Do you have fruit trees in your yard?  

aww, i do not have a tree but when i was living at home with my mother we did have a apple tree that we used to get the apples from then just cook and eat them with different things but now that it is not there we have to buy the apples so i get mad to think that we had a tree that made them once, thanks

We have a navel orange tree in our yard. That is the only fruit tree. I did put in a mini garden this summer. I put in squash, cucumbers, green beans and two tomatoe plants.
I have several cucumbers but and lots of blooms on my green beans.

Well, I live in an apartment so I do not have fruit trees in my yard. I am glad that you enjoy your fruit and nut trees. When I get my own place I would like blueberries and strawberries and a apple tree and peach tree sound yummy too. I do like pears also so maybe one of those also.

Well we have lived in this same house since I was 8 yrs old. We had a pear tree that was actually our neighbors but was right next to our garage, so we always picked the pears but then when they sold the house the new folks cut it down. I went outside about 10 years ago and they were cutting down trees that were close to the house....I came out too late to stop them...it fell as I opened the door. They didn't even know what kind of tree it was.. Then there was a cherry tree that was in our back yard between ours and theirs...they cut that down while clearing out the pool area.....again they didn't know it was a cherry tree, they just figured it would drop leaves too close to their pool...grrr
We had a peach tree that grew on the other side of our yard...it got hit by lightning about 5 yrs ago...but a huge branch of it rooted after being piled behind the garage....yeah we were so excited..it happened all on it's own. It has been growing there until now....I don't think it's coming back this year sadly. We do have a mulberry tree...the birds love and blackberry bushes that the birds also love. I'm thinking about planting an apple tree this year...we'll see.

I have a apple tree and pear tree. But by the time the fruits are ready to be picked, the insects have usually gotten to them. I'm going to see if there is something I can buy to prevent that from happening. Do you have any suggestions.

I also have a grape wine that produce a lot of delicious grapes. We've even made wine out of them.

My walnut tree is large and has a lot of walnuts on it, but it creates a feeding freenzy by he squirrels. I've tried picking the green ones and let them ripe, but it doesn't work. Do they have to rippen on the tree?

Lloyd

We use to have some plum trees. We had about ten plum trees. We cut them down because they was giving us too many problems. People would just come on our property to pick some without asking and then they would eat them and just spit the seeds on the ground. But I wish we still had them because they were some good plums, juicy yellow plums.

The only fruit trees we have in our yard is a couple of apple trees . We do eat off them as it is so much cheaper then to buy apples but they are usually really sour tasting .
Growing up my mom and dad had apple trees , another tree that had some kind of berries on it , a cherry tree and a chestnut tree . The cherry tree was my favorite and I never realized how expenisive cherries were until I started to buy them .
We just bought our first home and that is the one tree I would love to have planted because I love the taste of cherries and so do the children but they are normally a treat because they cost so much too buy so we only get them once in a blue moon when they go on sale .

I have blueberry bushes in my yard, but they have never produced more than a handful of berries. The soil here is too sandy and has very little nutrients, so I have to really fertilize to get anything. I still plan on trying some other things, tho. I'd like to plant some blackberry bushes and maybe an avocado tree and see what happens.

Hi craftcatcher!!
I have one little small green garden in my backyard.
And i was planning the watermelon, cantalope and starwberry since last year.
They died in the last winter because the weather is too cold.
But now the sun is coming back and they are growing up back now.
I try to water for them everyday.
And i hope i can eat them one day soon.

There is an old country saying -

'A woman, a dog and a walnut tree,
The more you beat them, the better they be'

Now taking only the walnut tree - haha - there is evidence that if you distress the tree you 'frighten' it into producing more fruit.

How you keep the pesky squirrels off is another topic. They, like birds, are the perfect test to see if the fruit is ripe.

We used to have pears in our garden but they are the perfect lure for wasps and hornets.