My fruit trees came in Saturday

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2 sun crest peaches
1 redhaven peach
1 new celery asian pear
1 Strakminson sweet cherry {proprietary tree}
1 Benton Sweet cherry

To add to
2 stella cherry trees
1 other asian pear, that is the pollinated buy the new century.
4 chicago fig trees {I may change their name} Maybe call them shit hole figs. Or just say the are Brown Turkey figs.
3 red haven peach trees.
2 50ft mulberries
20 grape vines, like the mulberries planted by the old man that owned the place first, So not sure on the varieties, but I don't think 2 are the same.
50 asparagus crowns
1 blackberriy
1 rasberry
10 or 15 Strawberries, not sure on the variety.

I was about to order a pack with some June bearing, everbearing, and fall bearing strawberries. As well as 4 Hardy kiwi berry vines, and an Asin persimmons that is hardy to zone 6. I want to try a Paw Paw as well, I think I have a Microclimate around my mulberries and junipers that it will do ok in this dry climate.

What I am missing? Toss me out some more edible perennials. Local favorites, little known cultivars?

My blue jays are here. Loud fuckers. I like to wake them up in the morning. Sleeping in till sunrise.....pussies. :LOL::ROFLMAO::LOL:

I think we are going to do a couple runs of meat chickens or turkeys this year too.
 
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Sean the Nailer said:
Spray the saplings with eggs. Deer stay away from eggs. Crack a few into a sprayer container, scramble the shit out of 'em, add just a bit of water, and then pressurize and spray your saplings. Deer don't like that. Won't hurt the trees.
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And if that doesn’t work spray the deer. With lead.
 
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Blueberries grow in zone 6. Not sure if they're appropriate for your specific climate. Same as the cherries, birds wont touch them then one day they'll swoop in like a hitchcock movie.

Road Island Reds are a pretty good dual purpose chicken. Slaughter young or put them on laying mash.
 
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Reds was the plan, but we really like turkey. Our soil is really alkaline here. According to the extension office there is no good way to maintain a low enough PH for blueberries. We will see though. I have a couple spots I want to try them after a couple years of soil building. I think if mycorizal fungi can get established well on the plants roots, it can feed it and maintain a PH it likes around its root zone. I don't like to give prime realestate to experiments through.

Funny thing about deer, they hate dogs.

Birds like everything I have. I don't mind sharing. We must have put at least 100lbs of grapes into the compost pile, and shook another 50 or so off the vines after the last freeze. I bet the mulberries drop closer to 1000lbs on the ground that we and birds and squirrels cant eat fast enough.
 
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If you can get a hold of a Sweet Tango apple tree, those bastards are the best apples on earf..

I grew up with Scuppernong vines. We made home made wine out of them. Loved those.
 
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BLKWLFK9 said:
If you can get a hold of a Sweet Tango apple tree, those bastards are the best apples on earf..

I grew up with Scuppernong vines. We made home made wine out of them. Loved those.
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University of Minnesota went all monsanto on them. The Sweetango is proprietary, patented, and only licensed to 45 apple growers. Too bad sounds delicious. Unless anyone up that way want go all OAF and do some midnight scion wood collection for me.:LOL:

I love the Honeycrisp, although I think the apple is the inbread cousin of the asian pear. :LOL:
 
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My Grandpa had only one apple, pear, plum, cherry, tree in his back yard...onl.y 4 trees, but he had grafted 3 other kinds of fruit onto each base tree. He had the advantage of living in the same house for over 50 years, but I thought it was kind of neat to have 16 kinds of fruit on 4 trees.
 
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Grafting si something I have been wondering about. Specifically what will graft to what. They sell fruit cocktail trees with multiple varieties grafted to one, but I have mulberry trees that sprout all over. That means I have perfect root systems with intact tap roots. I popped an asian pear scion on couple of them to see if they take. i am not sure how that would work though. If a tree can be made small with dwarf root stock, does that mean on a standard tree root stock a peach tree could get 50ft tall? Or would a peach be governed by its standard size of about 15ft.
 
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We're working on building our homestead also. Planted 6 fruit trees last year and planning on 6 more this year. Putting in 75 strawberry plants, and 40 raspberry plants this year too. Putting in half an acre of sweet corn and an acre of pumpkins too.
We did 30 meat birds last year this year 50. I don't like dual purpose birds. We do 50/50 Cornish Cross and Red Rangers. We also have 10 layers. We raised 2 hogs last year, doing 4 or 5 this year and a cow. Lotta work, but very rewarding.
 
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I grew up in Northen Cal. We had 3 types or Oranges. Oranges hang on the tree and will give us fruit 9 months of the year. They ripen around Christmas.

Persimmons - good to eat- good winter food for deer too

Blueberries - based upon your climate thes might be a good addition

Figs, Prunes- its good to have a variety
 
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I have 10 dwarf trees (5 apples, 3 pears, 2 cherries) espaliered and have been using a software program called Maryblyte 7.1 to minimize my spraying. Has worked well for me and the price is right; free. BTW the advice regarding cherry nets is 100% correct. They will disappear over night.
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