subject: Looking After Trees Lets You Reap Some Great Rewards [print this page] Trees are brilliant to have in your gardenTrees are brilliant to have in your garden. They can provide not only food but a great source of fun as well. Finding a plank of wood to turn into a swing is not hard and then putting on the rope that will secure it to the tree is even easier. This is what countless families do across the country in order to provide somewhere for their children to play in the safety of the home garden. Trees can also give you a good source of apples which you can eat throughout the year. Cooking apples for example tend to store quite well and will make many apple crumbles.
Caring for a tree is essential if you want it to produce the most fruit possible for you. The best way to maintain a tree is to prune any new shoots that are not producing fruit, as they will sap energy away from the branches that are bearing fruit. The only case where you should leave the new shoots to continue growing is if the tree is very young and needs to grow. New shoots will grow into large branches and in time this will bear a lot more fruit than you ever thought possible.
Fruit is a natural produce that you can grow for yourself and eat as you pick it from the plants that produce it. Having different fruit bearing plants and trees in the garden is a great way to ensure you get your five a day, and when the winter comes around you can store some of the fruit and still have your essential vitamins. The main difference with home grown fruit and shop bought fruit is that the home grown stuff is more nutritious for you. This is evident in the improved taste of the home grown fruit, and soon you will see that it is always better to use the fruit from your garden.
Trees are a plant that lasts for a very long time. There are some trees that we know to be hundreds of years old and others that are so old no one is sure exactly when they began to grow. This is part of the appeal of having a tree in the garden or at least planting one. If a tree lasts for a very long time and you want to preserve the memory of someone you know or just yourself, then you can plant a tree to make sure that the memory lives on for years. Once trees reach a certain age and size they become part of a protected registry and can never be intentionally chopped down or removed from where they are established. This means that a memory will live for as long as the tree does.
Some people want to have multiple trees in their garden, but with the size that the roots often grow to this can be dangerous for the house. What some people do is graft a second species of tree onto one already established in a garden in order to have the tree produce two kinds of fruit. This is a technique that is very hard to achieve but has spectacular results when both parts of the tree have filled out and grown for a year or so. The result of the grafting is that you can have an apple tree that gives you cooking apples on the left hand side and eating apples on the right for example.
Trees are fantastic for attracting birds to your garden. This is great because it means that you get to see a variety of wild birds flying around your garden. Putting out bird feed will also encourage them to repeatedly visit the garden, which will in turn attract even more birds to it. Birds will eat all of the insects that occupy your garden, and while you may not want this in the spring when the bees are pollinating your flowers, in the late summer it can be useful. Wasps get drunk on fermented fruit late in the summer and become bold and dangerous, however birds will keep their levels down and mean you can enjoy your garden a lot more.
By making your garden more welcoming to wildlife with a tree you can ensure that all of your plants are healthier. Birds will eat any insects that are harmful to your plants and help fertilise it by dropping fruit and worms all over it. Some people do not want birds in their garden as it will attract cats that are out hunting, however this does stop the cats fouling in the garden because they are too distracted with the birds.
