Room for Apples
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Room for Apples
- From: P* O*
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:16:12 -0800
I happen to have a lot of space right now to grow pumpkins, and practice my
other space-hungry hobbies, but since I rent this won't always necessarily
be the case. One of my other interests is endangdered old-time apple
trees, which also normally take a lot of space. Since they are long-term
perennials, if I am ever constrained for space, I won't be able to grow
pumpkins one year and apples the next.
However, I found a really cool solution on the Internet. There is this
guy who has 97 apple trees in his back yard. Basically you graft the
variety you want onto a special kind of mini-dwarfing rootstock (M27 or
P22) with the kind of apple you want grafted on top of that. With a
little pruning you get apple trees about the size of rosebushes which
produce a manageable number of apples.
In case anyone else is interested there is more information at
http://www.enteract.com/~midfex/yale/intro.html
Shaun in Spokane
--
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the
fragile blossom that opens in the snow. -Alice M. Swaim
polaris@wolfenet.com ++ PGP email welcome
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