Growing fruit provides so many benefits for the entire family!
One thing I’ve heard gardeners say continually – if they could go back in time and do something differently, they would start fruit trees sooner!
Some fruit plants and trees grow quickly and some takes years to bear fruit. Some are annuals and others come back every year.
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As a person who didn’t always love blueberries, I can tell you blue crop blueberries are lifechanging. At least they were for me – I sincerely give this blueberry variety my full and honest stamp of approval. I fell in love with blue crop berries when I took my oldest daughter blueberry picking with my…
If it has seeds, let’s plant it. That’s pretty much our motto when it comes to fruits and veggies we enjoy from the store. Growing pineapple from seeds isn’t necessarily the most conventional way to grow pineapple plants, but I’m all about the journey! After noticing pineapple seeds spilling out onto my cutting board when…
Once picked, watermelons do not continue to ripen. For this reason, it’s so important to know both when to harvest watermelon and how to tell if a watermelon is ripe! Thankfully, plants and fruits give us little clues so we can assess ripeness. Whether selecting melon at the store or growing your own and picking…
If you aren’t careful, birds will eat your blueberries in the summer and all the woodland animals will eat the young branches and leaves over the winter. For this reason, I highly recommend blueberry netting or blueberry bush covers to protect your precious berries! Even if you aren’t a big time berry orchard, blueberry covers…
Planting near blackberries helps you to maximize your growing space with other possible benefits. With this in mind, I started looking for some good blackberry companion plants to incorporate near our blackberry bushes. Blackberries tend to need a little space to spread out. They can grow tall and unwieldy if not trained or given proper…
Do you wish you had more grapes growing in your garden? Learning how to propagate grape vines from cuttings can be a fun project but it can also swiftly add many plants to your backyard orchard! I’m always so inspired by nature’s way of, well, finding a way! Plants want to survive and they want…
Growing fruit from fruit scraps like peach pits or lemon seeds is so exciting to me. It’s actually one of my favorite gardening things to do in the off-season. Learn how to grow a peach tree from seed to enjoy this exciting journey. Starting a peach tree from seed is so easy and I’ve had…
Mark your calendar for National Pick Strawberries Day! On this day each year, it’s a great reminder to make some plans to enjoy the strawberry season. Even if you don’t go this exact day, here are some tips for things to do on National strawberry picking day. Whether you grow them yourself or love visiting…
Pruning raspberry bushes each year helps you to maintain healthier plants. For some reason, I’ve always been intimidated about pruning raspberries. I just don’t want to mess it up! Apparently, raspberries are pretty forgiving. In fact, I may actually be messing things up more by *not* pruning! To set my mind at ease and learn…
Ah, delicious, juicy watermelon—without seeds! I’ve always wondered where seedless watermelons come from and how you get seedless watermelon seeds in the first place. Turns out it’s a fairly complicated scientific process for the amateur gardener. Still, I’m super interested so I decided to dig into it a bit. So many questions come to mind…