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Fruit Culture in Alabama - Ease of Culture

Arlie Powell, David Himelrick, William Dozier and, David Williams (March, 1999)

Summary

When selecting fruit types to plant, fruit producers should consider how difficult or how easy the fruit is to manage. How difficult or easy a fruit may be to grow depends on several factors: the need for pesticide sprays, special yearly training or pruning, and plant loss from difficult-to-control disease and insect problems, such as Pierce´s disease of grapes, fire blight of apples and pears, phony peach disease of peaches, and grape root borer of grapes. This publication presents tables, by region of the state, that show the relative degrees of difficulty in raising fruits considered adapted for Alabama.