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ManianFH
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I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated
#13974266 - 02/16/11 03:35 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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we have around nice 100 avocados in the refrigerator right now, and 200 left on the trees. Dont know about anyone else but I can eat these things for breakfast, lunch and dinner. pair that with rice, homemade bread, and eggs from our chickens, and the total cost to eat is about $20 a month 
Anyone have fruit growing?
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: ManianFH]
#13974291 - 02/16/11 03:39 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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I used to have plums and cherries in my backyard before we moved. It was legit. Free food is
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: Anthony917]
#13974299 - 02/16/11 03:41 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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Orange trees are nice. A ripe orange on a hot summer day. Yum.
When I have my own house, I want to grow my own vegetables. I figure if I grow them myself, I will be more motivated to eat them.
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: ManianFH]
#13974302 - 02/16/11 03:42 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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i eat guac everyday
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: ManianFH]
#13974386 - 02/16/11 03:59 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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Ive had a crab apple and a quince tree. The raspberry and blackberry Cains really deliver every year. Some have no thorns and produce almost pingpong ball sized berries! They were easily 8 feet high, bent over. I guess the crab apple was was pretty good too but we couldn't keep woodpeckers from destroying it. Ive seen ads for grafted fruit trees with a couple of different fruits on the same tree.
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: aris]
#13974447 - 02/16/11 04:11 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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If everyone in your neighbourhood grew one edible bearing tree or herb of some sort you wouldn't ever need to shop again.
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: ManianFH]
#13974467 - 02/16/11 04:14 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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Quote:
mick said: we have around nice 100 avocados in the refrigerator right now, and 200 left on the trees. Dont know about anyone else but I can eat these things for breakfast, lunch and dinner. pair that with rice, homemade bread, and eggs from our chickens, and the total cost to eat is about $20 a month 
Anyone have fruit growing?
self suffieceny ftw! currently i'm not. but one day i will be. and fresh eggs from my chickens.
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: ManianFH]
#13974558 - 02/16/11 04:31 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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I had two peach trees but one died shortly after I moved in and the other is just old and soon to follow it's brother. No peaches this last season but the prior season was grand. I still have some in the deep freeze for pies and desserts. Other than that we have a plum tree, but they are the small and kind of sour ones. Meh
I wish I could have an avocado tree. That would be kick ass.
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: 4runner]
#13974569 - 02/16/11 04:34 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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We have plum, cherry, cranberries, blackberries, and ginkgo biloba More to come hopefully.
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: AlteredAgain]
#13974596 - 02/16/11 04:39 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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I like cherries, but man you can't eat to many of them and big trees can make a hell of a mess. I still want one.
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ManianFH
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: 4runner]
#13978920 - 02/17/11 01:32 PM (13 years, 16 days ago) |
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cool to read that others here are in the mode of self-sustaining lifestyles.
anunnakian - if you buy an avocado tree that is semi-mature and transplant it in your soil, you might be able to get a fruit yield within 3-4 years. totally worth it.
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: ManianFH]
#13978944 - 02/17/11 01:38 PM (13 years, 16 days ago) |
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To cold of winters. I think I am zone 7. Hell there is still snow on the ground. Now if I had a HUGE greenhouse.
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: 4runner]
#13978982 - 02/17/11 01:51 PM (13 years, 16 days ago) |
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at my house i shall grow
1.) weed. lots of it. 2.) mushrooms, actve mushrooms. 3/) avocados! lots of em 4.) mangoes. self explanitory
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: ManianFH]
#13979182 - 02/17/11 02:43 PM (13 years, 16 days ago) |
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When I was a kid we had a sour apple tree and 3 cherry trees in our yard. My little brother and I used to pick up the dead apples from the ground (there'd be hundreds) and lob them at each other. Good times.
I miss having fruit growing right in my backyard.
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: ManianFH]
#13979190 - 02/17/11 02:45 PM (13 years, 16 days ago) |
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how long does it take for them to start producing? and can you grow them on the east coast?
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: Olympus Mons]
#13979306 - 02/17/11 03:07 PM (13 years, 16 days ago) |
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I bought a house last summer that came with 1 cherry, 1 apple, 1 pear, 2 crab apples, and a plum tree. The pear and crab apples are pretty young, and I only got a few pears last year, but the apple and cherry trees are mature and produce very well! It also came with a ton of raspberry bushes. I was eating handfuls of raspberries daily last summer and didn't even harvest them all! I plan on adding some grapes, blueberries, and kiwis soon. My sister works for the University of MN and has access to all kinds of experimental cold-hearty varieties, so I'm pretty excited.
I wish I could grow avocados too, but I am too far north here in zone 4...
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: Happy2fly]
#13979431 - 02/17/11 03:35 PM (13 years, 16 days ago) |
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We have three unkept apple trees, so they are pretty much crab apples but they make for a good homemade applesauce, extra chunky 
We also have a wild mulberry bush which is awesome during the summer. Not sure which strain it is exactly but my grandma makes a bangin mulberry pie. Last summer it didn't produce as much as years before so I'm hoping this season will be a good one.
I really want to plant a pear tree since I love pears and they require very little work. Plums also sound nice too...
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: ManianFH]
#13979450 - 02/17/11 03:38 PM (13 years, 16 days ago) |
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My grandma and grandpa had an avocado tree in their backyard in Coronado, but unfortunately they both died long before I ever grew to like avocados.
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: realfuzzhead]
#13979804 - 02/17/11 04:31 PM (13 years, 16 days ago) |
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Quote:
realfuzzhead said: at my house i shall grow
1.) weed. lots of it. 2.) mushrooms, actve mushrooms. 3/) avocados! lots of em 4.) mangoes. self explanitory
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Re: I think the value of fruit bearing trees are underestimated [Re: TeamAmerica]
#13979988 - 02/17/11 05:06 PM (13 years, 16 days ago) |
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When I was young, we had 2 mulberry trees, one white and one red - and a few macadamia nut trees. That kept us occupied in summer :P
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