How many of each thing?

[Grahame]

I have 10 flat leaf parsley and probably need 30 ,I love Tabouleh and so does the bush turkey ,well he loves parsley roots.

Hehe, sometimes we have to allow for the other members of the household...

[deee]

Its worth making a Harvest Calendar for yourself: make a table with the months of the year across the top and your fruit trees down the page, then colour in the months of the year that you harvest each tree. This is great way to see any "hungry gaps" which need filling. You can then vary your plantings eg two different peaches, one early, one late and a nectarine in between should set you up for the summer. The apricot "Moorpark Early" fruits 2-3 weeks before Moorpark, and both are good companions for the Elberta peach: by the time you're a bit over apricots, you're ready to harvest the peaches. When you draw up the calendar, you can note how much you get in each box (ie enough to eat, enough to preserve, more wanted).

You can make a harvest calendar for vegies, or bee forage for honey production, or beneficial insect attractors, whatever tickles your fancy.

From memory, one of Jackie French's books has recommendations for how much to plant. Other useful succession planting resources can be found at Under the Choko Tree and Fixie's Shelf.

I need two more oranges to be self-sufficient in citrus. I currently have an Imperial mandarin, a tangelo, a ruby grapefruit, a blood orange, a eureka lemon, a tahitian lime and a kaffir lime. Other things I know from experience: if you plant a Satsuma plum in the Southern Highlands of NSW you can keep your whole extended family supplied with fresh and preserved plums, and plum jam. There are never, ever enough blueberries or raspberries, and chokos are very hard to give away .......
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[eco4560]

That's a great idea deee.

[Grahame]

Great stuff Deee.

[Terra]

Grahame
you can buy grafted female carobs might be a skill you can learn , my understanding is male trees make up most of the population for some reason , at the previous property we owned that was certainly the case , there was about 12 mature trees and only one female . It lived under a huge pine tree in tough conditions but still yielded an incredible amount .

[Terra]

Harvest calender excellent idea too much to try and remember as the brains get older

[Grahame]

Thanks Terra,

I might graft some in the future if I get myself a female. In the meantime I am happy to have a whole bunch of boys as long as they are fixing nitrogen for me. I'm outnumbered considerably here so it will be nice to have a bit more yang around the place anyway

Ive got quite a few seedlings, so I'll just plant out a few more.

So the answer to the how many carob trees? is.... It depends!

Keep the experiences flowing folks.

[Pakanohida]

Harvest calender excellent idea too much to try and remember as the brains get older

When I plant, I count the days on the calendar to see when it is supposed to be harvested and mark it. Sometimes it matches.

[Grahame]

How many table grape vines? HOw many wine grape vines? Anyone self-sufficient in grapes?