Confess: what have you ordered for spring 26?

[Eme]

Anyone else start off with a small list that swelled and got out of hand? Share what you are getting! I have orders at 13 places and “need” to place 2-3 more. It’s absurd. Many are small orders that were just great deals. Way too much money wasted on shipping. Do I need anything in those entirely impulsive orders I placed at Monticello shop or Roots to Fruits this week? Or Mail Order Natives, Sow Exotic and Hirts where I also got sucked into unplanned deals over the holidays? Absolutely not. The edible gardens have a hefty carbon footprint! My original plan to not blow up March has failed, again. The only positive I can say is that there is only one far away nursery purchase this year (Whitmans), which was intentional. Although, when I learned that she charges shipping by box size, getting just one thing made no sense—I had to fill up the box, right? Plus, next year I won’t “need” nearly as much…(repeating what I said last spring)

So, what are you getting this Spring?

[Richard]

Scionwood of Lehman’s Delight (100-46) from England’s.

[snarfing]

Too much. How dare you tell me to look this up

1x lucy glo apple
1x winekist apple
1x lucy gem apple
1x sugar pearls apricot
1x honey pearls nectatot
1x oh yes muscadine
1x oh my muscadine
2x sweet thing cherry bush (probably ordering)
2x cherry pie cherry bush (probably ordering)
Nodding onion bare root
Winkler american hazelnut
Charlotte strawberry
Seascape strawberry
Bare root ostrich fern
Some more sundial lupine since ive had bad luck from seed
Contacted some people about juliet cherry bush
1x Drippin honey asian pear
Varaha scion
Gray pearmain scion
Gold rush scion
Kordia scion
Black york scion

This doesnt inclue the too much i got in the fall lol.

3x paw paw grafted saplings
1x thomas black walnut
1x 100-46 persimmon
1x donut peach
All my veggie seeds
And 100 fig cuttings im rooting (so far 25 have shown roots)

[Kaartinen]

I planned ahead and did some fall planting so that I could reduce my spring workload. The reason to reduce my workload is that I am taking on a 2000 tree ecobuffer planting and don’t want the fruit trees suffering.

However, I still did order the following to be planted while dealing with the ecobuffer:

1x Green Elf Cherry Plum
1x Ivanovka Plum
10x Canada plum
1x Arctic Dawn Apricot
1x Arctic Dusk Apricot
1x Arctic Twilight Apricot
1x Big Red Cherry
1x Porthos Cherry
1x Athos Cherry
10x Boreal Bliss Haskap
2x Somerset Grape
10x Wild Blackberry

Edit: I forgot. I also ordered about 30 more Aurora and 10 additional Honeybee haskap…

I’m still considering adding another plum to my order, or separately ordering some apple scion wood. I also know that if I see some reduced price nursery sales, I will likely hop on them…

I’ve nearly convinced myself not to order additional garden seed (I have more than enough), or any extra perennial plants… but I am weak… We shall see…

[GrumpyPantsPlants]

Too much, as many others have said!

Trees:
Pearl plum
Moorpark apricot
Chinese mormon apricot
Tlor-Tsiran apricot
Clarks yellow pear
Drippin honey pear
Paradise sparkling apple
Golden treat columnar apple
Red cinnamon apple
Black and red apple
Ruby tuesday apple
Code pink apple
VIP apple

Scion (all apple):
Green newtown pippin
Hooples antique gold
Divine
Red cinnamon
Cara cara orange crab
Apple pear from 39th parallel
Windfall golden
Razor russet
Asse 170 from seed savers exchange

Seeds:
Some Skillcult apples
Some of Dr. Miller’s apples from EFN
Purple thimbleberry

Goodness, I think I am going to need a clone of myself to get everything done this year.

[Audi_o_phile]

@Eme

what are you getting this Spring?

Only 20 pyrus betulaefolia pear rootstock, added to the order I had already placed on behalf of a customer who wanted two persimmon, two plum and two crabapple trees for their home.

[smilemore]

Nothing. I choose free resource. Last purchases were for apples, pears, nectarines, and cherries. Everything now went up in price or selling you a smaller tree for more money.

8 x grape cuttings.
8 x pomegranate cuttings from seedling. There are are volunteer from seeds too.
8 x lychee seedlings. 3 are struggling because of the cold.
6 x avocado seedlings. 1 is grafted (Reed or Beacon).
3 x guava cuttings from seedling. Sweet guava better than tropical pink or white.
2 x mandarin cuttings. Trying to make more mandarin and navel.
A bunch of loquat volunteers.

[Eme]

Cherry: Montmorency, Surefire, WhiteGold, Ebony Pearl, Joy and Joel
Korean Giant, Dripping honey scion, rootstocks
Apple: Pristine, RubyRush, many scions
Plum: Lavina, many scions, rootstocks
Silvergem nectarine
Blueberry: sweetcrisp, will get some more local legacy, maybe Polaris
Goose: Black velvet, Poorman
Girardi mulberry
Pomegranates: Granada and Kaj acik anor rooted cuttings and then a bunch of cuttings to root
More yellow wonder strawberries and white Carolina
August red raspberry
Wild Chickasaw and Guthrie
American plum
Purple passion passion fruit, maybe poppin passion if I find a good price
Scions and some plants from generous trades- these are my favorite!
Apparently, razzmatazz and Oh My…these and a few of the above to be planted at a family property
Still need: a Madison order for Hamlin and Xie Shan tbd late spring/summer (I have a giftcard!), blue oyster mushroom spawn and a Jenny kiwi

[PHiGGY]

Sure did get out of hand here. Ordered the rest of the stone fruits on my list and waiting for delivery. Then decided to get two 4 x 8 raised beds, then needed soil. Then decided I needed strawberries and asparagus for one bed. I thought if I get strawberries, have blackberries, I only need blueberries for my favorite yogurt topping combo, so ordered four southern blueberry types. Purchased acidifying components to make lower PH soil mixes for plants I have already, which will divert to the blueberry half barrel planters. Thankfully, I have all the planters I need from planting stuff in the ground. Then husband caught the bug and wanted to improve my raised garden bed mock up and he went in on the 4x4s and other items needed to make a 9’ high pergola over the garden beds that we can throw shade cloth over or train vining plants to. Then to help with the watering while we may not be able to here and there, a bunch of ollas. Big spring splurge…

[dannytoro1]

So far just apple scions.

*Acklam Russett

*Alexander Ice Cream

*Belle di Pontise

*Braddick’s Nonpareil

*Core Blimey

*Encore

*First and Last

*Howgate Wonder

*Idagold

*Kaido Crab- large fruited

*King Edward VII

*Levering Limbertwig

*Medunica

*Old Nonpareil

*P-14 Rootstock

*Reverend Wilkes

*Vystavochnoye

Still holding out watching some sources selling out while waiting for others post available scions. Probably will do 2-3 more buys then switch to seed buying.

[TNHunter]

I have worked out several trades from which I will be adding… these by graft this spring.

Smiths Best / Giboshi persimmon
Bocking 14 comfrey (lots)
Trailman, Chestnut, Centennial, etc crabs
Alderman, Waneta, Toka plums
American plum sourced in PA
Giant Siam and Clarks mulberry.
Maxine pear
Raintree select goumi

Things I have ordered from nursery.

Oh Yes muscadine &
Razzmatazz … from Gurnies
Anne raspberries 4… from Indiana Berry.

That should do it for me !

TNHunter

[Wethinkyoushouldgrow]

Business starting costs. Hoping to make most of the money back this year and go profitable next year.

Last years sales were around $600 with basically no investment.

Looking to get about 900 in the spring this year, and $2000 sales throughout the season.

[poncirusguy]

NOTHING!!! I may do some I have planted some basil a pepper seeds from heirloom fruit. I will be planting seeds from aroma tomato. I have started sweet potato plants from potato sprouts.

[Losech]

I’m waiting to see what gets killed this winter to see what might need to be replaced. I have gotten some seeds and tubers. I have spots for a couple more raspberries and one blackberry, hoping to find a honey queen, cascade yellow, and Illini hardy. I might put a couple plums in the front yard, despite saying I’d leave that space open…

[Buckeye]

This thread is making me feel very good about some previous years where I had thought I ordered an absurd amount in an effort to establish our orchard…

This year so far I’ve got a small list of things from a citrus nursery for the greenhouse and some pawpaw scion and that’s it.

[Peyote]

Just bought and planted today:

Pear Beurré Hardy
Pear Général Leclerc
Blueberry Aurora

[PHiGGY]

I’m afraid to keep records of purchases… I’d probably be in the same spend bracket. Without direct evidence, I have plausibe deniability and a sense of denial.

[TravisWS]

Told myself I was not getting much this year, that didn’t exactly work out…
Apple scions: 39th Parallel, Clark’s Crab, Brushy Mtn Limbertwig, Russet King, Pumpkin Russet, Friandise, Honey Crab, Heyer 20, Lamb Abbey Permain, Claygate Permain, Crabby Crisp,Intensity, Orange Sebby Crab, Sweet 16, Martha, Minnesota 1734, Atlas, Noble, Rescue, Herfordshire Russet, Golden Knob, Rosemary Russet, Bullock, Hunge, Dave’s Supreme, Brownlees Russet, Cara Cara Crab, Fireside, Queen Cox, Acklam Russet, Scott’s Winter, Sary Sinap, Ontario Russet

Pear scions: Duchesse d’Angouleme, Potomac, Large Seckel, Dripping Honey, Karl’s, Favorite, Korean Giant, Lazy J, Turnbull, Petit Muscat, Frost

Cane fruit: Royalty Purple, Vintage, Fall Red, Prelude, Killarney, August Red, Pequot Lakes Black, Victory

Ribes: Crandall Currant, Chernaya, Poorman, Ballaruskia, Black Velvet, Tiben, Titinia

Then there’s the stuff I’ve never even tasted
Persimmons, Quince, and Mulberry

[Chunky]

More than I need, Less than I want!

Persimmon; (8 scions, 2 trees)
Pawpaw; (2 scions)
Peach; (1 scion, 2 trees)
Apple; (12 scions)
Pear; (5 scions, 1 tree)
Jujube; (6 scions)
Goumi; (3 scions)
Cherry; (1 tree)
Mulberry; (4 scions)
Plus necessary rootstock

[northwoodswis4]

Oh, please, don’t rub it in. It just happens when you least expect it!