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19 Feb ’14
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Planted 3 fig trees, and 4 thornless blackberry plants today at our new 6 acres. The beginning of our homestead orchard. Things are coming together faster than expected.
15 Feb ’12
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Nice, you'll be getting fruit in no time. Are you thinking of adding anything else to it?
21 Mar ’14
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Are figs trees tropical plants? It would be nice to have some but we get a few weeks of freeze here in west texas. Can you just wrap them when they are young?
19 Feb ’14
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Celeste is what we planted. Hardy for heat and cold. Going to check with local nursery to get the right variety of peach, plum, and pear trees to add to the orchard. We are over run with wild plum trees, but want to plant a few purple plums as well.
21 Mar ’14
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I'll look for those.i have an entire side yard that needs to be filled with treed.
15 Feb ’12
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only peach we could plant was reliance, it still hasn't done well, we went with the stanley plum, that hasn't done anything either 
I threatened them both last year if they didn't start producing, they were going to be fed into the smoke house, they each gave me 3 fruit last year lol
3 Nov ’12
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I think next year Im going to try to add a Chicago Hardy Fig. They are supposed to do fine in my zone.
Good luck with the orchard! Add some Nitrogen fixing shrubs or trees if you have the room. You can always remove them in a few years if you just want to use them as a support species during establishment. In my new food forest, Im sticking a siberian pea shrub in the hole with ever tree.
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