Recommendation for arborist / tree doctor for deciduous fruit trees
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Comments (50)Just a quick mention regarding a possible cheap supply prospect towards obtaining wood chip mulch here, for those interested. I get mine from a local "pallete" manufacturing company. Consider looking that word up in your regional Yellow Pages. This company recycles old palletes that trucking companys, warehouses, and such haul in. They get ground up into a decent average sized aggregate that seems to last for a good while without immediately breaking down or getting moldy. I like this aspect in that it lets in sufficient air to not stay to wet for to long. The old pallete material is in most cases well aged before making it to this stage of the process. This seems to help it last. I'm sure their are a good mix of wood varieties involved. So far no problems with any sorts of mysterious residually enhanced kill-off or die-back effects either! It' not free. But $10.00 gets your pickup loaded in several quick scoops worth of a large skid loader, and your down the road with it. So that alone makes it well worth the minimal expense. They run it over a magnetic belt to remove the majority of nail remains. I can be as generous as necessary with any coverage needs via this option. Not everyone will find a local source for this of course. I do actually consider myself lucky in regards to having this option. But where it may exist, it is both handy & cheap!!! ~ q3...See MoreWhat fruit trees to plant here? (with pictures)
Comments (8)Plums are not considered commercially viable in Minnesota mainly because of short productive life of the trees, the limited shelf life of plums, and the lack of a processing market for culls. Yes, you can keep a tree small through summer pruning, especially apples and pears. The problem with plums, at least the ones that grow here, is that they are nearly impossible to prune and train to a central leader. You get a sort of sprawly open vase whether you want it or not. This makes size control more problematic. Not saying it can't be done, just that it isn't straightforward. If you're willing to make room for a 12-15' tree you'll do fine. Plum trees don't get much bigger than that. Drop me an email sometime if you want and we can get together for a cup of coffee and I'll give you some locally grown plums. We're going to have more than we know what to do with in a few more days, and I work in downtown St. Paul during the week. Pears. You can try growing something on OHxF and take your chances. It might work out fine. There's a fairly recent writeup (late 2002) from the U of M saying they had reasonably good luck with OHxF in Chanhassen. Bear in mind though that pears on OHxF are not true dwarfs, it's more a matter of getting a 20' tree instead of a 40' tree. Availability is also a problem....See MoreTree recommendation
Comments (1)I think a crape myrtle (lagerstroemia sp) will fit the bill perfectly. There are varieties that grow 3-4 metres in pink, purples and white. The bark is spectacular when mature and it has the added bonus of autumn color....See More5 Different Trees and Bushes recommendations NJ zone 6-7
Comments (8)thanks for the recs, I coulda just googled the usda hardiness zone and found many options but I know for example like dogwoods are recently not doing to well in this zone (something with a beatle or something like that) but I will search each type further. Now I think I'm going to actually just plant like 7 different types of trees in between the arboorvitaes! Sounds wrong but I have seen many examples of similar, and it looks cool, also what's good is that for example arborvites sometimes can get snow damaged (limbs break under weight) and if you have a 20 year old screen of them and one gets beat up, you might want to replace it and might be hard to find the exact type and especially size and could be pricey. With using different types, if something dies or gets beat up it can just be replaced. I think I'll try an aprocot tree (have seen one doing well in the area) and a few other evergreen columnars/semi columnar....See Morenhoblitt
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