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i planted some apple trees and a cherry tree today. let's hope they take root well 🌳 😊
@bonifartius I did pears and a cherry a couple years ago, and it is so nice to have the shade. Trees are a gift from one generation to the next.
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@JonKramer nice! i chose high stemmed plants because i want them to be more of a long term thing, even if there are pretty nice short stemmed variants too. it's certainly pretty interesting how much know-how mankind has accumulated on grafting and other techniques.
@bonifartius I had/have a neighbor who had a tree farm, he specialized in grafting black walnuts, a variety that could be cracked by hand instead of needing a bulldozer. The way it was done is probably 10s of thousands of years old, and just neat to see done.
I went for full size rather than dwarf trees, because shade. The birds can get the fruit I can't reach, and that's OK with me.