Eating fresh fruit all year long!

I have a goal to hopefully eat fresh fruit all year long.

Berries start off the year in Spring, and are such a welcome first harvest of fresh fruit.

Next stonefruit like cherries, peaches and plums bring in the summer harvest.

Then pears and apples come in the Fall.

Other more uncommon fruit come at different times too.

Some apples can keep for months and months and can be eaten fresh throughout the winter and even early Spring.

Anyone else hoping for a year round supply of fresh fruit or already have one?

Which one do you most look forward to?

I'm certainly not managing the whole year thing, but I am trying to extend the season.
First up are 5 Honeyberry plants that just aren't producing well enough yet, but hopefully will eventually.
Strawberries are next after a gap, and by the time they're done, raspberries and plums arrive, followed closely by two types of summer apples.
I have Japanese pears and one Spartan Apple tree that come later, and a Kiwi vine that comes later yet.
I have a young apple tree that is too young to fruit and I'm not sure when it will fruit when it does.
I have a *very* young Granny Smith apple start that should produce later in the fall and keep well, at least for baking.
Somewhere in there, there are black currents, and a goumi that hasn't produced yet which may need a friend to cross pollinate with, and only last spring did I get a couple of female Seaberries to go with my male.
Then there are the plants I just can't get into the ground due to "issues" - Jujube, 2 more apple trees and 2 figs.

So although I'm not managing "all year" I am managing a fair bit of variety, and more is planned, if I can just get plants in the ground!

This raises a question for me,what  fruits would produce best in a season extension greenhouse?

William Bronson wrote: This raises a question for me,what  fruits would produce best in a season extension greenhouse?

There are people near me who grow both lemons and oranges in greenhouses despite the low winter light levels. I've been told that lemons can stay on the tree for a long time. A neighbor has strawberries in hanging pots in their small greenhouse, but I suspect it's a special ever-bearing breed and I don't know how early/late they produce.

There are a few melon varieties which are supposed to store well. I haven't found a favorite yet, but this year I'm testing some new-to-me varieties. We'll see how they do.

This year's experiments are "Kirkman Melon" and "Winter King and Queen Watermelon". In previous years I've tried "Valencia Winter Melon", but wasn't all that impressed.

Not sure if this counts, but Shark Fin Squash look and taste more like a melon than a squash, and can be eaten the same way. Just be aware that the shells are harder than any squash I've ever dealt with. I actually went and bought a bone saw just for cutting them open!

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Jay - lemons can stay good on the tree for about 6 months. It's wild.

A lot of what I have isn't producing yet, too young. But I have a lemon and lime in my greenhouse, another lemon outside and a pomegranate that should provide winter fruit. Strawberries in spring. Peaches, plum, cherries, blackberries and raspberries for summer. And apples and asian pears for fall.

This is very much my goal!

The orchard and garden are still quite young, but I have 50 apple trees from David Vernon at Century Farm Orchards in NC. I told him I wanted the longest season of apples and pears possible. David told me that when they mature, I’ll have apples from June to January. My earliest is, I think, Red June, and my latest is…Mattamuskeet, maybe? I’d have to check. It’s slightly later than Arkansas Black.

I’ve also gone all in on Persimmons, American and Asian varieties. I have plenty of fall varieties, but the latest ones are Tecumseh and Deer Magnet, which promise ripe fruit into January or even March!

My strawberries and cane fruit aren’t established yet, but I’ve planted lots of Blueberries. We are, sadly, just too hot for haskap though I would love them otherwise. Also too hot for seaberry.

I’ve planted lots of Serviceberry.

I think those are all the things I’m growing for season extension, fruit-wise. We have a small market garden and my goal is to have something seasonal and nutritious year round. I also am growing so many things to help cut down on the poultry feed bill.

Oh, and by far, I most look forward to the persimmons!

This was once a goal of mine, before I adapted to a more seasonal eating pattern.

One of the earliest fruits for me is Salmon Berry, sone years the fruit shows up in May.

The natural keeping period on some apple and pear varieties is nothing short of amazing.

The first fruit we get is strawberries in June. infact mine just started 3 days ago so the end of June. to eat fresh fruit year round here from October to June there's a choice of Apples or Pears and pears do not always produce so apples is the only option.

On the theory side one could have sea buckthorn until January as nothing eats them, but any fruit that takes more than it's own weight in sugar.. well might as well make it into jam. I could also probably push the strawberries forward 2-3 weeks by having them in a greenhouse.

Here I have in date order;
Rhubarb (yes yes not a fruit and needs a ton of sugar, but we eat it like a fruit!)
Strawberries
Redcurrants/raspberries/blackcurrants
Gooseberries/blueberries
Plums
Elderberries/blackberries
Pears/hawthorn
Apples/rowan

Extending the season isn't just the fruit species but also selections. I chose early season blackberries plus a blackberry that bears on the primocane; My sister was indignant a few weeks ago that my berries were already ripe. My blueberry selections ripen at different times, too. And i'm hoping i did an OK job stretching my apple season out with my selections from Century Orchards, another year or so before i begin to find out. My Chicago hardy fig just started really producing last year in October, and i'm curious how early fruit will be ripe on it this year. An earlier fig would be nice.

I'm hoping i can get ground cherries so they will self seed.

I have two tropical trees in big containers that I cut back every year and keep in the greenhouse because I dearly love the taste of the cherry-like fruit  and it outputs a number of them daily with the exception of the 4 - 5 cold/frost months.

In a tropical setting they would just pour out fruit daily all year round.

It's  Muntingia calabura L., also called Jamaican Cherry, Cotton Candy Tree (for the taste), Strawberry tree (the flowers look like strawberry flowers ) , and a few others.

Here's links with more details:

https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/jamaica_cherry.html

https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Muntingia+calabura

Here in the Deep South we have oranges in January, Kumquats in February, Loquat in March, wild dewberries in April, strawberries in May, blackberries and blueberries and raspberries in June, passionfruit and peaches and watermelon in July, plums and figs and elderberries in August, pears and Muscadine grapes in September, persimmons in October, satsumas and lemons in November and December.  I have also planted Anna and Dorsett Golden apples and Wonderful pomegranates, and a feijoa that are not yet producing.  I

I start off with golden raspberries in May. Followed by:
June has
Wild sweet cherries
Service berries
Red raspberries (throughout the summer until the first frost)
White strawberries
June bearing strawberries and ever bearing strawberries as long as I water them until Sept.
Goumi berries
Wild native crawling blackberries
Blueberries at the end of June until October (I planted a wide range)
Gooseberries, josta berries and currants

Wild Huckleberries, Oregon grape, and salal berries in our woods-depends on the weather but usually in July
Figs
July is also all about wild invasive but delicious blackberries until September

August we get our first apples until October
Plums and Asian pears
Pears in September, along with aronia berries

Everything is done by the end of October and the first frost except for the medlar. Those we bring inside and wait for them to get mushy to eat. We haven't quite got the hang of it and keep trying them too soon. I think November should be about right to eat them.

I have a persimmon tree that is very slow growing and hasn't fruited yet. Seaberries h haven't produced even though I have a male and female. Had a goji berry bush that was absolutely nasty so I didn't mourn when the kids accidentally stepped on it. Also elderberry and mulberry that got chomped by deer while they were young and hadn't gotten big enough to produce but they are getting back up to size again. The mulberry has berries on it so I'm excited to see when they get ripe. Also this will be the first year my grapes have produced! Yay!

I keep hoping for rose hips from my rugosa roses but none yet.
And I have an olive tree in a pot that gives me a few olives when I bring it inside in the winter.

I tried growing citrus for a few years in the house but didn't do a good job taking care of them. I got one very expensive orange off it and a couple of lemons and the lime tree never did anything.

Most of my fruit doesn't make it in the house because my kids eat it all. But that's how it should be. Maybe one day I'll have a surplus to eat in the wintertime.

I want to get some cranberries and lingonberries to take me a little father into the fall.