songbird wrote:
Fran Farmer wrote:
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We have a couple of seedling apple trees that bear good edible fruit.
You can also graft onto them form more acceptable apple trees if oyu
feel the need. Grafting is not complex. Here, of 26 grafts onto a
number of apple trees, only 1 graft did not take.

yeah, i know chances are that a few might bear edible
fruit, but i don't expect it.

i have read up on grafting techniques several times
and for sure would give it a go if i had a place to
plant out fruit trees.

the back area that is extra space and open for change
(to the east of the large drainage ditch) would be hard
to use as it now is getting overgrown with honeysuckle
bushes. it would give me a good reason to get back there
and get those bushes knocked back, but then to be able to
plant the apple tree saplings and keep the deer off them
for the next half dozen years it will take for them to
get taller... i'm not sure how much of that challenge
i'll take up.


songbird

I've go 2 apple trees I grew from McIntosh seeds. 6 years later, no fruit, but
I didn't expect any. I do have a lot of suckers coming up. Is there any way to
completely get rid of the suckers?