Hope to get the last tree for the season in today.
Where are you at for the 2024 season?
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I planted a seckel and a saijo on Saturday, all done 
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I live in a climate that has very mild winters. In January we had a week or so of snow and freezing temps, but other than that we rarely saw temps below freezing. My preferred time for planting fruit trees is Nov-Dec, so I’ve still got plenty of trees to go in the ground this year that I grafted this spring.
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I’m trying to focus real hard on my annuals now. My son and wife called me out for last year. I was too focused on all my fruit trees and berrry bushes. I let the annuals get out of hand. As in a lot of them died or got choked out by weeds. That’s my goal, keep my hands off the fruit trees as I admire them in the mornings. And focus more on the veggie garden.
I am kinda off the topic of the thread, sorry, but it’s what I’m planting now. 
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I am all done as of several months ago! My grand project of wiping off my city lot and starting with a clean sheet has been a success and 17 new trees, as well as various other goodies, went into the ground this winter/spring. It was a ton of work with a lot of random side-quests, such a building retaining walls to even things out, mixing in thousands of dollars of compost because my soil was completely barren where even weeds struggled to grow, planting cover crops, etc etc but it’s all behind and now I can just see things grow and develop and maybe do some final touches next season.
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Everything is technically in dirt. However their homes for the next few years arrives Friday. So a lot of re-potting{or re-bagging in this case} is about to occur,
I have 4 American persimmons that desperately need planted out, and then I’m done. Waffling on putting one between a 100-46 and a quince on 15 feet spacing. Feels tight. The rest I’m still debating. I hate to do it but might put them in bigger pots for another year until we commit to where we’re putting a barn in.
nope… i will probably be suckered into Stark Bros sales.
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Same thing as you…after 12 years, the weeds won. Pulled out the garden and put in more trees. Some of us are not gardeners…but we can grow fruit and nut trees. That is where I fit in. To do gardens right you gotta be a slave to them. I don’t do good as a slave. Good luck figuring it out!
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I’m working on grafting and planting out rows. I set out my grafted apple row late winter 2024. I have my pear, peach and cherry rows grafted and in pots to babysit over summer. I’ll most likely set them out this fall when they go dormant or perhaps late winter before the break dormancy.
Two of my grafted apples I set out didnt break dormancy. It looks as though it’s a rootstock failure. So I started 10 MM111 airlayers a few weeks ago to replace the two that didnt break dormancy. The remaining air-layered root stocks, i’ll graft for practice and fun and give the takers away to family and friends.
I cant afford to buy all the trees I’ve planned for but I can afford grafting what I planned for and 1 growing season in pots before I set them out in rows.
Like you all, I will probably jump on starkbros sales if its a preferable variety.
My mind says no but my body says yes.
No. (1) I’m awaiting delivery of a mulberry. (2) I’ve put some recently delivered Chinese chestnuts in pots. (3) I’m waiting to see if some persimmon grafts on DV seedlings take; they’re in pots in the basement.
Edit 05/17/24: Mulberry delivered and planted.
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Not the OP but if I were to guess it’s the average user of this forum when nurseries start sending their “end of season” coupons, discounts, etc.
“Just one more raspberry cane, trust me, no no, this time for real, just this one last raspberry cane and done, how bad can it be.” (proceeds to be kicked out to sleep under the apple trees when wife sees the $$$$$ credit card charge)
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A link to a sale Stark is having (the link is to their Facebook page with a link that directs to this -
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Giving Eversweet strawberries a try. Less of a sale than I was hoping for but there’s another full week left in May.
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I thought I was done, but 2 new trees didn’t leaf out, 1 started budding then stopped, and my nectarine from last year died back nearly to the graft in the -20f winter. So I guess I still have some planting to do. That or give up till fall. I guess I’m done buying trees at Ace
unless I get gifts to replace my dead, dry sad jujubes… yep I’m done. I put in more of them bare root and again they didn’t make it. despite babying them in a different spot.