Got The Trees In.

[Rich]

These arrived by post last week, and I spent an hour this afternoon putting them in their new homes.

1 cooking apple, 2 dessert apples, a pear and a damson.

These are column trees which grow to about 7 feet and have no spread as the fruit grows beside the trunk.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.hassett1/gifs3/fruit.jpg

[lighthouseseeker]

Oh, I would love to have those. ^_^

[DandyLioness]

Column trees, hu? I've never heard of them. So, you can plant them fairly close together. That's interesting. :unsure:

[Phia]

Nice job! I need to look into fruit trees.

[Sneezie]

:blink: :unsure: Glad you explained that Rich, cause I`d have taken one look and swore you were gonna kill them off by plantin them too close!! Good for you, when I plant something it takes me forever!!!!!!!!!and I mean forever. I`m never satisfied with the first plantin job so of course it all has to be redone!!etc. etc.hahahhahaha :lol: :lol:

[gardenlady]

those look great rich. we used to sell those (columnar apples) they are really something and it looks neat with the fruit all lined up along the trunk. i never tasted the fruit tho. you'll have to share that with us :D

[MrSeedy]

I've seen those types advertised on a few gardening shows, but in few catalogs, but they seem to be the prefect solution to "space" problems , since they don't spread very wide at all, and allow many more trees to be planted in a relatively small space.

[Rich]

They are normal fruit trees grafted to dwarfing root stock M27.

The place I bought them from sell all kinds of fruits, and you just choose the rootstock for the shape of tree you want.

[Sneezie]

:unsure: :blink: That is soooo cool! Very interesting!

[digiflower]

They are really gonna show some color when they get big. :mellow:
How long for fruit? 2 or 3 years?

[MaryG]

What a sweet little orchard that's going to be Rich. Don't forget that those type of trees need very deep watering in the hot weather or else they won't produce much fruit.

MrSeedy all the orchards in the fruit-growing area of British Columbia are starting to replace their old trees with this type of fruit tree. It makes for easier picking as well as easier care of the ground between the rows of trees.

[DandyLioness]

Well Mary, it sounds like the way to go! This thread really taught me something! :P

So... thank you for that! :D

[AStevens]

Will they always need to be staked?

[bjmots]

My boss has a columnar crab apple. Every year I pick the fruit and make crab apple jelly.

[Pennylee]

Western Australia 17th February 8.50am

I like to read about the apple trees, but we can't grow apples where I live. Have to
go several hundred miles south to the apple growing area. Our speciality is
citrus - I have lemons, mandarins and at the moment one little orange tree which
I saved from Death by Tall Weeds. We did have a little orange grove which sadly
was sacrificed to make way for a pool, many years ago. I keep pampering the
little orange and encouraging it to make some fruit. A product called Fruit and
Flowers which has little or no nitrogen but has necessary trace elements
does help to bring about (as it says!) fruit and flowers.

I was cutting back a rampant vine and found it was hiding its grapes underneath,
so I took a picture to show you what a neglected vine can do. (Plenty more to
pick).

[MrSeedy]

Our problem here can be finding fruit trees that can tollerate our very cold winters, and some common favorites such as peaches can even be a bit in doubt for hardiness here!! On the other hand some grapes can do quite well, though they're sometimes suffer winter dieback in cold winters.