From Facebook to Growing Fruit Trees

I’m a little reluctant but not totally ashamed to admit that I got the idea of looking into real world fruit trees for sale from playing “Farmville” on Facebook.  You cannot tell me you have no idea what I’m talking about; Farmville ranks way up there among the world’s favorite ways to waste time while pretending you are working.  I just feel really fortunate my virtual fruit farm of lemons, almonds, apples, pears, peach and grapes, might yield a real world inspiration.  If I can grow fruit trees in the binary world, why shouldn’t I try to grow fruit trees in the great big real 3D world all around me?   All I needed was a little tree information.

My thoughtful friends who frequently visit my virtual organic farm and naturally fertilize my peach trees also send me lots and lots of other fruit trees.  I love them, especially the apple, lemon, peach and cherry trees.  In the virtual world, the fast growing trees bear fruit in about a day; and don’t need any pruning and, as in the real world, the fresh fruits command a hefty price at market.  That is great for me when I’m the imaginary grower; not so great for me when I am the real world fruit buyer.  In the real world, therefore, it is great to become a fruit grower—the Ms. or Mr. Greenjeans of the neighborhood, and heck yeah, you can even buy and wear overalls when you get fruit on your branches.

Flowering Trees make it Real.

You may be wondering how difficult is it to create a real world orchard with all the trees in full flower every spring? Likely you have asked yourself what kind of fruit trees that you want?  Actually, it makes more sense to ask the more insightful version of the same question: What kind of fruit do we love so much we will feel willing to harvest it, eat it until we grow sick of it, and keep harvesting it anyway?  What kind of fruit do we love so much we will feel willing to preserve it, turn it to jams and jellies, convert it to pie fillings, and invent a hundred new ways to use it all winter long? 

When looking at getting trees from nurseries ask your self; How many trees do we need to gather a respectable harvest?   Are the trees fast growing or are they of the dwarf variety.  What kind of garden or land space do we need, and what kind of growing conditions we we have on our property?  Do we know any thing about growing fruit trees?  What kind of routine maintenance will my fruit trees require?  And what kind of sophisticated knowledge like pruning will my trees require?  How much sun or shade is there and how will the trees react?  Will some of the work be simple enough that even my husband/wife or kids can manage it…from a hammock?  Will I enjoy the sweat smell of the flowering trees in spring?

The inspirations of looking at fruit trees for sale can come from any thing from a pear or apple trees to lemons.  Large or dwarf each tree will have its own unique characteristics.   If you order apple trees then each small apple tree will require about a thirty-six square foot area in the southwest corner of the yard, and one easily can construct a drip irrigation system to soak the roots approximately every three days or so.  We decided to go with four young trees, not mature but not total saplings either, but the arboreal equivalent of toddlers.  Since I prune the trees aggressively, they have put their energy into fruit instead of new branches; and since I pay nominal attention to our “crops,” we were downloading—I mean picking fruit by autumn. 

We want to all get tropical fruit trees going on our southern land and also want to get a few cherry and dwarf trees next.    Apricot and pear are also favorites and one should consider those as well.

Great advice can be gotten from those operating a tree service that specializes in fast growing trees.   Contact a nursery to buy fruit trees that wil be right for you.