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#POMMIE GRANITE FRUIT UPDATE#
#POMMIE GRANITE FRUIT MANUAL#

Considerable effort has gone into creating hybrids of species with numerous immunities to produce species that are resistant to a wide variety of disease.

Disease-resistance: Many popular fruit varieties (that often show up in local nurseries or hardware stores) require extensive spraying to control a wide array of diseases, many of which have been imported from other countries and attack local species that have no inherent immunity.

Any plant that does not grow well in the zone you are in should be removed from further consideration, unless you are prepared to go to extra measures (such as create a greenhouse, move the plant indoors seasonally, etc).

Other hardiness maps are available for Canada, Europe, Australia, South America, FSU, China, Japan, and a global map.

#POMMIE GRANITE FRUIT UPDATE#

For the US, refer to the Hardiness Zone Map update provided by the Arbor Day Foundation (hit "Play").

Location: First, one needs to know what hardiness zone they are in, to eliminate candidate plants that would die from the low temperatures in their area.

So how does someone go about determining what is appropriate and manageable to grow in their yard? The following factors are the most important So in addition to our gardening and backyard chickens, we could effectively cover 3 out of 5 of the basic food groups in the food pyramid right in our yard. My family likes to "pick your own" at local orchards and shop at farmer's markets, and felt that augmenting those purchases with our own fruits and nuts meant that we would reduce the need to ship food across country. After all, we are supposed to have 2-5 helpings of fruit each day, and nuts have been shown to be very healthy sources of protein and essential fatty acids (and even lowering cholesterol).

#POMMIE GRANITE FRUIT MANUAL#

I had read about "Edible Landscaping" and "Permaculture", and decided that approaching tough economic times could be mitigated by growing more of my own food in a manner that did not require a large degree of manual labor. 5 years ago, I decided I was going to shift from a native plantings landscaping theme to one that turned my yard into a source of sustenance. Additionally, one can grow their own food in a pleasing, sylvan landscape. There are a number of answers, one of which is to support local agriculture.