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Yesterday I planted (here read the Garden Crew planted) 8 fruit trees in a 12x12 space leaving room for Donna’s vegetable garden. That is going to be a raised bed holding a couple of tomatoes and peppers and a few herbs.

Getting back to our orchard I planted two pluots, one super sweet called Flavor Grenade and one with some acid tang called Dapple Dandy, I planted a Santa Rosa Plum, Blenheim Apricot, Craig’s Crimson self fertile cherry and a Fuyu persimmon. Plus a couple of white fleshed nectarines and a peach.

As we choose the trees obviously we picked varieties of fruit that we liked but in addition we looked for trees that ripened at different times during the summer. The goal is to have fresh fruit from early June to September.

I intend to hedge the trees to about 8’ tall and about 3’ wide This will give me enough fruit at one time and keep my maintenance down to a couple of hours a year. What a bargain. Buckets of tree ripened fruit and only a couple of hours of effort to keep them up.

If you haven’t had the pleasure of eating tree ripe fruit you need to find out what you are missing. If you are interested in a fruit bush hedge come in and ask for our fruit bush hedge hand out.

And while you are here you might want to start your hedge. Now is a great time!!

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