Contour Layout Design Of An Orchard Garden
Skill is required to layout the orchard.
Contour layout design of an orchard garden. It is followed in hilly areas for planting fruit plants where land is undulated irrigation of the orchard is difficult and soil erosion is the major problem. This lesson is based from ou. This video is all about the lesson in technology and livelihood education week 5 preparing layout design of an orchard garden.
External framework spacing planting spot road and irrigation are top 5 things that should be considered while designing layout of an orchard. Garden boundaries can be planted up with fruiting hedges or wall or fence hugging espaliers or fans. Under this the arrangement of fruit plants in the plot is carefully done to put the plants at a suitable distance for proper development and for accommodating the requisite number of plants per unit area in addition to improving the aesthetic look of the orchard.
In a hilly area a lot of depressions ridges furrows and place surface are found. Packing more fruit into the space you have available means thinking beyond the traditional. The layout of the orchard is a very important operation.
Mar 6 2016 explore tamara sewell brotnov s board orchard designs on pinterest. Most temperate zone orchards are laid out in a regular grid with a grazed or mown grass or bare soil base that makes maintenance and fruit gathering easy. Forget block planting at wide spacings instead incorporate your fruiting plants into your overall garden design.
Try to add just a few new trees or bushes each year and before you know it you will have a full orchard. But when planting is done a line is made by connecting all the points of the same elevation across the slope from a. How much fruit can a home orchard produce.
A fruit garden is generally synonymous with an orchard although it is set on a smaller non commercial scale and may emphasize berry shrubs in preference to fruit trees. See more ideas about orchard design orchard design. The layout is started from the lowest level and the tree rows are planted along a uniform slope at the right angle to the slope.

