How about growing apples in your yard?
Apples have a complex reputation to stand up to, including an apple a day to maintain health, a single apple brought down Eve’s world, a poisoned apple for Snow White, and Johnny Appleseed ensuring that apple brandy was available to get farmers through cold winters. Our lives would be less interesting without apple pie and cake, sparkling apple juice, candy or caramel apples, hot cider, apple sauce, apple butter, Apple Computers, and bobbing for apples. Most apples in the grocery store are from cool climates in Washington, but China is the leading world producer. The first apple, or Malus, trees were found in China but other countries bred hybrids to suit their climates and local tastes. Today there are 7,500 varieties. Growing them in hot, humid climates is a challenge but with planning and plant care, you can have beautiful, disease and insect free fruit from your own back yard. Two trees, one from each of two different cultivars will provide enough fruit for a family. Some va...