Growing Tree Fruit

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Growing Tree Fruit

• In Duluth

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Planning the planting

• Size of fruit planting
• Space available
• Size of family
• Experience of grower
• Availability of tools

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Planning

• Fruit plot location
• Soil type
• Drainage
• Sun
• Water availability
• Slope
• Things to avoid

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Planning

• Kinds of fruit to plant
• Size of plot
• What does the family like?
• Hardiness
• yield

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Planning

• Getting the plants
• Local nurseries
• Duluth Community Gardens fruit sale
• 722-4583
• www.duluthcommunitygarden.org
• Mail order FEDCO trees, St Lawrence
• Transplant from wild
• graft

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Soil and site preparation

• Soil test- call Extension 733-2870
• Site history
• Plan out irrigation
• Fertilizer timing

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Planting

• Timing Plant in spring
• Care of stock- keep roots damp
• Planting holes- rough, shallow, no Fert
• Root pruning- cut off broken roots
• Staking stake up dwarfs
• Watering- 5 gal, every other day for the first 2
  weeks

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Seasonal care

• Sunscald protection- wrap trunks for winter
• Weed control keep grass away
• Pruning- train to modified central leader
• Animal pest control Protect the trees
• Insect and disease control inspect frequently

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Red-backed Vole
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Shubats deer fence
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Insect pests

• Apple Worm - sticky traps - Pheromone
• Apple maggot sticky traps scent
• Scale dormant oil spray
• Aphids soap spray, pressure hose

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Insect pests

• Apple Worm

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Apple Maggot
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Insect pest

• scale

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Insect pest

• aphids

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Common Diseases

• Apple Scab
• sanitation,
• Kaolin
• Fire Blight
• streptomycin,
• pruning

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Apples for Duluth

• Early Apples
• Mantet
• Oriole
• Duchess
• State Fair
• Beacon
• Lodi

• Mid season
• Chestnut crab
• Wealthy
• Minjon
• Red Baron
• Sweet 16
• Honeycrisp
• Cortland ( in town)
• Northwestern Greening

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Apples for Duluth

• Late Apples
• Most are too late and freeze in our early falls
• Haralson our latest
• Others will work in the city or in a protected
  microclimate

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Pears for Duluth

• Golden Spice
• Gourmet
• Parker
• Summercrisp
• Ure
• Stacyville

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Plums

• Hybrid Plums
• South Dakota
• Toka
• Underwood
• Wanetta
• European Plums
• Avoid these except
• Mt. Royal ( in town)

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Cherries for Duluth

• Meteor
• North Star
• Bali
• Mesabi
• Prunus tomentosa
• Nanking cherry
• Native cherries
• Choke, Pin

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Tree spacing and care

• Standard trees 20-25 feet apart
• Prune to modified central leader
• No fertilizer the first year
• Apply compost under the drip line (2 inch)
• Dwarf trees ( M26)
• 15 feet apart or more
• Stake for the first few years
• No fertilizer the first year
• Compost under the drip line

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Apple pruning
Narrow angles
Water sprouts
Crossed branches
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Snippers or pruners
Saw
Pole Trimmer
Lopper
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Apple that needs pruning
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Before
After
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Pear
Spurs or short stems
Long stems
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cuts
This pear tree now has a new leader. The making
the tree 3shorter
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Part of the west orchard
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Harvest and storing

• Harvest at peak ripeness
• Remove field heat refrigerate
• Store cold 40F
• Later ripening apples store longer
• Process fruit by
• Freezing
• Canning
• Juicing
• Jam, jelly