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Best Ways to Plant and Grow Fruit Trees
Even on the smaller home lots there is usually a place for a few fruit trees. In many cases a small home orchard is possible. In smaller places fruit trees can be worked in with the landscape planting. As a whole, fruit trees grow rapidly and if well cared for they are tidy and a desirable feature of the landscape
APPLE TREES ARE EASY TO GROW
Planted in small orchard plots they should be 35-40 feet apart. However, they may be flanked, and smaller trees such as cherry, plum, peach, or apricot placed between the apple trees as fillers.
The apple tree is the most desirable fruit tree for landscape planting. It can be used at the back or side of the lawn, or even on the open lawn if pruned so the trunk grows up sufficiently high to leave plenty of space underneath. Normally, apple trees should be pruned with the trunk forking about 4 to 6 feet above the ground to make the branches low hanging.
OTHER TREES
Pear, peach, plum, apricot, and cherry trees can be grown in most home orchards. Their use in landscape planting is primarily restricted to background material for lawns or vegetable gardens.
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Comment by Neil Norton on July 30, 2012 at 10:00am -
Just returned from a visit to Mountain View, Cailf which was part of the Santa Clara Valley and better known as the heart of the Silicon Valley. Most the land is used for housing, transit, and commercial with some greenspace along the edges towards the bay and Santa Cruz Mountains. Not so long ago this was a highly productive agricultural area and remnants of that can be seen by the abundant fruit trees. There is so much fruit in people's front yards most let it rot. They need to look to see what Concrete Jungle is doing in Atlanta. CJ harvests fruit in the right away and gives and private owners that have agreed and gives to homeless shelters. California is the land of plenty, but don't let the fruit rot!
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