shading the PawPaw

Last September I purchased two PawPaw trees from HiddenSprings Nursery - a Mango and an Overleese.  Initially I planted them in an extended area of my new orchard but when a sickly apple tree had to be removed from my old orchard I decided to transplant the two small PawPaws close together where the apple tree had stood.  Incidentally this apple tree was purchased from a big box store to replace an apple tree which had previously failed.  So either there is a problem with the soil in this specific Read more [...]