Planting/farming fruit on 1/3 an acre?

[redhen]

Nice! I'm watching this thread because i have a small yard too..and i want to plant SS things..

Last year i planted strawberries and rhubarb
this year i will be planting some berry bushes..blueberry and blackberry/rasberry...
maybe i'll even plant those apple trees that dont need other apple trees for pollination...
so i can just plant the one or 2 trees...

 

[Penturner]

Don't know how you are arranging your garden but I used the square foot method with 9 4'X4' beds and fed my family and three others all the vegetables they could stand and still threw a lot of the overgrown stuff in the compost pile. If you grow corn you will use up a lot of those 4X10 beds though.

 

[KDbeads]

I'm doing a modified sqft gardening type thing in the planters, so far so good, I should be pulling napa cabbage in the next week or so, that stuff grows wicked fast! Last year I tilled up part of the yard and planted in rows and well.... it didn't produce that much and keeping the burs at bay was impossible. Trying the beds on the recommendation of a fellow quilter, bottom 3"is filled with sandstone gravel and the remaining 8" is filled with our very own compost. I lined the boxes with dog cat and chicken feed bags. Corn is actually going along the fence between the chicken run and planters and fence to the dog yard, should help lessen the dane's 'I wanna eat it' mode when they are walking around, if she can't see them, she don't care. Plus the neighbors won't be able to see the runs either!

I'll have to get pics of the planter box layout and post them once the camera is working again.

 

[KDbeads]

So today I picked up a brown turkey fig, a pomegranate, a thompson seedless grape and an apache blackberry. Still looking for a mulberry though. After that all I'll be looking for is a cherry, that will be next paycheck.

Now I just have to figure out where I'm going to put them all!

Does a turkey fig need a support system or can it be free standing?

 

[ksacres]

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Where??

 

[KDbeads]

I got it at a local-ish grocery store, HEB, in Fredericksburg, TX