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Home Depot trees
On 10/8/2009 1:11 PM, julie wrote:
Hi there, For the first time in my life I am buying trees, specifically fruit and probably citrus. Is Home Depot any good for this? There are a number of terrific nurseries around here but it is a matter of time not money, if there is even a difference. I am not sure. I was kind of caught by surprise here. What do you all say? Take care, Julie in SFBA I might buy tools, fertilizers, and other supplies at a hardware store or lumber yard; but I alway buy my plants from a nursery. Hardware stores and lumber yards generally fail to give live plants proper care while waiting to sell them. In fact, few such stores even employ people who know how to care for live plants. If "SFBA" means San Francisco Bay area, forget the citrus. It will grow and thrive, but you are unlikely to get enough heat to ripen the fruit properly. If you are buying deciduous fruit trees, wait until they are available bare root (about January). Bare root trees generally adapt to your native soil better than canned trees. (The same is true with roses, but few (if any) nurseries sell bare root roses any more.) Also, be sure that the varieties that you buy is indeed suitable for your climate. Commercial varieties of apple, pear, and the stone fruits (e.g., peaches) generally need more winter chill than is found in much of the Bay area. However, non-commercial varieties of many fruits -- often better tasting -- are available for mild-winter areas. -- David E. Ross Climate: California Mediterranean Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19) Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary |
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