Sharing some happy news.

[Phoenix61]

I’m a new gardener and it’s been a learning curve. I can happily report my blueberries are blueberrying, my blackberries are blackberrying, my Satsuma Orange tree is Satsumaing, and my pear trees are pearing. Fingers crossed my Flame Grapefruit tree will start grapefruiting. I’m looking forward to having several loquat trees in the next couple of years that will be loquating. In the meantime I have generous neighbors who share theirs

[duforsure]

1. Great!

We're planting a lot more now too, and the wife already has lettuce coming up looking good. Glad to hear others are enjoying this too. It also is great tasting too getting fresh stuff to eat.

[Laelth]

2. Congratulations!

Gardening is satisfying to me because I enjoy watching plants do their unique planty-things. Looks like you’ve picked up on the spirit of the art.



-Laelth

[central scrutinizer]

3. Plants are wonders

They turn dirt, water and sun into life.

[Delphinus]

4. Yay!

Happy to hear this! Enjoy.

[Alpeduez21]

5. This is amazing

I always heard fruit trees while beautiful are hard to get produce from or maybe time consuming. Three years ago my daughter and I took some apple seeds from an apple we ate and now we have a two foot tree with leaves the winter didn’t kill it!😃 This is very positive encouragement for the future of our little tree

[Fresh_Start]

19. I have 20 minidwarf fruit trees...they are easier than cucumbers or tomatoes

as long as you buy a variety good for your region and make sure to select either self-fruitful varieties or planting trees which fertilize each other. The only thing we haven't succeeded with yet is apricots.

[MissB]

6. Congrats!

I’m kinda hoping my apple trees will Apple this year. They were sticks when I bought them, and this year they both look strong enough to produce.

My plum tree took a good six years to produce its first crop. Maybe it was my threats to otherwise chop it down? Now we swim in plums each summer. I may have to dry some this year.

My honey berry bushes still haven’t produced a dang berry and they’ve been in the ground for five years. One of the bushes tripled in size over the past year. One of the other two has doubled so I’m hopeful. They aren’t taking up a lot of space so I’ll let them go for two more years.

I planted four goumi berry bushes two years ago. They are incredibly healthy and tried hard last spring to produce but I think this is the year.

I’m guessing the bush cherries will take another year. The pawpaw trees will probably take at least 5.

I’m still debating replacing my raspberry canes with the short variety. I have both growing and I have to say the bush version is a heck of a lot easier to pick from since the berries are all at the same-ish height.

I’m eyeing my kiwi vine that I planted last year. New growth is happening but not as fast as I thought it would. I also added some huckleberry bushes last year. My blueberry bushes are hit/miss. Some years the production is awesome and some years, not so much. Based on the flower buds I’m seeing, it looks like we may actually get some this year. My hood strawberry plants produced a ton of daughter plants last year so if the slugs don’t get them, we may get a few.

Fruit and berry production is an exercise in patience for me. I think I’m about done adding fruit and berry plants though- I don’t think I have room for more!

[Cassidy]

14. Honeyberries and kiwi

Kiwi come in male and female varieties. One male plant can pollinate many female plants. Examine the flowers closely to determine whether you have a male or female (good info for distinguishing on the internet). Then you might need to buy one of the opposite gender to be sure you get fruit. (Unless close neighbors have one.)

Some of my honey berries started to bloom this week (Colorado front range). I have about 6. They are 3 - 5 years old. You probably know this, but it is important to have different varieties of honey berries, because they pollinate each other, rather than being self-pollinating. I got berries last year, but not as many as I should have. They ripen so early that the birds and squirrels start stealing them before I think to get my protective cages set up.

I have worked at a garden center the past four years. Best job ever. We are still open and selling lots of soil amendments, seeds, and vegetables. I am glad we are able to do this because SARS-CoV2 is not going to just blow over. Gardening will help people eat nutritiously without going to the grocery store as much and, perhaps more importantly, will help keep people sane.

[MissB]

18. I got one of those self fertile kiwis

Looks more like a large grape than a traditional kiwi. It’s this one:

https://territorialseed.com/products/prolific-kiwi?variant=31411767804003

I did buy two different types of the honey berry- I can’t remember which one is which but I’m sure that the two that are the largest are two different types. Really hoping to see some berries soon! Lucky you to see them already!

Our nursery closed down the day before I planned to buy some seed potatoes. They still haven’t reopened but they say they’ll do phone orders soon! Here’s hoping that’s true, though I’ll get much more done in the garden if I’m staying home!

[lark]

7. Good for you and your neighbors.

Sounds divine, you will be eating like Gods. We have neighbors that grow bananas and grapefruits and they share with us - lovely neighbors!

[johnthewoodworker]

8. Here in Northern Wisconsin we still have snow on the northern exposures. Spring comes soon.

[niyad]

9. Congrats, and thanks for sharing such great news. As a gardener myself, I am a

Teeny bit envious (our growing season is very short). Please keep us posted (we will want to sample the jams and cobblers).

[Danascot]

10. This reminded me of my uncle

a plant scientist in Oregon who added grafts to a tree to produce peaches, plums, apricots and nectarines. More fruits in less space!

[MLAA]

11. Excellent, you must have a black and blue thumb on one hand and an orange one on the other 😬

[sarge43]

12. Central NH

Our brave daffodils have stuck their heads out the ground. There's a rolling mass of robins moving across the yard. Buds on the lilacs. Hear a lot of "Hey Baby, what's your sign?" out in the woods. "Nothing is eternal, only the eternal Spring."

[CottonBear]

13. Excellent gardening news!

My blueberry bush is blueberrying too!

I’m about to plan and plant an urban herb garden for one of my clients.
They are great cooks and like fresh herbs.

Happy gardening!

[Phoenix61]

16. The blueberries were a big challenge.

I’d heard about ph but had no idea what a big deal it is for plants. They were looking so bad I broke down and bought a ph meter. The first time I checked the soil it didn’t budge from 8. It’s taken over a year to get it down to 5.0 and they look so much better.

[StarryNite]

15. That's great!

I live in the desert and my stink weeds are stink weeding like crazy!
But I am thrilled to have dandelions for the first time because they are great food for my two young desert tortoises.

[Bayard]

17. Worked on my raised beds all day yesterday

Just starting to get some green on the perennials, like raspberries, strawberries, blueberries. Bought some new asparagus, looks like mine didn't make it through winter. Planted new lettuce, tomatoes and peppers. Nothing on grapes yet. Had to put wire around everything to keep out ducks and cats.

Blooms on peach trees.

Having to weed the flower garden like crazy. Some kind of ground cover weed has taken over, even with the cedar mulch. But some things starting to peep up.....cone flowers, snowball bush, tulips, daylilies and Asian lilies.