This site has a lot of potential for an apple orchard In a post I wrote a few months back, I talked about starting a tree nursery in my suburban neighborhood. Well, that idea has started to come to fruition. And, as promised, I am going to show you the entire process for as long as I can keep it going. In today's post, I will outline all of the steps I took to hopefully start the trees from the ground up--more specifically, how I grew them from seeds. I must first give credit to the author of little house on the urban prairie , a blog that I started following after hearing Mark Shepard mention him/her on the permaculture podcast. It was his/her post titled " Chestnuts and Hazels for the Future " that I learned of this method of starting trees from seed. The author wrote the post in 2010, and he/she started hazelnuts and chestnuts using this method. According to post dated in September 2014, those trees can now be purchased for $10 a piece. If you're int
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