I prefer the ones I can ripen on the tree but it’s always a risk. I love how big my persimmons are. I wonder if they will get smaller when the tree is bigger and producing more. I wonder why people don’t plant them as ornamentals, they are such pretty trees in the fall. Like little pumpkins.

first full year of being in ground, it's got half a dozen on it!

Looking for some help identifying this pear tree.

The pears are rock solid. Will soften some after a freeze

Grow zone 5

I’m trying to figure out if I can do something with the fruit besides break a tooth! 🤣

Hi everyone! I’m a newly certified gardener and expanded my vegetable garden this past year. As I move toward more food independence, I want to plant more fruit trees and fruiting shrubs. I have identified a very sunny spot of lawn (8-10 hours of sun per day in summer) that I have covered in cardboard and woodchips to prepare for planting next spring. It’s roughly 30x30 feet on a very gentle slope on the North East side of my front yard.

I definitely want to grow apple trees, and use strawberries as ground cover. I’m also interested in raspberries, grapes, blackberries, and additional fruit trees (I also have 6 blueberry bushes in pots). What varieties do you recommend? What resources (books, YouTube channels, etc) do you recommend I study for care? I do organic gardening, but I assume I will need to spray trees, so what treatments do you recommend? I also have deer to contend with and can’t build higher than a 4 foot fence, so also welcome tips for deterring them.

I found this subreddit from backyard orchard, so please direct me to any existing threads here about this topic. I live in NJ, Zone 6b/7a depending on the year.

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Every fall my apple tree gets these all over inside. There's some sort of webbing but not a ton holding the leaves in tight. Obviously it's some sort of pest or insect nest. Any idea what it is? It's only ever on this one tree. It's a columnar apple tree. Located in the USA, zone 7.

The fruits are mostly small and they are still ripening and here it is the middle of October! I rescued this small tree from a drainage ditch at Horsepark in San Diego. The next year it produced a few small peaches and as soon as I realized it was WHITE PEACHES it was deigned worthy and planted in the ground. Two years later there were several beautiful peaches bigger than a baseball. Last year I think I pinched off tiny developing fruits too soon and the crop was negligible. This year I limited by pinching but the tree barely leafed out and why the fruits only started to ripen in late summer is beyond me. In previous years most of the fruit was picked by June.

I will say, as these less than the size of an egg peaches ripen, they are a sweet little snack!

Sigh. : (

Overwatering?

I have more than 10 ton pine nuts, what should I do, can I sell or not

My understanding is that the patent just expired on these, so is anyone selling them to homegrowers?

My blood orange tree has some wierd leaves that do not look like the other "healthy" ones, any idea of the cause? Other than the leaves, it seems very healthy.

Nine weeks ago I did some simple whip grafting this Spring. This is of a wild pear rootstock ( Mt Biggs 2) supplied by a friend Eric Cairns. Now the vegetative buds are starting to swell and will produce leaves soon. Grafted on to Beurre Hardy.

I live in the Pacific Northwest coastal area, were are expected to have one helluva mild winter, last year we had a mild winter and wasn't sure enough when to trim my apple trees, wondering if anyone got any advice on when would be best time to do pruning

Is this normal fall leaf drop for a Granny Smith and Fuji first year planting in 6A?