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22 Comments
I don’t have room for trees so I have berries!
Strawberries, blueberries, grapes, elderberries, and red raspberries that looked dead my regret is those red raspberries I planted them beside the house now after I pick the berries from them this year I will work on removing them
Bear is such a good boy ❤
I wish all my trees would have been 3 or 4 in one fruit trees. Instead of 1 verity per tree.
Hey Mater!
My memories about foraging are deep. If you were ever in the car with my aunt and granny, you’d have to hold on for dear life if those two saw poke weed on the side of the road. Lol They loved themselves some poke sallet and cornbread ( if you don’t know what that is, you’re not from here). Lol
We use to have muscadine and wild blackberries grow in the woods behind our house. No need to go inside to eat when we were kids building forts in the woods.
Show your hubs a video of worms coming out of pork. 🤭He will never eat pork again. Hahaha!
Oooooh! I love those calla lilies! Just beautiful!
P. S. My son loves hot tea. Of course his favorite is Earl Gray. What would you recommend for me to buy for him as a gift, so he can try something new?
So surreal to hear it's "blackberry season" as my Canadian garden is just getting started..I keep having to remind myself you don't live next door to me. You're that relatable. 😊
I’m in Minnesota and it’s nice to know there’s one or two things that grow here that are hard for you because we are so limited! Apples thrive here lol 😅
I watched an older video of yours yesterday and you mentioned pickling some of your
cucamelons. I would love to try your recipe. Could you send it to me or add it to the farmers table channel?
What I really WANT to grow is a quince tree. My neighbor has two mature ones, and they put on the most delicious, fragrant fruit. The neighbor's nice enough to share. I have evangelized quince to everyone that I know, learned how to store and cook with them, but I cannot for the life of me seem to keep a quince tree alive in our orchard, barely 100 feet away from those beautiful mature quince trees.
I planted a mini mulberry tree last fall, but alas, it died. I shall have to try again – we have a giant old mulberry that's 40 feet tall, but it's difficult to pick it at that height, so the birds get most of what could be a really huge crop. We have pears, peaches, apples, raspberries, strawberries, grapes – fruit grows surprisingly well in our mountain desert climate, so it's not like we're short on fruit! I have even managed to coddle a persimmon through some particularly frigid winters, and it looks like it may actually fruit this year!
Peaches, though – there's nothing better than a fresh peach ripe and warm from the sun, that you've picked yourself. During peach season I eat absurd amounts of peaches.
We’ve got a mulberry “bush” that has turned into a 25+ ft high mulberry tree. It’s absolutely loaded down with bright pink fruit right now. I’m excited to see if we will manage a harvest. I found it on my parents property. I never knew it was a mulberry. I don’t know if we missed the berries before or if it never had them but it’s been there for over twenty years. We planted it when I was a little kid and I’m almost thirty.
I bought a little Bartlett pear tree because it's my husband's favorite pear, knowing full well that they are susceptible to fire blight. I've kept it short and have been able to carefully inspect the tree several times a week during the blooming season, watching for blackened stems and dead leaves. So far with careful vigilance I've caught a number of infections before they progressed too far down the branch. Hoping to get about 50 pears this year!
Oh, and I wanted to tell you about the Royal Crimson cherry: it's producing cherries in my zone 10a garden with no real frost. It's self-pollinating and it seems like you could grow it in SC…and the cherries are lovely. 💚
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Bugs are just extra protein, when you're a kid you don't even think about it 😂
Do you have a recipe for apricot preserve? My son’s neighbor has a apricot tree loaded and gave me permission to pick as many as I want, but I would like a recipe if you do, let me know please.
I guess I better check my blackberry bush 😊
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Since you asked, I wish I would have planted peaches instead of nectarines, as I came to realize the insects don't like the fuz on the peaches as much as me, but I can peel them. The bugs seem to attack the nectarines when they are still tiny little hard fruit. I would encourage you to try different kinds of apples, & graft on to your existing tree to get faster results – it is easier than it looks. Honeycrisp is known to be a poor performer here and I didn't find that out until after I already planted it. Some years s bumper crop, some years absolutely nothing. I wish I would have paid more attention to when they Bloom. Because in northern arizona zone 7 we get some warm weather and then some very late frosts that wipe out the blossoms. My desert king fig is MY FAVORITE so far & has been fabulously producing 2 crops of figs every year for the last several years. I lose the tips on some of the branches to frost. But it does not die back to the ground anymore. Highly recommended! The ones in the ground seems happier vs in pots, but I am propagating & preparing for when I get a bigger property.🎉 God bless!!!
It is ALWAYS a good idea THESE days to wash off produce we pick from our gardens as there is FAR MORE than just bugs on them considering how often they (powers that should not be) are out doing their geoengineering/weather manipulation. They spray barium, cesium, aluminum, strontium, PFOAs, detergents for starters- essentially pollutants- that make the roads slippery and the water slimey and sudsy.. These may as well be thought of as pesticide chemicals.
I use filtered water from a system that removes organic chemicals and then add grapefruit seed extract(GSE) to the water . I sometimes put the fruit in a clear glass bowl with the water and GSE and swish it around a number of times to see how gray and cloudy the water becomes. It isn't pretty and it is a pain to have to do but I always feel better having done it. Needless to say I have long since stopped "snacking" on just picked (unwashed) "organic" fruit or veg I've grown.
Tennessee has banned geoengineering. Legislators from the other states, if they cared about their constituents, would be doing the same thing. Thankfully the plants' roots are able to ferret out most of the harmful stuff but I wouldn't be so sure about what gets on the exterior of plants we harvest.
If you put a fresh home grown or store bought organic strawberry under the microscope, you’d never eat a fresh one again unless washed. We even wash and freeze a bag of whole strawberries late spring just to pop frozen into Pimms throughout summer rather use fresh having seen what crawls over them. Yet we are perfectly happy to pop in fresh looking mint and sliced cucumber straight from the garden. 😂
I need to research more what kills apple trees here, apparently its something to do with pine trees, looks like a fireblight,so sad to litterally loose a tree in days.
My memories of picking blackberries involves chiggers. I don’t know if that is a problem with the tame berrries but just watching you pick them makes me itch. 😂
The first thing I planted when I had my own yard was a bunch of berries. My grandma had a little cottage near the lake and I spent many summers with her. She inherited from her mother. The backyard was edged with raspberry bushes. I lived off raspberries in the summers there and raspberry shortcakes! Such fond memories ❤
As a fellow berry picker, I completely understand how hard it is to walk away from the picking just because your container is full!