Distance beetween fruit trees on a small lot

[StillHope]

Thank you,Rene.I need to research if one coffee tree would be enough for 1-2 moderate coffee drinkers.But from what little I know the process of getting the final product is not easy and it's probably cheaper to buy in a store.

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[missydog1]

The fruit trees I have found really useful to have in my yards here are lemons, limes, tangerines, tangelos, (apples), and of course bananas and papayas. Mango trees are huge, and you can get all the mangos you want at the farmer's market.

The big tree exception would be avocado. I thoroughly enjoyed having a mature Haas avocado and miss it. But it was a large tree that created a lot of shade, and not the kind you can sit under because those babies hurt if they fall on your head. [:0]

I have also had grapefruit and oranges, and still do, but they take SO long to fruit, I mean for the fruit to ripen. I don't think there's enough heat here as they prefer. The other citrus can get sweet and ripe with the lower temps.

As for lychee and rambutan and starfruit and so forth, I can buy those. I don't need to have a tree full of them. What I love is that if I want a lemon, I can go out and get one.

[macuu222]

With regard to coffee...You need about 10 to 15 mature coffee trees to supply two moderate drinkers with coffee year round. But coffee trees like filtered afternoon sunlight like they get on the kona side. It's been too hot and sunny where I live in HPP and my coffee crop has lost about 40% of the beans as a result.

Without the expensive machines used to pulp, hull and roast the mature coffee cherries...Yes it does take alot of work....but there are ways to simplify this manual process.

[csgray]

In South America coffee is often grown as an understory crop beneath larger fruit trees, or even in the rain forest. That way they get the filtered light. We have neighbors in HPP who planted theirs at the edge of the shaded area provided by their large mango trees.

Carol