Fruit trees on backyards

[KB]

I have several blackberry bushes and they are terrific. Every year I get about a pound of fruit for no work. I just have to keep a fence around them and keep the branches off the ground or the birds or deer eat them.

 

[JohnCU]

wow i have grapevines, one apple, one fig, 2 plum and 1 peach and 1 nectarine and have none of the problems listed here. great free healthy food. i mow over the fruit that's fallen off and never smell anything.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: Thraxen

Originally posted by: gsellis

Originally posted by: Thraxen
What zones will lime trees grow in... anyone know?

9+

Man, I miss orange and grapefruit trees in the backyard.

No space to put much. I would love an Asian Pear and a kiwi (Assai?) arbor in the back.

Crap... I'm in 6b, so I guess that idea is out.

That is what greenhouses are for A Calamondin or lime MIGHT do ok in a sunroom.

 

[OutHouse]

I wish the big ass cottonwood trees by my house were fruitless (as in not cotton). I have to hose off my A/C every fricken weekend and clean out my windows because of that crap flying around the neighorhood. Maybe ill got to a town council meeting and propose a town ordance to cut down all fruit bearing cottonwood trees and to ban the plantation of anymore.

oh and for your topic. I want a peach tree. that would be cool. I may go buy one this fall.

 

[AreaCode707]

I can't wait to have enough property to plant an orchard. You can compost the rotting fruit, and the rest of it is all eating! We use to have fruit trees in my backyard growing up, but they were on the wrong side of the pasture fence and the horses ate them (not just the fruit, the trees.)

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Well we had an avocado and a mango tree outside my house but unfortunately the last few storms that passed through here in Miami finally took both of them down

 

[49erinnc]

I have a plum tree in my front yard and I've come to dislike it. It creates a TON of fruit and it scatters all over my yard which makes mowing it a pain. I normally have to rake it all up before I even try to mow. It also attracts a lot of insects, squirrels, birds and mooching passer-bys who think it's okay to walk into my yard and help themselves. Though, I don't mind them doing it because that's less for me to have to rake up. I actually had a note in my mailbox a couple weeks ago from someone who said "I picked some plums from your tree" and they left a name/phone number. Thought that was pretty nice of them.

I normally pick from it twice and then I'm sick of them. I take them to work for coworkers, give to friends, etc. And after all of that, there are still tons of them left. Never seen a tree so small put out so much fruit. Previous owner planted it, otherwise, it wouldn't be there.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Because it's a PITA to walk over 10,000 rotting apples in the grass. MOwing also offers a wonderful smell when you hack them apart.

plus the trees can easily get infested with japanese beetles.

 

[rgwalt]

There are two pear trees in the back yard at my parent's house. We didn't take the trouble to spray them, so they would become infested with worms and wasps. They would fall and rot on the ground, and were generally a pain in the ass to deal with. I'll pass on fruit trees in the future. I don't want to spend my free time keeping up with them.

R

 

[Thraxen]

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Because it's a PITA to walk over 10,000 rotting apples in the grass. MOwing also offers a wonderful smell when you hack them apart.

plus the trees can easily get infested with japanese beetles.

We've been battling Japanese beetles for the last few weeks. They don't seem interested in our pear trees though.