Best Fruit Trees To Grow In Georgia. Extend the season by planting a late ripening variety like Alma. If a fruit tree is rare its usually hard to grow here.
Fig Trees These trees are rather invisible to pest and very trouble free. Although you can grow pears in metro Atlanta a prevalent bacterial fungus makes it difficult to do so commercially although there are exceptions. If a fruit tree is rare its usually hard to grow here.
According to the University of Georgia the best types of apple trees to grow in this apple zone include Ginger Gold Gala Mollies Delicious Ozark Gold Red Delicious Jonagold Golden Delicious Fuji Mutzu Rome Beauty Stayman Yates and Granny Smith.
Extend the season by planting a late ripening variety like Alma. Plant vacant spaces to grow tempting delicious scuppernongs blueberry plants or a Pawnee pecan tree. I have a list of local and online fruit nurseries at bitlyfruitsources. Although uncommon some grow as tall as 40 feet high.