The best part of every February is all the seed and plant catalogs that fill my mailbox! It's so fun to peruse through them and dream of when it warms up enough for those little seeds to sprout! This year has been a little different since we're in the transition of moving, but it's not stopping me from planning and hopefully starting some of my plants indoors in a few weeks!
These are pictures from my garden last year...I'm so excited to have more room this year!
I think I've got this years plants picked out, and I'm so excited to be starting the
adventures of growing fruit trees as well! We'll be starting over with all our berries,
but I hope someone enjoys all the fruit from our last home.
So here's what I picked:
I got three apple trees...four varieties. Apples have to cross-pollinate with other varieties that bloom at the same time....so I picked a Golden Delicious that is double grafted with a Red Delicious, an Enterprise, and a Honeycrisp apple tree. All of these trees are grafted onto a dwarf root stock so the trees won't grow more than 8-10 feet!
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| Stark Double Delicious |
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Honeycrisp
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| Enterprise |
Pears are like apples....they need a pollinating buddy. This tree has two varieties...so you only need one tree! Plus it looks really neat!
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| Bartlett & Red Sensation Pear |
I'm going to try my hand and growing sweet cherries. I know the birds love to eat them, so we'll see if I have any success with these Blackgold variety.
I'm super excited that they are self-pollinating so I only need one tree!
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Blackgold Sweet Cherry
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When I think of peaches...I think Georgia...warm...southern....but alas thanks to hybrids they've come up with a cold hardy variety of both peach and nectarine trees.
I'm excited to try adding both these varieties:
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| Hardired Dwarf Nectarine |
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| Redhaven Dwarf Peach |
And for the last of my new trees...I'm going a little nutty. I thought it'd be so nice to have an almond tree to add to the mix!
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| Hall's Hardy Almond |
Since we live a good deal too far north to enjoy homegrown citrus,
I thought it'd be great to grow lemons in our sunroom!
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Meyeri Lemon
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If you've ever had the pleasure of picking blackberries from thornless bushes...you'll never go back! This thornless variety is exceptionally cold hardy and produces tons of juicy plump berries....mmmm I can almost taste them! The black raspberries are a favorite of my husband's. I've never grown them before, but I do know that you have to grow them 100 feet away from blackberries...so I'll have to keep that in mind when planting them!
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Bristol Black Raspberry
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Triple Crown Thornless Blackberry
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My uncle Steve introduced me to homegrown grapes years ago and I've never tasted anything so sweet! I'm excited to start grapes again with two seedless varieties...one white and one purple!
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| Reliance Seedless Grape |
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| Lakemont Seedless Grape |
I brought my favorite blueberry plant with me and I hope to add some friends to it soon. My fruit collection wouldn't be complete without Strawberries! I like to grow both June-bearing and ever-bearing varieties. We've picked three types to plant:
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| Eversweet, EarliGlo, and Ozark Beauty |
Although we won't see any "Fruit" from our labor for a couple of years, our vegetable patch should give us a plentiful harvest this fall!
Here's a sampling of what we're planting:
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| Zephyr Squash |
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| Alibi Pickling Cucumbers |
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| Sugar Snap Peas |
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| Romanesco |
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| Adirondack Blue Potatoes |
