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My parents have got a lot of olive trees. They dig up the soil for airing every year. But summer times are so dry and we don’t have chance to water it very often. Im searching about the no-dig gardening and wondering if it would help trees grow better or soil to stay more humid if we didn’t disturb the soil every year. If you know any knowledge please let me know.

It’s grown out of an old compost pile and I think it’s at least 8 years old, or even older. I’m thinking nectarine or peach but it could also possibly be avocado? Abby help would be greatly appreciated!

I want to plant more fruit trees on my hillside and I plan to keep them trimmed back to be small. Currently there are avocado trees planted kinda center of the hill.

How close can I plant trees to the retaining wall without risking damaging the wall?

Also if you have any favorite fruit tree recs. Would love em. Zone 10a. Half the yard gets some winter shade, the other half is full sun year round.

Ps. Im also digging some swales now/planning on planting companion plants.

I’ll start. I’m living in the Caribbean and one of the local species I’ve come to appreciate very much is what Floridians call Hoopvine (trichostigmata octandrum). It’s so delicious! It’s probably my favorite green. It’s commonly eaten here but I don’t think almost anyone in the US eats it.

I wouldn’t really call it a vine in the traditional sense. It grows long sprawling branches that were traditionally used in basket making. It readily takes from cuttings. I have two varieties, a fully green variety and a more reddish variety. The red is better but they’re both good. In a food forest it would be in the larger ungrowth category. I’m planning shortly to propagate a bunch more of it.