What is your favourite fruit to grow? Show me pics of your fruit please!

[wild]

Hey folks,

Growing fruit is my absolute favourite thing about Gardening. I was wondering if you guys would like to share some pics of the fruits that you're currently growing? I'd love to see them so much

Which are your favourite fruits to grow?

I guess I'll be the first one to start:


Currently, I'm loving growing my Cherry tree as I've never grown one before. Also my grapevine as it feels a bit special!

In these pics in the link there's some berries growing and in the second pic is my cherry tree in the red pot with a redcurrant to the right and loganberries to the left. The tiny black pot in front of the cherry has a raspberry in it! Click here for pics ---> Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet

[Guest]

Unfortunately I don't have favourites as such it is more what I can make with the fruit and I am getting better year on year at growing, preserving and cooking Oh and I apologise 'sorry' but there are a few pics. I have lived here 3 years and in the last couple of years I have really started to get into the fruit side of things.

My inherited pear tree - Williams or possibly a seedling. On my annual makes are preserved mulled pears and pear and ginger mincement. For the last three years I have had a juvenile lesser spotted woodpecker turn up on this tree


Last year I was given some Red Sentinel Crab apples and I made jelly and butter. My girls loved the jelly but my fav. was the butter. It was a cross between toffee apples and baby food sounds disgusting but was really yum. These are some grafted trees I done in Feb.


I have no idea what these are like but thought you would want to see. This is GH2 in the back is my supposedly lord napier nectarine (more peregrine peach) which I might train it is just in a pot at the mo. Front left is terrace ruby nectarine, centre terrace diamond, right terrace garnet peach


Melons, I am having a proper go at melons this year so it is very much a bottom clenching moment to see what I actually achieve. Never had much joy not that I have tried very hard. These are the start of my planting out to the gh.


Kiwiberry Issai. I did have one sometime ago but it died in a housemove so it is a case of things to come another year. This one was damaged at the packing stage I bought from a company, so I put some grafting tape round and hoped. Yes I also have its replacement from the company (which had two plants in the same pot) I can feel VC cringing already

[Guest]

Brunswick Fig. I got three last year but can't wait to get more so I can actually get them to the kitchen


Apricot Moorpark. I am being naughty if you look there are two apricots but I only planted this this year. I did another tree but I had to destroy it due to disease. Ever since I planted it it behaved strangely it would be coming on leaps and bounds then it would die back, recover and so on


Gooseberry Red Hinnomaki. I don't do green gooseberries but love the red. I only replanted my soft fruit last year so not much of a crop but I am happy with a tasting whilst I work


This is Victor my Victoria Plum. He didn't crop very well last year and I am having a bit of a battle with canker on quite a few of my trees. However I did get enough fruit for a batch of plum and apple mincemeat.

[Guest]

Yes there is more

Quince Vranja. Last year was the first time I have had quince and the quince jelly was gorgeous really honeyed and the quince cheese although very different was fantastic. Stewed quince wasn't for me but I am not a fan of stewed fruit.


No more pics but I love the variations/ varieties in fruit as different ones are suited for different uses. Other much loved fruit - Strawbs can't beat british strawbs and those first few sun warmed fruit are to die for, same as the first toms.Currants and good ole summer pud. Last year was my first proper year for chillies and chilli jelly is fab. Another must have is bramley apple sauce in the cupboard. I also have a large wild cherry which is large enough that I get a couple of batches of jam before the birds eat them although destoning is a faf so this year it will be jelly and butter/cheese.

I will stop going on now and let someone else show their fruit

[Small pumpkin]

I like growing and eating melons. No photos sorry, it's a house work day. If I go outside to take photos I won't come back in again
Like Norfolkgrey I have quite a lot of fruit ( unlike Norfolkgrey I don't like it )
1 Crab apple, 3 apple, 1 pear, 1 cherry, 3 plum trees, lots of raspberries, tayberry, Logan berry, 2 red And 3 black currents,1 jostaberry, 2 gooseberry, lots of strawberries and 1 rhubarb.
Everything except the strawberries and rhubarb came with the house and as the house is rented they have to stay. I don't even like eating the fruit ( apart from the plums) especially the berries .
I would like to grow nectarines but they don't like it up here.

[wild]

Oh my goodness everyone, Norfolk Grey! The photos are gorgeous! So inspired to get more and more and more.... Hahaha!

Thank you so much for sharing, I'm in love with them!

[FB.]

......I am having a bit of a battle with canker on quite a few of my trees.....

How's the baby apple tree doing that you had from me a few years ago?

[Guest]

How's the baby apple tree doing that you had from me a few years ago?

I think she is doing well but I will let you look for yourself. She has been potted on for this year (the big one at the back) and hoping to plant her out next year. The smaller ones around her are the grafts I done last year. Thank you so much for your help, advice, generosity. I know I wouldn't be this comfortable about fruit if you hadn't helped

[BUFFS]

I love the red haven peaches from the back greenhouse and the moorecroft apricots, the taste of the fruit just off the trees is unbelievable, but I have problems trying to get photos onto here so I have given up..

[planetologist]

My favourite fruit is blackcurrant: needs almost no care: 2 minutes per bush of pruning a year, lots of produce, birds don't eat them, really tasty.

[wild]

My favourite fruit is blackcurrant: needs almost no care: 2 minutes per bush of pruning a year, lots of produce, birds don't eat them, really tasty.

Awesome! May I ask where you get yours from? I'd love to get some. The one's at my local garden centre looked super unhealthy unfortunately

[devonuk]

OK greenhouse , apples and plums and blueberries with mulberry at the back , gooseberry hin red hoping to be double cordon when it grows up , seedling peaches .

How do you eat blackcurrants? I make ice cream out of them, but then I worry that fruit shouldn't just be a vehicle for lots of sugar and fat.

[Scarlet]

My favourite fruit is blackcurrant: birds don't eat them, really tasty.

That's so lucky! They love them here.

[Tripmeup]

I have blackcurrant, redcurrant and various gooseberry bushes. I love blackcurrant and redcurrant jam

[Jay-ell]

Hard to think of a favourite fruit. I didn't think I was growing much fruit but....

My strawberries and Pineberries are growing underneath my red currants and gooseberry plants. These are (ok will be) underneath my kiwi fruit.

I've got my apples, pears, cherry and plums set up to grow as cordons.

Honeyberries are coming along and growing (half a dozen berries this year but the plants are small)

I've a himalayan honeysuckle in a pot. and a few black currants.

There's pomegranate and 3 banana plants in the greenhouse. There's also a hardy orange and a blue sausage tree.

There's thornless blackberries starting to grow up over the entrance arch. I think I have a pot with a Tayberry and have 4 grapes I'm looking for space for.

I've just split up one rhubarb plant into 4 and have another plant in full swing (this one is a giant)

I think that I have a couple of raspberry canes somewhere.

These have all been put in last year or this year (apart from the rhubarb which is under the shed) so aren't producing yet.