SockHead
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While I understand where you're coming from on this, I was planting in a planned area in the upper-right of my town where nothing else is. It was maybe 1/50th of my total town space and an area where I rarely found dig spots. Still, you're right. It is what it is and it's not like there's anything I can do about it. I think I'll slap a nice little yellow bench in there and plant some more trees outside of the dead spots and then cross my fingers they grow. I can at least be grateful that it looks like at least one of each type of fruit tree survived. So, woohoo!
Yeah, I learned this back in city folk and thought it was ridiculous. But now I kind of understand why. Orchards are something I no longer do solely because of this reason.