If you have fruit trees in your yard, or you want to have some in the future, then you want to make sure that fruit trees will add a positive element to your property that your family will enjoy, instead of becoming a nuisance that is just creating problems for you. The advice and information offered in this article will help you have a better understanding of how to care for your fruit trees and help you to recognize if you might be better off having them removed from your yard altogether. 

Fruit trees need to be trimmed regularly or they can be a big problem

You might be able to get by without servicing your trees for a while. However, you still don't want to go too long without scheduling regular services, like tree trimming. With fruit trees, you should stay on top of their regular trimming. If you don't, it will directly affect the fruit the trees produce. Instead of getting a nice amount of large fruit from them, you will get an abundance of small fruit. This means there will be a lot of fruit wasted. It also means you will have a lot of fruit landing on the ground, which can lead to problems with the lawn and leave you dealing with pest issues, like a rodent infestation in your yard, or even raccoons moving in to be near all that fruit, which is the perfect food source for them. 

Sometimes, it may be best to have a fruit tree removed

If you inherited one or more fruit trees in your yard that produce fruit your family does not eat, and you don't want the task of needing to find ways of getting rid of it regularly, then you may want to have the tree removed completely. Otherwise, you are going to end up doing a lot of regular cleanup of the fruit on the ground. When you miss a cleanup, you can end up with the same rodent, raccoon, and lawn issues described above, and you can also end up with a lot of fruit flies in your yard that will promptly find their way into your home, and they can be very hard to get rid of. Removing the trees allows you to plant others that will bring you joy instead of unwanted work and problems, and you can save a lot of money not needing to buy some of your favorite fruits.

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