Fruit Cultivation Quotes

I have my own orchard, and I also work with the Bloomington Community Orchard, which has been one of the best experiences of my life.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.

I planted an orchard when I was 13. The impulse came from wanting to grow my own apples. That and the nursery catalog showed an apple tree with a beautiful girl standing under the fruit. Whether the flavor or the picture that did it, I've been hooked since.

I grow strawberries, watermelon, onions, you name it.

I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them.

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.

My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

What's not to aspire to about how to grow your own fruit and vegetables and plants, and then being creative?

We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees.

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

The Helmand area used to be the breadbasket of Afghanistan. There was a time when a substantial number of the grapes we ate came from Afghanistan.

Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.

Apricots are the most private fruit, loath to reveal their secrets.

Not all of them, but certainly there's some really, really dramatic differences among apples. And what you learn if you have that number of varieties is you learn which Apple is good for which purpose. So I have a favorite apple for apple pie. It's called Bramley Seedling. It's a old British Apple. I blend a lot of these apples together that make apple cider every year. It's a great hobby, but it's, you know, it takes some time. And it can be frustrating when the Japanese beetles or the gypsy moths come.

I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!

Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice.

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.