Start with Fruit Trees...
Our community and school has an annual fruit tree sale that is a fund raiser. Frankly in our town it has now taken on a life of its own and it just makes sense. Once established, fruit trees are easy... and within a few years our community now has producing Fruit Trees everywhere. By design they are in our parks, mediums and of course in every yard who has a school age child since they report on their trees progress year after year as they go through the grades.
What we do on our farm...
We had an old orchard on terraces that just needed a bit of pruning, a few replacement trees and we had a bit of unused space. We decided to tackle a grand experiment. Our goal was to figure out this container growing thing once and for all with a test set of dwarf peach and nectarine trees. We wanted to see if they really did grow better in the ground or in Containers. The hope is that the container growing really does pan out which means you can move those trees with you everywhere you live...
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| We planted dwarf peaches and nectarines in the ground to replace trees that had died |
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| AND we planted the same Dwarf varieties in containers where they can live basically forever |
Citrus loves pots...
And of course the citrus love pots. Our choice of long term indestructible pots (non BPA food grade quality) is strong enough to let us haul the citrus in and out of the orangery if needed. But, we keep simplifying and finding better ways. So with the citrus we chose a location where, in our California Climate, we could just throw a citrus blanket over the fence they are up against and tent them for the few nights needed. The iron fence that acts as a tent pole was a 'duh' moment....it is open to let all day sun through and it is pretty....
Next up... our garden ..
again lots of it is in containers cuz we can control the organic soil that everything is growing in...
Stay tuned...
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