Urban Pioneer
• Mar. 16, 2006 - Cool Finds for miniature gardens!
If you are like me and live on only 1/10 of an acre and half of that is
taken up by house and garage, you dont have much room for a garden
(especially when the little yard you have is shared with children, a
German Shepherd and pretty soon...chickens!). One of the ways I
compensate for having to have a small garden is by using the Square
Foot Garden!
Another way I try to make up for having a small yard is to purchase miniature plants. As I was thumbing through my Gurney's and Henry Field's
catalogs (I think they are owned by similar companies if you compare
their catalogs), and getting my seed order ready, I found some
neat items that will help fit in my yard.
Dwarf Blueberry bush.....grows in a pot, but is supposed to yield a lot of berries.
Pole Apple Tree.....doesnt have any big branches but the leaves and
apples grow from the trunk. This was from an unexpected mutant
tree!
They also have a various fruit trees called Lil'Big that dont grow more
than 6 feet tall, so you dont need a ladder to prune, spray or pick!
and you can fit a few in a small yard!
They also have fruit trees where you can grow three -five varieties of apples, cherries or pears on one tree (they would have to be all apples, all cherries or all pears, but three different kinds)
Pretty cool, huh?
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