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It's important to choose the correct variety of fruit trees for an orchard. For instance, 'Bartlett' pear doesn't grow well because of disease. 'Orient,' on the other hand, works great in Georgia.
At the height of the Roaring 20s, a Jackson County farmer decided to plant some apple trees. What started ... to be a commercial apple orchard has turned into a grape-growing hobby.
Before dying in 2020, the Old Apple Tree oversaw the ... said he had planted the apple and grape seeds at the fort. Twelve years later, enchanted by the orchard, Narcissa Whitman tells of walking ...
Des Moines leaders, urban farmers and nonprofits are working to create a public orchard stocked with fruit-bearing trees like apple, peach and cherry.
Alongside his grape orchard, he has also planted a diverse array of indigenous and foreign fruit trees in his garden. Inspired by instructional videos on YouTube, he ventured into grape ...