RE: Got my Orchard Planted Early
Hi Dan -
I planted a variety of trees -
Early McIntosh, Canada Baldwin, Goodland, Grimes Golden
Kaneb Sweet, Liveland Raspberry, Macspur, Scott Winter
Peace Garden, Striped Harvey and a Macintosh.
I left room for at least 10 more apple trees in the main plot - and I left a section for a couple Pear, and maybe a pie cherry or two.
I also planted a couple Mount Royal Plums and picked up a few "seedling plums" - they were cheap and I thought they might help in cross polination. - Do deer eat on plum trees as much as apple trees?
For Grapes - I planted :
Fredonia, Worden, St. Pepin, Swenson Red, and Edelweiss
I hope to be able to keep the deer off the trees - They left alone my White Birch from last year that I planted flanking the orchard - so I hope the wire and maybe some "bags" and/or scent will help keep them off.
Right now I'm reading up on training the trees and pruning to form. I'm worried about doing this right.
FH