@Barb Thank you so much for your descriptive posts. I started planting during COVID as well, but I didn’t read a gardening book first and we had 2 years of drought. I’m way behind you. I’m currently reading The Fruit Gardener’s Bible, 2011 edition. This author was using the fashion of planting trees so their “mature” height just touches, which means semidwarfs would require a ladder to pick fruit 12’ from the ground. I’m wondering if I top off the semidwarfs at “arms overhead reach” height, can I just space them 9’ apart instead of 12’ ?
Since you are in Zone 5 and growing similar plants to my Zone 4, I was wondering if you could check my work on a plotting out the fruiting times to see if I missed anything that would have included?
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