What Is The Easiest Fruit To Grow In Most Weather?
Posted by admin on January 21, 2010
I want to start growing some fruit for the coming economic plague. What seeds are effective year round?
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You’re asking the right question. Peaches and pears are wonderful, but the rees require a lot os skilled care. Using native fruits, you can build an orchard that works like a natural forest; you only need to hack weeds down a few times a year to keep it productive. This system will provide your family with food and income for generations. You can also design areas for chickens to feed, and places to hunt wildlife.
Mulberries. They are a weedy tree that grows wild in almost any climate, and has few pest or disease problems. The fruit isn’t sold in stores because it doesn’t ship well, but it makes good jam, and it is the easiest thing to grow for wine. A six year old tree can produce two hundred pounds of berries.
Blackberries grow wild beside most roads. If you get a selected variety and give it some care, they grow amazingly fast.
Muscadine grapes are easy to grow, and any muscadines you plant become a permanent asset to your land. The oldest muscadine vine in NC is the Mother Vine, and it was tended by the first colonists, and probably the indians before them.
Blueberries never need fertilizer or pesticide.
Maypops are the fruit of the native passionflower, and if you find the right vine they taste great. They are a passionfruit, and the juice adds some tartness and tropical flavor to preserves. This is one of the fastest things to go from seed to productive size, and it will take over the orchard if you don’t watch it.
Persimmons have zero problems with insects and deer won’t eat the leaves. You could find some seedlings in the woods, but Japanese persimmons are better. They like to be on the edge of a stream.
Pawpaws are a native fruit that few people eat any more. They are large, sweet, and taste like mango- bananna. The leaves are inedible to deer, and they tolerate living in a wetland. They have to be transplanted at a young age, and grow slowly, but once they are established they will spread by runners.
Dog rose grows on dry, poor soil, and the fruit (rose hips) dries out naturally. This is your source of winter vitamin C. Each dime size fruit has as much vitamin C as a jug of orange juice.
If you have a sandy upland grow prickly pears- the fruit is tasty, but hard to process because of thorns. “burbank spineless” is a variety developed for fruit production without pain.
Our “consumer economy” is by definition counter productive. If a few people in every community perpare an alternative, the transition away from it could be manageable. There is some way to send me an email message through yahoo answers- feel free to.
I wish you had put down what zone you live in. That would help greatly. As the the person stated you can call your local Agriculture office, check into your local mom and pop plant nursery.
But one thing to remember, trees take awhile to bear fruit, some up to 5-7 years, some even more. So the more mature tree you purchase the better, but the cost is higher for that tree. Also you will need at least 3-5 trees per person to maintain a steady supply. Harvest, dry some, freeze some, fresh. are all ways to keep crop year round.
Also check into vineing fruit, grapes, kiwi, tomatoes (yep, they are both a fruit & a vegetable).
And while talking vegetable, Look into growing a vegetable garden, multi amounts of fresh food can be grown all year long. You can even grow inside during harsh weather by using the right lighting systems.
But remember all take time, proper prepareing the land, watering system, and your energy to get it done.
where do you live? the climate has a lot to do with it. Look for a county extension service in your city or town or county, they will have info there to help you decide.
also look for a climate zone chart, its put out by the USDA, growing zones if you live in the USA
Those wanting fruit, seldom start with a seed!!! It takes most fruit trees years to mature enough to produce fruit. Start with a 2 or 3 year old plant so that you may be able to produce fruit before the economic plague is over.
Fruitcakes. They’re very durable, indeed.