Still trying to find my way around the site. 37F, mother, creator, professional. There is so much good information. I'm building a food forest in Michigan, lots of perennial vegetables, fruits and tons and tons of native flowers and trees. I'm also becoming a local advocate for removing invasive species and planting native in home landscapes. My area is overrun with Brandford Pear, fragmities, purple loostrife, buckthorn, bull thistle...and no one seems to really care. I do.
I am most exited about my haskaps. They really struggled at the end of last year but made a most remarkable recovery. Three set a good amount of fruit that is still ripening but all 8 bushes (beauty, beast, indigo gem, indigo treat) have leafed out beautifully and I've gotten a few props started.
My greenhouse is full of native starters, some I stratified outdoors, some in the refrigerator. Got a couple choke cherries to germinate as well as a whole flat of black raspberries.
Fruit-wise here is what I'm growing:
Honeycrisp and crab apple
Raspberries, red and black
Blueberries
Figs (Violette de Bordeaux)
Black and red currants
Jostaberry
Gooseberry
Stella, naking and Montmorency cherry
Contender peaches
Hardy pomegranate
Blackberries
Strawberries
Three varieties of grapes
Hardy kiwi
I know I'm forgetting some but you get the point.
I lost a few fruit trees over the winter and I'm looking to air layer other varieties instead of starting over with bare roots. Who I lost:
Golden Delicious Apple
Black tartan cherry
All of my dwarf mulberry bush starts
Most of my buttonbush seedlings
I love propating, seed stratification. Organized chaos full of bountiful surprises, rare native flowers and Im on a mission to repopulate the earth with oak trees.
So happy to have found this community!
