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Originally Posted by Iowanian
I have about 10 mature fruit trees(apples, pears, peaches) and 4 grape vines.
I planted 15 fruit trees(from Stark Bros in MO) apple, peach, pear, plum, cherry, apricot(the fruit, not the beemer).
I'm interested in people with big brains on fruit trees and the best thing I can do for the new ones, and how to address the "rust" on the leaves of a peach and adjacent apple tree.
I'm thinking pretty hard about planting 4 more grape vines, and adding a couple of blueberry and raspberry bushes.
I'm considering planting between 5-15 acres of fruit trees to start a walk in orchard, but with my work schedule I'm not sure I can put the time into them for proper pruning etc.
We have a decent sized garden, and I generally scoop a couple of tons of compost from a large pile we have scraped up from a former cattle lot, and then till that in. I've not done much with herbs, but I'd like to do at least some of the basics, garlic etc. I'd also like to start a strawberry bed, but they're a pain in the butt.
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Over the last few years we've cut all but one of our fruit trees down - two figs, a peach, a plum, and an apple.
The peach was too shaded and never fruited. The figs, one died, and they need two, so the other was ugly and never fruited. The plum, neither of us like plums, and those damn things go from not anywhere close to ripe, to falling off the tree overnight; and we despised cleaning those mf'ers up. The apple needed a second tree to fruit, and it didn't make sense where they planted it anyway. We still have the pear tree, but it hardly ever fruits.