Well, bad news. You may remember the incident with the fruit trees and blueberries a short while back.... the one where horses took down the wooden worm fence and let the sheep into the orchard? We took a close look at the trees and none except maybe the fig are saveable. The rest have ALL of the bark eaten off, 100%. Without some bark the tree has no way to function since the bark is the "circulatory system" of a tree.
So we have started replacing all the trees. 10 are in so far with another 10 to go. Hopefully next week.
The types chosen so far are:
Apple
Apricot
Peach
Plum
Cherry
Pomagranett
We also decided to add
Raspberry
Boysenberry
Blackberry
We made sure to not get any hybrids and the oldest varieties we could find.
Its sad to start over... but glad to have it half done.
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