posted 11 years ago
I'd like to be able to jam in there just about every type of tree and perennial I can get my hands on that grows in southern New England. Apple, crabapple, pear, plum, nectarine, apricot, cherry, fig, pawpaw, persimmon, hardy kiwi, walnut, hazelnut, chestnut, shagbark hickory, coppiced oak, coppiced willow, black locust, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, Japanese wineberry, black currants, gooseberry, bayberry, autumn olive, Russian olive, goji berry, buffaloberry, bearberry, lingonberry, mulberry, hawthorn, blackthorn, elderberry, sea buckthorn, serviceberry, highbush cranberry, Siberian pea shrub, hog peanut, groundnut, comfrey, hell, even wild English Yew if I can get my hands on one.
Most of the berry bushes I'll be growing for my own harvest will be actually interspersed throughout my primary garden, as endcaps on hugelbeets. I figured I'd mostly devote the understory in the food forest to providing for the turkeys. I can definitely understand spacing to be the biggest issue, and directly resulting in how much fruit those understory trees provide being the deciding factor in turkey stocking rates. What would you recommend?