• The Pantser@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Same comments I got when I said I was planting apple trees in my front yard. Those are for the public, the ones in my back yard are for me.

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      2 months ago

      Everyone in my street is selling their apples on the street. Every house has a little basket and a sign “1 kilo 1 euro” or something like that. Some are even giving them away for free. I gave mine away in bulk, so I haven’t got anything to pu in the street.

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        2 months ago

        The annoying thing about fruit trees is that the fruits are only good for picking for like 1-2 weeks of the whole year. If you don’t pick them during those 2 weeks, they rot and spoil. That’s why the whole street tries to sell them pretty much at the same time, because you can’t pick fruit like a basket at the time. You have to pick the whole tree during those 2 weeks.

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          1 month ago

          It depends on the tree, I think, doesn’t it? I have a fig tree and the figs are great for about 45 seconds in July. Essentially unfit for human consumption any other time!

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            1 month ago

            Mine is in August. Figs supposedly have two harvests a year, but I must have blinked during the other one.

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        1 month ago

        it’s pretty standard here to have a basket outside your fence where you dump the fallen fruit that looks nice, most people don’t even want the fruit from their trees in the first place so they’re just glad to have some of it magically disappear.

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        1 month ago

        In Cupertino houses have boxes of fruit of different kinds in front of their house. It is all free. Very kind of them.