For those who have high-density orchards, do you find trellising with one wire at about 9 feet provides sufficient support, if a bamboo stake or the like is placed at each tree?
Randy Steffens Jr Shepherd's Valley Orchards Middle Tennessee On Feb 28, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Con.Traas wrote: > I agree with Terence and Dave, > Their experience and concerns have been borne out here in Ireland over the > past number of years, where it has been survival of the more dense (orchards > rather than orchardists). Obviously there are limits, but in our own case, > for our single line orchards we have opted for 4 ft. x 11ft., and we have > found this a good spacing for the more vigorous Elstar variety (more vigorous > than Golden Delicious or Jonagold at least). We do not grow the trees as high > as at lower latitudes (more mutual shading from taller trees when you come > this far North), and have found that a limit of about 5 ½ to 6 feet height of > cropping wall works well. In practice, this wall commences about 2 feet above > the ground, and finishes at 7.5 feet, facilitating all harvesting and pruning > from ground level. > Con Traas > > > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > apple-crop@virtualorchard.net > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
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