Orchard Update - Goal: 300 Fruit Plants In The Ground This Year... 2015!

For someone who is a little impatient and prefers an instant result, growing plants can be a little testing at times. They take forever to grow, and some plants take 3-5 years before they start fruiting. So this year I've set a goal... get 300 plants in the ground... so they can start growing.

So for the last few weekends, we've been busy planting.. which has involved a lot of digging, moving soil/compost about the place.

So far we have in the ground:

Year 2015

26 Grapes (4 varieties)

80 Raspberry Plants

10 Blackberry Plants

16 Mandarin Trees (2 varieties)

16 Orange Trees (2 varieties)

8 Villa Franca Lemon Tress

80 Cranberry

16 Blueberry (2 varieties)

So that is about 252 plants so far.

So another 50 to go!

Next on my shopping list is Heritage Apples, more Passionfruit if my seeds don't sprout... and another variety of Raspberry... and I would like to add some more Plums.

Since purchasing the property... we had already planted about 40 plants... a mix of Nectarines, Meyer Lemons, Feijoa, Plums, Pear, Apples, Mandarin, Orange.

So we are getting quiet a bit of variety...

Below are some progress pics... my apologies on the quality.