Earlier this year I planted:
10 Sweetheart blueberry plants I bought from Stark Bro's
10 Anne fall bearing raspberry plants from Jung Seeds
10 Boyne summer bearing raspberry plants from Jung Seeds
2 Aurora haskap plants from Jung Seeds
2 Boreal Blizzard haskap plants from Jung Seeds
2 Honey Bee haskap plants from Jung Seeds
This coming spring I plan on planting 25 strawberry plants in the 16X4 raised bed (J). for fresh eating, freezing and for making strawberry-rhubarb jam.
On the east side of the backyard are 5 4'X4' berms running north to south and the berms are 8' apart from center to center. This area is wet in the spring until June so that's the reason for the berms. In these berms I plan on planting 3 plum trees in one berm, 3 apple trees in another berm, 3 peach trees in another berm, 3 pear trees in another and 3 apricot trees in the remaining berm. For cross pollination purposes and to extend the harvest season, I'll be getting 2 varieties of plums, peaches, pears and apricots and 3 varieties of apples. The trees will be pruned to keep the spread and height to 8'. To the north of these is another smaller berm on which I plan on planting a Russian Quince tree which I'll allow to grow to full height and spread.
Between the rows of asparagus, raspberries, blueberries and the berms for the fruit trees, I plan on making small mounds about 18" in diameter and 8' apart. In these mounds I'll plant pumpkin, winter squash, zucchini and also cantaloupe and watermelon. Plants that can take up quite a bit of space. It's my intention that these mounds will be semi-permanent so I'm not making new ones every spring and I can easily rotate the crops from year to year. The mounds I had planted pumpkin one year can be planted with another crop the following year for example.
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