I'm shameless about always wanting lots of kinds of fruit trees. Fortunately we have room for as many as I could ever want now, but at my old house I had a 5 heirloom variety apple tree, a 3 variety apricot tree, and a 3 variety plum, so that I could have lots of different sorts of fruit in a limited area. (If you're not familiar with the multi variety trees, they're made by grafting different scions to the base tree so you can have one tree with different types of apples, stone fruits, etc.)
A big question -- what fruits do you love enough to use up (eating fresh, canning, freezing, etc) when the trees are more mature. If you like plums fresh but don't like prunes, canned plums, plum jam, etc., it's not a good choice. For me, I adore plums, apricots, cherries, apples, and figs, for instance, so I've platned some of each of those (well, excpet the plums; we've got wild ones and a newer one that the previous owner put in).
A lot comes down to your climate, too. Some fruits need a certain number of chill hours in the winter, and if you're in a warm winter climate they won't be good choices. And some do best with hot summers. Others like or hate humidity. Finding varieties that thrive locally helps narrow down the possibilities a lot.
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Date: 2009-07-02 03:11 pm (UTC)A big question -- what fruits do you love enough to use up (eating fresh, canning, freezing, etc) when the trees are more mature. If you like plums fresh but don't like prunes, canned plums, plum jam, etc., it's not a good choice. For me, I adore plums, apricots, cherries, apples, and figs, for instance, so I've platned some of each of those (well, excpet the plums; we've got wild ones and a newer one that the previous owner put in).
A lot comes down to your climate, too. Some fruits need a certain number of chill hours in the winter, and if you're in a warm winter climate they won't be good choices. And some do best with hot summers. Others like or hate humidity. Finding varieties that thrive locally helps narrow down the possibilities a lot.