apples coming along, plums have stayed! a few patty pan starting, red sage just beginning bloom, letting a patch of orach and dill go to seed so I can collect it for later.
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I’ve given up on those yellow pattypans. For some reason, they are my worst performing squash ever. I may grow an excess of zucchini, Yugoslavian finger pattypans, but these yellow ones are always a bust. Nice foliage, though… 
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I found out the hard way that they like abuse; the more leaves you cut off the better they produce. plus I only give them bloom fertilizer - I starve them of nitrogen and don’t give them any except what they can steal from other plants nearby
they and the yellow crookneck usually make a lot for me
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Thanks, I may try that if I find any leftover seeds. It seemes like this will be a long season for heat lovers.
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Thanks for answering. I think I will have to do something like that. Too much fruit on the way. One can only give so much of it away to friends! - Karen
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Went wild berry picking at the woods/park.
Lots of wineberries. Blackberries were just starting to ripen. Maybe 10%.
Is this Prunus Virginiana (Pin cherry?)
There were only a few not-ripe fruit still on each bunch.
My breadfruit seeds weren’t entirely destroyed.
There’s three trees growing with a Roma tomato, Sage, and some “blue Russian sage” flower thing I forget the name of.
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Looks more like black cherry to me. But could be.
common daylily. Did anyone eat the root of the common daylily before. I have read the root are the most tasty part of this lily besides the 
, stalk, and flowers . It grows like weeds.
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Pink Lemonade, Climax, Titan blueberries… Followed by wineberry then an unknown blackberry (one of the Univ of Ark thornless ones).
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My Yellow Wonder Alpine Strawberries I started from seed:
I forgot to water them for a day or two, so some leaves are a little messed up, but there’s a flower!
I think they’re about ready to get acclimated to the outdoors and go live their best lives outside (and/or be eaten by rabbits).
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@wdingus - My Aunt Rachel is a dwarf tree. B-9 I think. Tons of apples. Early. They all stink as far as flavor. I have put lots of different grafts on it - to replace the ‘Rachels’.
How are yours tasting?
This first one wasn’t quite as ripe as it probably could have been. It had a very short stem and was crowded by a limb, that may have caused it to come loose earlier than it should have. Therefore fresh eating taste was “not the greatest”. A bit starchy Or “green” tasting. The seeds were somewhat light colored. The flesh seems to brown very quickly after peeling.
Probably better as a cooking apple I suspect. There’s one more which will hopefully hang on the tree until fully ripe 
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Handful of miracle fruit. They were more impressive when I first picked them, only been a day and a half and they’re all shriveled. Probably 30 or 40 more on the bush still.
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The black raspberry plant is holding immature fruits. I’m not overly familiar with black raspberries, but I got this one from eBay, where it was listed as a “black jewel” Rubus idaeus. Rubus idaeus is typically the species for common red raspberries.
Now, I will have to see if this plant turns out to be a typical red raspberry or if it is mislabeled and actually a Rubus occidentalis. The “black jewel” cultivars seem to be Rubus occidentalis, so that’s what I’m hoping it is. It will be my first time trying a black raspberry 
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Good luck, Tomasso! Btw, are you in Europe?
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Thank you, Tana. Yes, I am located on the southwest coast of England, where we have a mild oceanic climate.
Southwest is on track to become the hottest area of the country due to climate change… I’ve read that the temperatures might become mild enough for successful citrus cultivation. I’ll have to see it to believe it, though, lol.
Unfortunately, land is so expensive here unless you buy protected forest or pasture land that can’t be developed or lived on. So, I’ll have to stick with my small garden plot. No big orchard for me unless I inherit it from a secret rich uncle! 
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Well, perks of living in the Empire, I guess…
I watch Gardener’s World for inspiration (and because I just like listening to Monty Don) and I understand that citrus were a normal thing in unheated greenhouses in Kent and @UK, but the last few winters wiped them out.
Anyhow, you can get black raspberry Black Jewel and Heban plants in CE nurseries and by mail should your seedlings turn out to be something else. But the leaves look like raspberry and if they are white on the underside, you can be almost certain (don’t know about crosses, but that was my chidhood identification hack).