Forget Big Box Stores! This Is The BEST WAY To Buy Fruit Trees!

In this video, I share three ways to buy fruit trees and which way is best. My favorite way of buying fruit trees gives you the biggest selection of fruit tree varieties while saving you money. Forget big box stores! This is the best way to buy fruit trees!

Buying fruit trees at big box stores is easy, but it lacks selection. The varieties are usually limited and generic, and growing fruit trees from big box stores may result in poor performance in your climate and poor pollination. I grow fruit trees a better way, which gives me a better selection, more rootstock choices, better performance in my climate, superior pollination, and I save money!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 3 Ways To Buy Fruit Trees
0:32 Option #1 - Garden Centers
3:02 Option #2 - A Better Selection
6:05 Option #3 - My Favorite Option!
8:36 The Downside To This Plant Shopping Method
12:45 Adventures With Dale

If you have questions about planting fruit trees in ground or in containers, want to know more about how to grow fruit trees and the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden, are looking for gardening tips and tricks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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[TheMillennialGardener]

If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share it to help extend its reach! Thanks for watching 😃TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 3 Ways To Buy Fruit Trees
0:32 Option #1 - Garden Centers
3:02 Option #2 - A Better Selection
6:05 Option #3 - My Favorite Option!
8:36 The Downside To This Plant Shopping Method
12:45 Adventures With Dale

[richardweinberger]

I live in Los Angeles, last year in January I was at Lowe's poking around and I saw some triple grafted (3 varieties) dwarf apple trees for $35. I didn't think any apples would grow around here. I immediately googled the varieties listed on the tags and they all were warm climate fruits, so I bought it. Right now it's about 4 feet tall and has 20 apples growing on it. They are small but the first ones tasted good and I was glad I bought it.
Every fruit tree I see at Lowe's is good for this climate, , , I check a lot even though I have no more room, I also recently bought a dwarf hass avocado tree at Home Depot. I was waiting for that to come around, , , and it did.
A lot of great trees are not legal for shipment to California, , that's a bummer too.

[kahvac]

I've bought Peach, Apple, Plum and Pear trees the last three years from Fedco Trees in Maine with excellent results !

[jjoell]

Blooming time is a very important factor. I live in middle Georgia & my plum trees would rarely produce fruit; late frost would kill the blooms nearly every season. Raintree Nursery has a good selection & its possible to search by bloom time. I planted three mid to late bloomers; and they bloom about three weeks after the last late frost. The only negative is they are rather expensive right now.

[barbiedesoto]

I happened to try a nursery just 30 minutes from my house last fall and they had a huge sale on everything I needed - shrubs, perennials, trees. I went back 3 times and they have a guarantee for a year. They had all the info about pollination and root stocks too. They know their stuff. I’m really happy with them so far. Some are still needing to be planted but they’re getting a little snow on them. I’m excited to see how the new apple and plum and cherry trees do! Definitely try those local places and ask if they have guarantees etc!

[pegstock]

I get my fruit trees from the flea market. Peach trees for $24, a plum tree for $24 and pear tree for $28 all are bearing fruit.

[Steadylife]

I come for the Adventures With Dale, :) just kidding, I appreciate all the work you, Brittany and Dale put into your videos. Thank you kindly.

[PeteCorp]

Great writing format. Clear and weighs pro and cons.

[mirabellegoldapfel]

One of my favourite way is plant markets. I went to a organic plant market last sunday and got a juneberry for 10€ and loads of vegetables and herbs as well. They had mostly local nurseries there, so they are used to the cold and amount of rain.
The even cheaper way are plant swaps that are organized by local garden clubs, and what grows in your neigbours garden will work in yours, too.

[makeyourlifeeasier]

As usual, nice video. Up here in Jersey, Lowes is selling their non grafted fruit trees for about $34-$35. Most of the trees are marked with the Pollinators they would need, if they need one. I did hear that each state and even each Lowes can be different. I did notice higher prices on trees at Home Depot though. Keep up the good work.

[Tinyteacher]

This was the most important information I’ve learned about buying trees! Thank you!!

[finnmcgrady]

A fellow Wilmington guy right here! Much love man. Getting my garden going now and you’ve been a great help. Keep up the good work!!

[Wofford]

He thinks he knows everything. BECAUSE HE DOES! I love this channel.

[andreaholamon]

ILM, that’s my hood! I grew up in the area, we moved when I was a teen to Texas but my brother and sister graduated from Hoggard HS. My yankee dad retired back to Southport, so I showed him your channel. He has a great little garden with a few fig trees and veggies primarily, their problem is the deer! They can’t fence in their yard in their neighborhood. He’s been bemoaning the late freezes this year. Hopefully he enjoys your info as much as I do!!

Also, I commented a while back on a video about strawberry plants and not realizing how hardy they are… you were so right. My two roots grew back this year in my planter and I didn’t protect them at all during our snowmageddon here in Texas 😅😅

[Lbff]

I just found your channel a couple of weeks ago and it has become my favorite! I love how informative, straight to the point, well organized, and over helpful they always are. Thank you!

[squidikka]

I love your channel. I recently got interested in figs and ordered a bunch of the figs off figbid as per your 10 varieties to get video, and have started trying to root them. I live in TX, zone 8a, so I think I can put most if not all of them in the ground. I used to work at Lowes in the nursery and pretty much every single fruit tree you see is a standard size rootstock, so you're right on the money. I think getting your trees online is the best deal overall, unless you have agricultural restrictions like we do here in TX. Unfortunately, we have one of the most annoying ones in that we are forced to look to stores for anything citrus as it is against agricultural law to ship citrus to TX. As a citrus enthusiast, this is soul crushing. I've been looking for a Kishu Mandarin in every nursery near me for the last 5 or 6 years. My wishlist is big, and it really sucks I have no way of getting them. It's like being a fig enthusiast and not being able to order cuttings and instead rely on your nearest nursery for any varieties outside your standard celeste, brown turkey, or mission. In otherwords, you won't ever get anything interesting, lol.

[christopherbeard]

Awesome to hear that you are in Wilmington, Rocky Point resident here. Small world. Thanks for the info and can't wait to get my trees planted

[hearc]

i ordered 23 fruit trees this year from willis orchard and have been pleased by the trees

[HKLee-dnfh]

What an adorable companion you have there… 🐕

[larrywong]

Great video! I have gotten fruit trees in all the ways mentioned. However, we are very very lucky to have a retail/ wholesale nursery Dixon Ca. that sells bare root fruit trees that are only $39 their trees look to be a good year older than other nurseries.
Also, having the choice to pick the tree, you can get a good start on future the branch structure of the tree. I got several Aprium and Pluot trees that are not easily available. Fruit trees are a good investment and pleasure!