fruit-bearing trees

We have about six lemon trees, some other citrus trees we haven't identified yet (no fruit yet), guava trees and there's a lone apricot tree as well. We just moved into the property, and this is our first season. We live in Namibia, the subtropical trees do well here as well. I planted a few avocado trees as well.

Not now because I live in a flat and don't have a garden, but before I moved into a flat I had apple trees. They produced the teeniest, tiniest little apples which were only suitable for cooking because they were very sour but they tasted great when they were used in apple pies, etc. And at least I knew they hadn't been sprayed with chemicals and goodness knows what else. I'm in Scotland by the way.

I live in northern England (a little milder than your climate I think) and also plan to put fruit trees in my garden. My father had two apple trees at his last house which produced a decent amount of fruit, but they were very well established. They were also 'cooking apples'. There was a pear tree near where i live which fruited quite well, but the kids would strip it before the fruit was anywhere near ripe. Crab apples also do quite well around here. They aren't much to eat straight, but make fantastic jams, chutneys and such like. You can 'train' apple trees to grow like climbers in a shelteed garden, which may offset some of the worse effects of your weather. Have a look at bbc.co.uk/gardening for better advice than I can give.

I have a mango tree in my house, it gives me two yields per year and it is really tasty as well. We have equitorial climate here and that gives us many options. We can grow many variety of fruits and trees here. But the only thing is that, you need to put in effort.