posted 9 years ago
Where you have C on your diagram, I would go about 2.5 ft up the slope and plant the fruit trees there. And where you have A, I would go about 4 inches from the edge and plant another row of fruit tress. That way on the 19ft wide road you would have about 16ft of open space between the two rows. If the plants are spaced 15ft apart you could plant 16 plants per row or 36 plants per terrace. Chestnut might need 30ft spaccing but elderberry would only need 8ft and blueberry even less.
As for the second terrace that is 27ft wide, I would do the same thing again. with two rows of plants But now you would have even more walking space.
As for the slope, I would actually plant them out too, but not for harvest, more as a chicken/goat run, they can harvest the fruits that fall or the insects. Also if the fruit roll all the way down to the next terrace it could be easily harvested for cider/animal feed.
Iterations are fine, we don't have to be perfect
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