Yet another Internet “un-boxing.” This time fruit trees. |
Our bare root fruit tree order just arrived from Bay Laurel Nursery. We ordered:
- Tropic Snow Peach on Nemaguard rootstock
- Panamint Nectarine on Citation rootstock
- CoffeeCake (Nishimura Wase) Persimmon
- Saijo Persimmon (pollinator for CoffeeCake)
- Flavor Finale Pluot on Myrobalan 29C rootstock
- Santa Rosa Plum on Citation rootstock (pollinator for the Flavor Finale Pluot)
- Flavor Delight Aprium on Citation rootstock
The plan is to follow the Dave Wilson nursery’s backyard orchard culture guidelines which we blogged about in detail here. In short, you plant trees close together and prune the hell out of them to keep them small and manageable. We also used Dave Wilson’s handy fruit and nut harvest date chart to, as much as possible, assure that we have some kind of fruit ready to eat during most of the year. All of the varieties we chose have low chill hour requirements since we live in USDA zone 10.