New England April 2014

Lyndeeloo, Thanks.

Off topic, but a friend just planted a grafted tree with 4 different fruits: a white peach, yellow peach, plum and a 4th one that I forget. Maybe nectarine.

sanderson wrote:Lyndeeloo,  Thanks.

Off topic, but a friend just planted a grafted tree with 4 different fruits: a white peach, yellow peach, plum and a 4th one that I forget.  Maybe nectarine.  

Wow I'd love to see one of those! It must be gorgeous when it blooms and confusing when it fruits.

I was just at HD and saw a small red haven for $19.97. They had all kinds of fruit trees. $19.97 to $44.99. A dwarf bartlett pear followed me home. I will spend the afternoon trying to figure out where I can wedge it in the back yard. Oh me, I can't be trusted to go to the garden center alone.  

lyndeeloo wrote:...Oh me, I can't be trusted to go to the garden center alone.  

I would like to say that we're here to help you control your addiction, but I'm afraid that we're more the enabling type of folks!   

lyndeeloo wrote:
I was just at HD and saw a small red haven for $19.97. They had all kinds of fruit trees. $19.97 to $44.99. A dwarf bartlett pear followed me home. I will spend the afternoon trying to figure out where I can wedge it in the back yard. Oh me, I can't be trusted to go to the garden center alone.  

OMG!  This makes me want to go into the big city (Hyannis) tonight!  Did they have the peach?

CC

LYNDEELOO!  Tsk, tsk...  (light slap on the wrist)  Shame on you!

    I know I wouldn't do something like that...! 

lyndeeloo wrote:It's turned cold and gray this afternoon. They say Rain is on the way again,  but spring is here because my dwarf Elberta  Peach started to bloom.         

Currently zero blooming trees! The forsythiae are barely blooming.....

(The familiar yellow bush blooms of April)

Thank you all for your support.  Is there a 12 step program for gardeners?    I think I might need to join up. 

CC I did see some peaches, lots of apples, the pear of course, and a wonderful tart cherry, which I would recommend to anyone who likes to bake. They are fabulous in a pie. I was lucky enough to have a very old tree here in the front yard when we bought the house.

Here in New England now is a good time to plant fruit trees. Just need to be mindful of keeping it watered it's first summer. Ok now I'm being an enabler Boffer. Thanks for the slap Atlantamarie. I'll behave next time, I promise. 

Well, you can always say,   !!!  It followed me home...!

I'm just re-homing orphaned fruit trees, is all.

It's not a matter of too many trees. It's a matter of too little space.

+1 NHGardener and AtlantaMarie 
I will keep both excuses handy in case I need them. 

If you need more, I can think of more.

I'll check with you first when I get into trouble again. 

What is the word? Co-dependency?

Who?  US????  Co-dependent???  OCD???    



"Shirley" not!

 

Oh, No!  Now it's MY turn!

Went to the garden center to get some more course vermiculite and had a Golden Jubilee tomato, a beautiful pot of Greek Basil, & a pot of 4 honeydew seedlings jump in the truck with a package of Thomas Laxton peas!

I guess they were friends with the vermiculite...  That's all I can figure.  But neither of us had the heart to toss them out.


  !!!!  HONEST!!!!

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Maybe we need a fruit trees topic.

Just looked online and while Home Depot has the Red Haven peach for $45 (not the Elberta), Lowes, which is closer to me anyway, has both for $22.

HOLD ME BACK.

I'm thinking of going there tonight. Only thing is they have to be planted in full sun 19 feet apart.

In other news, I checked the asparagus today and they're starting to come up nicely. Not 6" a day tho, maybe it's just too chilly for that. Garlic is coming up nicely, strawberries have nice green leaves, and the spinach is coming up. Still have to get the lettuce and plant some carrots out there. Potato planting will be coming up, maybe this weekend.

NHGardener wrote:...

HOLD ME BACK.

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You're in the wrong place for that kind of support!   

boffer wrote:

NHGardener wrote:...

HOLD ME BACK.

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You're in the wrong place for that kind of support!   

  +1   

NHGardener wrote:Maybe we need a fruit trees topic.

Just looked online and while Home Depot has the Red Haven peach for $45 (not the Elberta), Lowes, which is closer to me anyway, has both for $22.

HOLD ME BACK.

I'm thinking of going there tonight. Only thing is they have to be planted in full sun 19 feet apart.

NHGardener.     Are they dwarf or full size? My fruit trees are dwarf and planted less than 10 ft. Apart. Hmmmm. I only have one peach, I was told the Elberta doesn't have to have another peach.  An apple is ok. So I have 1 peach,  2 apple and now a dwarf pear.

Hmm Lyndeeloo - It could be that Lowes website was a little misinformed, or it could be because their Elberta (the one on the website anyway) is a semi-dwarf. I just googled for Elberta semi-dwarf and read that semi-dwarf trees are actually about 85% as big as standard trees, so their semi-dwarf might be on the big side, depending I guess on what kind of rootstock they used. (Apparently root stock is a big deal, which is why I'd rather shop local nursery, but not at 3x the price.)

I did read that you can really control the size of the tree with pruning, tho. I think there's an art to pruning tho.

Fedco tree orders are over for the season (I got some trees thru Fedco, but not peach) but they sell them for $25. I'd rather go Fedco, but you have to wait years for fruit trees to produce anyway, you hate to wait yet another year to get started.

Dilemmas dilemmas.

My Red Haven dwarf peach does NOT need another peach for pollination.

I wasn't getting the 2 types of peach trees for pollination, but just because they both sound so good. If that's where the pollination issue came from.

NHGardener wrote:Maybe we need a fruit trees topic.

Just looked online and while Home Depot has the Red Haven peach for $45 (not the Elberta), Lowes, which is closer to me anyway, has both for $22.

HOLD ME BACK.

I'm thinking of going there tonight. Only thing is they have to be planted in full sun 19 feet apart.

In other news, I checked the asparagus today and they're starting to come up nicely. Not 6" a day tho, maybe it's just too chilly for that. Garlic is coming up nicely, strawberries have nice green leaves, and the spinach is coming up. Still have to get the lettuce and plant some carrots out there. Potato planting will be coming up, maybe this weekend.

Lowe's? The Claremont Lowe's was closed shortly after getting constructed!  

So I'm lurking and reading all this peach talk, left work to go home for lunch, and my ding dang car pulls into the local nursery all by itself on the way by...
The result:
  

I love my car...

CC