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Fruit Trees
I am looking for information on growing fruit trees in a small garden by
placing them close together to limit their size and yield and thereby be able to cover them with netting to keep out the pesky parrots. Michael |
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"Michael Quin-Conroy" wrote: I am looking for information on growing fruit trees in a small garden by placing them close together to limit their size and yield and thereby be able to cover them with netting to keep out the pesky parrots. Try the fruit salad tree people -- they use dwarf rootstocks and seem very knowledgeable (had a chat to Mrs Fruit Salad at the Gardening Australia Live show this year). -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Jeez; if only those Ancient Greek storytellers had known about the astonishing creature that is the *Usenet hydra*: you cut off one head, and *a stupider one* grows back..." -- MJ, cam.misc |
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Chookie wrote:
In article , "Michael Quin-Conroy" wrote: I am looking for information on growing fruit trees in a small garden by placing them close together to limit their size and yield and thereby be able to cover them with netting to keep out the pesky parrots. You just need to know how to prune them to keep them smaller and knock off a bit of the flower. |
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Fruit Trees
"Michael Quin-Conroy" writes:
I am looking for information on growing fruit trees in a small garden by placing them close together to limit their size and yield and thereby be able to cover them with netting to keep out the pesky parrots. Crowding ordinary fruit trees close together (e.g., 1 metre apart) probably won't stunt their growth much. It's the pruning and early shaping that set their size. It is possible to train a young apple tree (and probably any deciduous fruit tree) to grow its leaders along a horizontal trellis of 2 or 3 strands like you can a kiwi fruit. This keeps the structure as 2-dimensional and makes for easy picking. It would probably make the tree easier to net, too. -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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