The Survival Podcast Forum
Farm, Garden and The Land => Permaculture, Land Management and Foraging => Topic started by: Stein on January 15, 2009, 08:10:45 PM
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I went to Costco for tortillas and tortilla chips and ended up loading trees into my car. They had a huge selection of bare-root fruit trees for $10.79 each, great bargain in my book. The trees are about 5-6' tall and come in with roots loosely bagged with a bit of soil. They are all grafted onto semi-dwarf and seem well suited for my region. I ended up with a pear and cherry tree, too bad they didn't have the apples I wanted.
They also have the combination trees with 3-4 different pears or apples if that is what you were looking for. I ended up selecting species that work well in my area and are self-fertile.
One thing about Costco, if they have what you want buy it as it will likely be gone next trip.
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Score! I'll have to check them out this weekend!
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Sounds like a deal to me. I bought several miniature peach trees from Walmart several years back, and they are very productive. They have already paid back the intiial investment.
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Check to see if they need any other trees to polinate each other. It would be a shame to get those two trees in and not get any fruit because they werent self polinizing.
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Check around at local flea markets too. Occasionally you can find unbelievable deals there.
Good find Stein.
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Check to see if they need any other trees to polinate each other. It would be a shame to get those two trees in and not get any fruit because they werent self polinizing.
They had both, I went with strictly self-pollinating varieties.