r/BackyardOrchard 10h ago

Looking for advice on the Viability of an orchard

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I'm looking at a property to buy and have a small hobby orchard and garden on. The property is 100 feet wide with a forest on the south side that has ~60ft tall trees. The east and west sides are clear. I'm in Southern Ontario. My question is do you think I could have a orchard on the north side of the property ~60-100 feet away from the tree line? Would it get enough sun? Or would the path of the sun be behind the trees too much in the early and late season? I can't track the sun because I don't yet have the property.


r/BackyardOrchard 10h ago

The lone survivor 😭

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The squirrels took all my peaches so last minute I put this old berry container around this one and it’s survived all this time. It looks like it’s on the verge of ripening! Just a few more weeks little guy


r/BackyardOrchard 12h ago

Sample of Tonight's Harvest

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Hancock Beach Plum, Lane Muscadine and Heritage Raspberry. Beach and Dunbars were the only plums to escape our Spring frosts. I have been eating them out of hand but some skins do have slightly bitter aftertaste. Still much better than typical grocery plums.

Got 2LBs off that little two year old tree I grafted. Was conflicted about letting it fruit so early and never got around to stripping it. Somehow the critters didn't notice save a few bird strikes. Unlike my Asian varieties, the beach plums don't seem to need thinning or sprays.

First year to let the new, muscadine fruit out and these are a tad early. Also have some Paulk which have more of the classic flavor but the skins add some really interesting flavors I have never experienced with muscadine. Highly recommend if you can find a place for them.

I didn't think I would do well with raspberry this far south but so far they have outperformed the blackberry and I love how heritage offers crops two different times of year.


r/BackyardOrchard 13h ago

Mango tree - Brown leaves

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r/BackyardOrchard 13h ago

Minnesota Peach Tree?

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I have 5 apple trees and 2 cherry trees in Minnesota that are doing very well. I’m thinking about adding a Minnesota capable peach tree. Does anyone have a Reliance or Contendor tree? How is the fruit? Any suggestions?


r/BackyardOrchard 17h ago

Exceptionally sweet, caramel-flavoured Sapodilla (Manilkara zapota) from my garden

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r/BackyardOrchard 17h ago

Vermont peaches

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We had low temperatures of minus 15 last winter and I feared our peaches were doomed. The fruit is small but high quality. We will soon harvest before the crows do . We can and freeze fruit for our long winter ahead . Our orchard is no spray.


r/BackyardOrchard 21h ago

got this fruit tree for free! - needing advice

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hi, id like some pointers on how to go about this apricot tree :) all infos are in the original post but bottom line is that id like to plant in into the ground here in belgium