Turning an unused patio into a small orchard
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- My poor little fruit trees have been neglected and unplanted for over 6 months while I debated where to put them... today we solve that problem and start planting my small home backyard orchard. To do this I'm pulling up an unused patio area and moving the bricks to the very back of my garden where I plan to reuse them as a base for a garden shed. Lots of work done, lots more to go!
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Roses are a favourite of mine. Im sure they will survive the severe pruning, my experience with roses is they are a lot more robust than one might think (thank goodness).😊
Fingers crossed. We’ve just had massive floods so they’ll be surviving against the odds
I hope you and the pups haven't had any injuries from all that glass.
Clearly Birdie thought you could use some pruning help 😂
No thankfully. I’m not sure how we’ve avoided glass injuries but that’s why I’m so careful when I dig up the grass because I’ve found so much glass and ceramics and… tennis rackets.
She’s the cutest pruner ever
I say move plants now; once plant settles in transplant shock tends to hit them harder. The roses may have grown so long/tall because they are reaching for light (grown spindly) and aren't looking healthy due to that and/or not having good air flow. You may want to move at least some of them to give the others more space to grow out. Unfortunately, I don't work with roses enough to be able to tell if the cane roses would do better than the mini-shrub (drift?) roses in that location. See if your local garden center has an actual plant expert who'd be able to offer advice.
Also, what kind of cherry trees did you get that are happy in zone 10?? Some fruit trees/shrubs require a certain number of chilling hours in order to fruit; so, I'm very curious. Side note: whether or not you need sealers for tree prune wounds is actually still a matter of debate. Keep an eye on them and maybe your plants would be fine.
Thanks so much! Apparently in our area, because we're costal, roses really struggle with disease so we'll see. They get loads of sun in summer but the amount of sun we get in winter is really not ideal.
Not sure yet if the cherry trees will be happy. I suspect not because they've been sitting in nursery pots for a looonngg time and the dogs have chewed them multiple times but we'll give it a go and see how it goes.