Best place to buy fruit trees online for Texas
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Comments (12)I actually have a business that includes a bearing age fruit tree nursery. I don't sell my trees via mail and am in the east coast so I'm not writing this as a promotion, but I've been doing this for 25 years as a business that grows, installs and manages orchards, mostly on estates of very wealthy people. I can probably offer some useful advice. If there are any commercial orchards near you they will likely be willing to sell you some trees for a reasonable price if you are willing to dig them up. You can hire a man with a tree spade to do this for you, but apple trees, especially if they are under 3" in caliber transplant well bare root. It the orchard soil is light (not clay) it is not too much work do dig the trees out moving as much root as possible and wrapping everything up with wet blankets or tarps filled with wet leaves to move them to their new site. I have found that most species of fruit trees, pears being an exception, actually transplant extremely well as bare roots. If you can't do the work you can hire someone in the business to do it for you. I hope you are a beneficiary of the energy boom in your state so you can afford it. Of course, I'm not sure there are even ANY commercial orchards in N. Dakota. If there are none in your area that should probably tell you something. I would start with some cheap, small Honey Crisp, Zestar and other extremely hardy apple varieties and just see if they will survive....See MoreBest fruit tree to grow in Dallas, Texas
Comments (11)I planted a couple of Mexican plum trees. Small trees that produce lots of small sized plums that are delicious. It took, I think, about 2 years to get a decent sized crop on each tree. They don't need to be sprayed with poison, and they don't need pollination. They do great in the Dallas area, with the heat. Pretty small white flowers in the spring. But the trees don't live a long time. I did everything to make the fig trees live. I planted them in various places in my yard (which faces south), up against a building, behind a huge shrub, on one side of the yard and on the other. I carefully watered, dug the holes properly as far as I can tell. Several died separately at different times, then the last 4 or so all died at the same time. I think they may have gotten the one disease that fig trees get....I forget what it is. The leaves shrivel up and turn brown and die suddenly. I don't have much soil, and the soil is awful hard clay that doesn't drain well. I added some amendments when I planted, but you're not supposed to add a lot, or the roots will go into shock when the reach the real soil. They lasted long enough to produce a few figs (a couple of years). It's just too hot, and the soil is too bad, and the winter too cold. This is really not an area conducive to subtropical plants, which is what a fig is. You are lucky. You may have unusual soil in your area. There are a few areas with better soil. I also had a dwarf magnolia tree die, as well as several Foster Stevens shrubs, gardenia, roses (I even used an axe to dig out the rock to create an 8X8 rose bed, to no avail). Bear in mind that I'm no idiot. I've successfully grown many trees, some citrus, vegetables, watermelon. I guess it's my yard....See MoreWhere is a good place to buy fruit trees?
Comments (20)Raccoon, Don't waste your money on those 'fruit tree stakes'. Most fruit trees don't really even need fertilizing - and if you're giving them a high-nitrogen fertilizer, it may just compound your problem with it NOT fruiting - if you're 'pushing' vegetative growth, there's no impetus for your tree to switch over to the 'production' mode. Again, as TedP indicated, some apple varieties require more chill-hours than they'll get in the Deep South; reputable nurseries shouldn't sell high-chill varieties to folks in low-chill areas....See MoreBest place to grow Fruit Trees - OUTSIDE of California
Comments (26)The other crops are pretty boring like number one in beets, we have a sugar industry here. 6th in peaches I guess my point any place you live is what you make it. I have an orange tree, a black peppercorn plant, cacti, and fig trees. I can grow anything I want. I have a limited season, but the plants don't know that. Peppers and tomatoes are tropical plants yet grown everywhere. Both originating from South America. I hate our winters, but we don't have poisonous spiders or snakes, no hurricanes, or earthquakes, just an occasional tornado. Cost of living is really decent here too. I own waterfront property but am middle class, hard to do in CA or FL. Everyplace has it good points and bad, it is what you make of it. I have often thought of moving but many of the things mentioned changed my mind. I'm excited this week I have all kinds of new plants coming. Spring is at last here, and after the hard winter, the roses never smelled sweeter! I have Nadia the cherry-plum hybrid tree coming. It's like a huge cherry! Developed in Australia. You couldn't grow that in FL, not enough chill hours. Two elderberries new cultivars from the Netherlands that are pruned like raspberries, making management and harvest rather simple. Two new currants, a pink, and a red one. Again cannot be grown in CA or FL due to these cultivars not taking the heat. I picked up three more blackberry plants, and a tropical fruit tree, that produces the sherbert berry. I will have to overwinter inside. This cultivar is from India. I added two plum trees Satsuma, and a weeping Santa Rosa plum. Both are very good Japanese plums. My raspberry crop is going to be huge this year, as is my strawberry and blackberry crops. I have garlic, and onions planted out already and have 15 tomatoes, and 15 pepper plants ready to be planted out. My Spice Zee nectaplum has swollen blossoms, about ready to bloom, As does my pluot tree, and Indian Free and pf-Lucky 13 peach trees. Also my Arctic Glo nectarine is loaded with fruit buds. The blueberries are going to produce a large crop, as our my currants too. Getting ready to plant beans, cucumbers, melons and watermelons. I'm growing orange, yellow and red watermelons this year. Have a good spring everybody!...See Moreweldontx
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