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A Crash Course in Fruit Tree Planting

Fruit trees are beautiful and useful, while being surprisingly easy to grow in a backyard setting. These trees provide years of beautiful blooms and delicious fruits.

Fruit trees are beautiful and useful, while being surprisingly easy to grow in a backyard setting. These trees provide years of beautiful blooms and delicious fruits.

Fruit trees are beautiful and useful, while being surprisingly easy to grow in a backyard setting. These trees provide years of beautiful blooms and delicious fruits, all while being adaptable to a number of climates. This does, however, depend on the type of fruit. Apple, plum, pear, and peach trees all do excellently in a variety of climates. When tree planting, make sure to follow these steps to ensure you have healthy trees that yield plentiful fruit for years to come.

Purchase A Bare Fruit Root Tree   

 

While trees can be planted from seed, these seeds do not necessarily guarantee the kind of sweet tasting fruits you will want to eat. In order to make sure your tree produces sweet fruits, buy young bare root fruit trees that have already been grafted. You can often find these in local nurseries in late winter months.  

 

Pick A Sunny Spot

 

When tree planting, always put your fruit trees in a sunny spot. These trees need at least six hours of sunlight a day to be healthy and strong. Make sure there is no other foliage nearby, so your fruit trees will not have to compete with other plants for nutrients and water. Plant  with regard to the tree at its full size and not just considering it as a young tree. Don’t plant it where it’s future roots will cause a problem.

 

Pay Attention To The Needs Of Your Specific Tree And Follow Any Planting Instructions

 

Tree planting is far more involved than just sticking fruit trees in the ground. Do your research and know what will make your specific tree flourish so you can be prepared to care for it at its very best and enjoy beautiful and delicious fruits for years and years.  

 

Learn more about trees when you check back with Nelson Tree Specialist!

We also provide top-notch tree care services.  Contact us today for your free quote.  We will respond in a timely manner.  If you need us, we’re available for emergency services 24/7.  No task is too much to ask.

Nelson Tree Specialist is a member of the International Society of Arboriculture, and they have dubbed us a certified arborist.  We’re also an accredited business as declared by the Better Business Bureau, and highly reviewed on Angie’s List.

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