The first orchard is almost full!

I read on a forum the other week that you can fill your chicken run with fruit trees and since our chicken run is the only placed fenced in from rabbits I thought it the perfect place to start an orchard.
So over the past two weeks we have gratefully received three plums from Greg's grandmother and planted those, as well as a lemon we had in pot for over a year.
The biggest challenge of all was moving our dwarf golden delicious and only time will tell if it survives being dug out, transported along a freeway and replanted at Lara.

The Dwarf Golden Delicious, planted with horse manure, watered with worm tea and mulched with hay. Fingers crossed. I planted strawberries around the edge and a borage for extra nitrogen fixing.

 A small plum, this one is starting to shoot all ready.

 

 

Another plum, this one is larger and is shooting as well. For mulch I used what was one hand at the property, some dried grasses. Its working well and keeping the water in, which is great since I'm not there everyday to water them.