Am I too old to

[owc6]

Plant an "orchard?"

We already have a vineyard (23 years ago), but this year, we planted over a dozen fruit trees.

I don't know why we didn't do this 20 years ago.

[Torqaholic]

Depends on the crop. Trees vary in the number of years until they produce fruit. That detail is usually available.

[Vet4jdc]

This brings up the age old question......how long you gonna live?

[Bruze]

Plant an "orchard?"

We already have a vineyard (23 years ago), but this year, we planted over a dozen fruit trees.

I don't know why we didn't do this 20 years ago.

I kept putting off planting some kind of fruit tree, too late now, probably wouldn't do well here anyway.

A buddy of mine is 76 and he just planted a couple fruit trees, don't remember what kind. I didn't ask him the obvious question. :island14:

[LATB]

Plant an "orchard?"

We already have a vineyard (23 years ago), but this year, we planted over a dozen fruit trees.

I don't know why we didn't do this 20 years ago.

I'm 65 and I'd like to plant a small fruit tree orchard. Maybe a few dozen trees on an acre. I have the perfect cleared spot. Won't see fruit for a few years but that's ok.

The challenge is keeping the wildlife (deer) from eating the trees/fruit. The fencing is going to be costly. I may be able to get some USDA help with that.

[Dan47]

I planted blueberry bushes a couple of days ago, gonna do raspberries next. I think watching them grow is half the fun but hopefully I live long enough to enjoy the berries.

I also have a peach tree I planted several years ago. I love growing my own food and learning how nature works. Crazy how dependent I was on big corporate agriculture and I think my neighbors feel the same. Seems like many people are getting involved in this kind of stuff now.

[Tikiman]

I planted two Honeycrisp trees three years ago. They are doing nicely and leafing out quite well this year, but I think I'm still a couple of years away from getting any fruit from them. We have a row of berry bushes planted along one fence line that bear fruit. And down by the river we have a small wild grove of pawpaw trees. Late August to early September is a good time to go down there and shake the trees. Make some pawpaw bread.

[mtnman]

I planted blueberry bushes a couple of days ago, gonna do raspberries next. I think watching them grow is half the fun but hopefully I live long enough to enjoy the berries.

I also have a peach tree I planted several years ago. I love growing my own food and learning how nature works. Crazy how dependent I was on big corporate agriculture and I think my neighbors feel the same. Seems like many people are getting involved in this kind of stuff now.

:iagree:

[04 commemorative]

At this point in my life....farm market down the road works fine.

[Bill]

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.




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[Bruze]

Leeser asked: "Am I too old to . . . "

Hell no! You're "young stuff!" :D

[Swany00]

just do it!!!!

[Taurus]

I have 47 mature trees on my half acre lot, none of them fruit trees. Simply too many, they take a lot of time and money to keep them all healthy and looking the way they should.

[Yadkin]

I've planted peach trees before. They produced fruit in the second or third year (I forget). But they required spraying to keep the fruit from rotting before even starting to ripen. Proved to be too much work.

[GTOguy]

Fruit trees all over where I live due to the climate. I'm still two or three weeks away from running out of oranges to squeeze. I have three older orange trees, a lemon tree, fig trees, a Japanese persimmon tree (that the squirrels clean out every year--bastards) and had an apricot tree that aged out. There's so much fruit here it's given away by the bushel during the season. The neighbors give me their grapefruit and pomegranate as well.

[KenHorse]

I have 47 mature trees on my half acre lot, none of them fruit trees. Simply too many, they take a lot of time and money to keep them all healthy and looking the way they should.

I have some immature trees on mine. They're real jerks.

[Taurus]

I have some immature trees on mine. They're real jerks.

Got a few of those too. :rofl:

[dvarapala]

Depends on the crop. Trees vary in the number of years until they produce fruit.

Avocado trees are the worst. :yesnod:

But our citrus trees are overflowing with abundance. :thumbs:

[Torqaholic]

I've planted peach trees before. They produced fruit in the second or third year (I forget). But they required spraying to keep the fruit from rotting before even starting to ripen. Proved to be too much work.

My oldest planted a peach tree (dwarf?). It didn't waste any time in putting out fruit. Saw so many peaches on that thing I'm not sure how it remained standing. Nutso.

[GTOguy]

My oldest planted a peach tree (dwarf?). It didn't waste any time in putting out fruit. Saw so many peaches on that thing I'm not sure how it remained standing. Nutso.

That's how it is around here. You see a peach tree the size of a garbage can planted in a 5 gallon bucket with 50-70 baseball sized peaches on it. How can that little bush pump out so much fruit??

My tomato plants do the same.....you wonder how the plant supports all that.

[owc6]

I planted two Honeycrisp trees three years ago. They are doing nicely and leafing out quite well this year, but I think I'm still a couple of years away from getting any fruit from them. We have a row of berry bushes planted along one fence line that bear fruit. And down by the river we have a small wild grove of pawpaw trees. Late August to early September is a good time to go down there and shake the trees. Make some pawpaw bread.


I've got raspberries and blackberries all over the property. They migrate from year to year.

I would love to get a paw paw or two, but don't know where to source it. I know they're indigenous, but have never seen one. My son went to the paw paw festival in western MD a couple of years ago. He raved about it.