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Fruit Trees For Your Garden
from: Lawn and Garden MagicIt's surprising, but fruit trees are something many people never think about adding to their yard or garden. Some however, seem to dream about having their own trees to pick fresh fruit from, but they mistakenly believe they can't grow fruit trees in their area, or that the growing one is somehow too difficult.
The reality is, just about any kind of fruit tree can be grown in a regular yard or garden. All you need to do is make sure your care for it properly, and have lots of patience. Most fruit trees won't bear friut that's edible for usually two years, though some take even longer. Other fruit trees need to have a mate in order to produce fruits too.
Now, most full sized fruit trees can grow quite tall, so you definitely need to be careful about where you choose to plant them. Putting any tree too close to an electricity line, for instance, will only cause you problems as the tree matures.
If you select a fruit tree that needs a mate in order to produce fruits, you'll also need to make sure you plant the two trees close enough together. Putting them at opposite ends of your large yard may cause you to never have any fruits produced.
In a very broad and general sense, there are two types of fruit trees. One type is citrus, including lemon trees, lime trees, oranges, tangerines, grapefruit and so on. The other common type of fruit tree is known as deciduous, and these include fruits such as apple trees and pear trees. These types of trees become dormant in the winter, so they're not at risk of being damaged by frost and bitter cold temperatures. Citrus trees normally grow in milder, tropical types of climates, so these can die during cold seasons.
Many fruit trees -- even citrus -- can be grown in miniature form these days, though, which is very convenient for growing citrus trees, since they can be grown in containers that stay indoors during the coldest months of the year. Miniature fruit trees grow much smaller than full sized ones do, of course, but they still produce fruits of standard size.
Growing fruit trees in your yard and garden will attract additional wildlife and pests, however, particularly once the fruit starts coming. You may find yourself battling birds for instance, that want to eat all your fruit before you can. You'll also have to deal with beetles and various other bugs that will ruin the fruit if you don't do something about them.
Yes, there's a lot to learn about growing fruit trees, so do your research and you'll do just fine.
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