Planting Apple Trees in Autumn

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Planting Apple Trees in Autumn

Five more dwarf apple trees to join the Gala and Pink Lady: Golden Delicious Jonathan McIntosh Snow Tsugaru Will keep track of my new friends to harvest time, hopefully in 2 short years. To be planted over a thick base of vermicast; quality worm poo created by the power of coffee grounds. This brings the number of…

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September 13, 2013

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apple trees, coffee grounds, Dwarf, McIntosh, Snow, Tsugaru

Five more dwarf apple trees to join the Gala and Pink Lady:

Golden Delicious
Jonathan
McIntosh
Snow
Tsugaru

Will keep track of my new friends to harvest time, hopefully in 2 short years. To be planted over a thick base of vermicast; quality worm poo created by the power of coffee grounds.

This brings the number of apple trees in my yard to 7 now, the forest garden is getting serious…

So why so many apple trees? They are low maintenance, easy to maintain, easy to train to shape, the dwarfs only get to 2.5 meters, and they make apples!!

An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away!?! (eatgreatbegreat.wordpress.com)
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2 responses to “Planting Apple Trees in Autumn”

The Spider and the Apple | Ground to Ground

April 30, 2014 at 10:28 am

[…] leaves of this lovely Apple tree are just starting to turn (was it the Snow variety? Really need to keep those name tags!), […]

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A is for Apple | The Balsamean

September 19, 2013 at 12:28 am

[…] Planting Apple Trees in Autumn (groundtoground.org) – About gardening in coffee grounds. Why apple trees? “They are low maintenance, easy to maintain, easy to train to shape, the dwarfs only get to 2.5 meters, and they make apples!!” […]

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