🍎 Thicket Crab
Zones: 3–8 | Height: 8-10 ft | Spread: 6–12 ft | Growth Rate: Fast
Light: Full sun to partial shade | Soil: Well-drained, sandy to loamy
Fruit Drop Time: Fall
🏞️ Product Description:
The Thicket Crab is a unique crabapple selection that grows more like a dense shrub or hedge than a traditional tree. With its bushy, 8-foot form and multi-stemmed structure, it provides both excellent food and year-round cover for deer, turkeys, and upland birds.
Ideal for borders, screen plantings, or creating dense habitat, this fast-growing crab forms impenetrable thickets that support wildlife in more ways than one—offering both sweet fruit and essential shelter.
🦌 Thick Cover. Reliable Fruit. Multi-Function Habitat.
Thicket Crab excels as a low-profile, high-value habitat option. It attracts wildlife with its fruit and supports them with thick cover from predators and weather.
🌳 Why Grow Thicket Crab?
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Grows as a dense, bush-like thicket—perfect for screening and bedding cover
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Produces fruit that’s highly attractive to deer, turkeys, and small game
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Supports habitat layering in food plots or native plantings
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Fast-growing and cold-hardy
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Thrives in a variety of soil types and light conditions
🛠️ Planting Tips:
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Plant in full sun to partial shade for best structure and fruiting
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Space 6–10 ft apart when planting as a hedge or thicket
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Use Shrub Survival Kits to protect young plants and lock in soil moisture
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Water regularly during establishment, especially in dry sites
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Pair with native shrubs or crabapple trees for seasonal variety
🛡️ Upgrade with a Shrub Survival Kit — Includes 1-Year Plant Guarantee:
Add our Shrub Survival Kit to help your Thicket Crab thrive with a protective tube, weed mat, and slow-release fertilizer. Purchasing the kit activates our 1-year replacement guarantee.
🌿 Summary:
The Thicket Crab is more than just a fruiting shrub—it’s a powerful habitat tool. From bedding cover to fall forage, this compact crabapple delivers big benefits in a small, rugged package.
Food. Cover. Structure. All in one tough little thicket.
