July kept us occupied with laying out the pipework for irrigation and then planting the trees we’d ordered:
- assorted citrus (lemons, limes, clementines and blood oranges)
- almonds (12 each of three different varieties, for cross-pollination)
- peaches (3 different varieties, one of which is Culemborg. After having eaten a white peach in France some years ago, I was determined to grow some white peaches)
- apricots
- nectarines
- walnuts
- figs
- guavas
- vines (3 different varieties)
Newly planted vines and fruit trees
They are so small, they’re hardly visible in this picture, but now it feels like we’ve really made a start at farming here.
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