Really not too happy with all the bare roots I’ve gotten so far from everyone else because most have been more chopped off than last year’s trees.
I’ll take a photo of the roots tomorrow when i grab more trees, before i stick them in some soil as storage lol. They don’t have much stock this year compared to last so I’m trying to grab what i can before they all disappear from RE.
Y’all are bad influences haha just ordered a sweet treat pluerry and kakariki from burnt ridge since it’s on patent and I don’t see waiting 20 years for a scion. It will be pot bound for the time being.
It’s better than drugs or alcohol or smoking 
you sure you just want kakariki? I’ve heard Kaiteri has one of the best flavors in all of the NZ varieties 
and Marion is the sweetest
Also can you post a photo of the feijoa when you get it? Curious how big theirs are. The entrance to their nursery is very steep and with this snow, ice, and cold we’ve had, it’s quite dangerous to visit or I’d visit them to pick up more stuff too.
Sure, no I want others also, but I don’t have a contingency plan for it just yet. I have a theory of where it will go and perhaps I’ll add a kaiteri next along the driveway. I’d like a hedge of them along the driveway, but that’s the next “project”. It’s a thin strip of land between me and my neighbors so I will see how it goes. I’ve yet to even try feijoa but I have 4 seedlings already which I’m grafting onto, so before I commit to the driveway I’d love to try my seedlings first. I’m sure I’ll like them but who knows.
Im adding around 200 new trees and i have decided to pot them up in grow bags kinda like this. Works out to around 50cent per bag.
Last year i felt as if i mostly was doing triage keeping things alive during the drought and scorching summer. I spent way too much time watering new things…let alone the effort.
I kinda have a feeling that this summer will be worse… so im going with the better safe than sorry model.
I have a feeling that I invested wisely… as prices of things as well as shipping will increase…
Instead of watering and worrying and inspecting 200 new plantings i would rather spend that time with my brambles, strawberries, mulbs, figs, bluebs and new to me fruit bearing trees. Not to mention my tomatoes and potatoes.
And i think i may as well get going with chickens.
The strangest part is that yesterday i perused through fruit trees on a pallet at Menards havent even been put out yet. And im counting the days until Tractor Supply, Rural King and the Box stores get their offerings out. I have no idea why as i have most all of them but i cant help but want to go fruit hunting for something that interests me.
By the time i am done my farm/orchards are going to look like Luther Burbank had OCD and a credit card.
It’s a disease, kind of like alcoholism. Once you start collecting fruit, you can’t stop!
Edited: I just saw that Melon had the same thought! Great minds, eh?
Trying to cut back this year. My list to plant so far is:
Nannyberries (2)
Spicebush (2)
Witchhazel (2)
Allegheny Pawpaw
Meader Persimmon
H63a Permission
Journey Persimmon
8 Persimmon seedlings from Comptons breeding work to plant
10 Pawpaws seedlings from Peterson genetic lines
Two whole flats of American holly seeds from Oikos Nursery that should germinate since this is their second winter.
Sloe, manchurian apricot, and hybrid Plum seeds.
Korean nut pine seeds.
2 Dawn Redwood
2 Bald Cypress
54 American and European Beech Seedlings
Trader Red Mulberry
2 Maypop vines
10 or so more hardy kiwi vines
Chicago Hardy and Florea Figs to plant out
Wentworth and Kalinkas Highbush Cranberries
Texas scarlet and Susan’s surprise flowering quinces
A couple Paulownia trees
Few more chestnut seedlings
Snow Sweet Apple
And the stuff I forgot.
That’s my list for the stuff I don’t have to graft. All these are already purchased, or started/ grafted last year.
I might grab some red apples too after reading the red apple thread lol
Andddd… joining groups that encourage this behavior doesn’t help 
BUT IT’S A HEALTHY ADDICTION…
your brave planting beech. 2 diseases, one fungal the other bacterial have decimated them here. they rarely survive to get bigger than 10ft. anymore. too bad as they were the only mast tree that grows up here. i have childhood memories of climbing huge beeches in sept. to shake the nuts onto tarps below. maybe the euro. ones might be immune. they are also very slow growers. why im trying chestnuts up here. i want to get nuts before i die. 
I realize it maybe a lost cause. Especially the new beach leaf disease, looks particularly fatal. I want to do it anyway. There’s no tree that looks quite like a beech. Their native range ends about 75 miles east of here at the border of the Superior Lowlands/Uplands. I have about 10 Chestnut trees already, some American some otherwise. Few of them are getting up close to 6 ft.
These are my orders for zone 3, spring 2025.
| Prairie Hardy Nursery | Delivery Date | # |
|---|---|---|
| M360 Apple | 1 | |
| Autumn Glow Sea Buckthorn | 2 | |
| Prairie Sunset Sea Buckthorn | 2 | |
| Harvest Moon Sea Buckthorn | 2 | |
| Lord Sea Buckthorn | 1 | |
| TreeTime | ||
| Bob Gordon Elderberry | May 20-23rd | 2 |
| Chester Thornless Blackberry | 10 | |
| Krazulya Pear | May 12-15th | 1 |
| Beedle Pear | 1 | |
| Aurora Haskap | 2 | |
| Misc Order | ||
| Romeo Cherry | 4 | |
| Boreal Blizzard Haskap | 8 | |
| WhiffleTree Nursery | May 9th | |
| Trader Mulberry | 1 | |
| Pashja (Male) (Actinidia kolomikta) | 1 | |
| Emerald (Female) (Actinidia kolomikta) | 2 | |
| September Sun (Female) (Actinidia kolomikta) | 1 | |
| Champagne Currant | 1 | |
| Nursery | April 16-30th | |
| Red George Gooseberry | 1 | |
| Pixwell Gooseberry | 1 | |
| Hinnomaki Red Goosebarry | 1 | |
| Black Velvet Gooseberry | 1 | |
| Jonkeer van Tets Red Currant | 1 | |
| Sweet Sixteen Apple | 1 | |
| Pembina Plum (from seed) | 1 | |
| Sokol Plum (from seed) | 1 | |
| T&T Seeds | ||
| Manchurian Apricot | 2 |
This is how most bare roots look like from Restoring Eden.
Grabbing an Odysso Love, Lucy Glo apple trees along with Sprite and delight cherry Plum.
I was given birthday money so…
Those looks great with so many fine roots…btw, Happy Birthday…lol
Yeah! I just added a red love odysso apple to my panic later on. I got it for freeeeee 
actually, it was 2$ but basically free.
Also Indian Free peach 
My kid was sick today. I had planned to roll by there to pick up my Lucy gem and spice Z nectaplum. It would have been funny to have ran into you. Ha
I got one of those extra 4 graft ( on 3 graft pluots) too last year. That place is by far my favorite nursery. My Lucy glow and Lucy rose last year bare root. Huge. 
They grew great,
Don’t waste your time on paw paws. Season too short. Most of the others will probably disappoint, too. I’ve tried a lot of wishful thinking, too, with little success.
And their rewards program is the best out of all nurseries I’ve ever encountered. I remember when they first started and all they had were blueberry plants. Also when they told me they just opened a few days ago 
i was one of their first customers 
and i might have mentioned adding in the rewards program cause i had free coffee punch cards that i was giving away at the time too for my coffee stand.
Ya Im thinking the pawpaw and persimmon wont make it, but not for lack of trying.
