siannan lilou

thanks for your answears, I'll plan sufficient spacing between trees.

How about trees self sowed intertwined ?

I have an elderberry circled by the viburnum branches. I suppose the elderberry was sowed by birds... I already cut a few branches to let the elderberry tree get some light, and it also grows above the vibrium. Do you think I should cut one of them (both are much too big to think of tranplantation), or let nature do and see if both can survive together ?

hello,

I am new at gardening, and reading a lot to plan a small garden.

i read about Backyard Orchard Culture. Planting trees very close sounds great for a small garden. The author seems to have a nice expierience with it.

But I am also reading Dave jack's book Edible forest garden. He writes that too close spacing is the most comme mistake, which produces lots of stress for the mi-succession fruit trees leading plants to spend mots of their energy in protecting themselves, and that wouldn't work for long.

Do you have any long experience with close planting, or any ideas on which theory I should flolow ?


sorry if my English is not great, it is not my native language.