The house is newly built, the garden is still bare and the children are impatient: now a fast-growing fruit tree is needed so that the previous desert can gradually become a green oasis. However, you have to be patient with most fruit trees because it can take a few years before the first harvest.
Cherry trees grow fast
Fruit trees require patience
You will probably not be able to harvest apples, pears, plums or even peaches and nectarines in the first year after planting. It can take up to three years for such a little tree to develop enough fruit wood and build up reserves for the strenuous task of fruiting. However, this is not only due to the supposedly slow growth of the trees, but also to a large extent to the necessary pruning. Despite all your impatience, you should not do without this pruning, because it ensures pleasing growth and a rich harvest in the future. Without pruning, your fruit tree will bear little fruit because less fruiting wood has formed.
Fast-growing fruit trees for the impatient
By choosing the right trees and shrubs, however, the harvest can go faster.
sweet cherries
Sweet cherries in particular are known to be fast-growing. The old saying "Whoever plants a cherry must quickly learn to climb" already points to this. However, cherries have a large space requirement and special soil requirements. For a high trunk you have to calculate about 60 to 80 square meters. In addition, rapid growth and a high yield can only be expected in deep, well-supplied with humus, nutrient-rich and well-aerated soil. Furthermore, a sweet cherry tree is not enough, because with a few exceptions such as 'Sunburst', all varieties are self-infertile and require a suitable pollinator tree. If you don't have that much space in the garden, choose a columnar cherry or a spindle bush.
berry bushes
Currants also usually fruit quite quickly, whereas raspberries, blackberries and gooseberries often take a little longer. Nevertheless, a harvest can be expected faster with a fruit tree than with a classic fruit tree.
rowan
Not only do our feathered friends like the bright red fruits of the mountain ash or rowan berries: you can also use them to make liqueur, compote or jam. Mountain ash is considered to be extremely fast-growing and will soon ensure a pleasing garden decoration at any time of the year.
tips
Instead of buying a small fruit tree, you can also buy a real, large tree right away - it then of course does not need years to grow in size. However, finished trees are quite expensive because they have been cared for in the nursery for many years.