We’re guilty of thinking “why plant a fruit tree when it takes so long to produce?” That was especially true when we were moving more. I guess there are some folks who wouldn’t be thrilled to buy a house that already had established fruit trees growing but I would love it if we ever bought a house that already had fruit trees that were producing fruit.
When I was looking for a picture of Addie when she was born, I found this picture of our peach trees in August, 2011.
Peach Trees – 2012
We had just planted them and they were tiny.
Now, just three years later, they’ve grown so much. I put up over 100 pints of peaches this year and over half of those came from our three trees.
Peach Trees 2015
Even the weeds have grown taller. A few more chicken coops have sprung up but I was really surprised to see how much the peach trees have grown in three years.
Dottie N. says
I have to admit that when we bought the house before the current one, I was THRILLED to find we had peach, pear and apple trees (young) in the yard. It wasn’t too long before we had and lot of canned peaches and pears, as well as a lot of apple sauce, apple butter, pear butter and peach butter to enjoy. I miss those a LOT now.
Dar in MO says
I would LOVE to buy a house with any fruit trees already on it. Can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t. You are lucky to have such a good production of peaches from your trees with the critters lurking around, and the grasshoppers. A friend of mine planted 2 trees a couple of years ago and had a few peaches this spring, but by the time they were ripe, the squirrels had gotten to all of them. She was so disappointed.