Have any Fruit Trees?

[brenda67]

Please tell me about what kind you have...I really want to purchase a variety of Dwarf fruit trees..I would also like to set up a little mini fruit/veggie stand on my property this year .....so if you have any input on that I would be very happy to hear..



I know that my fruit trees most likely won't produce this year for me to sell at my stand but my Brother has a whole orchard at his house that I can pick from and sell..I hope to be able to sell enough to fund my Christmas this year..

[freebs]

I have fruit trees that i planted last fall, i planted the dwarf variety of all mine except the pecan trees, i planted the following fruit trees


Apple(several varieties for pollinators)x6
Peachesx4
pears( again several for pollinators)x3
apricotsx2
plumsx2
figsx2
grapesx4
blueberriesx8
pecansx4

These were all planted last fall so i hope to see some blueberries this year and maybe some grapes but we will see!

[ravenmaniac]

I wish I had some fruit trees! When I was a little girl my grandmother had a pear tree. We loved climbing the tree, collecting the pears, and helping her can them. They were the best tasting canned pears.

On the other hand my Aunt had a peach tree. I hated having to climb that tree and collect those peaches. I would itch so bad! My mother used to give my Benadryl. To this day I will not eat peaches and I can not stand touching one.

My Uncle in PA had 6 apple trees. We would climb them and collect the apples. For days my mom, Aunts, and grandma would can apples and freeze apple pies. The best was when we would throw apples at each other while we were up in the trees. Of course we got yelled at.

[brenda67]

Thanks for your input....

[nessarowdy]

When we moved into our home going on 4 years ago, we decided to plant apple trees, cherry trees, plum trees, and assorted fruit bushes. And we are the WORST tree growers EVER! No fruit yet, we can barely get them to produce quality foliage! Ha! It's always a treat when the stupid things even come up in the spring. Hope you have better luck with them than us!
-Vanessa

[ravenmaniac]

I really want to plant fruit trees too. Maybe a local nursery could help you. I might do some online research.

[sunshine]

We live in zone 5 - and have the following:

apple
hardy nectarine
hardy peach
pear
apricot
mulberry
cherry - bing, montgomery, and several bush cherries


We also have black walnut, hickory and pecan trees

We have black raspberry, gooseberry, black berry bushes, strawberry beds, grape arbors ( we only grow Concord grapes)

[pinetree]

We have quite a few fruit trees
plum
cherry, pie cherries
peach
apple
pear

our nursey told us last year we can plant pears here now, we had 6 pears from our new trees the first year. We also planted 2 more peach trees and they bloomed but didnt produce fruit. They have new kinds coming out all the time so you might check and see what you can plant where you are.

[Nana2two]

We have cherry trees and peach trees. Raspberries, boysenberry.

[KeithBC]

Four apple trees (2 Gravensteins, 1 Spartan and 1 Transparent), 2 Italian prune plums, 2 Bartlett pears. The pear trees aren't really happy here, but the apples and plums do really well.

We also have 2 grapevines, a row of raspberries and three beds of strawberries. Yum! We love fruit!

[brenda67]

Sunshine...your really the one who has inspired me the most to be able to be more self suffient..thank you for responding to my post...Have you ever sold any surplus?

[brenda67]

KeithBC...does your strawberry patch produce enough to feed you for awhile? I'm thinking that this is something that I want to plant for sure..our local pick ur own strawberry's cost quite a bit for my family of 5...I'm not sure how many plants to plant..

[KeithBC]

KeithBC...does your strawberry patch produce enough to feed you for awhile? I'm thinking that this is something that I want to plant for sure..our local pick ur own strawberry's cost quite a bit for my family of 5...I'm not sure how many plants to plant..

Oh, yes! In fact, in addition to eating lots of them fresh, we froze so many last summer that we were able to have strawberry shortcake for lunch today. At the peak of production in June, we fill two or three big bowls every day. This is a typical day's harvest:


We have three beds, each about 18 feet long and three feet wide. One was already here when we bought the place, and other two we planted ourselves. For the beds we planted, we started with six plants in each. They spread by themselves, so now the beds are all full. In fact, we have to thin all three beds out every year now.

To keep the birds out, I built a berry house over them. It is a simple wooden structure, tall enough to walk around in, with nylon garden netting over the top and sides. There is a door that we keep closed normally.

In the photo, all the greenery in the foreground is strawberries. You can see the wooden posts of the berry house.

[sunshine]

Sunshine...your really the one who has inspired me the most to be able to be more self suffient..thank you for responding to my post...Have you ever sold any surplus?

Surplus? ? ? Ha ha ha . .. . nah, never sold any. If we have extra, I give it to the food pantry, my neighbors, the senior citizen center, other family members, co workers. Generally get back as much or more than I give - in other goods or services.

[valerian]

I planted dwarf apple (2 kinds) and dwarf peaches (2 kinds) and one lone almond tree last year. Ours had fruit the first year, but alas the deer ate them before they were ready to be harvested. This year I'm going to be prepared and try to keep those pests away. I've heard that you can hang mesh bags of moth balls on the trees to keep them away or sprinkle human hair around them. They ate the fruit and shredded up the leaves...little b*stards!