COMMENTS

• Using fruit trees around the orchard for privacy hedges and fencing.
• Keeping fruit trees small – Farmer Greg explains.
• Selecting different variety types of fruit for consecutive harvesting.
• Different fruits ripening over time in succession so they all don’t ripen at once.
• Consider chill hours, root stocks and ripening hours before planting your trees.

COMMENTS

• If a tag on a tree doesn’t have the fruit variety and chill hours, don’t buy it!
• Dwarf rootstocks don’t work in our soils.
• Ripening times. If you’re planting soft flesh fruit tree, plant a variety that ripens and off the tree by July 10th.
• Root stock and chill hours tags should be separate.
• Don’t plant trees around gravel.
• Don’t plant on lawns.
• Dig 6-foot diameter, 6-inches deep for healthy soil and woody mulch. Don’t overwater. Get a moisture meter to monitor watering.

COMMENTS

• Pre-dig the tree hole for planting. Then put in healthy soil.
• Farmer Greg describes the soil mix.
• Growing jujubes and other varieties of berries.