How Many Fruit Trees Should You Plant?

Finding the sweet spot between “the more the merrier” and “less is more”.

Deciding on the number of fruit trees to plant is a bit like deciding on your ideal number of chickens to keep. The answer is always three more than you already have. To some backyard growers it’s perfectly logical to say “I’ve never tried a plumcot before, so I’ll squeeze it in and devote three years of growing it to find out whether I like it”. There …