Weeds among fruit trees and bushes?

Hi Permies!
I'm interested to know as to what you would consider "weeds" to be removed from around young fruit trees and bushes.
Last autumn I planted apple, pear, plum and cherry trees, as well as bushes like currants, raspberries, gooseberries, blackberries and josta. I mulched them with ramial wood chips, but I now have plenty of small wild flowering plants and grasses popping up all over the place, around and between the plants. I'm also actively planting herbs, flowers and aliums around, and would like to plant comfrey as well further out to up the diversity.
But I'm curious if there's something I should remove, stuff that's too close (what's too close?) and competes with the young plants, perhaps things that don't flower?
Or do I just let it run wild?

I would try to dig out all the grasses from the root zones. Grasses compete with the roots of young fruit trees and bushes for water and nutrients. Other plants  you'll want to dig out would include any noxious weeds that are invasive- stuff like creeping buttercup, Himalayan blackberry, poison oak/ivy, kudzu, gorse, etc. Keep adding clean woodchips to choke out the bad weeds and grass.

Comfrey, on the other hand, is an excellent "weed" to have and many folks like this one in their orchards. I like wildflowers such as iris, tiger lily and fawn lily in my food forest. Legumes such as clover, vetch, favas, sweet peas, lupine, etc.  are excellent too. Bee balm is great for the bees and hummingbirds.  Mushrooms like winecaps (king stropharia) are excellent additions to your wood chips and convert them to rich soil. Mycorrhizal mushrooms such as dye-makers false puffball and morels are great companions for fruit trees, too. Check out this thread about apple tree guilds:

https://permies.com/t/238745/grow-apple-trees

Good luck with your food forest!

I would agree with everything MK stated.  I planted strawberries as a ground cover, and that has worked wonderfully.  They have provided me with so many strawberries, that I was able to freeze enough to last through until this season's berries start. I also had enough to make a batch of wine, freeze-dried some and of course, fresh throughout the season, which surprisingly is June through October or November.

Thank you, great advice from both of you!
I can never seem to grow enough strawberries. How many crowns did you start with? Mine are so slow to send runners.

Yeah, I yank anything out from inside the dripline and put a ton of wood chips down. I use organic fertilizer mixed into the chips. When it rains that gets pushed into the soil.

I started with 25 each of June bearing and all season.  The June bearing aren't as productive, and it's my goal to switch out those with the runners from the others.  I put 25 on each side of a large area and they filled in within two years.  

Attila Csome wrote:Thank you, great advice from both of you!
I can never seem to grow enough strawberries. How many crowns did you start with? Mine are so slow to send runners.