David The Good
April 12, 2023
Did you ever wish you could harvest fruit in your backyard, but think you just don’t have the space to grow fruit trees?
You might want to rethink that assumption!
I realized years ago that the supposed maximum size of trees isn’t a set thing. If you stay on top of pruning, you can do some amazing things with your fruit trees
—including grow multiple fruit trees in a small space.
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The #1 Key to Growing Full-Size Fruit Trees in Small Spaces - The Grow Network
Think your yard is too small for fruit trees? Never say never! Here’s the trick to growing healthy, full-size fruit trees in small spaces!
Did you ever wish you could harvest fruit in your backyard, but think you just don’t have the space to grow fruit trees?
You might want to rethink that assumption!
I realized years ago that the supposed maximum size of trees isn’t a set thing. If you stay on top of pruning, you can do some amazing things with your fruit trees
—including grow multiple fruit trees in a small space.
More recently, I saw a fruit-laden tamarind tree that had been repeatedly cut by a local electric company
—at only about 6-foot in height! The branches stuck out sideways low to the ground and bore pods after the center was cut down. Instead of harvesting fruit with a long pole from branches 40 feet in the air, the owners could just pick by hand.
A full-size tamarind tree can easily shade most or all of a typical backyard. A full-size apple can almost do the same. Yet the answer we are often given to this issue is to “plant dwarf trees.”
Dwarf trees are deliberately grafted onto rootstocks that restrict the growth of the tree. Unfortunately, this also leads to weaker trees that die much younger than standard fruit trees.”
