ideas: Yummy! Yummy! Fruit. Do You Have Fruit Orchard?

Go outside a pick some for me …

Notes:

• Imagine having your own fruit orchard with an abundance of fruit options to enjoy, pick and cook with.
• We are talking about apples (for making apple pie or apple sauce) – peaches (for breakfast or dinner) – cherries (for pie filling and just snacking) – plums (for making jams and jellies) – or maybe a vinyard with raspberriers – strawberries – blueberries – grapes – currants and other vine-loving fruits:
  INFO: see full fruit listing below
• And if you live further south, your orchard may include the citrus juices of oranges – lemons – limes – grapefruits – and not to mention some of the tropical fruits like banana – fig – mango – olive and other exotic fruits.
• Let’s not forget the nut fruits that California is famous for: almonds – pistachios – cashews – pecans – and other tree nuts.
• Sounds nice – but it takes years and horticultural planning to get a fruit-bearing tree – so now it the time to get started
  INFO: don’t plant fruit trees until you watch this
• And be prepared to ward off birds who find fruit as delicious as you do:
  INFO: keep birds off your fruit trees
• What comments can you share?

• light requirements (sunny)    –    height (low vines vs. high trees)    –    harvest time (varies dependng on fruit)    –    maintenance (disease, insects, etc.)    –    propagation (seeding, division)    –    growing zones INFO: view growing zones