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We planted two pear tress, an. apple, and a cherry tree today.

Nice what size? I buy the biggest I can find at 3 inches around. They are more expensive but I dont want to wait years for them to produce.

I currently have two peach, pear, apple, plum and cherries. Hopefully the plum and cherry will produce this year

The bare root trees are small, the pears, and cherry trees were in 21/2 gallon pot.

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Ok now go spray them with bug killer and then put the stuff out to keep the critters from eating them,everything eats the fruit trees good luck

A pear tree.

Planted two each last year. cherry, peach, plum, english walnut, service berry, black currant, josta berry
This year apricot, peach, plum, english walnut and pecan. Plus any good looking trees Walmart puts on clearance.

My blueberry bushes are over five feet high now and doing well.

You guys ever eat a Pluot ??? Had a few 10 years ago from some folks that sold fruit. Sadly they passed away.

Are the pear trees a self-pollinating variety and do you already have other varieties of apple and cherry trees to cross-pollinate them?

I planted two verities.

We planted a dozen apple trees last year when we bought our place. Nothing yet this year as I put in 100 evergreens for wind breaks. Everything takes time. Curious how your pear trees grow as we in eastern Iowa and would like to have some. Had several citrus fruits when I was stationed in ga, but can’t imagine they will do good up here.

Read up on Solar Green Houses. You could raise most things, just depends if you justify the cost.

We need to replace 2 apples and 2 apricots. Grapes have been dead for quite a while….I really need/want to replace them, maybe this year. 4 Pears, 5 White Crabapple, 4 (other) apples, 3 plum, 3 cherries, 2 peach, a bunch of Choke Cherries, Gooseberries, Currents, Asparagus, and Rhubarb are all looking pretty good.

Now to finish the chicken house, and get the garden started! Have a large row started for Raspberries. memtb

Wild blueberries are good..... Not much effort involved. Generally picked incidental to hunting.

Moving some raspberries around in a week or two... strawberries too, but none of those 3 are "trees".

Some folks up in Anchorage seem to be having some success with apples.

Had a nice little group prior to the floods in 2016. Lost all but the fig trees.

Whatever was in that water has made it hard to get anything going again.

We have about a dozen assorted fruit trees. We used to have 2 standard sweet cherries. They got too big to pick. I have a 10' orchard ladder and it was nowhere near high enough to get at them. I finally took them out and planted 3 dwarf cherries. They've been producing for 3 years now and are much easier to pick. They're too big for nets, though. Reflective ribbons work so-so but they're easy to put on with clothes pins. The cherries on one of them aren't as good as the other 2 trees so last year I left it without ribbons. The birds went to it and mostly left the other 2 alone.

A cheery tree.

Have two plum, four apple, two pear, planted when we built 20yr ago. Some years a lot of each. some not, but looks like it going to be a good year.

My dad would at times, haul 500 gallons of water from town to water a tree,

Hope the cherry isn't planted near your vehicles.

The birds will be giving them free paint jobs.

Family stories is, my Mom's Dad chopped down a cherry to pick the cherries.

Did I tell you, Stark Brothers has a mulberry tree for something like $78?

Wouldn't find that within 600' of my truck!

I hope there is something special about that mulberry!

we have a couple fruit cocktail trees.

Just a handful of different fruits grafted onto one tree.

Planted 2 honey crisps, two pear, two plum, and an ornamental type cherry last year about this time. The deer raked them pretty good within a week of planting, so I put the white tubes on them. They where about 8 feet tall they got most of the lower branches. Except the cherry they sharpened it to quite the nice tip about 2 feet above the ground. They just destroyed it in 2 nights. Couple a beds in the pasture grass right next to it. 70 $ gone. Hopefully the others make it. The plum is the only one to bloom so far.

I would not suggest planting , what’s called here , the native plumb. They are almost as bad as Russian olive for volunteering everywhere. A person has to keep them mowed down constantly and are they spiney devils ? Only planted them cause they were free from the county, however they really bear fruit about every third year, big pits but tasty and make good jelly, too old snd lazy to pick them anymore so we feed all kinds of wildlife including mice and gophers unfortunately.

4 pear, 7 apple, 4 or 5 grape and several berry bushes/plants, oh and strawberries

We had a hard freeze a few nights ago, down to 22. We lost the apricots, peaches, nectarines, and cherries. The plums and pears are still a maybe. The apples are a week from opening so they should be ok.

I figure we'll only get apricots 1 out of 3 years. We've had 2 good crops in a row so we're ahead of the game. They bloom too early here.
We've lost peaches before but not often. I can't remember ever losing the cherries before.
The plum tree is close to 30 years old. If they're gone, it'll be the 1st time ever. They're pretty frost resistant.
We always can more than we need in case of frost. We usually have a 2 year supply.

You have to know the best time to plant tree.

Every year Costco gets in a load of fruit trees which they immediately put on display inside the store. In a couple weeks, they come out of dormancy and start to leaf out. It's still March and too cold to plant them outside if they're leafed out. People buy them, plant them, and freeze them. Costco needs to keep them outside for a month to keep them dormant.

Variety of cherry tree Ive had good luck with in Wisconsin (zone 4) is "Montmorency cherry."

They grow fast, give good amount of fruit that the birds love, and are covered in spring blossoms. I can buy 10 foot ones pretty reasonable from an Amish green house.

Anybody tried Chicago hardy figs?