Backyard Apple Orchard

Think creatively with your space.

Backyard apple orchard. Most trees need good well drained soil and prefer slightly higher ground for drainage. Fruit trees their form fruit bark and foliage may also serve an aesthetic role in the home landscape. So pick the area s you wish to grow your trees in and dig down as far as you can to look at that soil.

You may have room for a full sized apple in the corner of the backyard a dwarf cherry on the side of the house and a couple of plum trees in the front yard. Remember that trees don t have to go side by side in your home orchard. At times the store can be busy and it is difficult to separate by 6 ft so in order to help us please send one representative from your group into the store to pay and or order food and ice cream.

This is accomplished by planting an assortment of fruit trees close together and keeping them small by summer pruning. The objective of backyard orchard culture is a prolonged harvest of tree ripe fruit from a small space in the yard. Setting up your orchard will depend on your space and landscape.

Deep soil up to six feet is also important. Pest and disease management home gardeners can protect their own fruit from pests and diseases as well as keep commercial orchards safe from pest infestations and spread of disease by regular spray programs several times a year. Codling moth and western cherry fruit fly are pests that are not allowed in.

Sometimes the incentive for having fruit trees in your backyard may simply be nostalgic by sparking fond childhood memories. Backyard orchard culture is not commercial orchard culture. Please stay with your group and remember to social distance while in the fields and in the store.

You might even consider starting some fruit trees such as figs in pots. Backyard fruit tree resources.