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Backyard Orchard Trees 2021

3 months ago

The time to plant fruit trees is now! For many climate regions of the western U.S., January is the heart of the fall-to-spring orchard planting season -- a great time to review the DWN new, favorite and specialty home orchard varieties.

Three New Zaiger Miniatures for 2021!

7 months ago

Available in limited quantities for the 2021 delivery season: two new miniature nectarines and the first Zaiger miniature white peach.

Remembering Floyd Zaiger

9 months ago

The great fruit breeder's life work is now complete.

Home Orchard Planting Season 2019-20

1 year ago

Deliveries of potted items to retail nurseries began the first week of November. Bareroot deliveries begin by mid-December. Retailer lists, maps and the VarietyFinder have been updated for the 2019-20 season. New items available from DWN this year include two new Zaiger....

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Top 25 HG Info Pages

Listed below are the most frequently accessed Home Garden information pages, excluding the main landing pages and product catalogs. Ranked by pageviews for 12 months ended January 31, 2020.

1. Where to Buy DWN Trees
2. Backyard Orchard Culture
3. Variety Recommendations, Zones 5-9
4. Where to Buy: Variety Finder
5. Planting Your Backyard Orchard
6. Tom's Pick's - Low-Chill Southwest
7. Buying Fruit Trees
8. Blog: Rootstocks, Dwarf & Semi-Dwarf Fruit Trees
9. DWN Videos - Index
10. Selecting Varieties and Rootstocks
11. Multi-Planting Strategies
12. Q&A: How long do fruit trees live?
13. Introduction to Home Fruit Growing
14. Recommendations for Multiple Planting
15. Q&A: How often to water a fruit tree?
16. Fruit and Nut Harvest Chart
17. High Density Diagrams
18. Blueberries in Containers
19. Growing Blueberries
20. Fruit Tasting Report
21. Q&A: What soil amendments when planting?
22. Video: Backyard Fruit Tree Basics
23. Sitemap for Home Gardens
24. BYOC - Photos
25. The Art of Successive Ripening

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Backyard Orchard Culture

...a prolonged harvest of tree-ripe fruit from a small space in the yard... accomplished by planting an assortment of fruit trees close together and keeping them small by summer pruning.

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