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Growing fruits organically in your gardens means, the supply of fresh and medicine free fruit supply for your family. However, in case of many commercial apples you will find covered in arsenic or wax just for longer preservation. But your own organic fruits will be any kind of toxic free and also safe for your family. And growing your own fruits means picking verities of flavor and fresh fruits with out going anywhere. Your fruits might not look like same as grocery store but you do have the guarantee to have safe and fresh fruits.

Fruit trees are attractive as well as useful and they do not require much space. So, even a small garden has the room for a fruit trees. Fruit trees also produce beautiful blossoms in the spring and can supplement the neighboring soil. Such as apple trees, they provides shade and also great for climbing as well as you can get the delicious apple from it. The first thing you should do is make the list of the trees that you desire to plant. And calculate the area of your garden. Depending on the size of your yard and area where you want to plant a tree consider dwarf, semi dwarf and standard sized trees. You should always keep in mind that some of the trees are self-pollinated and others are planted in pairs. On the other hand some trees need three trees in order to be pollinated. Ask your local nursery if self-pollinated trees are available because it will be the best tree to plant if you have small yard.

The soil is always the important fact for any kind of tree. So, prepare your soil as you would for any organic garden. You can enrich your soil by the store-brought organic compost or you can even make your own soil without any cost. Another thing is the location. As we know that trees can grow in a variety of shapes and styles. There are many ways to allow a fruit tree to include itself naturally into your garden. When the trees are usually young it needs to be staked for support after transplantation and in this way you can choose the direction it grows in.

Once you have your trees plant, it is important to maintain their health. You can avoid the pests by planting a variety of local native grasses and plants around your trees. Planting lavender bushes and other flowers near your fruit trees will encourage bees, which are helpful for pollinating your trees. Growing your own organic fruit is easy and rewarding and will continue to be ‘fruitful’ for generations.

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At first, I thought, I make a mistake or something wrong with me because I found a green urban environment around me, where a lot of plants welcomed me in their kingdom. Moreover, when a strong wind came and those trees were moved, it had a hunch that those were saluting me. But how could it possible? This place was not same just one year ago when I came here to meet my friend. I asked my friend, William, what happened in one year? William gave me a fruit to apart from a tree and said, “It’s a rooftop garden”, and he got the idea when he visited Europe.

The idea of planting rooftops is not a new concept. It began in Europe many years ago. But nowadays it makes a noise in the world to take challenge of food crisis and protect environment pollution. Recently, some countries of Europe for example Switzerland, a law has been approved that all new buildings have to design to relocate the green space covered by the edifice to their roofs. Moreover, every existing building must fulfill with the new law by greening minimum 20 percent of their rooftops.

William said to me some advantages of, such as:

• It may help to absorb carbon dioxide and  reduce air pollution.
• It will increase oxygen.
• Storm water runoff easily.
• The edifice and adjacent area’s aesthetics will be enhanced.
• Property rate could be increased.
• It will make a good impression.
• Economical because there are no extra land costs.
• Temperatures around the structure can be lowered in the hot summer.
• Insulated from the cold in the winter.
• Keep safe from both rainfall and sun.
• Provides extra food.
• Give shade.
• Create an urban and romantic environment.
• Able to protect various weather conditions.
• Saving your heating and cooling costs.

William also said me day by day the quantity of food produced for each person in the world is now dropping. So we should tackle food problems ourselves. He said to me, “now he gets some necessary food items from his garden, and those are fresh and save his money as well.”

Now I think if all of us take plan to set a garden in our roof then we don’t face food crisis in the changing world, otherwise once upon time you will find out that you have money but there is no food to buy. We should use our roof as a land and make productive.

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