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Optimal Timing and Ordering for Container-Grown Trees

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Amazing Apple Trees dating back to the 1700s Century Farm Orchards in NC, Come Learn with us!

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An interview with the orchard owner clarifies the best time to plant container-grown apple trees, which is climate-dependent. Generally, planting in the fall (November to mid-December) is suitable for regions south of the Maryland/Pennsylvania line down to Southern Missouri, as long as the ground doesn't freeze more than 5-6 inches deep. For northern climates, spring planting is recommended, with trees shipped dormant from March to early April. The orchard ships trees throughout the continental United States, ensuring proper permits are in place for all states, including California.

Goal: Determine the best time to order and plant apple trees based on geographical location and climate.

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beautiful place guys we caught up with David David is the owner is that okay screw owner proprietor how long you been doing this David we've been growing apple trees for about 25 years and we've been our business has actually been an established business since the late 90s every year is different sometimes depending on the weather yeah I know that in terms of our business it's pretty much been the same for the last 10 years we've been doing open house for about the full 20 years just about the last 10 years has been about the same we're here the first three Saturdays in November okay and we're open to walk around the farm purchase apples purchase trees ask questions it's as much educational at times as it is you know a family event and basically it's the one three of the three times of the year that we have people can actually pick up trees on-site to the rest of the year the rest of the dormant season from the first November to the first of April we only ship treaties okay this is our one opportunity to reach out to the community had them in taste some of the apples and actually see up-close what we do here so guys will leave a link down below to his website if you want to check out any of the trees I think how many varieties of trees do you sell online we grow about 500 varieties of trees here or post or heirloom southern some are modern they work well here okay and on any given year we're probably selling between 80 and 100 different varieties in our inventory nice Wow it's amazing and guys you were down there with me a little bit earlier you can see all these different trees it's just a beautiful wonderful place this guy's got a green thumb I couldn't imagine we're busy he's busy I couldn't imagine having the knowledge this guy's got in his head about how to do all this grafting and work with all these trees it's just something that's really spectacular something that you can get online by paying for a good tree so David I heard that you have some apples that are descendants from George Washington's apples on Mount Vernon is that well some of the apples that we have here they're all a lot of them heirloom and some of them go back to George Washington's time period and Thomas Jefferson's and we have also the oldest named apple variety in America the Roxbury russet available if you would like to have apples that people in the 1700s may have had historically like George Washington or Thomas Jefferson we do sell the same varieties so explain to me what the…

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