Post your photos of your small fruits harvest this growing season!
Below are my first ripe raspberries and my first Prime-Ark Freedom floricane blackberry. Raspberries from top to bottom are Double Gold, Anne and Caroline.
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It’s rosemary surrounding.
The strawberry was a surprise, and not normal. It was delicious still. It is an unidentified alpine variety, possibly wild locally, possibly something I seeded, quite possibly a hybrid.
The blueberries are their proper size. I believe it is one of the parents for blueberry “Buckle”. what I do not know is if a low branch reverted to the parentage or if two seeds were sprouted in the same original hole. I tried to determine this when I up-planted it, but all three stems go back into the same tiny little hole. Either way, they were also delicious, as were the actual "buckle"s.
It will stay in a large pot. If it was the parent, it is a clonal type identified as a favorite of bears. I do not need to do any more to invite bears to my property, but I will gladly keep a bush or two of those cleared of fruit by myself. I’d love seeing a field of strawberries so tiny, but I would not put much effort into their harvest.
@RobertH I’m behind you a bit. I’ve had a bunch of golden raspberries from Double Gold and Fall Gold, and three red ones ahead of their pack, so far.
I’ve had lots of goumis for a first year fruiting. I saw my first honeyberry growing in my yard, but something decided to sample it long before it even got full grown. Gives me hope for next year.
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I have been harvesting a couple cups a day of raspberries. No photos. The strawberries are slowing down but some will flow in for a few more weeks.
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The top, large blueberries are Titan, a UGA rabbiteye blueberry which seems to me a significantly better rabbiteye than older varieties like Premier, Tifblue, Climax, and Alapaha, at the bottom. For me all these blueberries ripen unevenly in about the same time window. Picked over a pint today.
