Planting Fruit Trees

[coalmining]

My wife bought a Bartlett Pear tree and an Apple,Golden. I have the holes dug here along our deck. We have horses and i have a pile of fully composted horse Manure. i made the holes about 5x bigger than the root ball so I can fill it all in with this extremely black dirt. It's been in a stall piled up for about 3yrs. Watered and turned regularly the first year then we kinda let it go, but it seems to have rotted down very well. My question is this. Do I need more than one tree each to have fruit? Do I need at least 2 trees of each type? I'm more into hunting,trapping and fishing than planting but she got them at a closeout and they look pretty good so I thought about buying some more since they had Plum as well. I'd like to get about 3 of each but I don't know if they have any left. Anyway I was just wondering if you need more than one tree to get them to bear.
Thanks
Coalmining

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Sept 5, 2015 19:28:44 GMT -5 coalmining said:

My wife bought a Bartlett Pear tree and an Apple,Golden. I have the holes dug here along our deck. We have horses and i have a pile of fully composted horse Manure. i made the holes about 5x bigger than the root ball so I can fill it all in with this extremely black dirt. It's been in a stall piled up for about 3yrs. Watered and turned regularly the first year then we kinda let it go, but it seems to have rotted down very well. My question is this. Do I need more than one tree each to have fruit? Do I need at least 2 trees of each type? I'm more into hunting,trapping and fishing than planting but she got them at a closeout and they look pretty good so I thought about buying some more since they had Plum as well. I'd like to get about 3 of each but I don't know if they have any left. Anyway I was just wondering if you need more than one tree to get them to bear.
Thanks
Coalmining

I was always told to get them in pairs, to cross pollinate, especially apple trees, for them to bear fruit.

[js]

For the bartlets Ive read don't need a second tree for pollinating. The apples i do believe need another apple.

[coalmining]

Thanks, I'm gonna try to get at least 1 of each tomorrow. may end up starting an Orchard of pear,peach,apple and plum. Should keep the canner busy and the deer coming in.