We planted some very small fruit and nut trees in 2010 and 2011. We have not yet had any edible fruit. Last year we had cherries that were the size of elderberries, maybe a little smaller even.
The peaches were stunted runts, that never developed to full maturity, in spite of the fact that we picked most of the fruit off so the tree wouldn’t be overly stressed, since it’s not too big yet.
Our big returns are actually due to the native plants that just happened to be here.
Walnuts, butternuts, hickory nuts, persimmons, black berries, dew berries, and rose hips from wild roses.
I have four rose bushes that didn’t die in 2011. Two of those make very large roses. The two climbers against the back fence may have a rose or not as they are still recovering from that bad summer. I have another climber on one of the brick walls and get a few large roses off that.
Tell me about rose hips when you have time. Exactly which part is it? It must be the center of the rose attached to the limb? What do you do with the rose hip? I know it has vitamin C. Do you make tea with it and how would you do that? I should already know this but I don’t.
The trees I planted were about six feet tall, even though the nursery tipped them and took off about a foot or more. I dug holes just larger than the five gallon pots and set them into the ground. A little water and fertilizer and they are growing like crazy.