Author Topic: Ok, I am a tree hugger (Read 707 times)

squealer · « **Reply #15 on:** January 20, 2007, 10:51:22 AM »

Hug away you hippy......Pass me that joint man.....

Flatbar · « **Reply #16 on:** January 20, 2007, 11:52:37 AM »

A small investment in a few fruit trees will pay off big when you sell the property.

In 1966 my parents bought a tract home, 1700sq/ft, for $19,500. We planted eight trees of various fruits. Total cost was about $30 per tree.

When we sold in 1976 we got $80k, the trees had increased the value of the house by an average of $1,900 per tree. That house is now listed at $1.4mil.

Depending on the market and location, fruit trees can be a great investment if you stick around until they have matured.

john9001 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 20, 2007, 01:25:24 PM »

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Originally posted by Flatbar
When we sold in 1976 we got $80k, the trees had increased the value of the house by an average of $1,900 per tree. That house is now listed at $1.4mil.

HOUSE FOR SALE
for sale, so cal 2br 1ba fixerupper 2.5 mil,a steal, move fast on this one.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #18 on:** January 20, 2007, 06:51:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
I grew up with peach trees. Thousands of peaches every year. Thousands of rotten peaches on the ground every year. Thousands of pits in the yard all yeilding more peach trees!!! They woiuld not stop, they kept growing and growing and sprouting off of anything moist,...they took over the yard, the whole yard was a jungle of dead fruit, you could hear them laughing at you. The stench would overcome you, make you dizzy,..there they are again. I know they are preparing something diabolical.

I know they are coming!!!! PROTECT YOURSELVES!!!!!

ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uh, dunt plant peach trees.

Looks like Skuzzy got hold of some that fermented

Damn I shoulda went a couple posts farther.
someone beat me to the punch

Peach punch that is

Nilsen · « **Reply #19 on:** January 21, 2007, 03:59:44 AM »

We have apples, plums, pares and sweet cherrys. Some we eat and some of them my inlaws makes wine from. It is abit of work, but it only takes about 5 minutes every week and abit of time in the spring and fall to take care of it. The missus loves to do that so i wont stand in her way.

AWMac · « **Reply #20 on:** January 21, 2007, 04:10:02 AM »

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mmmm... fermented peaches.... You get lots of drunk critters around the house skuzzy? Not many things funnier than watching drunk racoons and other animals stagger around the yard.

LMAO I remember my Grandma over reacting because the birds were falling off the roof in Toledo, Ohio. She cringed each time the birds laid in the snow thinking the cats would get them.

The birds were drunk. The fruit tree by her apartment offered a good supply of fermented fruit. I remember scouping up the birds to keep them from freezing... warmed them up a bit and set them loose.

Man I miss my Grandma... she had a good heart.

Mac

Obie303 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 21, 2007, 04:33:53 AM »

Any type of nut tree that you plant, you need to plan on at least two (2) for any nuts. It has something with the pollen and male & female flowers in the springtime. As far as the cherry tree, I don't recall ever seeing any up here. I don't know if they can survive the frost. My suggestion would be pears. Its a hearty tree that can survive the worst winters.

This is all I can remember. My grandfather was the green thumb many, many years ago. He made me do all the weeding in the garden!:D Good luck either way!:aok

Obie

Dago · « **Reply #22 on:** January 21, 2007, 08:19:23 AM »

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Originally posted by Obie303
Any type of nut tree that you plant, you need to plan on at least two (2) for any nuts. It has something with the pollen and male & female flowers in the springtime. As far as the cherry tree, I don't recall ever seeing any up here. I don't know if they can survive the frost. My suggestion would be pears. Its a hearty tree that can survive the worst winters.

This is all I can remember. My grandfather was the green thumb many, many years ago. He made me do all the weeding in the garden!:D Good luck either way!:aok

Obie

Yeah, Cherry trees can survive frost, even snowy winters just fine.

Halo · « **Reply #23 on:** January 21, 2007, 09:03:08 AM »

We used to have apple trees that occasionally bore so much fruit they looked like weeping willows humped over to the ground with yellow globes. Easy picking.

Grew up around several kinds of fruit trees. All were more work than nonfruit trees whether you tried to harvest the yield or merely dispose of it. As others have said, don't plant any fruit trees near a house or vehicles.

Flatbar · « **Reply #24 on:** January 21, 2007, 12:37:14 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
HOUSE FOR SALE
for sale, so cal 2br 1ba fixerupper 2.5 mil,a steal, move fast on this one.

Real estate prices have been out of whack here for decades. Someone said California was the place to be back in the '60s and the place has been going down hill since.

I blame it of the Clampetts.

Foreclosers are up all over the country, a market correction is unavoidable and a lot of people are going to get hurt by it.

Dux · « **Reply #25 on:** January 22, 2007, 05:03:15 PM »

Sixpence, we had a Cherry tree in our yard when I was growing up, only about 25 miles west of you. It did very well through all the winters and frosts and blizzards ('78!).

We had to cover it with tobacco cloth to keep the critters off of it... dunno if you can get that stuff anymore. Bluejays will make short work of the fruit.

My mom has blueberry bushes (the size of trees now) that have been producing enormous quantities for over 40 years now, too.

Sixpence · « **Reply #26 on:** January 22, 2007, 05:26:04 PM »

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We had to cover it with tobacco cloth to keep the critters off of it... dunno if you can get that stuff anymore. Bluejays will make short work of the fruit.

Hmm, didn't think of that. I have decided on bing cherry trees, but they won't be in til spring.

boxboy28 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 23, 2007, 09:59:47 AM »

We had some cherry trees but the second those damn thing got even near ripe every bird for miles around attacked that thing and picked it clean........mom and brother(his trees) put one of th3e mesh net type of things over it but those birds still managed to get most the cherrys!

Nutz lol how about ........ BIG BLACK WALNUTS? we had 3 of those trees that were very old and been there for longer than i was alive.........they dont seems so back when they have that green fleshy covering(till it rots off) but those nutz on the inside...................Hard er than diamonds i swear! they would kill a mower blade and any one standing around when you were mowing. i dont know why they called em black walnuts unless its because thats the color of the rotting flesh. and if you wanted to makew them edible you had to get them out of that nasty stinky rotting flesh and then roast them in the over for gawd knows how long.

Maverick · « **Reply #28 on:** January 23, 2007, 12:07:15 PM »

They called them black walnuts because that rotting pulp stained everything it came in contact with.....black.