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Winters_Lackey · 20-04-2014, 08:28 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible

phorbin wrote in
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In article ,
says...
Does anyone here plant in areas that they are not authorized to
plant?

This year, I had a lot of little raspberry shoots out in the yard,
and I decided to dig them up and plant them instead of just mowing
them down. There is a park near here that had an section that was
used for dumping old broken up concrete and leaves vacuumed off the
streets. The surrounding area has improved a lot, and they no longer
dump stuff there, but they never really cleaned it up. So, I planted
raspberries in several places. My hope is that they'll spread. That
was about a week ago.

Then today I got my replacement tree from Gurney's for the one that
died (a Goldrush). For some reason, they threw in an extra free
tree, a Pixie Crunch. Lovely apples, but the two I have are
impossible to keep totally free of rust because there are lots of
cedar trees on this block.

Have you guessed where I'm going? Yep, I took the tree to the park
and planted it. I am the guerilla gardener.

I don't know apples from apples...

It may just be a matter of good customer relations since one died but
unless you have other apples on your place or near your property...
you may need the other as a pollinator variety so your favoured tree
will set fruit or will fruit more abundantly.

I'd suggest checking it out ASAP.

There is a Liberty tree about a quarter of a mile from the new tree, and
that is a good pollinator for both Pixie Crunch and GoldRush.

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--Bryan
"The 1960's called. They want their recipe back."
--Steve Wertz in rec.food.cooking 4-20-2009