re: Fruit tree ideas

I now only have a fig tree in my back yard and the only issue with them is beating the birds in the morning to pick the ripening figs. Damn birds will peck a hole in one fig, eat just a bit of the sweetest part and head to others to do the same.

Pisses me off to get out there and find 20+ ripening figs ruined by birds right at dawn, but that is how life is with fig trees.

I had a loquat (Japanese Plum) and a satsuma tree that both got killed by Katrina's floodwaters and I never replaced them, but they produced quite a bit of great fruit for me before that.


ETA: I second a persimmon. One of my favorite fruits to eat------when ripe.