I make shredded carrot salad with either raisins or currants, can add pineapple and celery, dress with oj and tiny bit of mayo or some evoo, top at the table with walnuts or sunflower seeds. But probably would not go over with picky eaters. My dad is a picky eater and the thought of a raisin in a dish sends him into fits, lol! Funny that he will eat raisins plain from a bowl or box or in gorp, but if you put it in a salad or bread or cookie or something, oh the horror!

I think it would depend on the type of fruit you have in it and what "dressing" you use. A lot of fruits will oxidize (turn brown) in just one day. Apples and bananas for instance. Something acid (lemon) helps stave off the discoloration. Some fruits get gooey soft with age. Bananas and some melons, for example. In reality, I don't think one day is going to make that much difference. Joe

Seagrass, I used Granny Smith apples, kiwi, grapes and peaches. Lars--I actually found some good ruby red grapefruit up here and considered adding it, but I decided to keep it and eat it alone. Besides, I ended up not having time to peel the grapefruit--the salad was assembled over the course of six hours as the baby kept needing me. Which is why fruit salad was what I contributed to the holiday meal this year--it was okay if I was constantly interrupted during the preparation. ~Amanda

If you plant even small trees like these - that is orchard fruits on dwarfing stocks, or naturally small kinds like peach trees - where you have indicated, you are going to end up with them between the point of view from which the picture was taken and the window. And you're going to have branches out over the walk - even if you prune heavily*, plus fruit dropped on the walk (unless you are quite on top of the picking, throughout the ripening period). You should instead be looking at where there is room for each, as the sole priority - with the needed amount of spacing for development and access for maintenance activities including pruning and spraying. If your lot is only so big, you can have only so many trees. Unless you do things like espalier and tree fences using specimens on fully dwarfing stock. With yields being smaller in proportion to the reduced crown size of specimens so pruned and trained. *Even dwarfed fruit trees can only be pruned so much before it becomes destructive, interferes with production