Our walnut tree arrived last autumn as a “bare root” delivery, with instructions to get it into the ground ASAP, before the roots dried out. As I was busy all day, it lay around until evening, and I had to plant it in the dark (somewhat crookedly and not necessarily at the right depth – the ambient starlight leaving the hole pitch black).
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I have planted two cherry trees in our orchard, one a ‘Stella’ cherry and the other a ‘Sunburst’ cherry. They came as bare root stock, and I planted them with only a little spare fertiliser.
Continue readingOver the past couple of years, I’ve planted three apple trees. One of which is a fancy (possibly gimmicky) dual-varieties-off-a-single-root-graft type of thing. The four types of apples we should get from these three trees are Pink Ladies, Granny Smith, and the multigrafted Gala and Fuji.
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