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Commenced:	01/10/2006
Submitted:	20/08/2012
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	10 Highland Grove, Kensington Grove, Queensland, AU
Phone:	0428 534451
Website:	http://www.smallacreagehorsekeeping.com
Climate zone:	Sub-tropical

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Revision, indecision or analysis paralysis?

Project: Permaculture Paddock Paradise

Posted by Petra Doerfling over 12 years ago

Every time I look at my place I change my mind on how to do things, where to plant things, or even what to plant. Is it revision, indecision or simply analysis paralysis?

Yesterday I gave in to the impulse buy and got myself two citrus trees, my favourite oranges, blood and valencia... yum :).

Now the problem started when I got home and decided I was going to plant them in the front yard where there is lots of sun. My hubby started protesting... isn't this where you wanted to have another paddock, and I am not having two orange trees just stuck into the ground without any plan, etc, etc... Strangely I thought I had a plan, and oops yes the front yard was supposed to be a paddock for the horses. We found a new spot and it's actually a better spot. Still out the front but closer to the house, north facing, out of the worst of the wind and protected from the south by the house.

So I sat down and revised my plan for the property... oops I had not even entered any vegetable gardens or food forest, or anything else I thought of onto the plan... just a plan for the horse paddocks... doh... so I didn't have a plan really for the orange trees. So last night I made a new plan and here it is:

I was quite happy with it, until this morning and I discovered that the area designated for the fruit forest is in dapple shade unitl about lunchtime, not sure though if it will be in dapple shade in summer.

I also discovered that I made an error in my legend were the D should really be the E. Minor really, but I found myself analysing the plan over and over again and my poor citrus trees are sitting out there wondering where their home will be.

The other thing that I discovered is that those citrus trees where amongst a bunch of dwarf varieties so I assumed they were dwarf as well... they are not but will grow to the stately height of 8m. So I need to revise my plan for where to plant the fruit trees and which tree to plant where as I also want to plant a mango, a few coffee trees, some stone fruits... so much to consider when planing something like that... better revise again, or should i just do?

If it is this tricky with the fruit trees, how will it be with the fodder trees? And then there is the point of what grows with what... argh.

Analysis paralysis....

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