Backyard Orchards: How To Grow Fruit In The City

By Kathryn Robles

Want To Grow Fruit In The City? You need Backyard Orchards.

Growing your own fruit is easy! You plant it once and it gives you a crop year after year. Imagine strolling through your yard and grabbing a perfectly ripe fruit, freshly picked peach! Think of the homey scent of applesauce bubbling on the stove, with apples you grew yourself.

You can save money at the grocery store without a time intensive garden or committing to raising livestock. Get the details on how to raise the most popular fruit trees and shrubs, plus ideas for companion plants and tips on growing in a city.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kathryn Robles
• Release date: Aug 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005614768

Kathryn Robles

Kathryn writes about her family’s adventures creating an urban farm in the city, even if that means overcoming her black thumb or having chickens taking a dust bath under the trampoline. She never expected to find herself farming in the city, or farming at all, but it turns out she loves it! What’s better is she loves talking about it and sharing what she's learned with others.

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Backyard Orchards:

How To Grow Fruit In The City

By Kathryn Robles

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Table of Contents

Backyard Orchards:

How To Grow Fruit In The City

You Should Plant Fruit Trees and Shrubs

What Fruit Trees Should You Grow?

Where To Plant Fruit Trees In Your Yard

How To Plant Fruit Trees

Plant a fruit tree guild

How Long Does It Take A Fruit Tree To Bear Fruit?

How To Harvest Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots and Plums

How To Harvest Apples

How To Harvest Pears

How To Harvest Cherries

How To Harvest Citrus

How To Harvest Pomegranates

How To Harvest Figs

How To Harvest Paw Paw

How To Harvest Avocados

How To Harvest Persimmon

How To Care For Specific Types Of Trees

Caring For Peach Trees And Other Stone Fruits

Caring For Apples

Homemade Applesauce Is Easy To Make!

How to Make Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar

Caring For Pears

Caring For Cherries

Caring For Lemons And Other Citrus

Caring For Citrus In Cold Weather

Caring For Pomegranates

Caring for Figs

Caring For Paw Paw

Caring For Avocado

Caring For Persimmons

Front Yard Orchards

Front Yard Gardens Are Attractive

Front Yard Gardens Save You Money

Front Yard Orchards Don’t Take As Much Time

How To Grow Fruiting Shrubs

How To Grow Blackberries

How To Grow Raspberries

Super Easy Raspberry (or Blackberry) Jam

How To Grow Blueberries

How To Grow Grapes

How To Grow Kiwi

How To Grow Gooseberries and Currants

How To Grow Elderberry

How To Grow Strawberries

Start Your Backyard Orchard Now!

You Should Plant Fruit Trees and Shrubs

Growing your own food is one the most basic things you can do become more self-reliant and save money.  For many people having a large garden or a flock of chickens provides extra food for their family. Both of those require a fair amount of time every day and week. 

What can you do when you don't have the ability to get out and weed, or if you have to travel frequently and can't care for animals?

You can grow your own fruit!  Most fruit trees and bushes require only minimal care throughout the year.  They don't need to be fed each day, and they can go much longer between watering than delicate garden veggies.

Once you plant a fruit tree or shrub it will return year after year to produce for you with almost no effort on your part!

In fact, if you grow appropriate varieties for your area most fruits require just a bit of pruning once established!

Planting fruit trees is one of the best things you can do on your homestead.  They take minimal care once they get established and will produce year after year. 

Even if you have a very small space you can still plant dwarf trees or grow espaliered trees in pots.  If you have more space, fruit trees can become integral parts of a productive food forest. No matter who you are, you need to plant fruit trees.

What Fruit Trees Should You Grow?

One of my favorite parts of gardening is planning out what I want to grow.  Deciding what you like and want is one of the most enjoyable aspects.

Sometimes it may feel hard to know what will grow well in your area or what you have space for.  The following sections include some things to consider before heading out to buy your fruit trees.

The first step before you plant your fruit trees is planning.  There are a few vital pieces of information you will need to know.

First, what is your USDA Hardiness Zone?  If you don't already know your zone, it's pretty easy to find online.  There are multiple sites that let you put in your zip code and tell you your zone.  I like to use garden.org/nga/zipzone.

The garden zone you live in will determine what types and varieties of fruit trees you will be able to plant.  If you live