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several different types of plants growing on the side of a building

Create a productive garden with espalier fruit trees & flower shrubs: best varieties, training ideas, design patterns, how-to tutorials, etc! - A Piece of Rainbow, kitchen garden, edible gardening ideas, small space tips, grow your own food, backyard orchard, homestead, homesteading, landscaping, spring, summer

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an apple tree growing on the side of a white fence

Gabe has the greener thumb of the two of us, so he is here today sharing some ideas to get your edible landscape going. Everything mentioned are things we have tried in our own yard here in Georgia. (pinnable graphic we made to bookmark post for later!) Having a new home with a relatively blank

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a row of trees with green leaves on them

What is an Espalier? An espalier (pronounced "es-PAL-yer") is a tree that has been trained to grow in a flat plane against a wall,fence, or trellis, though the term has also been used to describe the technique of training a tree to grow this way. The technique was invented by the ancient Romans, and further…

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an apple tree with fruit growing on it in the grass next to a brick wall

Lovely, below, excepting why is the guild missing? Before learning what a guild is, I would have thought this garden, below, 'complete'. . Do you know what a guild is? . No? Parlay what you know a guild to be, in secular life, into the orchard. Pic, above, here. . From Google: "guild ɡild/ noun noun: guild; plural noun: guilds; noun: gild; plural noun: gilds a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power. an association of people for mutual aid or the…

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the diagram shows how to grow trees in winter and fall, with instructions for different stages

How to plant fruit trees, when to plant. How to train fruit trees, as free-standing trees, or as fan, espalier, cordon, or stepover trees, with step-by-step explanations and diagrams. Read the article by Dan Neuteboom on the RealEnglishFruit website.

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several different types of plants and their names

Espalier it’s a system of growing dwarf fruit trees on espaliers where they are grown in an intensive way and can be easily covered by netting when needed. It’s not an original system, in fact, in Europe because shortage of suitable land and it’s high cost many, or most orchards are now being grown in this manner.

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