Carlin
I’m an avid gardener and outdoorsman but new to tree fruit, I live in a mountainous and highly rivered area with a coastal/continental climate similar to the willamette valley (50in of rain) but much farther north. I’m transforming my empty 1/3acre city lot from a green wasteland i need to mow into an enjoyable and edible garden/orchard. I have about 1500sq of garden as well as rows of blackberry(locness, triple crown, loganberry/raspberry (squamish/couple local transplants…soon to add more), strawberries (everbearing given from parents and various unknowns from locals, i use them as an understory ground cover under bushes), red and black currants, gooseberry (black velvet), haskaps (tundra, borealis, berry blue), grapes (himrod, vanessa), peaches(frost, suncrest), apricots (puget gold, hargrand), plums (methley, shiro), mulberry (IE), pear (orcas). These were all planted spring of 2017, in 2018 and beyond i plan to add 2 apple trees(m111/b118 karmijn de sonnaville, king of thompkins county…then graft more onto), some hazelnuts (jefferson/theta/eta), a purple grape (coronation or?), hardy kiwis (anna and kens or hardy red), blueberries as well as grafting dying pear onto wild mouintain ash. I also have 2 ancient cherry trees (bing? i think) in the back yard from when terrace was a major orchard area (apples pears and cherries all of which do well here). Located at 200ft surrounded by 1500m+ mountains with the large skeena river through town, my land is in a former river floodplain and consist’s of 8-12 inches of fertile brown clay loam topsoil then 1-4in of sand then 2-4 in of clay and then back to brown topsoil, ph is 6.3.