That's going to take DAYS to research through! Thank you! (Happydance.)
The goal is to create a food forest that AT LEAST supports my daily fruit needs (2 servings per day, estimating 4 servings per lb as a diabetic, means about 180 lbs total production in a year) and to learn enough pressure canning/no sugar canning techniques to minimize waste, too.
That's a fairly easy goal to reach: one dwarf apple tree yields at least 45lbs of fruit when mature (45-100 lbs estimated). A pound of apples is easily 3, preferably 4 servings of fruit, so a single dwarf apple tree COULD answer the goal, with zero variety or buffer for error or weird weather.
Growing enough snap peas to meet my preferences is rather like growing enough basil to make pesto: good luck, Optimist! But that's a secondary goal. Other goals require more knowledge, more ability to bend or stand for more than a minute, etc. Which is what pushed me toward permaculture, frankly.
With your lovely "road map," it's time to get out my gardening notebook and start gearing up for the last frost date!
Re: Wait, planting out already?
The goal is to create a food forest that AT LEAST supports my daily fruit needs (2 servings per day, estimating 4 servings per lb as a diabetic, means about 180 lbs total production in a year) and to learn enough pressure canning/no sugar canning techniques to minimize waste, too.
That's a fairly easy goal to reach: one dwarf apple tree yields at least 45lbs of fruit when mature (45-100 lbs estimated). A pound of apples is easily 3, preferably 4 servings of fruit, so a single dwarf apple tree COULD answer the goal, with zero variety or buffer for error or weird weather.
Growing enough snap peas to meet my preferences is rather like growing enough basil to make pesto: good luck, Optimist! But that's a secondary goal. Other goals require more knowledge, more ability to bend or stand for more than a minute, etc. Which is what pushed me toward permaculture, frankly.
With your lovely "road map," it's time to get out my gardening notebook and start gearing up for the last frost date!