We have still not gotten our order from Stark Bro's, but here's where we are so far.
Site
We chose to put our orchard on the top of the small hill to the north of our house. It will be in full sun most of the day, and it will also be visible from the yard (easier to enjoy and take care of it).
Layout
Our orchard (as long as it fits) will be about 50'X 105'. We are spacing the trees 15' in all directions, so that gives us four rows of 4-5 fruit trees per row.
Holes
We are using the tractor to dig the holes, which makes this process a lot easier!
We are digging the holes about 18" deep, (and hoping that's deep enough). We don't have the trees yet, so we don't know for sure how deep to go.
Trees
For choosing the trees, we pretty much just went off the descriptions, what we like to eat, and what grows well here.
Here is the list of trees that should be arriving this Saturday (we purchased two of each).
Elberta peach
Amoore Sweet nectarine
CandyCrisp apple
Moonglow pear
Sunrise pear
Liberty apple
Carolina Belle peach
Bartlett pear
Santa Rosa pear
SunGlo nectarine
Starking Delicious plum
Berries
We chose the berries the same way we chose the trees.
Heritage red raspberry
Encore red raspberry
Chandler blueberry
Prime-Ark Freedom primocane blackberry
Elliott blueberry
Pink Lemonade blueberry
Silver Dollar blueberry
Patriot blueberry
Arora honeyberry
Boreal Beauty honeyberry
Soil
The soil where we are putting the orchard seems pretty good already, but we plan to start grazing our rabbits over the area to improve it.
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