The orchard is in!

Yesterday we finally planted the orchard. Hopefully we will have a small amount of fruit this year, but it's unlikely. The trees we planted were bareroot and smaller, not over 5 feet.

We are hoping they stay put. The ground chosen is less than ideal as it is very shallow in some places. We tried many methods to break through the hardpan but finally gave up. Instead we mounded each tree with a mixture of topsoil and compost (both purchased from Biomass1). Some of the mounds are sitting on as little as a foot of pasture dirt over the hardpan.




The orchard contains 22 trees. We went for a combination of fruits instead of many of any one. The list includes:

Persimmons

Apples

Peaches

Plums

Pears

Pomegranits

Figs

Apricots

Necterines

Cherries

And 1 mystery tree that wasn't labeled!

All of our trees came from the friendly and helpful folks at Shooting Star Nursery.