This week we planted fruit trees and berry bushes in our front yard! Since the priority was to get the plants in the ground, we planted straight through the lawn. In the coming weeks we’ll be sheet mulching the future food forest area, and digging up more lawn to install a pollinator meadow garden. Fruit tree guilds are also in the works, but I have not yet assembled all the plants. The front yard landscaping is finally happening!
By digging holes we also confirmed our suspicions that our property is pure clay. Technically it’s classified as clay loam, but I’d argue that it’s clay through and through. Not much loam happening. For that reason we added a fair bit of compost to the planting hole to break up the clay.
So far we’ve had nothing but positive feedback from the neighbours. I have to admit though, that it was pretty weird digging holes through the lawn that we just spent a bunch of time smoothing out. I knew the lawn repair was temporary but I didn’t think we’d be starting the food forest project so soon.
VARIETIES PLANTED:
Dwarf Hosui Asian Pear
Semi-Dwarf Crimson Passion Cherry
Saskatoon Berry/Service Berry (unknown variety, started from cutting)
Honeyberry/Haskap Berry Blue (male) and Borealis (female)
Primus White Currant
Move-in garden tour: https://youtu.be/nRfbXd4KnS8
Our plans for the front garden: https://youtu.be/DmPQbM5xmbA
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6 Comments
I'm so excited to finally get some trees in the ground!! But it will still be many years before we get a substantial harvest from these plants. Which fruit tree do you think will produce first? The cherry or the Asian pear?
That's one handsome boy you got on the shovel
It's the first AA – Adam appareance!
explaining why you're mixing compost with the old soil Adam: hm
Planting trees is so very exciting, especially fruit trees! Being a normal neighbour is not nearly as good as being the neighbour with pears
I know my parents get cherries with only one tree but I think I heard pears need two trees?