Hey yall. This is an excellent website and I want to thank all of you for helping eachother out. So to entertain myself I wanted to share my small young orchard.
The first settlers of the county I grew up in settled in 1857 along the river bank, about a mile west of my house I grew up in and still own. They had a large scale farm, as well as a ferry to boat people across the river. In a computerized drawing of what their farm was, just south of the rock barn with holes all around it (I got to walk into it in person when I was 12) to defend against indian attacks, was a fenced off apple orchard. Ever since that moment, I wanted one.
The house I grew up in on that same river was built in the 1890s, and it had orchard in a certain spot at some point. It was a pear tree which still exists but does not fruit due to severe old age, three apple trees, and a cherry tree. It has very good soil, whatever grew there was very healthy and our pony would completely anielate it.
I finally got that plot excevated of weeds and trees and LOTS of poison ivy and started planting about a couple years ago. I have the old pear tree that I pruned and got it to actually flower, a Kieffer pear, Red Haven peach, Gala and Honeycrisp apple trees, Stella cherry, two Montmorency cherries, a Methley plum, a Harcot apricot and a Perfection apricot tree.
At my house I live in now 30 minutes away, I plan on planting two Whitegold cherries (thanks to a recommendation from one of you), and Iām taking a shot at stratifying two white nectarine seeds and several Mirabelle Plum seeds. I will so plant a Lovell peach tree growing back from the rootstock.
What do you all have growing at your homes?!
