I planted 2 bare-rooted persimmon trees that I bought from Trees of Antiquity in California. One of the trees is Hachiya, which someone said was their favorite flavor, and the other is a Honan Red. I put them in the same swale where I have my fig trees on the east side of the house. See the interactive map for the location.
The order I placed in October from Pense Berry Farm arrived yesterday, so I planted it all today. The blackberries are a special
18) Santa Rosa Plum
22) AU Roadside Plum
near 1,2,3) Prime-Ark Freedom Blackberries (quantity 6)
My order of bare root fruit trees came in today, and I immediately put them in the ground. I planted them in a pattern I learned about in a the film “The Permaculture Orchard“: 2 fruit trees, followed by a nitrogen fixing tree and prevent two fruit trees of the same type from being close to each other. The idea is the nitrogen fixing tree will provide for the fruit trees on each side of it, and if one tree gets attacked by pests or diseased, the problem doesn’t easily just jump next door and take out another tree. I planted at 12 foot intervals, and about half of the trees will be shaded for the first half of the day. The fruit trees and redbuds came from Womack Nursery in De Leon Texas and the 3 nitrogen fixer trees are on order from Cold Stream Farms in Freesoil, Michigan.
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A few weeks ago, I planted 16 blackberry plants along the west side of the shop building. I got these from a group buy from some members of the North Texas Vegetable Gardeners facebook group. I had to drive to Denton to pick them up, but they only cost me $3 each. I have 4 each of the following varieties:
I’ll plant fruit trees right next to them later this winter.