permaculture

["Kathleen O'Brien Blair" <hanaueroak@comcast.net>]

Sounds like you are in Saffron country - Crocus sativa. Very good market
for it and it is labor intensive - but lends itself to organic growing.

Just a thought.

Kathleen


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Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fruit trees watering zones

Hi Doug and al.,
unfortunately I have not yet planned what roostocks I might/should, use
nor which ones available locally.
Soil has 4-5% slope, we are talking about duplex clay soil 
We have 575mm average rainfall each year, with summer temperatures
reaching easily 40-45º C (southern Spain) zone 10 and mild winters.
main rainfall happens during fall (October through genuary) although
there are
wet spells untill may. Main dry months are June through september.
 
In some spots the acuifer is quite shallow (1,2m)
There are a few growing trees there, one is a fig (ficus carica) that
grows below a terrace wall (which receives run off during rainfalls), a
few olive trees, and a huge peccan, where I think the acuifer is closest
to the surface.
There is also a small mature citrus orchard (oranges) that goes without
irrigation (but its oranges are really bad!) Then some pomegranates and
loquat that were recently planted are thriving, but thay are on a hedge,
so their placement is diferent that the orchard situation. Of course the
hedge can still be planned to be divided into irrigation sectors as
well.
I'd like to plant, figs (of course), peach, plums, nectarines, pistacho,
(maybe wallnuts and hazelnuts), jujube,
cherries, apricots, avogados, almonds, kaki, mulberries, and any other
drought tolerants species that I can come across.
 Cheers
 
Antonio