Your favorites?

How much/how often do you eat it?

All year?

Grow any?

If it's not included in your avatar, where do you reside? (I'm wondering if people eat more where it's more available/fresher). If you insist on keeping it secret.............we have ways of making you talk

Fresh fruit.

Just that.

Dat sheit'll kill ya!

A lot. one serving or more per day. A handful of blueberries every day for the good things they do and a serving of whatever is looking good at the nice ass store at that time. Grapes, oranges, fracking fruit, cherries, apples, peaches (local in season GA or AL), watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, plums (occasionally), grapefruit, strawberries and kiwis.

North FL.

We have just started growing fruit - expecting watermelon and cantaloupe soon. We also have lemons and limes that will be ready soon. If we settle here we'll be doing oranges and satsumas in addition to what we currently have in pots and grow bags.

Maybe,

But, I just got about 10 lbs of apples, just picked from her friend's tree when she was down in the Suctomento area.

And, I like apples so much I just ordered a lug of Cosmic Crisp apples as the local grocery has them at a good price.

I grow some strawberries as the wife and I love them but I never get enough so we have to buy commercial.

Trying to get a small orchard established, but it's difficult in this climate.

Aren't you just inside the arctic circle? Tough to grow anything but seals and polar bears.

Mrs. Geno tried strawberries about the 5th time this year. Total flop. She gave up.

Good deals other Geno.

Like you, fruit of some sort every day. Fresh when available, frozen, dried if not.

Watermelons and cantaloupe in October. Don't I wish. I just gave up on one squash plant, even getting covered every night it was turning black from the cold every morning. Watermelons and such are strictly a very short season variety and one is lucky to get any at all.

Good luck with all that.

Our first frost is November 15th or 19th iirc.

watermelon, peaches, pineapple, cantulopes, honey dew, grapes, blue berry, blackberry, strawberry, bing cherry, bananas, and apples.

just finished a cosmic crisp apple.

Missouri. Lots of local melons, apples, and peaches near by.

Sorta.

About the same latitude as Cleveland.

I forgot bananas. I eat them but Mrs. Geno not so much. A well-made banana daquiri is a thing of beauty.

Ya'll are already getting close to freezing then. BRR. It's still mid 80's in the day and 60ish at night. If we freeze 4 times in a winter it's unusual.

You get frost there?

I had ice in one of the hoses on Aug 20th. The previous one was June 20th., so about two months without a frost.

Been freezing the water in the houses every night for about 2 weeks now. But just freezing, not a killing frost for most stuff.

Favorites - apricots, peaches, strawberries, blueberries and bananas.
We grow apricots, figs, lemons, pomegranates and pistachios.
We had a very productive apple tree but I took it down last year. It got too big for where it was planted and we got tired of dealing with all the fruit. Most of it was made into applesauce.

Forgot about melons, love all varieties.

Gotta love local peaches. I'm hoping a peach tree I have going will someday produce something. Trees bloom here, then it freezes again. Or, they bloom because of the warmish days but the pollinators aren't awake from their winter sleeps yet.

That's part of what that box of apples will be for. Wife loves applesauce. I also make a couple of dehydrators full of apple slices. And, I bet I get a pie or cobbler or two out of it!

It's still mid 80's in the day and 60ish at night. If we freeze 4 times in a winter it's unusual. Sometime no frost at all till Jan or Feb.

We've had 3 frosts[in the bottom below my house] already.
Every last damn apple fell off this week.
The dogs and I had been enjoying them.

What about the deers?

Where I lived in WA I had a tree next to the trailer I lived in.

Fuggers would have climbed that tree if they could have.

Mackinaw Peaches, of course. It's like having a circus in your mouth.

This tree is 15' out our back door, hangs over the patio.
With two Labs constantly guarding THEIR apples.

The deer go nuts over apples and pears here. They stand around in my mother's yard in central AL and wait for the pears to fall. Have to kick them out of the way to drive down the road.

Apples and pears do well here if the late frosts in the spring don't zap them. Grapes do okay. This year was a great apple year.

Good doggies.

Here, have another apple!

Sign me up for a tree!

Not really fruit related and sorry about being off-topic but we also have about 2-3 pounds of chanterelle mushrooms grow wild in the yard 2-3 times a year as well.

Grapes, bananas, cantaloupe, honeydew melons, oranges, apples

Dont keep fruit out of the fridge except bananas, they get ate up fast anyways.
Fruit attracts bugs and starts to stink.
Then you are throwing money away.
Had to teach numbnuts Khanarella that a long time ago.
Plus a chill on fruit keeps it firm a little longer.

Bout it.

Lucky dog! I have to work for my chanterelles. Love 'em.


OP Geno - I have a couple of plum trees in my yard, and when they decide to fruit - jeebus I can't keep up with them.

Lately I've been just washing them, freezing whole on a cookie sheet, then vacuum packing them after they are frozen hard.

They make great wintertime treats. Plumsicles. Just thaw for about an hour and then munch.

Did have a couple of pear trees, but they succumbed to some sort of rot at the base and fell over in a wind storm.

I'm in the process of purchasing a place in NE Oregon, and it has mature pear, apple, cherry, and plum trees, along with a couple variety of berries. That should keep me occupied in the fall.

catsup

Cling peaches in heavy syrup.

Chanterelles down there? Interesting. Only place I've ever gathered them was in the redwoods near the coast.

Dude,

warm season/warm location fruit is best served at room temperature.

I hate ice cold oranges, grew up picking that citrus stuff off the trees. And if it's in the cooler, I just have to wait longer for it to warm up.

Apples, pears and such can go in the fridge.

Bout it.

They grow in a lot of the neighborhoods in town in Tallahassee. They grow insanely well in the burns they do on the long leaf pine forests in the national forests on a 2 year rotation. The wild pigs will often park on them and not want to give them up. The ones in the yard are on an old maple root system that's gone and a couple massive live oaks. They like the azaleas too.

Yall got them stinky kumquads down thar

Dark Cherries
In Season
No Grow
Iowa

LOL - Yup. I don't eat them much, not really a natural fruit to me.

I would go back to SE Asia just for the fresh fruit...

Ymmv

Catsup is a vegetable, not a fruit. Sheesh, talk about a thread hijack.

On top of that, it cannot exist accept in the company of hot dogs.

On our coast, the formula is:

Old Growth Fir + Oregon Grape + Salal = Chantrelles

They really like that deep organic duff from the firs.



And we don't put no ketchup on 'em in these here parts.

Stone fruits.

It's Ketchup.

Not catsup.

The advisory board says so, liberals that they are. But they know their Ketchup:

I think I might have smoked some hash through an apple once.

Does that count?

Yep, under those nearly ready to harvest 2nd growth redwoods was the best spot.

If you like to preserve, they make excellent marmalade.

I like them, but it is always interesting to bite into a citrus where the sweet part is the rind.

Really like it, don't eat it much.
Wife wasn't raised eating it much, dont buy it.
They, she snack on junk.


One exception is apples.
Big business growing apples here, Ridgetop orchard has 8 or 10
big wood boxes from the orchards or cooler on the dock.
Each a different type, pick through them, fill a half bushel bag.
$8.

They are good apples, ones the sorters set aside as not making the
cut to be sold to the grocery stores.

There will frequently be one or two bags here from August to February.
Make a lot of fresh sauce, it's better when you have several types to
put in it. Same with pies.

Does apple pie count as a fruit ?

Fruit every night,
Favorite is probably plums
enjoy melons,pears,strawberries,peaches basically all of em( except blueberries,give me the schits)

Fruit is just pretty, tasty sugar, but we had a bumper crop of peaches and blueberries, a fair crop of sour cherries, strawberries, and blackberries, an even a few apples from both our old and a couple of young apple trees. What we couldn’t eat or give away, we froze and dried.

My Lady enjoys foraging wild strawberries, blackberries, apples, plums, blueberries and high bush cranberries. What we don't eat we preserve. Otherwise it is various fruits from the farmer's market or grocery store.

We get pleanty of fresh fruit down here south of you

Some we grow, most we purchase.

Costco always has a good selection.....and it's procured twice a month in quantity. Occasionally I'll visit a fruit stand, but that's not the norm.

Have a few trees (apricot, plumb, orange, nectarine, ponagranite, pear, etc) When things ripen, it's a mad dash to eat it off the tree or preserve it. I do both.

The stone fruit is my favorite by far.

Apples, cherries, peaches, pears, I eat all of them when in season otherwise I just eat canned peaches.

I'd have to sample a few quarts to let you know.

Hit dat chit Wavy Gravy

To add that most famous of California Fruits, Boysenberries are also top of the list.

A banana has always been my favorite fruit.

I'll eat as much as I can of whatever is in season. About the time I get tired of one, another kind is on the way.
Right now apples are coming off but they are picked green as grass. So later you have to glean the orchard for the tree ripened stuff

A banana has always been my favorite fruit.

I called a banana on my cell phone and it answered - "Yellow!"

Sliced pineapple tanned in the juice of a thick pan fryed ribeye is dang good, I do grow my one pineapples, they take a while but are worth it.

We have apple, pear, peach, cherry and fig trees. Big line of blackberry and raspberry, 10 blueberry, 2 grape vines. Eat a good bit of fruit in season and preserve a good bit in jelly’s and Jams. Cabin is loaded with huckleberries and apples, lots of blackberries.

We eat a lot of dried fruit. My favorite is dried pineapple and mango. Dried strawberries are like candy.

I despise melon of any type, cantaloupe and bananas.

Figs, pears, apples, blueberry trees, kiwis.

Pecans