Welcome IA neighbor! I am glad you made it here.
Tony
Hi guys I was more of a lurker on GW but did post occasionally. I was Plumstupid on there. Iām so glad Scott started this form and so glad I found olpea, Scott, fruit nut and the rest of the pack. I grow peaches and plums in Missouri an hour east of KC and love the info you guys supply.
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Welcome Borer
Good evening, I was directed to look in on Scot at Houzz-GW. I find the forum has moved. And here we all are.
Like many boomers I would homestead a place for a year or ten. i would establish something for an arbor.
Age and disability made me minaturize my arbor into bonsai.
This resettlement I am trying to build a little something for a legacy for my eldest and her mother here in SE OH.
Tom
plumstupidā¦lol. That is an awesome screen nameā¦you should have kept it.
Thanks guys for the welcome. Itās so awesome to have a place to hang out again. Has Harvestman joined?
Iām excited to find this site and very grateful Scott, that you have created it.!!! Just joined GW last year and made only a few posts but hated the new incarnation. Hereās a little of my history. My dad survived the depression by bartering and ended up with a 20 acre orchard in western Michigan by getting paid with a tree for every ten he planted. I grew up being allowed to eat whatever I wanted whenever I wanted from that orchard. Fruit was our only dessert! Moved to Va for college (UVa) then Tenn for grad school and then to Mich, Tenn again, Scotland for a year, back to Mich and finally here to NC. Iāve started backyard orchards six times but almost always moved again before they fruited, except for some awesome Kerry Pippen and WilliamāsPride apples. Finally settled down with 8 trees in 2011. This spring Iāll be putting in 4 apples on M7 and 13 more on G11 and G41. The dwarfs will be spaced 3 ft apart in a raised bed. Iām eager for any constructive criticism of my plan! I dug a 40 ft trench, 3ft wide and 20" deep with a drain pipe in the bottom to ensure drainage. There are concrete blocks surrounding the trench. I backfilled with a mix of 45% original clay-loam, 50% composted topsoil and 5% sand. The top is now 28" above the trench bottom. My plan is for a living wall with three wires for support. I also will be trying some grafting for the first time and will hopefully have thirteen more ready for a second row in 2016. Oh yes, weāll be filling the blocks with the topsoil and planting daffodils, nasturtums, lavender and garlic in the holes. Thereās dutch white clover growing in the bed now, and I plan to use comfrey for mulch. Oops! Sorry for rambling on. Just so excited to see you all here and loving the atmosphere. Big smiles from this old man!
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UnclEllwyn7a. Welcome to the forum. Scott did an awesome job setting this up.
Ramble on.
It is a pleasure to be able to put a ālife storyā to the name and face. Makes for a much more pleasant experience here.
Mike
I was known as āswampsnaggsā on the gardenweb forum, I have truncated it to āswampsā.
Apples have always been my favorite fruit, and having had the experience of eating them off the idared tree at the old family homestead caused me to want to plant some apple trees of my own. Planted along with my mail-order trees and my big box store trees is a tree that is very dear to me. I started it from the seeds that I found to be sprouting inside a granny smith apple in 1997. Voles ate most of the seedling trees I planted from seed but one survived. As luck would have it the tree produces delicious yellow apples and is somewhat disease resistant.
I live on about a hectare of expensive swampland in northwest new jersey. It is good land for corn and just about everything else (zone 5b/6a) but it floods severely from time to time. My seedling tree doesnāt seem to mind the occasional flood.
Thanks Scottfsmith for hosting this forum. It is good to see so many familiar names here.
Welcome swamps.
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Glad you came swamps. Gotta love them seedling trees.
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This topic has been slipping down so I pinned it so new users would see it. If you are not a new user you probably want to click on the pin icon to un-pin it, then it will stop being pinned for you (but it will stay pinned for new users).
Scott
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Hi Scottfsmith, I am happy to be a new member on this website, I have missed reading advice and comments made by the āold familiar crewā. I donāt comment much, but I am a dedicated reader and when I need to know something, you guys are the āgo toā people! My real name is Annie and I have always had a love of growing things. I grew up in New Jersey in Essex county. (Newark, Orange, Irvington) I was born In Wilson, NC-but my family moved us to New Jersey when I was only 5 years old. I work in a Med. Clinic that is pretty popular here in Atlanta, GA where I am currently residing. I moved from New Jersey 15 years ago to Douglasville Ga. I bought a house 5 years ago and have been living the dream of gardening to my āhearts delight.ā I am an āolderā person in my mid 50ās. I have been navigating the Garden Web since I bought the house as I have been a gardener since the last 12 years. Just want to say it is good to be amongst family againā¦I found this website through someone telling another person about it on one of the replies on the Houzz website. Thanks again Scottfsmith, this journey is continuing on!!!
Scott, I sure hope I put this post in the right place and in the right order! Please forgive me if I didnāt!!!
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Welcome Annie. Glad you made it here!!
Tony
Annie,
Welcome on board. By the way, 50ās is the new 30ās, at least thatās what I believe!!
Hello friends. This is great to read about the folks that have been helping me with my fruit trees for the last 8 years. I was thomis on the garden forum so I guess Iāll keep the same incorrect silly spelling of my middle name. I started using the fruits and nuts forum in early 2007 when I started my hobby orchard. Its been a great ride overall, but having two children put it on the backburner. Iāve renewed my interest as my kids are older now and they can hang out with me in the orchard. I just planted 19 new fruit trees the past five months and now have a total of maybe 45 fruit trees, mostly dwarf, mostly pomme and mostly heirloom. Also, this is the first time trying some of the new G rootstocks from Geneva through Cumminās nursery. Looking forward to seeing how they do. I am blessed with nice friable loamy soil and the trees like it.
Iāve struggled with growing tart cherries (I know there is no chance of sweet) and that has really disappointed me. Iām trying two new tart cherries this spring, hopefully I can keep them alive. They usually make it to their third leaf with me and then die a quick bacterial canker death. I have prunus serotina all around me and that doesnāt help as they are a natural carrier. Currently the only tart cherry I have alive is an English Morello on Krymsk stock if I recall correctly. Mazzard, Mahaleb and Gisela 5 have all failed me. Scott, I noticed on your stone fruit list you havenāt tried Early Richmond or surefire. Wonder why? And you arenāt too far from me, what rootstocks are your Montmorency trees on?
Thanks for listening, Iām glad I found you folks over here!
By the way, does anyone know3 where Don Yellman went to?
Good to have you aboard and spread the word.
Mike