Hi Karen and welcome to the best garden site there is There are so many things to learn here.. Hope you have fun..and share with us about you. Come back often do not be shy. There are many here..that live in your neck of the woods.. Well all over Michigan. If you have questions..just ask..we can help..get u to where you want to go..Again welcome...
Smiles..Diana
Hi Karen hope you pop in often and say Hi
Gloria
Thank you so much for the warm welcome. I really look forward to spending lots of time with you, learning. I have much to learn!
Karen
Best place in the world to do that is here!!!!!!!!!!!
Gloria
One thing I really want to know is about fruit trees...Cherry trees in particular. When and where is the best place to buy them? Also, what types of cherry trees would be the best for my area? I have a sweet cherry, a sour cherry and an ornamental cherry, that are all getting rather old, and are showing the need of replacement. I understand cherry trees only last about 35 years, and they are at that now. Any advice on where to get this information?
welcome to daves
I buy fruit trees every yr from the soil conservation people-up here the sale is April and i Just got a flyer for the sale.
maybe check your local county and see if they do a tree sale too!
welcome and have fun
dori
Here is a link..of all the places available..to DG...maybe fruits and nuts..would give you a idea...http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/ there is also a place that is tree's...if you post the question on these places..I am sure someone will help you out..we have only Oak trees..or Hickorys...no fruits ...no sun..haha...if you google cherry trees..I am sure you will find a lot..listed..that sell them...but be sure to check " watch dog.." it works like Ebay..you have a good experience..they get a plus...a bad one...and it tells about it...that is on the main page..at the top...you could always..email..Michigan State...too...but I am sure..some people here will ..give you a idea..good luck..with that..hummmmy Cherry's...There are some..people from Trav. city..too..maybe they will know...
Smiles....Diana.
Welcome Karen!!!!
Cindy
Thank you. I agree that if anyone would know it would be people from Traverse City!
Welcome Karen..I used to do Antique shows up in your area Royal Oak...
Thank you so much everyone. It is nice to feel so welcomed.
Hi Karen. Welcome to the Michigan forum at Dave's Garden. I am into fruit trees too. I have seven apple that were here when we bought the farm. I then planted two pear, two cherry, two peach and two plum. I'm planning on adding six more apple trees this spring. I got some nice fruit trees from our local conservation plant sale very reasonable. They were healthy and had good root systems. We have a big deer problem so I have to put big wire cages around my fruit trees and keep them sprayed with stinky stuff so they don't chew them up. I'm still learning about their care. I just invested in a Stiel sparyer since our last one broke. We start spraying the fruit trees before they bud out in the spring. I plan to invest in some bug traps as well. I'm still learning myself. I guess in Oak Park you don't have to worry about deer too much eh?
Hope you join in here and post often. We have a nice friendly group here. It's nice to meet with a cup of tea and chat about the weather and critters and what we're ordering out of our catalogues and share our dreams for garden 2008.
Brenda
Hi Brenda,
I don't have to worry about deer, but about 3 years ago, my cherry trees got brown rot on the fruit. After research, I figured out what it was, then had an arborist confirm it. We started getting them sprayed 3 times a year since then and have had a great crop since...until the birds started getting them all! Last year we put a net over them...What a pain that is, but at least we got some of the cherries!
Karen
hello and welcome karen. i hope you enjoy the forums on daves garden!!! it is really alot of fun here and very knowledgeable people... how long have you been "into" gardening of any kind? nice to have you here :) Ronna
I have been interested in gardening all growing up. My mother had a green thumb and I think she could plant a stone and it would grow. Our house and yard looked amazing filled with plants of all sorts. We would take walks together and she would point out different plants and tell me what they were. I never retained what she told me, but captured the love of growing things.
That is so nice Karen. I think I inherited my love for gardening from my mother as well. She used to grow the most beautiful roses that smelled divine! She also put in a large vegetable garden all by herself well into her 80s. It gave her something to do. She'd hoe and weed and water and then share all the vegetables with family and neighbors. She didn't have a rototiller. She'd foot it all up by herself with a shovel. She was even mowing her grass into her late 80's. We tried to take her lawn mower away from her because we thought it was dangerous but she had a fit. She screamed till we brought her lawn mower back. We disabled it so it wouldn't run though. :) She lives with me now and just turned 92 day before yesterday. She is my offical bean snapper. I bring in bushels of beans from the garden and she'll sit for hours snaping beans for me.
She still tries to tend my indoor houseplants. Her memory is gone so she'll water them every day till she kills them. I've learned to replace them with fake flowers. She still waters them. :) :) Gives her something to do I guess. ha ha ha God love her.
Brenda
awww Brenda she sounds wonderful!!!
my mom also grew a huge veggie garden and i had to hoe my rows of veggies and weed the berry patch. Then she added flower gardens and i hated weeding i was 17 and had better things to do.(to do it over n spend the day with her)
I can remember her rose garden-she had 52 at last count and they smelled wonderful.
When mom died my Dad tended all her flowers :)
Her mom (my grandma :))gardened until she died at the age of 93.
she had beautiful roses and flowers and the greatest yard i ever saw(Akron Ohio) and now the house is different and her wonderful yard with the trees and walk way and the climbing roses on the porch all gone.
I drove right by it a few years ago and said it should have been right there and we turned around and my sis met me and said this is it-NO NO NO what a shame!!!! sigh It was the coolest yard when I was a kid-I couldn't wait to go there every summer!
Now look at me garden garden gardens............weed weed hoe hoe ..........LUV IT!
