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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Have you ever found surprise tomato plants in the garden? We find volunteer tomatoes all the time! I’ve found cherry tomato plants, Romas, and San Marzano tomato volunteers in the garden. One time, I even found a tomato sprout growing from a seed on my counter! That tiny tomato seed happened to get caught up…
Growing your own watermelons can be so rewarding in the backyard garden, especially when you bite into that first piece of homegrown watermelon! Learning how to save watermelon seeds ensures you can keep growing this favorite summer fruit year after year from your own seed stock. Saving watermelon seeds is super easy since you don’t…
Stop into any Home Goods, Marshall’s, TJ Maxx, Ross, or otherwise, and you’re sure to find decorative pumpkins as far as the eye can see. Plush pumpkins with sequins, velvet, or irresistibly squishy stuffing may be just what you need to decorate indoors for fall. On a girls’ day shopping trip, my bestie and…
Growing yellow raspberries is our latest adventure! We started out with just red raspberries, mostly heritage, I believe. But now we’ve added golden raspberries to the mix – Anne raspberry plants, to be exact. As you might already know, it’s my goal to create a pick-your-own backyard for my kids to enjoy all summer long….
Teaching kids how to pick strawberries – or learning for the first time ourselves – is a useful skill to have on hand if you love gardening and fresh-picked fruit! Picking strawberries is fun and results in so many delicious possibilities. Nothing like fresh strawberries! It’s such a joy to pluck strawberries straight from the…
If you like strawberries, have you ever tried a pineberry? Pineberries, scientifically known as Fragaria x ananassa, are strawberry cultivars with white flesh and red achenes (which are commonly believed to be seeds). As par Back in 2010 in the UK, the pineberry earned its namesake from the pineapple as a nod to the unique…
Have you ever tried growing fig trees from cuttings? I’m giving it the old college try. I am so excited to see if I can grow a tree from fig cuttings! (Let’s skip over the part where we tell my husband fig trees aren’t a zone 6 hardy plant, shall we? One more indoor plant…
My kids could eat their weight in strawberries! So much so, that we tried planting strawberry seeds in pots for the first time this year. Usually we just buy the starter strawberry plants from Lowes. Our berries this year did better than all the other years combined! Planting strawberries from fruit we enjoyed eating worked…
In October, I bought 14 different kinds of pumpkins and gourds to decorate our front step. Flash forward a month and I am happily drying pumpkin seeds for planting next spring! Saving pumpkin seeds was a fun activity with the kids, too. I couldn’t be more excited to see what they grow into, although I’m…