Almost time to transplant...our full southern exposure has thawed the ground pretty well, might be able to till the winter rye cover in soon.The layout is coming together, we'll probably go with a hex style, where each row is offset half a pitch from the other. Some clever arrangement is in order to avoid the rocks that were too big for a medium-sized excavator to move.
Eventually we'll pack in a dozen or so standards and half a dozen semi-dwarfs, with a bunch of temporary dwarf fillers inter-planted for the short term.
Here's our current list:
Standards - Black Oxford, Canadian Strawberry, Baldwin, Northern Spy, Roxbury Russet, Starkey, Winter Fameuse
Semi-dwarf: Westfield Seek-No-Further
Dwarf fillers: Belle de Boskoop, Sweet Sixteen, Ashmead's Kernel, Gravenstein, Hubbardston Nonesuch, Spy, Esopus Spitzenburg, Roxbury, Golden Russet
Standards are all on Antonovka, the Westfield is on M7 (not sure that'll be a keeper), the fillers are B9, G16 and a couple G30.
Getting very excited to have everything in the orchard proper instead of scattered about our "yard"...
