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It’s gonna take years before we see apples here on “The Little Half Acre that Could.”\u00a0 Heck, we don’t even have any peaches, pears, plums or cherries planted in the ground yet!\u00a0 It’s pretty discouraging when you thumb through your favorite nursery catalogs and the descriptions say “5 to 7 years to bear fruit.”\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 Who can wait that long?\u00a0 It’s okay though; we’ve got it covered here on the ol’ homestead.\u00a0 Sort of.<\/p>\n

It started with the discovery of Hardy Kiwi.\u00a0 Remember a few posts back when I talked about using the kiwi for stacking functions in our permaculture design?\u00a0 The Hardy Kiwi plants we wanted would provide shade for our sunny front porch, food for us and the birds, biomass that could be chopped in the fall, and it would also attract beneficial pollinators.\u00a0 Well, on one of our recent trips to Tractor Supply (I could live there!) I discovered a display of fruiting bushes, including Hardy Kiwi plants.\u00a0 I plopped two of those bad boys in our cart faster than a card shark can palm an Ace.\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 We got them home and I immediately transplanted them into pots and started hardening them off.\u00a0 Then winter hit.\u00a0 In the middle of March.\u00a0 I ask you.\u00a0 We’ve had several nights in the single digits or just above, with highs in the mid-thirties.\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 The kiwi are sitting out in the Microgreens grow room on the floor, begging for light and warmth.\u00a0 A few more days boys, just a few more days.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That’s okay, cuz in the meantime I ordered a couple more Hardy Kiwi from my favorite nursery.\u00a0 If two Hardy Kiwi’s are good, then four must be even better, right?\u00a0 So into the online cart they went, along with a dwarf cherry tree and two figs.\u00a0 Now the cherry tree will take three to five years to produce up to 25 pounds of fruit, but those kiwis and figs will start producing fruit next year.\u00a0 Maybe by that time the Honeyberry plants, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries that we planted last year will start to give up some decent fruit.<\/p>\n

The long and short of all this is that I can put some of that “immediate” fruit into my CSA boxes while the apples and cherries get around to producing fruit, and while the plums, peaches and pears sit on our wishlist.\u00a0 The fast producing fruits will make it easier to run a good CSA.\u00a0 Yeah, I know, I’m back on the subject of earning some of those grubby, nasty ol bucks.\u00a0 But, on the plus side, I will be providing quality fruit to my CSA members as well as sharing some of it with my family, my friends and a few people who could use an occasional helping hand.\u00a0 Now that’s my kind of fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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