Look like inside of my garage.I park my car outside all winter long
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Priorities!
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LOL! Yes, indeed! I live on a postage stamp and have learned to use every inch!
My backyard in the summer
Yes, both my cars are in the driveway! My van has never been in the garage! It’s 15 years old. It’s big, I like it. I can squeak a little more life out of it.
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My yard looks like your yard too. Almost no need to cut grass. How do you keep your trees so short? Are they young or you prune them a lot in winter?
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I prune late winter, early summer, and mid summer. Yes kept small. The trees are about six years old in that photo. Now eight years, still the same size.
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How are your currants doing? drew51
Excellent. My harvest is large this year. I mostly make syrups from them for cordials. I have enough to last till next season. I re-did my fence cordons to use better cultivars, so it’s going to be a few years before they look nice.
I added some blacks to my daughter’s garden too. So easy to propagate these plants.
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Drew of all things, the most difficult thing to find here are black currants and they have huge orchards (currant farms) here. I can find tiny baskets only, so I’ve decided to grown my own in pots. They should do really well. I have partial sun on my terrace so that should work. I am so proud of you. Besides me you were one of the first currant nuts! Mrsg
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I grow some in containers, and they do really well! What surprised me most about black currants was discovering my wife loves them. She said last week it is her favorite fruit that I grow. She never had them before I grew them. She said that while I was prepping a batch for syrup. Which is very similar to how you would make jam. The prepping part anyway. I add juice and zest of two lemons. Lemons seem to refine the taste. She made the comment as the aroma of the currants was filling the kitchen air.
To stay on subject slightly pomegranates make a wonderful jam too.
I made syrup out of dogwood (cornus mas) cherries this year. It is surprisingly delicious. Not as complex as real cherries, but still an interesting flavor. Everybody who tried it loved the syrup.
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It all sounds great!
Resurrecting an old thread with exciting news! After nearly ten years of trying in Berlin, MD I finally had my first huge harvest of pomegranates. This variety was purchased offline as a Russian pomegranate, that’s all I know. The tree has been in this spot since 2017 but the fruit has always only reached golf ball size, rotted, and fallen off. This year, I probably got 60 huge Poms off it.
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My eldest son lives in Silver Spring MD. Several years back, I gave him a pom I’d rooted from one of the ‘survivors’ of a dozen or more ‘cold-hardy’ types I’d gotten from NCGR 10 years earlier. I’d thought it was Kazake or Salavatski… but when I dug the one surviving plant and moved it to a pot (and subsequently let it die of thirst), it still had its NCGR label - Kaj Acik Anor. It has finally gained enough size and maturity to hold and mature fruits for the past 2 years.
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