Galloway Farm

Here we are planting some new apple trees we ordered through the mail.  Planting conditions were a little chilly; but you need to get new apple trees in the ground pretty fast.  We ordered these from Willis Orchard Company.   We ordered 3 types of apple trees:  Honeycrisp, Mcintosh, & a “3 in 1″ tree that has 3 varieties of apples on one tree!  (Fuji, Early Red Summer & Granny Smith)  They do this by grafting branches of different varieties to the trunk of a young seedling. 

Interesting Fact:  You can’t just plant one apple tree.  Most apple trees need a second apple tree of a different variety to pollinate it. 

Sidenote:  2 of the trees Willis Orchard Co sent me were the wrong type.  (They sent Dorsett Golden, Anna Apple & Gordon Apple)  I called and they were great.  They told me to keep the wrong ones and they would gladly send us the correct ones.  So we’ll end up with 5 apple trees with a total of 9 varieties of apples!

3 in 1 apple tree