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Post by shadowwalker on Mar 1, 2007 14:27:09 GMT -5
Hope this site takes off. We have sites all over the internet, but most are just bored people.
My wife and my self moved down from Wyoming a few years ago to middle Tennessee. She is from here. So far on five acres we have a 3/4 to 1 acre garden, 1 21 foot x 50 foot greenhouse. I have a produce stand. All veggies are heirlooms. The flowers are both heirlooms and hybirds. I also have a small orchard of fruits and nut trees. About 24 trees total so far. We also have another tree starter/garden/berry starter plot about 80 feet x 125 feet that we fight the wildlife for. It's where I start stuff before we put it in a permanent place. I have a grape ahorbor with over 7 different kinds of grapes. I have a blueberry patch with 9 bushes going on their 3rd year. We have other spots with a herb bed, clematis, roses, and other flowers around the house and lawn. I like to grow exotic berry's also and vines, I really like vines. I grow gourds out of my spots around my trees in the orchard. It works great. I better go for now.
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Post by kimikat on Mar 1, 2007 14:37:58 GMT -5
Welcome Shadowwalker!
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Post by Alan on Mar 1, 2007 17:51:18 GMT -5
;DThanks for the kind words shadowwalker and with your expertise in the orchard area I am sure that you will be valuable resource to us here. I would love to have an orchard here and one way or the other I will get started within the next year on it. Right now all I really have fruit wise here are raspberries (red, yellow, black) wild blackberries, wild raspberries, wild grapevine, dew berries, paw-paws and a occasional wild pear tree (though not on my property) and a wid crabapple. Chickens and an orchard are the next two investments for my business and self-sustainable lifestyle.
-Alan
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Post by downinmyback on Mar 1, 2007 22:49:30 GMT -5
Welcome Shadowalker i live in West Tennessee and hope you like being in the Volunteer State. The winter are mild and easy to live with but the summer can kill you with the heat and humid lol. I too have two apple trees ( one red and the other yellow delicious) also one pear tree so i get enough fruit for myself but not much extra. I also have grapes and thornless blackberry so i guess that keep me busy.
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Post by Alan on Mar 1, 2007 23:37:09 GMT -5
Homegrown pears sound particularly good right now, if the only fruit tree I could have was a pear, I'd take it!  |
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Post by kimikat on Mar 10, 2007 15:42:16 GMT -5
Homegrown pears sound particularly good right now, if the only fruit tree I could have was a pear, I'd take it! *Cough* PEACHES!  |
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Post by shadowwalker on Mar 15, 2007 5:17:15 GMT -5
They are redoing the road past the house and making it a highway. I was driving past the spot where the biggest pear tree is or was growing. It had big green almost round pears. The biggest one last year I could whack down with a stick was 7 1/2 inches tall and 6 inches across. I don't know what it weighed. They had pushed over the tree and were digging a big hole to tie into the water lines. I went back and asked the guys is I could get some cutting. They said at lunch time when no equipment was running I sure could. At lunchtime I was getting cuttings and some of the workers came out to see what's up. I explained what I was doing and they all took cuttings too. I told them what I was going to do to restart them in pots. I have talked to the family that had this tree on their property and it was over 80 years old. That they knew of. I figured it probably was a heirloom of some kind. I don't have any to graft it to so I am root starting it. I only know of one other tree like this one. It was where we go whitetail hunting. It also is beside the road. I talked to the owners and it was over 100 years old. It just appeared one day and grew to over 1 1/2 feet across and probably 40 feet tall. It has pears almost as big as the one that was here. They all are green with little brown spots and sweet, sweet sweeet.
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Post by Alan on Mar 15, 2007 22:19:44 GMT -5
;DI wish I knew where there was a tree like that around here. I can litterally make a meal out of pears! One of these days Im gonna get me some pear trees!
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Post by downinmyback on Mar 15, 2007 23:41:30 GMT -5
Your GF said PEACHES first lol.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Mar 26, 2007 22:05:20 GMT -5
We used to have Pear and Peach trees when we lived a couple of hours south. Think about it  |
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Post by shadowwalker on Mar 31, 2007 22:15:31 GMT -5
I live just north of McMinville Tennessee. It is supposed to be the tree capital of the U.S. Maybe over 100 tree nurseries around there. I can get 6 to 10 feet tall fruit trees for $5.00 each, at the Flea Market. Last week they had Japanese Red Maples about 8 feet tall and a good 4 feet across........$20.00
I can get blueberrys, grapes, ect. When in season to plant. Usually $3.00 to $3.50 each. These all are from people that have been raising trees and bushes for over 25 years.
I just bought a Wisconsin weeping willow about 7 feet tall for $10.00. I'm getting real spoiled off this.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 1, 2007 11:51:06 GMT -5
Those prices are crazy cheap!! Lucky you Shadowwalker.
We live about an hour from an area that raises a lot of apples and strawberries. When we first moved here in the early 90's there would be 2 and 3 yr apple trees advertised for under $10 each depending on variety. Haven't seen prices that cheap in recent years.
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Post by shadowwalker on Apr 2, 2007 20:07:11 GMT -5
This year most of my trees are three years old. Most of them had more blossoms this year. I still have some to flower. But I got fruit! I will take off some of the fruits to let the trees better put energy into the growing of less. I read that is the way, anyway. I still got to read some more.
I get amazed at how many people, that live here, will buy $35.00 and up for fruit trees at a nursery or box store. I have been very happy with my $5.00 ones.
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Post by houseodessey on Apr 2, 2007 20:21:20 GMT -5
Shadow- Are you anywhere near Franklin (Nashville)? I would like my relatives to bring me some of those cheap trees on their next yearly visit if you're around that area.
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Post by dugndirt on Apr 28, 2007 11:38:20 GMT -5
Wow, Shadow! Wish we could find fruit trees that cheap here. Just yesterday discovered that the last freeze and cold spell we had took care of this year's pear and cherry crops for us. The apple tree seems to be ok. It hadn't yet bloomed during the freezing weather and bloomed after it warmed back up. The baby fruit looks ok so far.
Good luck on your projects and especially your new pear cuttings. It's a shame that the original tree had to go in the name of progress(?).
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