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luzulaI don't move into my new place until mid-September, but it's hard to stop thinking about what I could grow there! Right now I'm mostly reading about trees and shrubs for fruit, berries and nuts. I absolutely love picking and eating fruit and berries as they are, or for making jam and cordial. I don't eat a lot of nuts right now, but I'd still love to grow them and incorporate them in food.
What there is already:
- There is one fully grown apple tree already, and three newly planted ones, so that'll be fine. Alas I don't know what kinds yet, except for one newly planted Discovery.
- There's a fully grown cherry tree, which is great, because I love cherries. Also a newly planted morello cherry.
- There's an old, dying plum tree and a newly planted plum tree.
- There are two gooseberry bushes and two currant bushes, but I don't know what kind yet.
- There are some cultivated blackberries.
- I can tell that there's plenty of lingonberry and bilberry in the woods nearby.
- There are huge amounts of acorns from the oaks. I have friends who grind acorns and leach the tannins from them to use in cooking, and it would be interesting to try it.
What I could plant:
- It's temperate enough for walnuts and chestnuts! : D Also hazelnuts, of course.
- It seems like it's also temperate enough for a mulberry tree?
- A pear tree or two would be nice, of course.
- A quince tree? OTOH, perhaps one does not consume quince in large quantities. There's also flowering quince which is just a shrub, but which also has fruits...
- I've never eaten blue honeysuckle berries, but it seems easy to grow and they are said to be good! Has anyone tried them?
- Definitely sea buckthorn, I love those berries for making cordial.
- Apparently one can grow delicious minikiwis in Sweden; they're a vine. Awesome, I somehow thought kiwis needed a tropical climate. : D
- There are also some types of grape that one can grow in my zone.
- Has anyone eaten Ribes odoratum (buffalo currant)? They do sound interesting, and the flowers seem to be great for insects...
- I do like Aronia melanocarpa (black chokecherry) for jam and cordial, and it seems to be easy to grow.
I do absolutely have space for all this, but perhaps I shouldn't aim to do all of it at once, ha ha. ETA: Do share if you have additional ideas, or input about my ideas!
What there is already:
- There is one fully grown apple tree already, and three newly planted ones, so that'll be fine. Alas I don't know what kinds yet, except for one newly planted Discovery.
- There's a fully grown cherry tree, which is great, because I love cherries. Also a newly planted morello cherry.
- There's an old, dying plum tree and a newly planted plum tree.
- There are two gooseberry bushes and two currant bushes, but I don't know what kind yet.
- There are some cultivated blackberries.
- I can tell that there's plenty of lingonberry and bilberry in the woods nearby.
- There are huge amounts of acorns from the oaks. I have friends who grind acorns and leach the tannins from them to use in cooking, and it would be interesting to try it.
What I could plant:
- It's temperate enough for walnuts and chestnuts! : D Also hazelnuts, of course.
- It seems like it's also temperate enough for a mulberry tree?
- A pear tree or two would be nice, of course.
- A quince tree? OTOH, perhaps one does not consume quince in large quantities. There's also flowering quince which is just a shrub, but which also has fruits...
- I've never eaten blue honeysuckle berries, but it seems easy to grow and they are said to be good! Has anyone tried them?
- Definitely sea buckthorn, I love those berries for making cordial.
- Apparently one can grow delicious minikiwis in Sweden; they're a vine. Awesome, I somehow thought kiwis needed a tropical climate. : D
- There are also some types of grape that one can grow in my zone.
- Has anyone eaten Ribes odoratum (buffalo currant)? They do sound interesting, and the flowers seem to be great for insects...
- I do like Aronia melanocarpa (black chokecherry) for jam and cordial, and it seems to be easy to grow.
I do absolutely have space for all this, but perhaps I shouldn't aim to do all of it at once, ha ha. ETA: Do share if you have additional ideas, or input about my ideas!
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Date: 2024-04-03 06:46 pm (UTC)don't try to do everything at once, partly for your own sanity and spine, and also because it's worth waiting to see what your new garden does by itself. Watch it for a year, and you might discover that a dull shrub is a cultivar with surprisingly beautiful blossom, flowering bulbs may spring up from where they've been hidden away, wildflowers and garden escapees may seed themselves all over the place. If I'd cleared the gravel in my driveway as the surveyor recommended, I would never have known it's (by accident) the most beautiful part of the garden, with its self-seeded hollyhocks, alchemilla, aquilegia and violets. Messy, yes, but lovely :)
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Date: 2024-04-04 10:03 am (UTC)Thanks! This is good advice for my sanity and spine, obviously, and I was thinking about not going too fast for that reason. : ) I will go out there in May, and probably some other points in the spring and summer, to get a look at it when it's not winter, so hopefully I'll have a head start on what it looks like throughout the year.