That’s a shame I love being able to pick a bit of fruit off a tree, and they usually taste much better than supermarket stuff. I assumed the reason would be people slipping on the fallen fruit, or attracting the wrong sort of wildlife but no, it’s people chucking them at each other.
I lived opposite 4 plum trees. We were overrun with vermin. There were, however a group of women who’d come with bin bags and fill up on *plums*.
Edit: vermin: mice and rats.
The women: cool local foragers.
> “The fruit drops off, nobody claims it, it gets slippery, and also children pick it up and chuck it at each other,” she told the BBC.
“It’s a health and safety issue really. You get elderly people walking along the pavements.”
That’s a fair argument I think. Seems sensible not to plant them along pavements.
We have plums and apple trees near us and it is an area with a lot of elderly people (Christchurch is God’s waiting room). I don’t think any pensioner has ever needed to be rushed to hospital because they slipped on a rotten plum. They are more likely to slip and fall because of the terribly maintained pavements that were clearly laid during an earthquake.
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That’s a shame I love being able to pick a bit of fruit off a tree, and they usually taste much better than supermarket stuff. I assumed the reason would be people slipping on the fallen fruit, or attracting the wrong sort of wildlife but no, it’s people chucking them at each other.
I lived opposite 4 plum trees. We were overrun with vermin. There were, however a group of women who’d come with bin bags and fill up on *plums*.
Edit: vermin: mice and rats.
The women: cool local foragers.
> “The fruit drops off, nobody claims it, it gets slippery, and also children pick it up and chuck it at each other,” she told the BBC.
“It’s a health and safety issue really. You get elderly people walking along the pavements.”
That’s a fair argument I think. Seems sensible not to plant them along pavements.
We have plums and apple trees near us and it is an area with a lot of elderly people (Christchurch is God’s waiting room). I don’t think any pensioner has ever needed to be rushed to hospital because they slipped on a rotten plum. They are more likely to slip and fall because of the terribly maintained pavements that were clearly laid during an earthquake.