cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21789538
Not necessarily your favourite fruit to eat, but what is/are your favourite fruit tree(s) to grow based on survival rate, fruit yield, ease of maintenance, ease of harvest, grass-killing prowess, and any other combination of factors? What is/are your least favourite? If you have photos or diagrams to illustrate your point, even better!
(If you provide your region and/or Köppen-Geiger or Trewartha climate zone, it will help others to know what to plant or what to avoid!)
I like to grow all kinds of stuff. We have peaches/nectarines, paw paws, Asian pear, pear, apple, crabapple, blueberries, blackberries, and figs. As for ease of maintenance and yield, our blackberry vines are probably the easiest to take care of and they produce tons of berries. A close second would be our figs - the trees need pruning every year, but are easy to take care of otherwise and produce lots of fruit. I’m in zone 7b so lots of things grow here.
You are not the first to answer blackberries, and I just wonder, do blackberries not grow out of control in other places? Sure they’re easy to keep alive once established, but to actually keep them manageable, is there not a lot of pruning required?
(Asian pears are awesome, by the way. The fruit, anyway. Tried it once, and it puts the common pears to shame.)
They’re pretty easy to take care of as long as you prune them back regularly. And agreed on the pears!