Would love to see or hear about those NEW things (varieties fruit trees or veggies, berries, cane fruit, vines, garden beds, grafts, critter deterrents, etc.) Anything NEW to your garden or orchard this year.
I am going to be … and have already started adding several new things this year.
Last year i grafted a scion of my early mcintosh apple to m7 rootstock… yesterday evening i got that planted in its new location… where we plan to build a new home in the near future.
It is about belly button tall.
I have a novamac on m7 almost identical to it size wize that i hope to get planted next to it this evening.
I have two new plum trees planted at this new location too.
@Barkslip … I think IE and SH are supposed to be similar in size and taste… but SH is supposed to be a better variety for the South East… with origins in North Carolina… and known to be resistent to popcorn disease which is evidently common in the south east… hot humid climate.
IE is stellar in South Carolina and we also have Silk Hope too but it got burned back last year due to waking up before our last frost. IE tends to wake up late and so far has avoided any early Spring damage.
New mini-orchard: Oscar, Kokuso and Varaha mulberries, JT-02 persimmons, Redhaven peach, Snow Giant Peach, French Plum, Hosui Asian pear, WineCrisp Apple, Roxbury Russet Apple
Berries: Boysenberries, Crimson Night and Lathum Raspberries, Patriot, Blueray, Bluecrop blueberries
New Potted Figs: UCR 271 (Saleeb) Caprifig (this wasn’t looking too happy in the past few days), San Biagio, Black Manzanita, Black Celeste, Verdolino, LaCosta Jewel)
I am taking out my thorn raspberries/blackberries and adding a lot. I plan to expand my thornless blackberries, planning to get more hazelnut in, planning to get seaberries in as I hear they are great nitrogen fixers and make a great juice but do worry about the thorns, getting genetic dwarf nectarines and peaches in, 4 4 in 1 mirabelle plums on krymsk 1, 2 raspberry red nectarine, a all in one almond tree, 2 zee sweet 4 in 1 pluots, 2 4 in 1 pluots, 1 Nadia cherry plum, a medlar, trying paw paw again as my ones last year got destroyed unprotected, I am putting in some more buried treasure huckleberry and the other ground cover huckleberry burnt ridge sells, a Montrose Apricot, 2 Chinese Mormon apricot, 2 4 in 1 cherry, a white gold cherry, a weeping Santa Rosa plum, trying out some emerald carpet raspberries to see if they will survive here, a high bush cranberry, a few bush cherry in the romance series, a ayers pear, a ambassador walnut tree and seeing if a aprium will live here and a orange pippin apple tree. We will see if this is the last editions to the orchard other than my pear that is coming in 2024.
Edit I forgot about my self rooted Illinois everbearing I have coming.
It looks like the dwarf ones are easy to root. Every year I get a lot of strong cuttings , it will be great they can be rooted, even low percentage. My current IE was airlayed.
