With Papers signed on our first home and land (five acres) in February, it was perfect timing for getting going on fruit trees. First to get the old over grown (1 pie cherry and 3 apple) trees pruned.
Then on to planting new fruit trees!
Then on to planting new fruit trees!
starting to prune the over grown trees, and boy did they need it!
After watching YouTube videos on how to plant/prune/care for your back yard orchard we were ready to dig in and get our feet wet.
When planting bare root trees you first want to give their roots a nice sock, so this is were the pond came in handy!
When planting bare root trees you first want to give their roots a nice sock, so this is were the pond came in handy!
not to go to over board (remembering my 3,000 sq. ft. garden) we decided on five new fruit trees for this year knowing we can always add more next year. the ones we chose are, 1 Rainier Cherry, 1 Honey Crisp Apple, 1 Plum tree with four to five kinds of plums grafted on to one tree, pretty cool! 1 Puget Gold Apricot and 1 Hardy Red Nectarine.
from our new gained knowledge from all the videos we watched we dug a hole big enough for the roots to set into flat with out bending up. Then clipping off any that had been broken or damaged or excessively long.
Mixing in tree fertilizer in with the dirt to be put in around the roots
Putting in the dirt mixed with the tree fertilizer back in around the roots. we want to fill in the dirt only up to the original dirt line and just below the graft of were the new tree was grafted on to its root stock.
after you have the dirt in to were you need it pore water on it to settle the dirt around the roots
And yes cruel as it may seem the next step is to prune down your new little trees taking them down to just a few main branches cut back short to promote new growth and keep you tree small and manageable so the fruit is at a level that is easy to pick.
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