WOW, a lot of replies and a lot of information ... thank you guys !!
Loretta is going to research all that information and of course, I will help her put it all together when she makes her mind up. We have 2 weeks up here this time so we can get going on the irrigation project for sure.
I wanted to share a couple photos of how she planted the fruit trees.
She got wire cages that went around the root balls of the trees. They were pushed into the 3' deep holes and partially filled with a mulched and fertilized soil. They stick up past ground level about 4 to 6 inches. The are to protect the roots from burrowing critters we have here. You can see them inside the outer cage in that first photo below. Then she made 2-1/2 diameter cages out of chicken wire that stand about 4 foot tall. The bottoms of those are 6 to 8 inches deep in the soil. They are to keep the deer off the trees until the plants are larger. I guess we can fill the outer and inner cage with some mulch to hold the moisture in better?
Rob-
