[goat granny]

When your trees get mature, grow a peach or pear in a bottle it blows peoples minds. You could also do it with an apply...After blooming when the fruit is very small find a good branch and place a empty soda bottle over it and if necessary tie or tape to branch...Be sure to spritz it with water once in a while for moisture...As the fruit grows, it fills the bottle. You don't even have to leave it on the branch until it ripens, just the fact that a big fruit is in a long neck bottle gives all the kids a HOW DID YOU DO THAT moment..

Glad you had luck with your cherry tree. When I moved here I planted the same kind...after the 4th year, it died back to lower than the graft...Now its just a huge bush that does nothing....I really should cut it down...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I added a second Montmorency Cherry this season, and a Honeycrisp Apple and a Mount Royal plum. I have a good crop of plums on one of my plum trees, but the other not so good.

So, as of now we have three plum, three cherry, three really OLD apple trees that were here when we bought the place, two peach and five newer apples (the Honeycrisp, two Wolf River and two Bonnie Best.)

It’s taken me about 8 years of adding trees, but now I actually have an ‘orchard.’ :)

I do want to add two pear trees, but they’ll need to go on the other side of the drive.

Ate my first peach of the season this morning! I gave Husband a slice...but just one, LOL!