Blueberries, blueberries and more blueberries. I just love blueberries, I have over 30 blueberry shrubs.

I grow blueberries too. I used to grow blackberries, but got some plants with cane borers, and that meant I had to sacrifice all of the bushes....so I planted iris and daylilies there.

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We grow strawberries, raspberries (Purple Royalty is so delicious), blueberries, lingonberries, cranberries (trying to anyway), hardy kiwi, grapes, apples, peaches, pears, cherries, schisandra, goumi, aronia, sloe, buffaloberry, Asian pear, tayberry, gooseberry, currants, etc. Just put in persimmon, green gage, pears to make perry, honeyberry, prinsepia, seaberry, cornelian cherry. I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

Blueberries also, fig and persimmon. Will be adding raspberry.

Peaches, plums, figs, blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, and Bitter orange. I've finally started gardening with herbs too, just so I can have something fresh to eat with all my produce. I haven't seen any dill pop up yet, but I have faith.

Holy Hannah Betty - that's quite the list!! I am in awe. I have two european plums, yet to fruit, and two Anjou pears, which have flower buds on them for the first time. My low-bush blueberry did not make it though the winter, so i need more!! Rhubarb, of course. I need apple, probably Corltand, my fav, and hardy kiwis are on my wish list!!

Nancy.

Well, ok, I have more than just the blueberries but those are my favorites. I have five dwarf cherry trees, a mulberry, about 15 Serviceberry shrubs, 6 red currants, 4 gooseberries, 8 thornless erect blackberries and 9 Goumi shrubs. Goumi make sour fruit that the birds just love but I guess people use them for jelly. Eat them fresh and it REALLY makes you mouth pucker, so sour. But I like them.Oh, and I have some strawberries also.

Wow! Some of you have a lot of fruit, which is wonderful and I can't wait to have a list like that. I did get five royalty purple raspberries today :)

Tyler is 10 years old and VERY excited about his garden this year. He's going to grow watermelons (his favorite) and wanted to know what fruits other gardeners like to grow.

I'll print this off for him in a few days (in case anyone wants to add anything else).

Herbal Betty, that's an awesome list! WOW!

I have several blueberries (nothing like NYRita up there!!) and I under planted them with strawberries and violets and johnny jump ups and some oldfashioned dianthus (until strawberries fill in (they are loaded with fruit right now!!) tomorrow bird foils must go up near the berries, one pecked a hole in a berry today right before my eyes!.
I have a jujube, two pomegranites, a fig, three asian pears, three paw paw, an apple (it's boyfriend will arrive in the fall), two plums, rhubarb.
Rita, I'm considering Goumi but I can't find anyone who's got a really great fruiting cultivar here that tastes good. A friend has several (she didn't even know what they were) but they are yucky - or maybe normal and I don't like them :)
I also have nanking cherries, and a Raisin Tree is coming soon, my friend grew that for me.
I bought a purple plum from Ebay, (a GW friend grows and sells them) and she grew it from a pit. Hers fruit nicely and I am interested to taste.
We have a pecan, two hazelnuts and my neighbor planted an Oak I wanted right on the property line so I can collect larger acorns and mill them into flour. I'm in the process of planting fruit along our sloping property line so that they can easily pick from their side too even with a fence.

I have some nanking cherries too, but I never see fruit on them.

I got my Goumi from Raintree Nursery. They are some named variety but I can't remember the variety name right now. Your Goumi probably tastes normal, I have never met anyone that can eat the fruit raw except me. They are REALLY sour.

I have a new garden this year so I have to start over with everything. I am planting strawberries, watermelon and musk melon this year. I may add an apple tree if I can find one locally that I like.

I hope your garden does well this year, Tyler. I hope you have a fun time tending to it with your very sweet Aunt too.

MeMo

Girlgroup, let me know about your raisin tree, that sounds interesting. We are trying to get a hazel coppice established. And we have rhubarb - forgot about that! And a jujube I started from seed that I will plant outside this year. And musk strawberries (planted those last year and they have spread like crazy, can't wait to taste them). Alpine strawberries started from seed. Those are wonderful and the grandkids race towards them. And, "regular" strawberries.

lavender_lass,

If you have enough warmth to allow Tyler to grow watermelons, encourage him to also try Aunt Molly's Ground Cherries. It's a really easy plant to grow, doesn't seem to have a problem with garden pests, grows fast and produces these little fruits that actually come in their own wrapper! I'm trying them for the first time this year and it's such a fun plant to watch. Other gardener's have reported that kids adore this plant and it's little fruits. When the fruits are ripe, they automatically drop off of the plant, so for children, it is ideal as they will easily know when to harvest (just pick them up off of the ground). :-)

The plant doesn't get very tall so another plus for a child's garden. Of course, it's really not a cherry. The flavor is sometimes described as being between a citrus and pineapple flavor. Adults who are familiar with this plant remember, as kids, how much fun they had eating the little fruits.

Tell Tyler we wish him great success with his watermelons this summer.

Mary

I am impressed with all the variety.

We have blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, peaches, pears, plums and apricot (1) tree which amazingly is going to have a crop this year. I have 5 more trees to plant when the ground dries out some: Liberty apple, Madison and Gloria peach, Shiro and Queen Rosa Japanese plums. The only thing missing is a coupe of European plums and I will have to wait until spring to get those.

Some of the trees are just now bearing a few fruit.

Raisin Tree: weird because you eat the end of the branches! They taste just like raisins but I prefer the texture. Excellent for cooking and baking. See the link below.

A favorite are the white musk strawberries because they are bird proof! They make an excellent ground cover under fruit trees that are pruned properly for fruiting with a very wide open canopy.

NYRita, thanks for telling me how tart the goumi are. I'll skip them. I have enough fruit to feed an army and also enough fruit more suitable to can (and eventually more coming!!).

Mary was smart to bring up annual fruit! We grow lots of annual fruits here too. Melons of all kinds, I'm trying ground cherries (again, under planted trees so if they get "weedy" they'll be a good ground cover for years to come).

Here is a link that might be useful: Raisin tree

Blueberries, strawberries, pears, peaches, apples, blackberries and grapes, pie cherries, red plums, wild Sand Plums, and gobs of tomatoes of various varieties.

Tomatoes grow well by the grapes and are mutually beneficial;
Strawberries grow great in front of Asparagus and are mutually beneficial;
Irises do well around most fruit trees, but garden phlox, tulips, catnip, bee balm, garlic, and Lemon balm love it there too;
Blueberries do well for me here in Okie with some afternoon shade from the weeping willow and the peach tree on the west side of the rose garden;
I have one circular strawberry bed around a large Salvia greggii (Autumn Sage). The Salvia attracts hummingbirds and pollinators and wards off insects that like to gnaw on the berries. The insects don't like the smell of the sage. It looks great together too. It is situated between two pine trees. I use the pine straw (fallen pine needles) for mulch.
Blackberries grow on the fence at the back of my rose garden, and up in the vegetable garden plot along the fence row.
Two years in a row, my Lemon Cucumbers grew up onto the fence at the back of the rose garden and then continued to grow well up into the Red Plum tree at the back of the garden (north end). They loved the support and the little bit of shade in the tree. I got so many cukes you wouldn't have believed it!

~Annie

I wanted to thank everyone for all the great suggestions. Tyler is going to love reading everyone's input and I'm sure he'll get all kinds of new ideas for his garden :)