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Low Hanging Fruit

30 Monday Apr 2012

Posted by Jessica Y in Garden

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canning, gardening, jam, jelly, loquats

Loquats. Some might ask, “What is a loquat?” Before moving into our current house, I would have asked the same. Loquats are small orange/yellow fruit. The house came with a few fruit trees: pineapple guava, lemon, plum, nectarine, apricot, and loquat.

The loquat tree is quite old, judging from its height. Unfortunately, over the course of its life, it was not trimmed as a fruit tree. Our tree towers over the roof of the garage. I can reach the lowest hanging fruit with my fruit picker fully extended.

Even the lowest branches sit above the top of the garage.

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