Debunking Common Myths About Maintaining a Home Orchard

The truth about dwarf trees and other common myths about growing fruit trees.

A healthy tree can produce hundreds of fruit. Mark Stebnicki/Pexels

It’s supposed to be the little engine that could, my dwarf Arkansas black apple tree, a wonderful fruit cultivar grafted to a rootstock selected and engineered to grow Lilliputian trees.

But after six years in the ground, it’s not yet 4 feet tall. That’s not a tree. I shouldn’t have bought it.