Re: Good local sources for fruit trees.

pakrat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:44:09 -0400 in
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> Daniel B. Martin
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>  wrote:
>> pakrat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>> My wife and I have discussed using fruit trees in the front yard
>> A good friend -- a native southerner -- gently advised me that
>> planting fruit trees in the front yard is regarded as low class.
>> Just not done.
>>
>> As a transplanted northerner I had not known that.   The advice
>> came too late.   I had already planted two fruit trees in my 
>> front yard.
> 
> I refuse to worry about it as
> 1) The raised bed garden is already in the front yard.
> 2) The previous owner was from the area long before I was born
> and planted an apple tree.
> 
> 

I don't worry either. There is a great book Food Not Lawns.
Lawns are a status symbol that started out of people showing they did 
not need to grow their own food. I do not have that luxury and I don't 
care who knows it. :)

Not sure of local. Home depot on occasion. Gurneys online?