Anna wrote:
I just have to say that it looks like I'm about to take ownership of a
little 1922 adobe cottage in NM (growing zone 6) that has mature fruit
trees: 1 peach, 1 pear, 1 apricot and plenty of room for all the garden I'd
ever want.

This is my dream, I'm 61, along and have never owned a house. Pray for me
and for the future jams, jellys, sauces, tasty dried morsels and...

I hope, I hope, I hope. I'll know within a week.

Anna


If I weren't long married (44 years) I would be interested in a young
woman like you with a fruit orchard. Please send pictures of fruit
trees. (Sort of a take off on the old joke about the man wanting to meet
a woman with a bass boat, please send picture of boat.} Sounds like what
a lot of us would really like to have.

I have a pluot, a plum, a peach, and a pear tree. Not to mention a Fuyu
persimmon and a loquat tree plus several rabbiteye blueberry bushes. All
of this on a city lot in USDA Zone 9b where the heat index today is 106F.

We put up seven quarts of pear slices in light syrup a little bit ago.
Pears came from the thinnings of a friends tree as ours aren't ready
yet. Still have two five gallon buckets of Kieffer pears to go. Looks to
me like pear sauce, pear butter, pear mincemeat, and pear conserve.

Good luck with your house Anna you're in for a treat in maintaining a
house that old, hope it's in good shape.

George