I am designing and prepping our property to plant fruit trees along a 7'x80'fence on the north facing side. While the fence is 7 ' tall and technically I'll be planted on the north facing side it does have south facing sun once whatever is about 4-6' tall.
Should I plant along that fence? It's a very warm yard. I live on the coast of Northern California in a small town called Eureka zone 9b, micro climate mostly south facing yard about 2mi from the ocean. I drew a map and will attach ariel view, red line is where we want to plant fruit trees. We took down all existing trees along the fence and are hoping to plant one avocado (it's a stretch to get it to fruit but there is a healthy one a few blocks away) 2 olive and one persimmon. I have about 80' of fence to plant along.
Let me know what you think.
Also, in picture 4 is my
compost, always in the shade.... Do you think this could be a natural worm bin. Every 2 weeks I layer yard waste, typically weeds, One 5 gallon bucket of food scraps which sat for 2 weeks to ferment (I live in the city and don't want to attract rats.), And cardboard. Thoughts???
Finally. I'm budget making raised beds. I'm layering these with wood chips on the bottom, yard scraps, load of top soil, 5 gallon bucket of kitchen scraps, 2 loads of top soil, 2 quarts of pearl light raked in on top, finished with on load of garden soil and another quart of pearl lite. I'm letting it settle for a couple weeks then will mulch with wood chips and plant brassicas for the winter.