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Had at least two of every kind of fruit tree except for the cherry. We had Pear, Apples for pie and Apples for eating, Plum, Peach, Apricot.

The apricot were not a good trees for our zone. They were always in full bloom on the last freeze. Even tried bagging the trees and putting those flaming oil heaters under them like you see on RR track switches. Just couldn't keep them warm enough to fruit. Imaging they didn't get visited by too many bees with it so cold either. One year in 20 it was warm enough that we had apricots.

Think Dad really enjoyed the free labor.

Think about putting in a garden for fresh salad stuff, then remember all the work.
Have plans somewhere for a greenhouse i designed. It regulated heat and light to produce summer crops year round. Made schedules for rotating planting so it would produce just enough to eat fresh veggies year round. Was considering whether to put in bees or not and was looking into the ways to manually pollenate. Was real disappointed when I found things like peppers cross pollenated so couldn't grow different varieties in the same greenhouse without a lot of extra work.