Strong prices for apples during the past few seasons have prompted a spurt in orchard renewal and expansion, tree nurseries report. Demand for certain varieties and rootstocks is such that nurseries are taking orders for trees that will be planted as far out as 2020. Washington nurseries should have a big crop of trees to sell for planting in 2014, but growers need to order early to make sure they find what they want, said Pete Van Well, Jr., at Van Well Nursery in East Wenatchee. “The Honeycrisp thing seems unreal, so people are trying to get Honeycrisp.” Two years […]