Welcome Quentin. This is MrsG. I live in Uzès. I have 23 fruit trees on my terrasse. Where is your pepiniere? Salut!
thank’s for the welcoming.
Our clientele is local and mostly around the mediteranean ! Not plan on shipping plants accross pcean nor do any advertise about the nursery.
We are a small familly business including 1 worker (me = the owner) and 1 apprentice (a passionate one).
I aim on sharing tips, asking for advise, talk with other fruit lovers ,and more importantly finding some fruits/solution about the weather/climat changing…
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34210 Aigues Vives
www.lesterres.eu
Better fixing an appointement before your venue
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À côté de Beziers.
Hi everyone. My name is Olve and I am a passionate hobby grower residing in Norway by the 63rd northern paralell. Luckily, due to the gulf stream and our costal location - our climate is around USDA zone 4-5, with cool summers, but mild-ish winters. My wife and I have recently planted a permaculture food forest around our house. We grow over 300+ fruiting plants, but most are still young - I think we might have overdone it… We love to grow all kinds of fruits, but I also try to develop new cultivars of red fleshed apples and new better Haskaps (early stages). While roaming the internet, I’ve often found answers to my questions here in this forum, so I needed to make an account here. Mainly interested in cold hardy perennial fruits. I hope to learn and contribute!
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I’ve posted a few times here, so I figure that I should do the introduction thing. I’m 63, and I’ve been trying to grow plants that make things that I could eat for decades. Typically, I only do things that I’m good at, but I have stubbornly kept at gardening, with far more failures than successes. I’m a founding member of a community garden in suburban St. Louis, where most of my plot is taken up by Traveler blackberries. At our house we have 2 Pixie Crunch apple trees that need to be sprayed all Spring with Eagle because they are ridiculously susceptible to rust, one Liberty and one other apple that I don’t remember its name. We also have both Prime Jim and Prime Jan, and Jewel, and I have one Caroline in a pot that came back strong. I have a couple of Freedom blackberries and a few Travelers.
We also own a tiny house next door that we used to live in that we’re fixing up to rent again, and there are Prime Jan blackberries, a nice peach tree, Jewel raspberries, a giant plum tree that is a favorite of the local squirrels, a pie cherry tree that was there in 1999 when we bought the house, that my wife adores, as she uses the cherries in her baking, but is dying–this may be its last year. We also have some yellow sweet cherry trees, but if the sour cherry dies, we will need to plant a pollinator. The next door house also has a mulberry tree that grew there after we bought the place, and I only discovered it a few years ago. I like mulberries.
I buy oddball tomato seeds every year from Baker Creek, but most of out harvest is from volunteer cherry tomatoes that come back every year on the east side of our house where they only get maybe 4 or 5 hours of sun a day. Go figure. I only recently discovered this forum, and am mostly interested in learning from the posters here who are serious Rubus enthusiasts. I try to eat pretty keto, avoiding empty starches, and I save my carb calories for fruits. Oh, and I also have recently inoculated some straw and wood mulch with red cap mushroom spawn.
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I would like to thank Mr. Scott, for making this forum possible, My name is Raul I am from Spain, from a province called Albacete and I am a young man who is more interested in fruit trees every day and I wanted to share with you experiences and learn from all of you. If you have any questions about my land or my trees, don’t hesitate to write to me. Thanks a lot
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Long time lurker, finally decided to make a profile and start engaging! Former Portland, OR resident, now in the Victoria, BC, Canada area. Very open to scion exchanges (Canada).
Growing/trying to grow, in cool summer zone 8b on a suburban plot: akebia, apple, aronia, autumn olive, blueberry, bush cherry, chilean guava, currant, elderberry, feijoa, fig, goji, gooseberry, goumi, grape, hazelnut, honeyberry, jostaberry, jujube, kiwi (hardy/arctic beauty), meyer lemon, lime, lingonberry, loquat, mandarin, maypop, mulberry, olive, pawpaw, pear, persimmon, pomegranate, prickly pear, quince, seaberry, saskatoon/serviceberry, silverberry, strawberry, sudachi
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Hi All, been lurking for a bit as my dream is to have a backyard orchard. Finally own a home so I can make it my own. I’m in northeast Oklahoma zone 7a. I’m very new to all of this and so grateful for you all sharing your insights.
Planted my first bare root trees this fall and some survived! I’m just delighted to see some with leaves. Mine are smaller as I’m trying to stretch my budget.
Thus far attempted: raspberries, blackberries, Asian persimmon, Asian pear, apples, mulberries, figs, pawpaws, peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines. Sadly many casualties with peach, blackberry, plumcot, figs…
Today I just planted my romance cherries and Jujubes.
Thank you all again for taking your time to post specific details and pictures of your trees/fruits. It really helps inspire me and keeps me going despite having losses.
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Wow. Good start. Looks like you belong here.
Casualties with peaches and plumcots does not take special talent. I’ve lost a peach a year until I stopped buying them!! Figs aren’t hard to lose either but I do have some blackberries that I think are foolproof. Welcome to the forum!!
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Hi everyone, my name is Dylan and I am in year two of growing a bit of a food forest/ orchard. On my 0.25 acres I have 14 blueberry bushes, some honeyberries and currants, raspberries, and my fruit trees! Mostly apples and a few pears and a peach. I’m hoping to keep on expanding and growing more and more delicious fruits. There are a few special apple varieties that I hope to add one day, maybe I’ll locate them here! I’m located in southern Wisconsin.
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Welcome Dylan! Got family in menominee falls, but Im across the lake in Saugatuck. Looks like you got some space and can do a lot. Hope you enjoy the site! Is it fenced in from deer?
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Just found this fantastic community as I began initial research on how to start, grow, and maintain a home orchard.
As an introduction, I’m hill billy, born and bred in the very very remote southwestern Virginia Appalachian Mountains. After graduation, I moved away to the big city, got a degree in marketing, worked in Pharma for decades, opened my own boutique online advertising shop (back when it all was just beginning) having offices in NY, London, and NC. Married the one I shouldda done the first time, and traveled the country with him for 15 years.
We’ve purchased 28 acres of land in the still rural, just not as remote, southwestern Appalachian Mountains in Virginia. We’re in the process of sighting the berry patches, mulberry stands, and small apple orchard, as well as the garden.
While I have retained more than I realized of old mountain magic/learning, I’m finding huge gaps in my knowledge base. While I can still harvest my own chickens, can beef, field dress my deer, I cannot for the life of me remember which apples my great grandmother grew in her orchard, and sadly, all who were young enough to work in that orchard have left us. The orchard is long gone as well.
So I’m looking for help, guidance, sources of information, and just some great reading.
Thanks so very much to everyone who contributes here. It’s really a wonderful source for a beginner!!
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Welcome!!
This is a good place for learning and sharing.
I hope you find your apples. I’m trying to figure out some apples that will grow in my locale and I have to hurry if I’m going to have time to do it.
Have fun with your orchard!
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Hi Everyone! Just found this forum and joined. Have over a decade of past experience growing stone fruit in the very easy SF Bay Area. Started over again in zone 6B in Bend, OR in 2021. Learning what works here in the high desert with the elevation, late springs, and hot summers.
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Hello! Happy to have found this forum, especially since searching the general 'net has gone to crap with so much AI drivel.
I live in Central Massachusetts on a homestead farm. 7 years ago, I knew next to nothing about the care and tending of fruit trees. Last week, I grafted 15 wee peach trees. 
Current fruit includes:
Peach
Nectarine
Plum
Cherry
Fig
Apple & crabapple
Pear
Thornless blackberry
Strawberry
Aronia
Thanks for letting me join!
LJ
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Welcome Lisa! This forum is the tops!
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Welcome, Lisa. We probably are not too far from each other.
I have a very small backyard orchard.
:waves from Hardwick:
Lisa
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Ahh, one of my bosses lives in Hardwick. Nice town, lot of open space. I thought it was 5b. Ok. I will stop since this introduction thread.
PM me if you want to chat.