Lovely.

I guess Blaze’s recommendation worked out. The image looks fantastic.

Wow! Thank you so much for all of this. I’ll save all of it for future reference.

Beautiful

Suggest everything please…I’m all ears.

I wasn’t aware of that and thanks for letting me know. I’ll steer clear of the gooseberries.

Most everything on my property is perennial. So, not planting anything lately. Just trying to reduce the amount of lawn mowing by laying down landscaping fabric and covering that with bark mulch. I’ll come back next year and plant more perennials in those areas. Probably fruit-bearing bushes like gooseberries and elderberries.

I did not say they are planted near the black walnut trees. The black walnuts are isolated from everything else I plan on planting. I’m aware of their natural suppression method.

I planted two black walnut trees at the same time as those apple trees. They haven’t produced yet either. I live in rural Maine so it makes things grow slower.

Eight years ago my wife and I planted a variety of apple trees and they still have not produced. Thus, I can’t answer your question.

Phone (proprietary); Beeper (partial-FOSS); DuckDuckGo (FOSS?); Mlem (FOSS)

Preference?

My wife planted salad greens and herbs years ago that I enjoyed. So yeah, I may revisit that.

Everything I’ve planted on my property are perennials. That includes flowering/insect attracting plants as well as fruit and nut trees (blueberries, raspberries, black walnut and apple). I haven’t gotten into annual/kitchen gardening yet and I may not. This year I’ll focus on methods of landscaping to cut back on the amount of lawn mowing to be done.

Waiting for things to start growing and the rest of the snow to melt. Shouldn’t be much longer. BTW, ‘Juniper’ is such a beautiful name for your child. Well done!

Gorgeous.