As the title says, I finally did something with the orchard. Now, that's not completely fair. I've been mowing it, I had Japanese beetle traps set up, and put deer fencing around the apple trees.
Today, I put in an order online for four Royalty Purple Raspberry plants!
I settled on them after doing a fair amount of research. For one thing, it didn't sound like I really needed to prune them very much. For another, purple raspberry plants seem to work well near to black walnut trees. From prior research, the span of 150% of the canopy is considered to be affected by the walnut's juglone excretions. I don't know that where I intend to plant the raspberry plants is inside that 150%, but with the raspberry plants working okay, I figured I might as well plant closer to the walnuts since a lot of the other things I might consider are intolerant.
I wasn't able to find the Royalty plants at any of the plant nurseries near us so I ordered them from naturehills.com.
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