Yesterday I popped by my favorite nursery, Watson’s in Puyallup to checkout their bareroot espalier fruit trees. Not only did I find the tree I was looking for, but I found about a million other awesome things as well. Isn’t this moss basket/purse gorgeous? I think they’d be pretty easy to make.
Seed potatoes! Have you picked yours up yet? I went home with 4 bags because HELLO… potatoes are an essential item in any home garden. 😉 
Check out this Fornetto pizza oven. Ain’t she pretty? The price tag though, it’s a whopper. I wonder how many wood fired pizzas I’d need to make to break even?
There were so many fruit trees to choose from it was hard to pick just one.
I ended up going home with a 4-way grafted apple tree: Honeycrisp, Gravenstein, Liberty and Spartan apples. When I was planning out the garden I had originally wanted to buy 2 more espalier trees this spring, 1 pear and 1 apple. But since we already have 2 other pear espalier trees, and now a new pea trellis along the fence, I think a single 4-way apple tree was the right choice.
I highly doubt I’ll get any apples this year, but you never know… Miracles can happen, right? Do you have any grafted trees in your garden? Have they done well for you?
~Mavis
Erin says
I have a grafted Floridaprince Peach tree. It’s grafted onto a semi dwarfing stock and I planted it Christmas 2014. It was a present from my hubby 🙂 It was pretty much the only thing I asked for. I’m weird like that. Anyway, after growing for an entire year, and boy did it! it is budding out and starting to bloom! I’ve never had a fruit tree before and I’m so excited! I’m limited in my traditional tree choices because we’re in zone 9b, so I look for varieties that only need 150chill hours. I don’t think we’ve even hit that this year! I also have a grafted Golden Dorsett Apple I planted a few months ago. I’m hoping it makes it. Haven’t seen new leaves yet. But in our subtropic zone I do get to grow some fun things like banana, papaya and passion fruit all of which should fruit for me sometime this year too!
E in upstate NY says
When I creating the master plan for our garden, asked Hubby is he was interested in apple and/or pear trees [was thinking of Espalier], he surprised me with “No!” So on to plan b for the garden. In hind sight, would have liked them anyway, but its so much easier to buy a bushel to sauce. Due to his strict medical diet, he can’t eat fresh fruit unless they are peeled. Yes a bummer!
Jane says
Ahh, love apple trees…. and honeycrisp in your backyard! That’s luxury 🙂 We grew up with homemade applesauce from my favorite climbing tree and I miss that!
Patrice in University Place says
Mavis, I have thick layers of moss in all my flower beds, along the retaining walls, and even on tree trunks. I can peel it off easily. I’m wondering if I could sell it. What do you think? Do I have a cash cow?
Mavis Butterfield says
If you find a way to sell it, let me know…. I’ve got a ton. 😉 Now would be a good time though, moss looks fantastic in spring bulb baskets and hanging baskets too. Maybe a nursery would be interested?
Cynthia says
Hey Mavis, I went to Watson’s yesterday and I bought one of those three way espalier trees! We got the the pear kind. I can hardly wait to plant it. We were on our way to a 60th Anniversary party so they are holding the tree and today my husband is picking it up even as I type. I bought one of those moss purses and took it as a gift. One stop shop at Watson’s!