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Grow a Fruit - PEA BB garden.sand.fruit

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEA curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Gardening.

A lot of fruits are unsuited to grow indoors. A select few lend themselves well to growing in pots and producing a steady stream of delicious fruit for your table. It’s important to get some experience meeting the needs of fruit plants just as much as any vegetable might be. As a bonus, you end up with what you need for a nice cobbler, jam, or just some fruit to add to your morning meal.

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
Do not use plastic, cement, porous terracotta, or styrofoam pots.
It may not be part of the potted polyculture BB requirement.
Plant it using any method that is organic or better.
Start from seed, seedling, graft, or rooted cutting.
Display that the plant is growing.







To document and become certified for this BB provide photos or video (less than 2 minutes) showing the following:
- Explain the fruit chosen and methods used.
- Show image of planting it
- Show image of the fruit in three stages of growth (sprouting/planted, full plant, and fruiting)
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Fruit, alpine strawberry - container is just earth. Some bunny compost in bottom of hole.
Leggy in October.
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Wild strawberry from my yard
Wild strawberry from my yard
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Transplant
Transplant
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Forever home
Forever home
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 Still alive
Still alive
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Note: You need to also show pics of it with some growth and also of it with fruit on it

 
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I planted two fruits suitable for a small balcony pot this year, with the hope of establishing a perennial clump that takes over the whole pot.


1) wild strawberries propagated from a split up clump

2) solanum nigrum from a seedling

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strawberry
strawberry
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strawberry split
strawberry split
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strawberry planted
strawberry planted
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strawberry flowering
strawberry flowering
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solanum nigrum seedling
solanum nigrum seedling
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solanum nigrum planted
solanum nigrum planted
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solanum nigrum growing
solanum nigrum growing
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Note: Sorry clicked the wrong button before.  Need pics of the fruit plants fruiting

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