Actually, I see by your comment that I probably mislead some of you. That orchard was in 1977 when I was still two years away from even hearing about permaculture, and it was on rented land where the orchard management was controlled by the owner-- a UC Riverside ecologist-- and I just did the work and got half of the crop.
But we did grow many kinds of citrus, bunch grapes, apricots, peaches, pomegranates, and figs without any spraying-- all with Southern California's "limitless" supply of water from the far away mountains. The trees didn't seem to mind 105? at all.
Bob Randall
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