Comments on: Free Organic Fruit! Plant an Orchard

By: Janet in NY

Janet in NY — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:00:34 +0000

i have a small yard. i have purchased. plum, peach, pear and cherry
dwarf trees for the back yard. tried twice on the peaches. my city boy husband managed to remove those sticks from the ground when cleaning up leaves. they were my pear trees. the cherry and plum
seem to be doing ok. very tiny after one entire year. still look like twigs with a group of small branches.
i’ve been looking at the columnar apples as a border with my neighbor in front yard. with the post above i might try it.

By: Donna in Delaware

Donna in Delaware — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:17:55 +0000

Try the columnar apple trees if you have little space. They are great.

By: Donna in Delaware

Donna in Delaware — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:04:36 +0000

This also reminds me when we were kids. One neighbor had 2 pear trees, one, 3 green apple trees(tart), one, a red grapvine and one, 3 peach trees, All grown in their back yards. The neighborhood children had their pick of fresh fruit all of the time. Of course, children would jump the fences and “take” the fruit, much to the chagrin of the growers. That fruit was the best tasting, naturally grown fruit ever. No pesticides were used on any of it. When it was time to pick the fruit, the neighbors would call our parents and allow us to come over and pick what we wanted to take to our parents. I don’t know why children had to “take” without consent. Maybe it tasted better when it was taken or maybe they just liked to see how mad the owners got when they were caught doing it and got away unscathed. We were not allowed to even think about taking anything. The fried apples were the best, with country fried chicken, and the pears, we took to school in our lunch bags. The grapes were never harvested by us, but they were easy to get and eat, as kids passed by the fence with the grapes hanging over into the alleyway.
Before I left NY, I grew columnar apple trees when they were first introduced to the market. I believe Spring Hill offered them. This was in the mid ’80′s. They took up little space and the apples turned out to be quite good. I got 3 different trees. It took 2 years before I got an apple.

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:30:27 +0000

Dear Maria Trevino Villarreal,

Unfortunately I do not speak spanish. After 4 years of Spanish in high school and college, the only line I remember is: Donde esta la bibliotecha?

And of course gracias!

Maria (farm country kitchen)

By: Patricia A Peltier

Patricia A Peltier — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:47:32 +0000

Correction: was, not wa; — not -!

By: Patricia A Peltier

Patricia A Peltier — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:45:51 +0000

This makes me think of the time that I was abouot 14 when I climbed into a neighbor’s peach tree and ate a peach. It wa one of the tastiest fruits that I ever had in my life–and I am 56!

By: Maria Trevino Villarreal

Maria Trevino Villarreal — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:24:37 +0000

Maria
I would like to ask you if you understand o speak spanish?

By: Maria Trevino Villarreal

Maria Trevino Villarreal — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:23:35 +0000

Hi Maria
I would like to ask you if you speak or understand spanish?

By: Kathleen Platten

Kathleen Platten — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:13:25 +0000

Good Morning Maria,

I am 66 and am ready to plant some fruit trees.

I have a horse corral that is empty,ready to be turned into a nice fruit tree garden. I already eat berries,and fruit from the market,but I
think planting my own,and watching the trees grow will be a great treat for my Grandchildren and myself.

Wish me luck…Thank you for the little push I needed to get this going
Kathleen Platten

By: JT

JT — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:58:06 +0000

The taste of organic fruit grown in your own back or front yard what could be fresher