Orchard beginnings....

For delectable fruits, we managed the task of planting 12 fruit trees in one paddock alone.  They include plums, apricots, apples, nashi pear, pluots (plum x apricot), peaches, cherries and, nectarines. 

Orchard 'before' shot, looking west.  The next yard is part of the chicken run.

Digging into a soil that has many pieces of gravel, some large rocks (crow bar required for excavation) and a very shallow (10-12 cm) layer of topsoil, means extra physical preparation.

The girls inspecting the finished works.  Photo out to 'Telstra Point' (SE).

Photo through the orchard (S).

This dwarf peach finally finds a decent home.  It's survived being uprooted about 5 times and living in less than ideal (very shaded) conditions.  Now it gets all the sun it could possibly need.  It is even carrying 3 fruits.  When once, in Sydney, it carried 2 fruits they were snatched by a rat just as they turned colour ready for picking.

With help....planting of Persimmon 'Nightingale'.