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Old 03/11/13, 09:32 AM
 
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Are you waiting for all the fruit & nut trees to mature! Or are you eating from them already? I really love the variety you have planted..Im in zone 5 so I couldnt grow some you have listed.. Thanks for sharing!
Most of the list was planted in the spring of 2011, so each year will bring more production.

The bushes, canes and strawberries start producing their first year. A number of the trees do start producing within a year or two, as well (peach, cherry, mulberry, asian pear, crabapple, etc..). The yield per tree isn't what it will be in 5 more years, but it is nice to get samples early on to see the difference in varieties in this climate setting.
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Old 06/16/13, 09:45 AM
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This the same tree from a few posts up where I showed it all trimmed. It's looking good with a heavy fruit set. This years fruit is looking good so far. Had to run the smudge pots on Mothers Day to fend off a frost, but we pulled through that one okay.
Only problem now is getting into the garden. It keeps flooding in the paths with all the rain we keep getting. So far this year I got planted

5 acres OP corn
400' tomatoes 11 verities
100sf of popcorn
200' bush and climbing beans (more to come)
100' each broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage
200' dry beans (more to come)
50' each Swiss chard, beets, radishes, carrots, sweet peppers, hot peppers, peas, radicchio, kale, ground cherries, melons and cucumbers

Still need to get potatoes and second planting of onions in at my dads.
Biggest garden I've ever planted by myself and its still not big enough. Lol still had to plant stuff at my dads.
Finished the herb beds before the rain last night and planted them in the dark, but they are done for now. I still need to build a few more beds so there's room to grow. No pun intended. I feel you can never have too many herbs. The 90% ers-imageuploadedbytapatalk1371393842.853377.jpg
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