Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Want to Grow a Fruit Tree in California?

I'm so excited I just found this bit of info that I've got to share: Growing Termperate Tree Fruit and Nut Crops in the Home Garden

My dad manages some rental properties and he just asked me if I could grow some nice looking stuff at one of them where there's some baren ground. *!HAPPYDANCE!* Of course by grow stuff he means put some perennial ornamentals in there that will disguise the dirt and will only need pruning once a year.

Naturally I am dreaming of fruit trees and bushes instead :)

But of course they must be something that will grow well in our area with once a week checkups at most. I had no idea what would do best. I want to research the subject a bit before heading to the nursery because I want to know what to ask about, even if they're not carrying it and it needs special ordering. Then I found the above pdf that has categories of different families of tree crops, each category ending in a beautiful table of varieties of each tree and when their typical harvest is in each area of California - or NA if it won't produce there. I seriously wanted to kiss the computer screen when I saw those.

On to research...

3 comments:

  1. Check out www.EdibleLandscaping.com and call them. They are pretty helpful. They have the zones listed for the trees as well. So fun.

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  2. @ Mike - thanks! I'll add them to the sources I'm going to talk to :)

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  3. Check out www.EdibleLandscaping.com and call them. They are pretty helpful. They have the zones listed for the trees as well. So fun.

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