We put two new ones in this year - one of them we called "a gooseberry bush" because it prodiced a gooseberry - which was eaten by something before we thought it was ready to harvest and fight over!

We have high hopes for all sorts of things next year, hoping against hope that the lack of productivity on the new fruit trees this year was related the the weather.

The area we planted them all, which we laughingly call our orchard, has not grown anything beyond grass and weeds for at least five years - maybe a great deal longer. I think the land was used for animals for a long, long time, with a small vegetable plot at the top . That part was stupendous in its fertility!

KK