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Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 12:03 pm
by jhawks99
My next door neighbor has a peach tree right along our shared fence. A bunch of it is in my yard. Thing is producing for the 1st time since we've moved in and it's covered in small, green peaches.

So, the ones in my yard are mine? Probably a couple dozen or more.

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 12:19 pm
by Sparko
I would say yes--especially before the squirrels get them.

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 1:44 pm
by TDub
Absolutely

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 5:29 pm
by pdub
Yup.
Yours.
Make a cobbler.

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 5:35 pm
by shindig
I like peach 🍑.

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 5:37 pm
by Cascadia
The neighbors peach is always delicious

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 5:53 pm
by defixione
jhawks99 wrote: Sun Jun 13, 2021 12:03 pm My next door neighbor has a peach tree right along our shared fence. A bunch of it is in my yard. Thing is producing for the 1st time since we've moved in and it's covered in small, green peaches.

So, the ones in my yard are mine? Probably a couple dozen or more.
They're all yours until that big branch hits your house.

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 5:54 pm
by pdub
My neighbor picks apples from our apple trees.

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 7:29 pm
by jhawks99
defixione wrote: Sun Jun 13, 2021 5:53 pm
jhawks99 wrote: Sun Jun 13, 2021 12:03 pm My next door neighbor has a peach tree right along our shared fence. A bunch of it is in my yard. Thing is producing for the 1st time since we've moved in and it's covered in small, green peaches.

So, the ones in my yard are mine? Probably a couple dozen or more.
They're all yours until that big branch hits your house.
The whole tree could fall in my yard and it would miss the house. Pretty small tree.

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 9:12 pm
by TDub
pdub wrote: Sun Jun 13, 2021 5:54 pm My neighbor picks apples from our apple trees.
Itd be weird if they picked oranges from it.

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 6:34 am
by pdub
True.

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 12:11 pm
by Sparko
I have neighbors that let oranges rot on the tree--so lazy they didn't pick any. Then the big freeze killed most of the citrus trees. And Flag Day became celebrate a dictator day. Here endeth my lesson.

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 12:24 pm
by seahawk
Just pick them on the day that they're ripe enough and before the squirrels descend en masse and take every single one and say that you were trying to outwit the bushy tailed rodents.

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 12:52 pm
by Deleted User 89
almost always easier to ask for forgiveness than it is permission

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:31 pm
by zsn
I have many fruit trees in my yard and most, if not all of them have branches over the fence (six foot wooden fence all around, pretty much the norm in the area). A couple of my neighbors’ fruit trees also have branches in our yard. It’s just understood that it is acceptable to partake in the bounty if it is unreachable for the tree owner. My back neighbor claims he doesn’t like pomegranate but he does pick peaches and plums from my trees. I do occasionally get a couple of oranges from their tree even though I have a large orange tree of my own- his is a lot shorter and easier to reach.

Coexistence!

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:34 pm
by Deleted User 89
isn’t it legal to cut branches that are extending over one’s property line?

i’d assume the same legalese applies to fruit on those branches

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:49 pm
by pdub
Probably a law differing in each State:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia ... trees.html

I guess if they fall in your yard, most states that fruit is now yours...but if the trunk is fully in your neighbors yard, you legally can't pick it.

I'd still pick it if I wanted it.

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:56 pm
by TDub
Imagine being someone who was so concerned about it that they would ever need to consult or enact the law. Life must be miserable for them.

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:58 pm
by Cascadia
TDub wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:56 pm Imagine being someone who was so concerned about it that they would ever need to consult or enact the law. Life must be miserable for them.

Well we can’t be letting these socialist, liberal hippies be getting free handouts, amirite!

Re: Neighbor's Fruit Etiquette Question

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:59 pm
by TDub
You try so hard. It makes you look silly.