Growing apple tree’s correctly is an art. It takes a lot of work and preparation to pick, prune keep the bugs off and make sure that you get a good crop of fruit, from an apple tree. But in the end growing apple trees in your yard at home can be a fun and rewarding experience. We will walk you through some of the items you need to make sure your apple trees and its crops are bountiful.
Lets start with the apple tree in themselves. Apple trees are non self-pollinators. This means that apple trees need different apple trees growing in the near vicinity, so each other pollinate the blossoms of the other apple tree. To make sure you get the best crop possible from your apple trees make sure you check with us or check with other stores to find out what apple trees pollinate each other the best. But remember two apple trees of the same apple variety cannot be used for cross-pollination purposes. Since the pollen from apple blossoms are transferred primarily by bees, be careful not to spray insecticides during the blooming season, or when honey bees are present.
Proper training and pruning of apple trees is essential to the development of a strong apple tree and the fruit crop it is producing. Properly shaded trees will actually yield a higher quality of fruit quicker and should live significantly longer.
Due to apple trees usually growing more fruit than its limbs can bear. One needs to help out their apple trees by thinning the fruit during the growing season. You should pick and thin the fruit crop when the fruit is round the size of a dime or so. This will help your apple trees in a couple of ways. One it helps the branch that they are growing on, from getting to heavy, and having a possibility of breaking during the summer months. Also instead of fighting for the nutrients of the tree to produce good size fruit, a smaller amount of fruit will actually be bidding for those nutrients Cut off enough fruit so that the remaining apples are spaced 4 to 6 inches apart, leave only one fruit per cluster.
Make sure that you prune or cut off and dead wood or disease wood, dried apples and browned leaves, to make your apple tree healthier. Controlling the weeds and grasses that surround your apple tree should be removed, so there is no competition for nutrients from the ground that is under your apple tree.
Below you can see the many different varieties of apple trees and the different varieties of fruit they bear.
