Know Your Zone

 You may want a banana tree but it may not grow in your area. Some tools are helpful to guide you to what trees are best for you and your area. When you are looking into buying a tree you will see that all trees have growing zones.  Do you know what zone you are in? You will need to find out if a banana tree can grow near you. And if it can’t, what trees would?  This is a link to arborday foundation’s zone look up.  http://shop.arborday.org/content.aspx?page=zone-lookup .

For more detailed information about what trees work in your area you may want to use their “Best Tree Finder: Tree Wizard” https://www.arborday.org/shopping/trees/treewizard/intro.cfm however this second link will ask for much more than your location because location is not the only thing to consider when you are considering what tree will grow in your area.  In this blog we are focusing on what is best for Zone 5. Or for those of you like me that live in WI, we will be talking about what grows in the South/East half of the state. 


The below map is a very detailed map if you are looking for more specific information then the 10 zones (in the US) that the arbor day foundation link will provide.

Blog Introduction for Fruit Trees in Your Backyard

Blog Introduction

    Hello, my Name is Stacia. My new husband  I are newish home owners (close on our house on holloween 2014)  and one of the reasons we wanted to own a house was so we could grow some of our own food. we are still learning lots about this, but we jumped in with our first step in making this a reality. Geting trees in the ground as we knew they would take a few years to start producing. This is our 3rd spring in our home and hopefully last year planting new trees for a long while. As we have learned so much I wanted to share this with you all in a short and sweet recap of our adventure.


In this blog I want to:

-          - Share what I am learning about my hobby/interest in fruit trees.

-         -  Reach out to Landowners with an interest in growing their own fruit/food.

-         -  Teach others about Fruit Trees  so they are set up for success

-         -  Make a post daily for the rest of the week.

-         -  Chose a blog that is convenient for me and my readers. I will use Blogspot because it is free and I like that it requires a sign in through google so we don’t need multiple log-in information and yet still more secure than a random open location. http://backyardfruittrees.blogspot.com/

   If you made it past the title you must know that this blog will be focused on fruit trees. So let’s jump in and figure out what tree you want, and also learn how to know what trees will work for you.