Do you have fruit trees ? Do they produce ? (Raleigh: buy, garden)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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I am thinking of planting some fruit trees, but checked with few people and have not heard great stories of about fruit trees in our area ? I know for sure Fig is the best bet, any other fruit trees that is a good choice for our region ? Pictures will be great. Do you buy them from farmers market or anywhere else ? If there is any secret fertilizer you use to make them produce ? I am asking in this forum and not in the garden forum to hear from our local area people.
Other than figs, apples, peaches and pears are about the only fruit trees that can be grown in NC. Peaches are frequently damaged by spring frosts. Its not as easy as just sticking the trees in the ground and waiting for the fruit. Here is a good source of info:
I have two dwarf persimmon trees, both Asian varieties. One is astringent, one is not. Both trees are productive but not every year.
The sweet (non-astringent) fruit is the size of an orange. The seeds are small and edible. There is no trace of mouth-puckering astringency.
The astringent fruit is 2/3 the size of an orange. The seeds are large and spittable. The flavor is more robust than the the sweets. When fully ripe there is just a trace of astringency.
American persimmons are small and powerfully astringent. The fruit is usually mixed with sugar, then cooked or baked.
Asian persimmons are usually eaten raw -- sliced in two and the soft pulp spooned out.
Grew up 45 mins south of the triangle and we had 3 different variety apple trees (that were huge) and a pear tree (that was huge) that would produce mass amounts of fruit annually. We couldn't keep up with it.
We have fig trees that are young so they are not producing yet. Know a couple of neighbors who have figs and they do produce well. i have a peach tree that is still young but it had 4 beautiful peaches growing until some sneaky animal picked then all on in one day!
Grew up 45 mins south of the triangle and we had 3 different variety apple trees (that were huge) and a pear tree (that was huge) that would produce mass amounts of fruit annually. We couldn't keep up with it.
We had apple, pear, peach and fig trees in our orchard growing up just east of Raleigh. The pears and figs were the big producers. I loved eating those giant sweet pears. So did the yellow jackets
We have 2 nectarine and 2 peach trees planted 3 years ago both of which produced this year. The 2 apple trees were transplanted last fall so we figured they are still in a little shock and didn't produce. We're giving those couple morw years and if they don't produce, we'll get rid of them.
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