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Tag Archives: fruit
Foraging vs. Harvesting
I like foraging (which here I’ll define as wandering around the garden, picking this and that and eating it) much better than I like harvesting, which usually is usually a hot, mosquito-ridden endeavor that involves a bowl, bucket or some … Continue reading
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Tagged beans, blueberries, food forest, foraging, fruit, grapes, Vegetables
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Citizens of the Food Forest
I’ve been working on selecting plants to fill out the various levels in the food forest. I’m basing my selections on the following criteria: Prior history of local success. That is, do the plants succeed in the garden proper, or … Continue reading
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Tagged bear, food, food forest, fruit, native plants, perennials, propagation
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Maybe This Year, a Pomegranate
Two flowers so far this year, and perhaps one will grow up to become an actual fruit? The plant has been in the ground for three or four years, and it sort of fruited last year, producing a few flowers … Continue reading
Harvest – Blueberries, Garlic and Eggplant
Back in the garden after a week in Glacier National Park in Montana. Lots of interesting plants in Montana, including bear grass, lanceleaf stonecrop, a native succulent, and Rosa woodsii, a wild rose similar to the California wild roses that … Continue reading
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Tagged blueberries, eggplant, food forest, fruit, garlic, weather
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A Beginning and an End
From the gardener’s perspective, flowers represent the beginning or the end of an annual’s useful life. Spring and summer annuals are generally planted for their fruiting bodies – think tomatoes, eggplant, peppers and squash, while fall and winter vegetables are … Continue reading
Ridiculous Abundance
Gardening is about cycles and rhythms. Last year, the blueberries took the year off, producing basically half of what they do in a good year. This year, on the other hand, the bushes are outdoing themselves. Ridiculous abundance. These will … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, blueberries, food forest, fruit, perennials, propagation
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Annuity Crops
Perennials are an investment. That is, you put them in the ground, and then sooner or later – two, three, five, ten years down the line – you hope to have fruit or flowers. So it is with many plants … Continue reading
Blueberry Bee
One part of the garden is devoted to a patch of things Vaccinium, in this case blueberries (evergreen and deciduous), lingonberries, huckleberries, and cranberries. The ‘blueberry patch’ is basically an inverted aviary – if the fruiting plants aren’t protected, the … Continue reading