The Fruit Trees Book: Growing Apples - A Beginner Gardening Books Series; Yard Upkeep, Soil Testing, Planting, Pruning & Tree Care: Your No-Nonsense Guide To A Juicy Apple Harvest
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While professional apple growers have learned traditional, time tested ways to get the most from their apple orchards, most of us are hobbyists who simply enjoy the taste of a fresh off the tree apple.
There are many reasons people grow apple trees in their own backyards or smaller groves and orchards. The ability to make fresh apple sauce or pies or just grab a tasty treat right off the tree are just a few.
If you’ve chosen to grow apples yourself, you will soon learn that it can be rewarding and (as most rewarding things in life are) somewhat difficult.
This detailed guide to growing your own apple trees will cover nearly everything you need to know, from planting the young seedlings to harvesting apples from a matured tree. Many generations of apple growers have used simple guidelines to ensure the success of their orchards. These tips are handy for the professional grower as well as the hobbyist. I will cover special considerations for choosing a variety of tree that best suits your needs, and the best ways to care for your trees to encourage them to grow strong and healthy so they can consistently yield delicious fruits.
Diseases, pruning, special care for grafted trees, thinning the fruit, and much more will be covered in this guide. In addition, I will present you with twenty of the most popular apple varieties and their specific needs.
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The Fruit Trees Book - Vas Blagodarskiy
978-1-949727-01-2
DEDICATION
I’d like to say big thanks to my grandmother Svetlana and my great-grandmother Galina who ran the country house orchard that inspired me to write this book. I’d like to dedicate this book to them. I hope it will inspire in the reader a lifelong interest in growing apples.
Special thanks to my editor Becky.
Special thanks to all the patient tree owners who taught me what I know.
Special thanks to Amazon for helping to distribute my book.
Thank you all!
Vas Blagodarskiy, Author
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book finds people at the right place and at the right time. Typically, a person doesn’t go out of their way to read a book on apple growing, unless they have some kind of urgent interest in the matter. Having said that, I hope my book scratches whatever itch you may be experiencing right now. Perhaps you want to feel pride of ownership by growing your own orchard. Or maybe you want to make people smile when they drink your fresh-squeezed apple juice. Whatever the case may be for you, please remember to leave this book 5 stars once you’ve gotten value from it, so other people like you can discover it for themselves.
Welcome To Your Ultimate Guide To Growing Apple Trees!
While professional apple growers have learned traditional, time tested ways to get the most from their apple orchards, most of us are hobbyists who simply enjoy the taste of a fresh off the tree apple.
There are many reasons people grow apple trees in their own backyards or smaller groves and orchards. The ability to make fresh apple sauce or pies or just grab a tasty treat right off the tree are just a few.
If you’ve chosen to grow apples yourself, you will soon learn that it can be rewarding and (as most rewarding things in life are) somewhat difficult.
This detailed guide to growing your own apple trees will cover nearly everything you need to know, from planting the young seedlings to harvesting apples from a matured tree. I will cover special considerations for choosing a variety of tree that best suits your needs, and the best ways to care for your trees to encourage them to grow strong and healthy so they can consistently yield delicious fruits.
Diseases, pruning, special care for grafted trees, thinning the fruit, and much more will be covered in this guide. In addition, I will present you with twenty of the most popular apple varieties and their specific needs.
A Few Time-Tested Tips from Professional Apple Growers
Many generations of apple growers have used simple guidelines to ensure the success of their orchards. These tips are handy for the professional grower as well as the hobbyist.
1. Protect Your Trees with Paint:
To protect their trees from chemical damages from weed killers and pesticides, professional growers will paint the bottom of their trees. They apply the paint with a glove or a rag. Once the trees are coated with protective paint, the growers can safely spray weed killer or other chemicals.
2. Cut Low Branches:
To encourage the tree to produce fruit on the top branches, a professional will cut all growth and branches from the tree to under around thirty inches above the ground. This is also a way for them to keep the trees growing upwards, and not into each other.
3. Wind Machines For Frost Protection:
Frost can be deadly to an orchard. Even one late frost can ruin all the trees overnight. Professional growers will use windmills, known as wind machines, to keep air moving on cold nights. When air is moving between the trees, it becomes warm enough to keep frost at bay.
4. Ground Level Sprinklers For Frost Protection:
While it seems a strange concept, sprinkling the trunk of the trees with water is a common way to protect them against frost. Even though it would seem that an ice-covered tree trunk would be even colder, the ice coating itself acts as a protection against frost. Professional growers do not use overhead sprinklers because of the risk of the trees developing diseases; these sprinkler systems are lower to the ground.
5. Pluck Blooms To Avoid Fire Blight:
Fire blight can destroy a nursey full of young trees without warning. This disease happens when young apple trees get water, from sprinklers