Comments on: Small Kitchen Garden Fruit Tree Update http://www.smallkitchengarden.net/small-kitchen-garden/small-kitchen-garden-fruit-tree-update For kitchen gardeners with limited space Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:52:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Nicole http://www.smallkitchengarden.net/small-kitchen-garden/small-kitchen-garden-fruit-tree-update/comment-page-1#comment-457 Nicole Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:38:44 +0000 http://www.smallkitchengarden.net/small-kitchen-garden/small-kitchen-garden-fruit-tree-update#comment-457 fall gets the roots time to develop underground during the winter makes a stronger tree overall fall gets the roots time to develop underground during the winter makes a stronger tree overall

]]> By: admin http://www.smallkitchengarden.net/small-kitchen-garden/small-kitchen-garden-fruit-tree-update/comment-page-1#comment-144 admin Thu, 14 May 2009 18:14:13 +0000 http://www.smallkitchengarden.net/small-kitchen-garden/small-kitchen-garden-fruit-tree-update#comment-144 William: I wrote a post that presented reasons to plant perennials in the fall: http://www.smallkitchengarden.net/small-kitchen-garden/as-autumn-arrives-plant-fruit-trees If I could find what I want locally, or stomach the cost of shipping larger trees with extensive root balls, I'd plant trees that had not yet gone dormant in early autumn. Another thought occurred to me: if you buy from a nursery north of you, you'll probably get earlier delivery. My trees came in November because the nursery held them until they went dormant. The same trees purchased from Maine would have been dormant, perhaps, a month earlier. Ray: Pecan trees should produce for us in hardiness zone 5b/6a. I saw many examples of Pennsylvania-grown pecans at the Farm Show last winter. William: I wrote a post that presented reasons to plant perennials in the fall: http://www.smallkitchengarden.net/small-kitchen-garden/as-autumn-arrives-plant-fruit-trees If I could find what I want locally, or stomach the cost of shipping larger trees with extensive root balls, I’d plant trees that had not yet gone dormant in early autumn. Another thought occurred to me: if you buy from a nursery north of you, you’ll probably get earlier delivery. My trees came in November because the nursery held them until they went dormant. The same trees purchased from Maine would have been dormant, perhaps, a month earlier.

Ray: Pecan trees should produce for us in hardiness zone 5b/6a. I saw many examples of Pennsylvania-grown pecans at the Farm Show last winter.

]]> By: Ray Campbell http://www.smallkitchengarden.net/small-kitchen-garden/small-kitchen-garden-fruit-tree-update/comment-page-1#comment-143 Ray Campbell Thu, 14 May 2009 15:16:04 +0000 http://www.smallkitchengarden.net/small-kitchen-garden/small-kitchen-garden-fruit-tree-update#comment-143 Had the pecan trees survived, would you have expected them to produce nuts at your latitude and climate? I know they have new northern varieties of pecan trees that can survive northern winters, but I'm not clear whether they actually produce nuts. Had the pecan trees survived, would you have expected them to produce nuts at your latitude and climate? I know they have new northern varieties of pecan trees that can survive northern winters, but I’m not clear whether they actually produce nuts.

]]> By: william sullivan http://www.smallkitchengarden.net/small-kitchen-garden/small-kitchen-garden-fruit-tree-update/comment-page-1#comment-142 william sullivan Thu, 14 May 2009 03:03:40 +0000 http://www.smallkitchengarden.net/small-kitchen-garden/small-kitchen-garden-fruit-tree-update#comment-142 Why plant fruit trees in the fall instead of the spring? Why plant fruit trees in the fall instead of the spring?

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