Almost everyone would love to have a fruit tree in their backyard so they could go and enjoy its delicious offerings whenever they liked. The problem is which type of fruit tree would you pick? Well making this decision might have got a whole lot easier with the Fruit Salad Tree.
Overview
The Fruit Salad Tree is just one tree that will yield 5 different fruits with them being, purple plums, nectarines,apricots, peaches and red plums.
The Claim
The company claims that you will get many bushels of these delectable fruits, all off one tree.
The Hype
Just the convenience of having such a selection of fruits off of just one tree is all the hype you need. Now of course there is no way of knowing whether it is going to yield equally the different types, but it is still a great idea if it produces.
The Cost
Depending on where you live you may find that costs for a single fruit tree can be quite expensive. The Fruit Salad Tree is selling for $19.98 plus $7.95 shipping and handling. There is also the offer of a second for free if you want to pay the extra shipping and handling.
The Commitment
You are going to have to be prepared to plant your Fruit Salad Tree as soon as it arrives. You are also going to have to ensure that your climate will accommodate the growth of this selection of fruit.
Evaluation
While the thought of having a multi-bearing tree such as the Fruit Salad Tree sounds intriguing there are a lot of things to consider. Anything that is live like this that is being shipped through the mail, could weaken it and if so then it will not provide fruit and worse still it could die. It does come with a thirty-day money back guarantee which gives you some protection if the tree does not arrive in a healthy state. But it will most likely take much longer than that for it to produce fruit, so you are not protected in this regard
Final Fruit Salad Tree Review
We are going to give the Fruit Salad Tree a Try/Buy rating. If you live in a region where the average fruit trees do well, then chances are you will be successful with this one. You also have to ensure that the type of fruit that the Fruit Salad Tree is going to be to your family’s liking.
Our Recommendation
For those that have no knowledge about fruit bearing trees they may wonder how in the world there could be a Fruit Salad Tree. Really what it comes down to is grafting several different types of fruit bearing trees to the base of one of them. This is not some new discovery and if you are the adventurous type then there are actually instructions that can be found on the web to do this yourself. Not everyone has a lot of room for growing fruit and veggies so in the past we have looked at some other unique ways of doing this. One of these was the Tower Garden.
Got one of these through a mail order nursery probably 8 or more years ago. It has grown into a very beautiful tree but we have not gotten one piece of fruit off it. Still don’t know if it is self polinating or not, and maybe that’s the problem, …only got one tree..