Permaculture plants and consulting services
-Full Sun– Semi-Dwarf on OHXF 333, space 12′-16′ apart, needs pollinator
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Full Size on Seedling Root Stock, space 15′-20′ apart, needs pollinator
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Semi-Dwarf on OHXF 333, space 12′-16′ apart, needs pollinator
Mid October. Also known as ’Olympic’, this is the huge, russeted, olive-green skinned, softball-sized pear one finds in natural food stores and international grocery stores. Very crispy and juicy, and long storing for a pear. Requires a long season to ripen—fine in our area, but no guarantees for further north. Slightly more insect and disease resistant than ’Shinseiki’.
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Semi-Dwarf on OHXF 333, space 12′-16′ apart, needs pollinator
Late September. Large golden-yellow fruit with slight russeting and sometimes an orange/red blush. Incredibly juicy, very course-textured flesh which is where its nickname “sand pear” comes from. For fresh eating, some folks adore them and others turn up their nose at the gritty flesh. They have a deep flavor with a hint of astringency which I find refreshing in a world of very mild, sweet pears. Exceptionally good as dried pears and make good preserves. Probably the best thing about them is their long-known trait of being able to thrive in almost any conditions–they are pretty much immune to insect and disease troubles. Some nurseries claim that Keiffer is self-fertile but we have not been able to substantiate that.
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Semi-Dwarf on OHXF 333, space 12′-16′ apart, needs pollinator
Late September. Many nurseries claim that ‘Seckel’ pear is very fireblight resistant; however we lost ours and two other friends in southern IN lost theirs to the 2012 fireblight epidemic. One of these friends has a ‘Honeysweet’ pear right next to the spot where the ‘Seckel’ was and it went through that blight year just fine. With that real-world experience, we are now offering ‘Honeysweet’ in place of ‘Seckel’. It’s fruit is very similar to ‘Seckel’ with buttery-smooth, chewy flesh, tender skin and a lightly spicy, cinnamon flavor; but it is a little larger in size. Supposedly self-fertile, though it will bear more with a second variety.
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Full Size on Seedling Root Stock, space 15′-20′ apart, needs pollinator
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Semi-Dwarf on OHXF 333, space 12′-16′ apart, needs pollinator
Mid-August. Beautifully colored and shaped early pear with buttery-smooth flesh. The neck is a little more elongated and fat, the blush a bit more deeply red, and the fruit a little smaller than Bartlett. Supposedly fireblight-resistant, but ours died over the course of 3 years after the severe fireblight breakout in 2012. We are thus phasing it out in favor of Sunrise.
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Dwarf/semi dwarf on Krymsk 1, 6-9’ tall and wide, self-fertile
Mid-season. A popular peach that is known for its extremely hardy buds —this variety will bear in years that most others fail. Not as bright red cheek as others, but it is freestone and very flavorful; almost apricot-like. Needs heavier thinning for large fruits. Very productive and has tolerance to brown rot though it is prone to peach scab (a skin blemish which does not affect edibility).
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $49
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Full size on Krymsk 86, space 15′-20′ apart, self-fertile
Late-season. Almost fully red-skinned peach for late in the season. Very large freestone fruit with good resistance to bacterial spot and some resistance to brown rot.
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Full size on Krymsk 86, space 15′-20′ apart, self-fertile
Mid-season. Beautiful, white-fleshed freestone peach that hangs well on the tree compared to Belle of Georgia. Excellent flavor–many people love white peaches, but I find many of them lacking in flavor compared to yellow peaches. This is an exception–much more peachy flavor with an extra burst of sweetness! Gorgeous pink blush on its cheeks.
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Full size on Krymsk 86, space 15′-20′ apart, self-fertile
Early-season. Beautiful red striping over yellow background, resembles a flame. Makes very sizable fruit if properly thinned. Partially freestone, especially when fully ripe. This variety is more resistant to bacterial spot and brown rot than other peaches. A more blossom-hardy variety developed at the Harrow Research Station, so you’ll get crops in years that Red Haven will fail. One more good thing about this peach is its 2” wide pink blossoms in the spring. Breathtaking!
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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I assumed that the soft, sugary, and fragile nature of peaches would make them a magnet for pests and diseases here in southern IN. However, with planting resistant varieties and heavy pruning to keep an open tree, we have been successfully producing delicious ripe peaches with no sprays. In 2010 I fulfilled my dream to literally gorge on tree-ripe organic peaches (wasn’t as good an idea 6 hours later!). Peaches are quick growers and often bear fruit earlier in life (2-3 years) than most fruit trees. They are also shorter lived—expect 15-25 years from a peach tree. We have not noticed any Peach Leaf Curl disease on any of our peaches. All on ‘Lovell’ seedling rootstock which makes a standard sized (14-16’) longer-lived tree. Space peaches 15-20’ apart. An idea I have heard to dwarf peach trees is to plant 3-4 of them 4′ apart in a square or triangle and then prune them carefully around each other. Supposedly the root competition acts to dwarf the trees, keeping them more easily managed at 8-12′.
Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Semi-Dwarf on M-111, Space 15′-20′ apart, Needs Pollinator
Late August. A more southerly adapted apple, doing best in zones 5-8. Very large, crisp and sweet. Pretty red blush and striping over a yellow background. Known to have resistance to some diseases so has potential for organic growers.
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Dwarf on Bud 9, space 6′-10′ apart (stake), needs pollinator
Late August. A more southerly adapted apple, doing best in zones 5-8. Very large, crisp and sweet. Pretty red blush and striping over a yellow background. Known to have resistance to some diseases so has potential for organic growers.
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Semi-Dwarf on M-111, Space 15′-20′ apart, Needs Pollinator
Mid September. Touted as the most disease-resistant of the PRI apples, this tree has performed remarkably well for us, producing flawless shiny fruit with minimum of care. Seems to resist insect damage as well as fungal diseases. We recommend Liberty the most of all our apples. Fruit is deep purple-red on the sun side and bright green on the shade side, having a flavor like a more sprightly and crisp McIntosh. Need to thin this variety heavily or fruit size can be small. A decent keeper in storage.
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.
-Full Sun– Dwarf on Bud 9, space 6′-10′ apart (stake), needs pollinator
Mid September. Touted as the most disease-resistant of the PRI apples, this tree has performed remarkably well for us, producing flawless shiny fruit with minimum of care. Seems to resist insect damage as well as fungal diseases. We recommend Liberty the most of all our apples. Fruit is deep purple-red on the sun side and bright green on the shade side, having a flavor like a more sprightly and crisp McIntosh. Need to thin this variety heavily or fruit size can be small. A decent keeper in storage.
Gallon* pots $24, 2-gallon* pots $36, 4-gallon* pots $48
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Availability of plants varies from day to day. We rarely carry every size/price option listed at any one time. Please call before you come to check availability.