Starting the Orchard

The time has finally come, we've just purchased our first 6 apple trees from O'Donal's Nursery: Honey Crisp Gold,Liberty Gold,McIntosh,Royal Gala, Freedom, and Cortland. We are very excited to start our apple orchard. In order for an apple orchard to be successful, you need two different varieties of trees for cross pollination. We decided to get six different trees for variety.

We also purchased three blueberry bushes, two Patriot and one Northland. They too need at least two varieties to cross pollenate. Maybe it's time to be thinking about asking our friend Doug to bring his bees over to pollinate our new fruit trees and bushes.