I would protect the tree trunks with some type of Vinyl Tree Wrap or some type of poultry fencing. You can pick this up at Home Depot or Lowes. This keeps the deer from rubbing their antlers on the tree bark in the fall and nibbling on the buds. I place deer netting at the base of the trees to keep the rabbits, raccoons and rodents away.
I would reccommend planting your trees in the fall. The cool rains soak the ground giving your tree roots a good start.
To your success,
Kelly Wissink
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Meet the Author- The Lensography of Kelly Wissink
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Apple Tree Planting
UMass Fruit Advisor: Planting apple trees
Planting bare-root apple trees, Snappy Mac/B9, at the UMass Cold Spring Orchard, April 13, 2006
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- @Spinelli666 I am not planting fruit trees, while you & all your Lib friends sit back & watch. To watch each each of you take the fruit of
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- MissyMichael813
- fruit trees and she'll be planting more when falls comes. There's just too much exciting things to do in spring and summer like fish and
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- Afrowoman007
- ok...anyway thought i should mention i'm planting them friggin fruit trees again. my umpteenth time trying this. grapes, mandarins, tomatoes
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- mommygoddess
- PLanting 6 fruit trees today......call me Mother Earth, won't you?!
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- brownthumbgirl
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- runninmommy
- Exhausted. Done planting fruit trees, entertained dear friends and now off to bed to get ready for an early morning. Is it Friday yet?
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- sighclone
- planting out the first of fruit trees, in my #foodforest, limes, oranges & figs ...hopes its not too cold!
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- runninmommy
- Planting fruit trees gives me blisters on my blisters. Only 8 more to go.
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- FinsburyPeople
- Finsbury Park Orchards: Hackney Council are planting fruit trees by the side of the roads and whilst they look g.. http://bit.ly/qse0u
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- errorik
- My dilemma: planting 5 trees (non-fruit) in back. Do we get all the same or how should we mix em up? ABABA, AABAA, ABCBA, ABCDE, AABBC, ...
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- firefinch
- New jewelry pieces by Love Heals:a family company that has used profits to finance the planting of over 250,000 forestry & fruit trees!
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- neesharadia
- @rappingyogi Yay,im not alone munching on all things green and fruit! Gosh - we are feeding on nature...we should replace by planting trees
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- Majinvegito3
- Doing a farm run and a lot of my fruit trees aren't done yet. It's only because I was lagging when planting them yesterday. Stupid lag...
Training Your Apple Trees
UMass Fruit Advisor: apple training techniques
Training techniques (stripping, pinching, clothespins) for young apple trees; Win Cowgill and Jon Clements, at the UMass Cold Spring Orchard, Belchertown, MA, May 31, 2006
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How to Keep the Deer Away From Your Fruit Trees
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- How To Keep Deer Away from Your Garden | How To Do Things.com
- Don't be lulled into feeling bad for Bambi. Yes, these giant stomachs with legs have big eyes and cute lashes, but they eat six to 10 pounds of arborvitae and rhododendron a...
Apples, Apples, Apples
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How To Make Apple Pie : Independent Watkins Associate Melody Thacker
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I love apple pie, the delightful smell as it bakes, the flaky crust and sweet spicey filling. There are a few secrets to making a great apple pie, so keep reading to learn more... First of all you need to start with the very best ingredien...
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Grandpa's Crunchy Apple Chips
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Every Fall, Grandpa used his home-built food dehydrator to preserve part of the harvest from his carefully-tended orchard. He’d turn baskets of Italian plums into tasty pitted prunes, and bushels of apples into leathery slices, perfect snacks f...
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Apples, Apples, Apples
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This lens is all about apples. Apple history, types of Apples, Apple Merchandise. If you are an Apple lover you will find Apple recipes, Apple crafts for kids, OK it's all about Apples!
Pruning Your Apple Tree
UMass Fruit Advisor, 02/12/07, Pruning central-leader apples
UMass Fruit Advisor, 02/12/07, Pruning central-leader apple trees
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Cherry Tree Training
UMass Fruit Advisor: Bud removal of sweet cherry
Bud removal of young sweet cherries, Gisela rootstock, at the UMass Cold Spring Orchard, April 27, 2006
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Fruit Tree Nurseries and Supplies
- Nourse Farms
- Welcome to Nourse Farms. We specialize in the production of high quality, certified disease and virus free strawberry and raspberry plants for commercial growers and home gardeners. We also offer a wide selection of black raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, currants, gooseberries, asparagus root
- Hilltop Fruit Trees | Welcome!
- Welcome to Hilltop Fruit Trees Online Our new catalog is now available for download! Hilltop Fruit Trees is North America's premier grower of commercial fruit trees. We sell primarily to commercial growers in the United States and Canada. We specialize in apple,cherry,and peach trees.
- Home Orchard Society, Growing Good Fruit At Home : Articles, tips & Backyard Fruit Growing forums
- Home Orchard Society, Growing Good Fruit At Home. Articles, forums, and other resources for home orchardists. Tips for you home orchard & garden. HOS is a nonprofit educational organization.
- Raintree Nursery, fruit, nut and berry plants for the American fruit grower
- Raintree selects fruit varieties for flavor and ease of growing, with you the backyard gardener in mind. We have searched the world to collect the best backyard fruit varieties for you, the American gardener.
- Gardener's Supply Company
- Gardener's Supply was founded in 1983 by a handful of enthusiastic Vermont gardeners. Today, we serve millions of gardeners nationwide, offering everything from seedstarting supplies and garden furniture to flower supports and garden carts. Though our company has grown, we remain passionately committed to providing garden-tested, earth-friendly products that will help our customers have more fun and success in their gardens.
- Burnt Ridge Nursery
- Burnt Ridge Nursery and Orchards is a family-owned farm, in business since 1980. Our 20-acre farm is located in the foothills of the Cascade mountains with a beautiful view of Mount St. Helens. Our mail order nursery specializes in unusual and disease resistant trees, vines, and shrubs that produce edible nuts or fruits. We also have a large selection of Northwest native plants and ornamental and useful landscape trees. We send nice sized, healthy, well-rooted plant material. The varieties we carry have done well in our orchards. If you have questions, please feel free to call, write or email us. We can help you make appropriate choices for your growing area.
Fruit Tree Research and Development
- UMass Fruit Advisor
- Welcome to the UMass Fruit Advisor. This site is dedicated assisting commercial fruit growers in Massachusetts and throughout the Northeastern United States.
- Massachusetts Fruit Growers Association
- Find a Massachusetts Fruit Grower
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Fruit Grower - Scaffolds
- Welcome to Scaffolds Fruit Journal, the weekly update on pest management
and crop development. Scaffolds is published by Cornell University.
Other sites of interest:
Cornell Fruit Program homepage
Cornell Tree Fruit Pest Management Guidelines
Tree Fruit and Berry Pathology Page - information on fruit diseases and much more, including Pesticide Status Updates
IPM Tree Fruit Insect Fact Sheets
Apple IPM: A Guide for Sampling and Managing Major Apple Pests in New York State
The Virtual Orchard - a site for the dissemination of information on all aspects of sustainable apple production
The Good Fruit Grower - an industry magazine that covers aspects of fruit growing and marketing
Great Lakes Fruit Growers News - timely news briefs
WSU Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center - Washington State University, Wenatchee, Washington
Online Crop Database - Ohio State University
USDA/ARS, Corvallis, Oregon - contains all of the color plates from The Pears of New York and the Small Fruits of New York
apple-crop@orchard.uvm.edu - send a message with the word "subscribe" in the subject heading to join a bulletin board for multidisciplinary discussions of current research/extension questions that arise in tree fruit production and research
West Virginia University Experiment Farm WWW Site - Emphasis on Plant Pathology, with a key to fruit diseases and color "fact sheets"; also has a link to the VA Tech Entomology site, with info from the Mid-Atlantic Orchard Monitoring Guide
Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Station Homepage, with links to research, bulletins, county programs, and IPM
Illinois Fruit and Vegetable Newsletter, which covers fruit and vegetable production and pest management topics, primarily for Illinois / Midwest growers
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Fruit Loop - a cooperative World Wide Web site combining information on all aspects of deciduous tree fruit production in the mid-Atlantic region. Cooperating state universities include Virginia Tech, West Virginia University, the University of Maryland, Rutgers, and the University of Vermont
The Virginia Fruit page: focused on entomology, with an extensive collection of color photographs and fact sheets on fruit pests. Also has links to fruit professionals and the agricultural industry, as well as frequently updated weather information
UMass Fruit Advisor - A clearinghouse of information for Massachusetts fruit growers, including the Healthy Fruit and Berry Notes newsletters, meeting notices, and management guidelines.
Organic Orcharding Portal - Michael Phillips, the author of The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist, maintains this useful website, which includes valuable insights into growing apples organically. - Pennsylvania Tree Fruit Production Guide
- he Tree Fruit production guide is a commerical guide for Pennsylvania fruit growers containing cutural, chemical, disease, insect and harvesting recommendations.
- Planning the Home Fruit Planting
- t is desirable to locate the fruit planting as close to your home as possible. Where space is limited, fruit trees may be set in almost any location suitable for ornamental plants. Consider the mature size of the tree when designing the planting.
Dwarf fruit trees lend themselves admirably to ornamental plantings as well as orchards. They come into bearing earlier than standard-sized trees, occupy less space, and can be more easily pruned and sprayed with equipment normally available to the average gardener. Most nurseries now carry dwarf and semidwarf apple trees of all varieties. Dwarf pear, peach, and cherry trees of a few varieties are offered by some nurseries, but are not recommended because trees may not survive more than five years due to disease and incompatibility problems. - Fruit Resourses at MSU - The Fruit AoE Team Pages
- Apple Maturity Info
& Reports
Michigan Fruit Program
Calendar
Michigan Fruit Links
General Information
Fruit IPM or
Pest Management - Apple Web Site
- SU Fruit Team
Michigan is one of the leading apple producing states. It is ranked second or third in apple production each year behind Washington State. - Articles on Fruit Trees
- Any natural forest has several canopy layers in it, and you'll want to replicate this in a food forest. In hot areas the shade cast by larger trees can be a real asset to a garden, providing a niche for plants that are shade loving or less tolerant of heat. In colder climates where heat and light are more precious you'll want to plant fewer layers and space your plants out more to permit better sunlight penetration. The upper story can consist of nut trees such as chestnut, hickory, stone pine and standard size fruit trees such as apples, pears, cherries and plums. The next layer can consist of dwarf and semi-dwarf fruit and nut trees - apples, pears, peaches, apricots, plums, filberts, almonds, Next you can plant a shrub layer of bush and cane berries such as raspberry, blackberry, blueberry elderberry, gooseberry & currant. Even the ground layer planting has more than one dimension to it - you can plant vines that grow up into the trees, cover crops that protect the soil and fix nitrogen, vegetables for your kitchen, and root crops that penetrate into the soil and bring up nutrients from the subsoil.
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Nice lenses, my grandmother had apple trees, pear trees and fig trees when I was growing up. We could usually be found in one at any given time. I also liked to maple syrup lens.
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Greta lense! My husband wants to grow apple trees, but with all the der we have, I don't know:)
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