Oh yeah. That is why when I planted the apple trees, I actually read the instructions on the tag ha ha. Each tag had a list of other varieties that pollinate with each other. If you do not, you will get a tree that will not produce any fruit.
I'm not in any position to test this out presently but this is really good to know for the future when I move. Always meant to have a few fruit trees and pretty much nothing except apples and pears grows in Canada.
The apple trees, grapes and blue berry bushes were the first things I planted this fall. I did not want to wait an additional year for us to have fruit on the farm. I would like to add pears but my wife is kinda against it because we do not eat that many. I may slip them in next year and hide them somewhere else. Ha Ha
Ok that was new information for me on how to get the apples to grow and what to do with the seeds. Thank you for sharing!
Have a wonderful evening. Cheers!
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What do you use gourds for? I have only seen them used for decoration/crafts. It feels like it's planting flowers that, while I love them, don't do much except look pretty and call in bees. (nothing against bees - I do plant for hummingbirds and bees!)
My daughter was on a Kindergarten field trip to a farm and they got to pick gourds and small pumpkins before Halloween. I figure we can give it a try and see if they grow.
Now, 'kids' is one of the best reasons I've heard for planting something! When I was a kid I wasn't particularly fond of the work but there's no better way to see results for work than in the garden. Now I look back on it and appreciate it even more for the time I spent with my father when we planted. Not to mention the family bonfire in the fall where we threw all the cornstalks and vines in a pile along with some other firewood to keep it going. We had weiners and marshmallows that night then come spring the ash would be tilled into the garden. The food picked fresh from the garden then straight to the table was a good feeling too.
That is basically my goal for our farm. I want my kids involved in the planting, caring and nurturing as well as the harvesting from our garden. When the apples, grapes, blueberries and blackberries come in I am sure so see the harvest yields low as they will be "pick one, eat one" mentality! Ha Ha
With kids and with dogs! Don't let that cute weimaraner get a taste for them. Somehow it happens that we never have any raspberries anywhere near ground level and our strawberries are fewer and farther between. The blackberries never seem to grow along the edges and I have to wade into the thicket to pick them and the dogs follow me very closely when I'm picking the berries that grow high off the ground (like huckleberries). (grin)
We also have a lot fewer of the apples that get dropped and are left to feed the deer. We used to call our first dog 'little doggie appleseed' because if she wasn't hungry she'd take the apples and hide them thinking she'd come back later. I think most of them ended up being fodder for other small critters.
I am paasionate about seed saving. I recently wrote an article about some foods I plant to,start plants from. There's a book I reference pretty frequently called The Heirloom Life Gardener that you might check out. ☺
I wish I had room on my little plot to start some fruit trees. Someday!
Thank you. After buying a lot of new seeds and basically starting out from scratch, I need to learn how to harvest seeds on plants and herbs that I unknown to me...anything other than tomatoes, melons, squash, etc., the easy stuff. Anything I plant this year I am setting a few places just to go to seed.
The plants that don’t go to seed til the second year are the tricky ones for me... Cabbage, carrots... I tend to forget about them sometimes. Also herbs, they go to seed when I’m not looking and I lose when it drops to the ground, and so many of them don’t come back up on their own!
I’ll be making a post on all the seed I save as the growing season goes on. That’s a way off though! :)
Interesting, didn't know you had to plant them in pairs.
Oh yeah. That is why when I planted the apple trees, I actually read the instructions on the tag ha ha. Each tag had a list of other varieties that pollinate with each other. If you do not, you will get a tree that will not produce any fruit.
I'm not in any position to test this out presently but this is really good to know for the future when I move. Always meant to have a few fruit trees and pretty much nothing except apples and pears grows in Canada.
The apple trees, grapes and blue berry bushes were the first things I planted this fall. I did not want to wait an additional year for us to have fruit on the farm. I would like to add pears but my wife is kinda against it because we do not eat that many. I may slip them in next year and hide them somewhere else. Ha Ha
Try plums. We had them when I was a kid, back in central Alberta.
Ok that was new information for me on how to get the apples to grow and what to do with the seeds. Thank you for sharing!
Have a wonderful evening. Cheers!
That is what I am all about...sharing knowledge!! You are welcome and have a great day yourself!
Well that's a great way to be 😉 we can learn from each other different knowledge and this was yours that I got to learn from 😊
Cheers!
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What do you use gourds for? I have only seen them used for decoration/crafts. It feels like it's planting flowers that, while I love them, don't do much except look pretty and call in bees. (nothing against bees - I do plant for hummingbirds and bees!)
My daughter was on a Kindergarten field trip to a farm and they got to pick gourds and small pumpkins before Halloween. I figure we can give it a try and see if they grow.
Now, 'kids' is one of the best reasons I've heard for planting something! When I was a kid I wasn't particularly fond of the work but there's no better way to see results for work than in the garden. Now I look back on it and appreciate it even more for the time I spent with my father when we planted. Not to mention the family bonfire in the fall where we threw all the cornstalks and vines in a pile along with some other firewood to keep it going. We had weiners and marshmallows that night then come spring the ash would be tilled into the garden. The food picked fresh from the garden then straight to the table was a good feeling too.
That is basically my goal for our farm. I want my kids involved in the planting, caring and nurturing as well as the harvesting from our garden. When the apples, grapes, blueberries and blackberries come in I am sure so see the harvest yields low as they will be "pick one, eat one" mentality! Ha Ha
With kids and with dogs! Don't let that cute weimaraner get a taste for them. Somehow it happens that we never have any raspberries anywhere near ground level and our strawberries are fewer and farther between. The blackberries never seem to grow along the edges and I have to wade into the thicket to pick them and the dogs follow me very closely when I'm picking the berries that grow high off the ground (like huckleberries). (grin)
We also have a lot fewer of the apples that get dropped and are left to feed the deer. We used to call our first dog 'little doggie appleseed' because if she wasn't hungry she'd take the apples and hide them thinking she'd come back later. I think most of them ended up being fodder for other small critters.
I am paasionate about seed saving. I recently wrote an article about some foods I plant to,start plants from. There's a book I reference pretty frequently called The Heirloom Life Gardener that you might check out. ☺
I wish I had room on my little plot to start some fruit trees. Someday!
Thank you. After buying a lot of new seeds and basically starting out from scratch, I need to learn how to harvest seeds on plants and herbs that I unknown to me...anything other than tomatoes, melons, squash, etc., the easy stuff. Anything I plant this year I am setting a few places just to go to seed.
The plants that don’t go to seed til the second year are the tricky ones for me... Cabbage, carrots... I tend to forget about them sometimes. Also herbs, they go to seed when I’m not looking and I lose when it drops to the ground, and so many of them don’t come back up on their own!
I’ll be making a post on all the seed I save as the growing season goes on. That’s a way off though! :)
The book you mentioned, The Heirloom Life Gardener it has information on seed collection correct?
Yep. It's a guide for seed saving. Excellent resource for gardeners!
Sweet! Just ordered it! Thank you again!