On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:52:11 GMT, "Srgnt Billko"
wrote:



Well the good news is that Miller Nurseries is a class act. We had
mail-ordered from them in the past and then stopped by their place on a
vacation drive thru upstate NY. We were very pleased.

I'm glad to hear that. I was referred to it by a garden shop around
here that even sells trees, but I guess not many fruit tress.

Our dwarf fruit
trees could have used more space than the 10' suggested. The first thing
I'd do would be to cut that Poplar tree down and get it out of there. As
far as the roots of the apple trees, I pull small stumps out with a tractor
and a lot of root comes with it but it might be a big chore to dig them out.

There is no stump and few roots left. Maybe that is because of the
cedar apple rust, but nonetheless. I can probably rip out any roots
that are in the way. The apple tree roots seemed pretty shallow,
especially the other tree, which fell over twice. But I put it back
and that's not what killed it.

Do cherry tree roots stay near the surface like the apple tree roots
seemed to?



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