DIY Gardening & Better Living

Fruit Gardening

For every gardener desiring to add apples, pears, cherries, and other tree fruit to their landscape here are hints and solid information from a professional horticulturist and experienced fruit grower.  

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GROWING YOUR OWN FRUIT
Growing fruit in your own backyard or orchard is an easy, fun, and healthy alternative to buying fruit from the store. Fruit harvested fresh from the tree tastes better and is much healthier than imported fruit from the grocery store. An orchard can be a profitable backyard business where you can harvest and sell your crops to make extra money and get agricultural tax exemptions for your land. Edible landscaping is the hottest new trend in gardening, and you can produce an amazing quantity of fruit in a small space. Even only a small patio, you can grow many kinds of perennial small fruits and berries. With the correct selection of varieties, can have fresh fruit ripening at your home throughout much of the year. 

One of the greatest joys in gardening is harvesting fruit from your own trees! 

Growing your own orchard is easy.  It does not require lots of space.  A few trees can provide you with hundreds of fresh apples, peaches or persimmons to eat each year. Some fruit plants, such as blueberries, can even be grown in pots on a patio. Many kinds of trees start to bear in the first couple of years, so you don't have to wait a long time before the first harvest.

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