Close Up of the Fruit - Cherries, Apples, Pear, Blue Berries and Grapes in the Container Potted Orchard

Cherries

Apples



Pear







Blue Berries

 The fruit is growing every day.





















Grapes are Growing as well!

It is fun watching a Container Potted Orchard Grow!  Judy

2nd Year (2010) Potted Fruit Tree Orchard in Contain Gardening

Finally you will find the YouTube Video of the 2nd year of the container garden potted fruit tree orchard. See it on the left column under YouTube Videos.

Enjoy! Judy

Dormant Spray for the Potted Orchard

Yesterday my husband was finally able to get the dormant spray on the fruit trees. He has been trying for the last week. It seemed between the sprayer not working and the rain something kept stopping him. We do not use insecticide spray on the trees. Last year we had a good harvest with several pears. This year we plan to pollinate them from a tree in the area that is a old farm pear tree. This way we would get the same or better results from the 1st year. We tried not pollinating last year the the "crop" was low.

Here are some pics of the potted garden as of today:

Early Blueberry -

Columnar Apple Tree -

Bartlett Pear Tree

Enjoy! Judy

Orchard in Pots - July Pictures

Apples -

It seemed updated pictures of the Sustainable Orchard in Pots would be in order.

We are not a large orchard but it sure has been fun!!!





Picked the Cherries on July 4th.

Pears -

Enjoy! Judy

Orchard Blooming - Pollination Time!

As promised I am continuing the process of the orchard. Before leaving for Maui, HI my husband pollinated the trees. We had only a few blooms, the weather had been poor, the pollinating pear tree was not blooming and hope of bees was low.

My sister-in-law knew of an old pear tree in the park which was blooming. Off we went to the park and collected pollen.

Upon returning my husband, Jesse, pollinated the pear tree. He also did the Cherry Trees as show here.

He used a q-tip to do the pollinating.

Now I want to show a movie on how it was done. I did not take the time to edit the ending, which you will notice. (No comments! Ha!)
Enjoy! Judy