JackFruit Planting at St Francis for the Blinds

The most common reasoning behind not wanting to plant trees is that they’re extremely high maintenance. However, most fruit trees are fairly easy to care for. While newly planted trees usually take a few years to start bearing fruit as their root system develops, soon you’ll be able to enjoy fresh fruit from your own home!

Long-Term Food Production

Fruit trees can live for a very long time with very minimal care. Some fruit trees live to be over 100 years old! Most, if not all, fruits are perennial too, so you don’t ever have to replant them.

A single dwarf apple tree can produce over 500 apples in one season. How much more could a full sized tree produce? Once your trees start producing fruit, they’ll keep producing and increasing production annually.

Saves Money

The most obvious way that a fruit tree saves you money, is that you don’t have to go to the store and buy fruit there. After the one time purchase of your fruit tree, you’ll be able to pick and save your fruit every year.

Furthermore, you may even be able to sell some fruit from the trees. Home or locally grown fruit is a hot commodity in many areas, particularly in cities.

Most of the time, your tree will produce more fruit than you can eat at once. You can can the fruit itself, but also jellies, preserves, and juice made from your fruit.

Environmental Benefits

Apart from providing you with the sheer joy of picking out fresh fruit without stepping out of your home, fruit trees can also contribute to a healthy ecosystem. Fruit trees produce fresh oxygen, giving you and your family cleaner air to breathe, as well as encouraging wildlife to flourish.

Fruit Trees Have Flowers

Before fruit grows on a tree, you get flowers! All spring, your fruit trees will look stunning in your home, on your balcony, or in your yard. Then, during the summer, you’ll be able to watch your fruit mature on the branches.