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Is it possible that I could encourage the development of juglone tolerant varieties of juglone-sensitive species by planting them outside of the range of direct contact but still downhill from Juglans cinerea? I was also thinking of planting Corylus americana directly downhill of the walnuts to act as a buffer.

Hi guys i want to start learning permaculture and im in Egypt and i did have 3 farms that i can start with one of them from scratch 2 of them is in ALEX and one is in fayoum all 3 have good water and sandy soil with no tress

Good afternoon all,

I am looking for advice in regards to my newly planted fruit bush row.

I have planted the following in this order; blueberry, honeyberry, blueberry, honeyberry, redcurrant, whitecurrant, gooseberry, gooseberry.

I have planted them 75cm apart.

I like the idea of attracting bees and trying to keep bugs off my fruit.

Any advice is much appreciated.

Hi all, I’m looking for a bit of perspective from those that manage a food forest – one big advice I’ve often seen online is to take the adult size of plants into account in the layout and not to plant too dense. However my reality plays out quite differently from that: a lot of plants face pressure from disease, insects, deer browse, rabbits etc so that I feel that even with protection in place I cannot rely on all of these making it to their adulthood. I’m now thinking to plant much denser and eventually take out trees and shrubs if I end up with too many healthy ones later. That might also help to build more shade and out-compete the extremely vigorous grasses in the former meadow.

Would love to hear how others have approached it. I’m now in year three on about an acre and it’s been a constant learning experience and had to accept quite a few losses along the way.

I really want fruit trees badly. They are $70+ at home Depot and I haven’t checked the local stores as I’m in a very expensive as area, northern Virginia. Hoping to catch the sale when they put the fruit trees on sale but I can’t get a cashier to tell me that date. I just bought 20 to 30 boxes fruit bushes and trees from the discount area at home Depot selling them 50% off and I got over 10 blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, grape, fig and kiwi.

Now I’m looking for the big boys, apple, pear, peach and cherry trees. At over $70 each I can’t afford them. Raintree nursery has a sale now buy one get one free, I priced out 6 total trees for $450 shipped so not really worth it.

Now I’m thinking can bareroot fruit trees be the way to go and does anyone have a site to suggest? Maybe I should just bite the bullet and order from raintree?