Heeling in fruit trees

Jake and I have been evaluating our major food purchases from last year. Aside from grain which we can't grow in quantity, we spent most of our money on fruit. We can grow soft fruits like straw-,rasp- and blueberries. Our freak show (5 graft) apple has started to produce some fruit but other than that we purchase most stone fruit, like peaches and cherries. So with that said I made a pretty impressive purchase of fruit trees that we intend to espalier along all fences. If we allow 8' for each tree we can roughly get 20 trees on site! I just purchased 10 trees and 4 current bushes. In other fruit tree news, our neighbors got a shipment of fruit trees last year and by shipment I mean over 100 trees! It helps to know orchard people... anyway they've agreed to give us our pick once they see what survives this winter. They were hoping to get 15 full size trees and had a jaw dropping moment when several packages with TONS of trees arrived. Being slightly overwhelmed they just trenched them in and were going to prep the ground for their orchard this spring. Long story short, we'll get some leftovers!

So my list of newly purchased fruities goes like this: All are on dwarfing root stocks.

Current- Red Lake- 4 bushes
Apple- Honey Crisp
Plum- Japanese Elephant Heart
Cherry- Craig's Crimson
Lapins
Stella
Peach- Redhaven
Red Baron
Nectarine- White Arctic Jay
Pear- European Comice
European Bosc

I know the neighbors for sure have an excess of plums and apricots, so I decided to purchase the trees I know I love and crap shoot with the free trees. Here they are being "heeled in" in our garage. The trees are still dormant so I raised a pot off the ground so the cement wouldn't cool the roots too much and basically planted 5 trees to a pot until the ground thaws. They should keep just fine for a month until the ground thaws enough to dig holes. *Fingers crossed*

I do want to purchase some blackberries which is one soft fruit we don't have growing yet. But I think I'll try and find a type I like at a nursery locally, maybe thornless? We do have a grape growing called Himrod but with a late frost last year all it's top growth was killed and it had to come back from the roots. We'll see if it had enough time to bulk up before winter, I do hope it survives.