Spring 2025: fruit trees!

Shrubs, bushes, trees… whatever. We thought it would be wise to grow more food in our garden, so in addition to the vegetable beds (which we are not currently planning to expand), we added several fruit-producing, well, twigs at the moment. Except the peach, that is almost as tall as me, and we have an American plum that just arrived today that is taller (and not pictured, since it’s not in the ground yet).

  • A blueberry surrounded by leftover bits of a holiday tree.
  • The other blueberry, also surrounded by leftover bits of a holiday tree.
  • A hazelnut tree
  • The other hazelnut tree
  • A peach tree, with the mulberry tree behind it.
  • A shrubbery! Wintergreen, to be specific, with a fingerful of pink berries.
  • A red currant bush

The holiday tree remnants around some of the twigs are to increase the acidity of the soil… yes, we deliberately saved pieces when we discarded the tree in January. Where there are two of something – hazelnut and blueberries – it’s because that’s needed for cross-pollination; otherwise, we’d just have a couple sad bushes with no fruit. And now we return to the bit where gardening is built on hope… and patience.

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