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puu's nuts garden

Garden Type: Orchard | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Sand I'm Organic!

growing some nuts. food from the sky, I tell you. manna. nut trees seem like a much better way to get carbohydrates than annual grains and tubers. too much work and disturbing the soil involved with those. nuts trees take a while, but they’re productive and easy and quite a few will live for 200 years and more. a little more advance planning is necessary, but it would be pretty excellent if folks several hundred years from now are still eating from trees that I planted.

this garden will probably take twenty years to be at all productive nuts-wise, so I’m planting some other stuff in the mean time. as the deciduous trees get bigger I’ll be planting a lot of ramps in their shade and phasing out most of the fruit trees.

Plantings

chir pine

Pinus roxburghii

Planting Out in May 2008 nuts. chir pine makes nuts. that's the whole ...
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cooksey black walnut

Juglans nigra

Planting Out in Apr 2008 selected black walnut. black walnuts are tasti...
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neverella

Ficus carica

Planting Out in Mar 2008 it's a fig. planted it on a short, west-facing...
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korean stone pine

Pinus koraiensis

Planting Out in Mar 2008 nuts. stone pines aren't the most productive p...
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bounty almond

Prunus dulcis

Transplanted in 2008
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avalon pride peach

Prunus persica

Transplanted in 2008
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roxbury russet apple

Malus domestica

Transplanted in 2008 on M26 rootstock. I think this is a cider appl...
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montgamet sweet pit apricot

Prunus armeniaca

Transplanted in 2008 eat the apricot, then crack open the pit to eat...
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puget gold apricot

Prunus armeniaca

Transplanted in 2008
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tlor tsiran apricot

Prunus armeniaca

Transplanted in 2008 I get a bit tangled up on that name.
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lattarula fig

Ficus carica

Transplanted in 2008
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baby crawford peach

Prunus persica

Transplanted in 2008 I love peaches.
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butternut

Juglans cinerea

Planting Out in 2007 it's a butternut.
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reliable almond

Prunus dulcis

Planting Out in 2007 almonds are delicious. almond trees don't live...
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crabapples

Malus fusca

Planting Out in 2007 I think I planted five of these things. mostly...
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red osier dogwood

Cornus sericea

Planting Out in 2007 planted these with the intention of spreading t...
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black locust

Robinia pseudoacacia

Planting Out in 2007 not really a good reason for me to have bought ...
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purple beech

Fagus sylvatica

Planting Out in 2007 this will be a great big tree. never had a bee...
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