Some 24 years ago when I moved, one of my first projects was a back yard orchard. Asian pears, Japanese plums, Peaches and Blueberries. Asian pears succumbed to fireblight relatively quickly. I did do a second generation of peaches but I am getting old and stone fruit require a lot of work to control the many insects and diseases present. Blueberries (Rabbiteyes and Southern Highbush) still giving me more fruit than I am able pick, but most of others are gone. One peach (Golden Jubilee)has survived for 15 years but has not cropped for the last five years. I have totally neglected it for the last several years and lo and behold it set such a bountiful crop this year than several of the old brittle limbs broke off. Maybe seeing me take out its contemporaries one by one convinced it to make a last ditch effort. Golden Jubilee is an antique from my youth so I am quite happy.
