Fruit trees planted in winter

My fruit trees arrived, and I have planted them all, with a bit of help! A couple of apples, 2 pears, 2 feijoas, 2 citrus. I couldn't find my tree stakes, so used some off cuts from the builder. And some ripped up sheet for ties. Works though.

I think they are all just ready to starting budding up, so in the nick of time.

Mail Delivery Trees

You can buy anything through the internet these days, peastraw and Queen bees (which 'sing ' in their boxes), and plants. So here are my latest fruit trees. I haven't unwrapped them yet to ooh and aah over them, but they look pretty good through the gladwrap.

Maybe the internet is the place to get chickens as well? Wouldn't want them couriered though, I wouldn't think.

Planting Fruit Trees

So here are my first 2 fruit trees planted. This one is a grafted plum with 3 varieties on it, Black Doris, Omega and Santa Rosa, so it will fertilise itself. I dug a couple of huge holes, half filled it with compost, added sheep pellets and watered it all, then plonked the tree in and filled with more compost. Each hole used about a bag and a half of compost. This top hole was in the clay, but half way down I hit the original ground and top soil.

And this one is a Black Boy peach. Peaches don't do so well in Auckland, too humid I think, but I've been told that black boy is OK. My Grandma used to have a huge black peach tree, and I loved them, but she was allergic to them, so never ate them. This hole is in the bank below where the clay mountain was, and is deep into a lovely pile of composty mulch that was buried by the clay.

Now, the only real problem that I have is I just googled 'planting fruit trees distance apart', and par for the course, I have planned them all about 3 times too close. So if I could just stretch the boundaries of my section a bit.....