What are your favorite fruits to grow, if you could grow and if you had the space to grow them?
Fruits I grow...ranked in terms of utility. Grapes, blackberries, plums, peaches, pears, figs, kumquats, mulberries, and pomegranates.
If I could grow them...apples and avocado.
The closet place in Texas from @Meadowlark and myself that grow apples is in Kerr County, a tiny town named Medina. Not only is the town tiny but so are the apples. The main participant in this apple growing is named Love Creek Orchard. This variety of apple is the only variety that will grow there. Other varieties have been tried but there just aren't enough chilling hours. One can eat these apples but they are only about twice as big as a golf ball including the core. They do make good pies, jams and jellies. This apple business got started about 25-30 years ago by Love Creek and a few other entrepreneurs. Love Creek is the last man standing. Having lived closeby I can personally attest that if you want an apple to eat, don't go to Medina Texas to find one.You can't grow apples in Texas? I honestly figured they grew almost anywhere. Interesting.
The golden delicious trees I have now look nothing like the old time trees. My grandma and mother would can them and my God the taste was out of this world . Sadly all them old trees are gone now.That is so interesting about the apple trees from the 80s, Heirloom farmer1969.
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