The Beginning

This blog is to document my trial and error effort of growing apples and pears in Florida. I started this journey with the physical work in the backyard garden/orchard about 6 months ago with the planting of multiple apple trees. I planted 3 different varieties of trees all of which were low chill hour type trees. First is "Anna", second is "Dorsett golden", and finally "Ein shemer". The chill hour requirements on these trees are only about 150/200 hrs below 45 degrees. Hopefully this is the right combination for central Florida. Also I planted 2 varieties of pear trees "Hood" and "Florida home". The pear trees I planted in a espalier fashion and will train them on a 3 wire trellis.