Cherry tree. Again, this gets shut down by the late frosts. However, it is a wild cherry tree and they self pollinate. It was planted as a sapling back in 2018 and it bloomed for the first time in 2022, which was early at 4 years old. Wild cherry trees, unlike domesticated, have pits (seeds) and you will have saplings coming up around the mature tree once it has gotten going, and the one I have was a sapling at my dad's. They are also somewhat susceptible to fungus infections. To sorta make up for that, you can take branch cuttings from a wild cherry tree to start a new tree with. Unlike domesticated cherries, wild cherries are darker and more sour, which makes them good for jams and pie fillings where sugar is added to them. The trees only live to 18-25 years and stop producing in their last years, so they have to be rotated out every decade and a half or so. The wild cherry tree I have is the shortest lived of all my fruit plants and is already almost 1/3 through its estimated useful life. Birds will go after the wild cherries relentlessly.

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