So let's talk trees. Good idea to plant trees first, because the best time to plant new trees is always 5 or 20 years ago. Fruit trees are lovely things, so many of those puppies do I need to plant? Oh, MATH. My favorite. *eyeroll* And lists! Lists are actually fun. Okay, partial redemption. Let's do this.
Around 30% of our fruit/veg consumption is fruit. So that's 400 lbs. Some fruit requires multiple trees to produce fruit, so let's list these puppies:
Type of plant / conservative avg annual yield per tree or 50 sq ft
- Apple (Sweet, early & mid) / 50 lbs
- Apple (crosspollinator) / 50 lbs
- Apple (Sweet, mid & late) / 50 lbs
- Apple (crosspollinator) / 50 lbs
- Apple (Baking) / 50 lbs
- Apricot /60 lbs
- Avocado / 40 lbs
- Avocado (crosspollinator) / 40 lbs
- Banana / 20 lbs
- Blackberries / 10 lbs
- Blueberry / 20 lbs
- Blueberry (crosspollinator) / 20 lbs
- Fig / 20 lbs
- Grape /30 lbs
- Kiwi / 10 lbs
- Kiwi (crosspollinator) / 10 lbs
- Lemon /50 lbs
- Nectarine / 50 lbs
- Peach / 40 lbs
- Peach (crosspollinator) /40 lbs
- Pear / 40 lbs
- Pear (crosspollinator) / 40 lbs
- Strawberries / 15 lbs
- Sweetie /60 lbs
I'll forego the more esoteric fruit for now, cuz being overwhelmed is something I'm looking to avoid. For once.
ANYWAY. Right now that adds up to 865 lbs of fruit per season, which is a bit much, but that could be okay because either we'll be submerged in goodies which can be used to bribe the neighbors into tolerating us, or crop failures will lead to *ahem* learning opportunites.
Thank goodness the math bit is done. Now for the fun part! PLANNING. The different types of fruit will need different microclimates, care, and watering needs, so I'll need to think about siting... next time. All this math-type stuff has worn me out.
Fun Fact for this post: different trees have different depth of roots. So some trees bring up different kinds of nutrients, different amounts of water, and different erosion remediation capabilities.
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