25 Backyard Fruits Grandma Planted Once. Why Does Nobody Grow Them Now?

Old fashioned tips for the backyard: 25 fruits our grandmothers planted once and picked for a lifetime, and the simple reason the grocery store passed them by. In 1947 an American court had to decide whether rhubarb was a vegetable or a fruit. Witnesses said it went into pies, so the court said fruit. Meanwhile the rhubarb by the back fence kept coming back every spring, and so did the old mulberry out back. In Brooklyn, a fig tree even wore a winter coat. Subscribe for a new old-fashioned story every week:    / @sarahsoldfashionedtips   Sarah is an AI narrator voice. Some scenes use real historic film, drawings and photographs. Scenes marked "AI illustration" are AI images made to show what the story describes, so small details may not match history exactly. Kitchen and garden notes are general tips: chop grapes into tiny pieces for children under four, keep fruit pits out of little mouths, let a grown-up do the cutting, and eat only the stalks of rhubarb. Before you plant currants or gooseberries, ask your local nursery about the rules where you live. Here are 25 backyard fruits, from the pie plant by the fence to a lemon tree that spent every winter in the living room. For each one you will hear what made it special at home and why it rarely made it to the store. Along the way: a silkworm craze that made mulberry trees worth a fortune for a few years, the day Lewis and Clark lived on pawpaws, a mail carrier whose children loved a bumpy avocado, a woman who paid people to find the biggest blueberries in the woods, and a thorny bush that was once against the law. What you'll take away: The three words that explain why a store skips a fruit: soft, sour, or slow Which fruits went straight into the pie or the jelly pot, and which ones you had to wait for Easy jobs for the grandkids, from counting cherry pits into a bowl to hunting for the champion blueberry bush One plant you can still put in a corner of your own yard or in a pot by the window Which fruit grew in your backyard when you were little, and is that tree still standing? Tell me in the comments, and tell me where you're watching from. I read every one. CHAPTERS 00:00 1947: is rhubarb a vegetable or a fruit? 01:01 1. Rhubarb, the pie plant 02:47 2. The mulberry tree 04:11 3. The pie cherry tree 05:31 4. The Concord grape arbor 06:44 5. Muscadines and scuppernongs 07:57 6. The pawpaw 08:22 The day Lewis and Clark lived on pawpaws 09:38 7. The persimmon 10:56 8. The quince 12:21 9. The apricot tree 13:39 10. Red currants by the back steps 14:52 11. The damson plum 15:47 12. The avocado that started with a mailman 17:18 13. The pomegranate 18:27 14. Black raspberries 19:30 15. The Seckel pear 20:19 16. The kumquat 21:01 17. The loquat 21:37 The thorny bush riddle 21:56 18. The jujube 23:05 19. The lemon in a tub 23:57 20. The maypop vine 24:47 21. The blueberry bush 25:58 22. The Bing cherry 26:43 23. The satsuma 27:37 24. Gooseberries, the bush that broke the law 29:05 25. The fig tree that wore a winter coat 30:17 The three words, one more time 31:10 What fruit grew in your backyard? Facts and dates in this video were checked before publishing. #oldfashionedtips #backyardgarden #fruittrees #grandmastips