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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie
Run your grape trellises and fruit tree rows from south east to northwest.
Why? (just curious)
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This way the sun can pass over both sides of the row as it moves from east to west.
You could just go from north to south in the row but I am accounting for the path of the sun.
This really depends on your location on earth as to how far north or south you are in relation to the equator.
The best thing to do is put a stick in the ground and record the path during the growing season.
I think we had our fruit trees about 15 to20 feet from each other and somewhere around that distance apart in the row.
This allowed me to get the tractor in the garden each year to break up the top of the soil and till in sawdust.
The grape trellis or row was in a line with big 6 inch corner posts in the ground at each end with smaller support in the middle.
Then the fiddle string tight wire was ran for the vines to grow on.
I really do wish I had pictures of the place it was fantastic to say the very least.
Just about everything you could thing of was in the two gardens.
Fruit trees berries of all kinds.
Root crops tomatoes corn sometime melons beans onions you name it.
Our trees were peach apple cherry pear apricot and so on.
And nuts plus figs.
The walnuts and pecans weren't in the garden they were elsewhere.
The pace in south east Oklahoma would have made me rich.
I wanted to turn it into a 300 acre resort complete with private landing strip.
But my vision was laughed at.
It was in the national forest just a stones throw from Wall Mart headquarters.
Another idea that was laughed at years ago was a giant glass pyramid with exotic plants and wild life in it.
That place was built years later.
It is called Moody Gardens.
The Hyatt Regency Lost pines resort and spa here in Bastrop is an example of my childhood hood dream.
I was laughed at years ago about the wine potential of Texas and so many other things even olives.
Look at it now.
Always a man of little money but great ideas.
Worth