benthegirl
I’m a statistics professor who bought a neglected hobby farm. I only started learning to care for fruit trees in Jan 2023.
Planted Spring 2025:
- Newberry
- Peaches/Nectarines:
- GaLA
- Selena
- Silver Gem
- Flaming Fury PF 8 Ball
- Jade
- Fantasia
- Harrow Diamond
- John Boy II
- Glenglo
- Flavortop
- Redskin
- Apricot:
- AC Harostar
- Hargrande
- Ilona
- Harogem
- Early Blush
- Montrose
- Orangered
Current fruit tree count: 80+ (7/22/2024)
Here’s the list 1/21/2024 -I’ll update later? (stars next to things I planted):
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11 apple
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2 crabapple - not sure if they are meant to be the eating kind or not. they’re pretty either way.
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4 chicago hardy fig*
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6 mulberry - not sure if they’re intentionally planted cultivars or volunteers
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2 large cultivated pawpaw and many, many seedlings
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14 peach
- 1 flat wonderful
- 1 challenger*
- 1 contender*
- 1 white lady*
- 1 redhaven*
- 1 cresthaven*
- 1 rootstock*
- 7 mystery (2 of these might be too old/weak to produce, 2 are still buried in autumn olive and invasive honeysuckle)
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42 pear (unknown Asian and Euro cultivars at least one is def euro and ~5 def Asian )
- Housui (at least 10?)
- Asian green in color (at least 4)
- 4 euro (2 are 35’ tall!)
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2 persimmon
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2 cherry - One fruiting, the other might be.
I also planted a row of raspberries (4 alive) and blackberries (1) - don’t judge these varieties by my success - there were racoons and squirrel and deer involved in their demise.
raspberries:
- Anne (1/8)
- Autumn Britten (2/8)
- Caroline (0/8)
- Glencoe (0/2)
- Jaclyn (1/8)