Which summer fruit do you grow 🍓🍐🍎 or w... - Healthy Eating
Which summer fruit do you grow 🍓🍐🍎 or would really like to grow, please say what other is, this is a mutiple choice poll.
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I used to grow a lot of methly plums, small but sweet and easy to grow. Trees only last about 10 or 12 years. Also grew peaches but a lot of spraying and pruning! Harvester peaches were my best, big and juicy!
Oh dear, I don't like the word spraying, what are you using?
It was a long time ago, but we used malathion or diazinon. Used to get tent worms in the spring, would burn them out. Plum trees were ok without all that.
I am not a chemist and have no knowledge of the dangers of these things but I find that they are both organophosphates which have had a very bad press. I presume, as you say, that was a long time ago and that you are no longer using them.
Unfortunately our soil is still poor in spite of piles of compost but Gooseberries do do well and we love them. Fortunately raspberries are available in our street markets.
I also grow rhubarb
Well done, wish it would grow in our garden. We've tried a few times. It just does not like sandy soil.
Loganberries and tayberries. Next year I will plant a plum tree.
Other is Plums
This has been a bumper year for fruits also blackberries and plums from our garden as my other vote. this year so far I have made rhubarb(from the garden)and ginger jam, 10 pots of plum jam, 3 pots of blackberry(from the garden) jelly and 5 small pots of rosehip(from the garden) jelly. Lots in the freezer and given away.
Hi Jerry i grow thornless Blackberries, pears , blackcurrants gooseberries. Already making blackberry jelly & gin & brandy for Christmas. Also have a quince tree which makes gorgeous jelly for gifts at Christmas 🎄 .
I grew some apples - just one tree, a patio tree, and it has yielded lots of apples this year - and here is a post showing my Apple Harvest.
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I would like to grow strawberries, so I also voted for those.
Zest 
Tomatoes in hanging baskets they are called hundreds and thousands and they live up to their name 😂
We also grow loganberries and rhubarb. We used to live in a more rural area where damson trees grew. Always made damson gin for everyone for Christmas...delish. But alas none for me from now on 😢
Hi Jerry I love strawberries but don't grow them.
My others are: blackberries, loganberries, grapes, figs, nectarines, peaches, pluots, plums, lemons
I voted ‘other’ to mean the huge expanse of delicious blackberries growing in the bramble infested jungle that is my garden! Lovely on your breakfast cereal with yogurt.....
They are the best of all. One summer, I was pigging out on it, not something, I would be intending to repeat. Some of these plants are hard to eradicate. Rhubarb is one. Strawberries, as tough as weeds. Apples mostly drop off on a windy day, but They make some lovely compost. I also pigged out on currants, I don't even want to taste anymore. One bush grew too mature and woody. Time to plant something else or enjoy the space without.
Who wouldn't grow tomatoes in summer? I often wondered if tomato stems and leaves are nutritious or poisonous.
loganberries blackcurrants red gooseberries
Don't forget the humble but deeply loved Rhubarb!!
When we moved into our current house over 30 years ago, there were Apple trees a plumb tree, raspberry bushes, red current bushes and 2 gooseberry bushes. About 5 years ago the plumb tree died. The red current bushes didn't look too good and I managed to take cuttings from them to produce new plants. Also bought a Blackcurrant sapling. Raspberries still growing well but white raspberries have died out. Gooseberrys hanging on. I have limited energy and the heat we've had this summer stopped me in my tracks. Only made it to the summer house about twice ! We also have a sweet chestnut tree, some previous years I have collected the chestnuts but last year the tree rats got there before me and now they have offspring, I'll have no chance at all ! I would love to grow strawberries. The one time I tried about 20 years ago, the mice got them. I now know, they will have to be grown out of their reach. I have the green plastic strawberry bag somewhere, just need to find it and buy the seedlings/seeds ! Shop bought strawberries don't have the sweet flavour taste they should have in my opinion.
My 'other' is figs and grapes, both of which were already growing when I moved here. The fig tree is giving us more than 30 figs this year, with even more fig buds for next year.
Also have a plum tree and a damson tree.
I also grow other berries, blackberries, tayberries, figs and Rhubarb
Black berries
