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Message Subject SHTF Orchard Planting in the Heartland
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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So we moved big time on our fruit orchard planting this year and have about 20 good sized trees in and another 5 on the sidelines. After mixed results with the ultra cheap bare root plantings and planting too many "ornamentals", we are gearing our remaining orchard space toward fruit bearing trees. So far we have some different varieties of apples, peaches, plums, and pears. They are young so I don't know which varieties have been successful.

Anyone else keeping an orchard? What have been your best and most reliable varieties? We want to go totally organic and self-sufficient.
 Quoting: Girl Genius


btdt with much more than you have mentioned. Someday it could work, but not until anyone around to steal the fruit, or willing to bushwack those watering, pruning, spraying, or picking the fruit are gone away.

In real life, the bees seem to be gone around here, even the wasps and hornets, but the mossies, beetles and birds, deer and ants fall upon the trees and the worms( doubltless more nutritious than the fruit themselves) take the best of it.
And then, you have a short window of fruit ripening, and then you have to figure how to store them without them spoiling or using up all your resources and space,

And another thing. "organic"? are you shitting me? YOu gonna be all fussy when everyone is starving and willing to kill for food or any sort and you want to make sure your food is 'pure'?
You clearly have no real idea of how hard it is to bring in a crop, and how much extra work you have to do to get to the same point of food obtained with organics on the scale of even a small orchard.
You'd be far better off stocking up on decent fertilizer and using whatever you can as the opportunity presents itself until the most dangerous time passes.

I've seen my trees get stripped in hours from the beetles and birds, so, if you think they are your pals, you have much to learn, when you have everything to lose in a moments indiscretion.

In truth, the weather has gotten so unreliable that ou could lose the crop.
 
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