Beach plum, about the size of a sweet cherry, general plum flavor, peach colored pulp, bigger pit than a cherry.

Bumblebee hanging upside down amid unripe elderberries. Seemed to be cleaning its legs.

Comfrey blooms early in the season and throughout. A great companion plant for bushes and trees. Its taproot avoids the surface roots of other plants, bushes, trees.

Sweet slush pulp. Tart in the skin more appealing than off-putting.

First blackberries ripe. Possibly sawtooth variety. By the end of the year should have first-ripe times for a lengthy variety of fruits, to pair with my fig ripening-times list for northcentral West Virginia, zone 6b, elevation 1000 feet.

White currants ripening northern PA zone 5, 1700 feet north slope, June 22, 2023 photos. Not fully ripe but reasonably sweet, even far from dead ripe. White currants are sweeter than red currants.

Developing Canadice grapes using a bush as trellis. First year with grapes. Degree of success to be determined.

Unknown clingstone plum with good flavor, mild sweet pulp, somewhat tart skin. Looks like Palermo Red (Brooklyn Dark, etc) breba fig and tastes somewhat like a watery version of a Palermo Red breba fig. Possibly a cherry plum? Ripe July 1, northcentral WV zone 6b, elevation 1000 feet, east slope.

Now that songbirds and gray squirrels have eaten the last of the juneberries and the few sweet cherries, Carmine Jewel bush cherry has come into production, along with mulberry, alongside the continued production of goumi, also haskap, goji, and Nanking Cherry. This bush cherry took a few years and probably fortunate frost timing in spring… Continue reading Cherry, Goumi, Mulberry

Apart from the already ripe or ripening perennial fruits of blue honeysuckle, goumi, and juneberry, followed by various cherries and goji (discussed and shown in the previous post), other fruits continue their development. Northcentral West Virginia, growing zone 6, elevation 1000 feet, east slope, photos below show the current unripe progress of peach, plum (Asian,… Continue reading Fruit Development Stage, June 1, 2023