Fruuuuit! Growing & Eating it

[The Sock of Poskett]

We have three fruit trees in our back garden: cooking apples, Conference pears and a small Cox's apple tree. First two have been generously abundant most years (particularly considering we do precious little with them apart from getting a specialist pruning done every now and again) but haven't managed to encourage the eating apple tree to grow big enough to turn out much that's edible.
We also used to have a plum tree (got diseased and had to get chopped down), a bit of rhubarb (disappeared) and the occasional wild strawberry. Now a few brambles here and there provide some punnets of blackberries.
All good, though we end up giving most of it away.

 

[Boroseagull]

Alright here I go; 20 orange trees, split between Washington Navels [the best eaters ever], zumo for juicing and a Sevilla for marmalade, 2 mandarins, 2 luna lemons producing all season, 1 x grapefruit, 1 x mango, 2 x fig that are just becoming ready now, 1 x lime, 2 x pear, super for making a very Branston style chutney, 2 x apples Gala and Granny Smith, 1 x almond does that count?, and 2 x avocados. Oh nearly forgot the 3 nispero trees [loquats] that make superb jam that is delightful with a smoked sheep's cheese. Sorry if it sounds like boasting, I assure you I'm not. Would love to grow cherries but they only fruit above 800 mtrs altitude here. The oranges if not eaters are juiced and frozen if required to provide juice all the year. Still using last years frozen pears in crumbles etc., but this years nearly ready. Do envy the raspberry growers on here, just love them, king of the soft fruit!

 

[gregbrighton]

We have three fruit trees in our back garden: cooking apples, Conference pears and a small Cox's apple tree. First two have been generously abundant most years (particularly considering we do precious little with them apart from getting a specialist pruning done every now and again) but haven't managed to encourage the eating apple tree to grow big enough to turn out much that's edible.
We also used to have a plum tree (got diseased and had to get chopped down), a bit of rhubarb (disappeared) and the occasional wild strawberry. Now a few brambles here and there provide some punnets of blackberries.
All good, though we end up giving most of it away.

The fact you got a specialist pruner guarantees you good harvests. Trees like that sort of attention.

We used to thnk my mum was mad talking to her trees, plants and flowers everyday until she suggested I talked to a sponsored sunflower plant I was growing. It grew to about twelve feet tall. Where I planted probably had more to do with it...

 

[Ludensian Gull]

We have three fruit trees, apple, plum & pear. Also gooseberry, blackcurrants, raspberries, strawberries and rhubarb.

 

[Stat Brother]

Does anybody else use The Drinking Straw Technique to de-core and un-hat their strawberries?

It's a f***ing game changer.

 

[swindonseagull]

Had loads of blossom on my pears and apples then a poxy frost came along and knocked it all off.....result 4 apples on 2 trees!!! year wasted.

Apple trees are overflowing this year, 100's of apples, but on cherry tree had massive of early fruit but it all shrivelled and fell

 

[knocky1]

Apple trees are overflowing this year, 100's of apples, but on cherry tree had massive of early fruit but it all shrivelled and fell

Best cherries from the two 10' trees since buying them at 2' high from Woolworths in Blatchington Road 16 years ago. 5 kilos at a guess.
At the moment struggling with f****** raspberries, black currants, gooseberries, red currants and blueberries. Lettuce, radish, beetroot, tomatoes, broad beans,peas, charlotte potatoes, courgettes, first runner today, spinach, chard all being harvested. Strawberries and asparagus are resting. Next April's cauliflowers are looking good. Apples and plums look hopeful. Collards will be strong. Borlottis flowering and forming beans at up to 6'. Thank god it rained so much this week.

Ooops. Just read the thread title. Fruit. edit.

 

[brakespear]

got blueberries, blackcurrants and strawberries on the go this year.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Blackbird have eaten my cherries.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Blowing my very small trumpet here, but we've had the best year for fruit on our allotment plot.
Strawberries, Blueberries, Gooseberries, Tayberries, Raspberries and Red/Black/White currants all flourishing and producing a bumper amount.
It's been fruitastic

 

[vegster]

I grow raspberries,strawberrys, blackcurrants and blackberries and of course Rhubarb ! food of the Gods !
have a Goji berry bush too but not had any fruit yet.