Anyone tried this in their urban to contribute to their food garden?
Citrus choices
Lemonade lemon _ eating raw
Thin skinned lemon _ juicing /cooking
Mandarin _ eating raw
They all need space and evergreens will cast ""shade""" which in an urban space is essential to manage.
Have i come up with a perfect plan?
Espalier all three between one set of posts with the wires for support but space their trucks
side by side with space to fatten over the years.
Therefore one large hole with three
root systems becoming one over time, and one visual espaliered screening against the western side of a typical timber urban boundry
fence between neighbours. With that
fence being on the eastern side of the garden border so they will not cast afternoon sun on vege beds and along the fence because my possums dont eat citrus. But may try mandatin except it might be camoflaged with the lemons.
Length of espalier = maybe 2.5meters (× 3 for feet).
Hright= wires shorter than 2meters but growth up to 2m.
Im imagining repurposing red gum/hardwood fence posts for a few years to get all braches are well established.
Then eventually the Red gum can be reused for slow long fire pit nights eventually.
Or may go steel postsx2 plus tension kit for horizontal wires.
Any similar attempts ?
Success?
Failures?
Tips?
Cautions?
etc