Distance beetween fruit trees on a small lot

[Mitzi M]

I'm a huge fan of dwarf fruit trees - even on a biiger lot. Try Keitt mangoes for lots of large fruit you can reach with your hands on a 10'-12' tree. HAAS avocados are good smaller trees too. Plant it Hawai'i has a lot of great dwarf varieties so if you catch their sale you'll be in luck. A good rule to follow where space is tight is to look at the mature canopy width of the variety you want to grow and add a three foot path all around - so canopy plus 6' all together. Just keep them mulched and water well during drought for the first year or so until they establish and they should do fine.