The Orchard

Having failed to keep this blog up to date I just realized that I never mentioned the fact that last year (2012) I decided to organize the fruit trees into an orchard.

I selected 15, more on that number later, fruit trees that where spread out all over the place and took me forever to water and moved them to an area just behind the shed where they had sufficient space, light and most importantly close to a water source so I could automate the irrigation.

Not much to look at, but it is the middle of summer

The list of fruit trees include:

Orange
Pear
Apricot
Cheery
Fig
Apple
Granado
Hazelnut
Pistacho (2, 1 male and 1 female)

Almond
Kaki
Azufaifu (Jujube)
Nispero (Loquat)

The layout is basically a 4 by 4 grid, the more astute will have notices that this makes 16 yet I only have 15, the reason for this is simple, in my grid there was already growing a Hawthorn and so I just left it :-)

Water is now a simple 15 minute job which is automated, I've saved myself hours, why didn't I think of this earlier. So far all the trees have appreciated the move and I plan to add two more this autumn, a walnut tree and something else, yet to be decided..... stay tuned

update - 26-4-2014
Added a walnut to the list :-)