Is growing an apple tree in your backyard accessible?
I want to attempt to grow an apple tree in my backyard but want to know how accessible it is and what I should expect when it comes to taking care of it.
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Basically, pick a type of apple tree which likes the climate conditions of your area, make sure the area around the tree is accessible, follow cautious pruning recommendations, et voila`! In five or ten years, you will have an apple tree which gives you apples and allows you to clean up all the deadfall fruit, rake up the leaves, prune a bit more, and maybe provide some shade.
The tree will remain somewhat accessible- meaning you can walk up to it and reach some of the branches from the ground- as long as it does not lose too many lower limbs (old-old apples trees sometimes have concrete poured into old, rickety branches to maintain the tree's integrity, else storms and simple weight can break these, generally somewhat hollowed, branches off the trunk). There are "orchard ladders" which have a wide base and four feet on the ground so the picker up the ladder is stable and as safe as possible.
If your tree is meant for your climate- you wouldn't plant a Great Northern Spy Apple tree- a terrific cooking apple- in, say, Georgia; it wouldn't do well because that is not an optimum climate- and you care for it normally, watering if needed, pruning as needed, then your apple tree should enhance your property and life.