North Star Cherry Compared to Nanking Cherry
The smaller Nanking Cherries were more flavorful and sweeter than the larger North Star cherries, which were juicier.
Plate of Fruit
Pre-blueberry fruit picking: two varieties of goumi, Nanking cherry, and haskap. Birds got most of the Juneberries (Serviceberry, Saskatoon). And don’t currently grow strawberries.
Early June Fruit: Juneberry, Haskap, Goumi, Nanking Cherry
Excluding for the moment Juneberry, the real surprise to me here is the humble Nanking cherry. Though it colors up later than haskap or goumi, it gets sweet as early as they do, or sweeter earlier. Also, it’s a legit tree fruit that grows as low and precocious as a bush. A miniaturized tree fruit.… Continue reading Early June Fruit: Juneberry, Haskap, Goumi, Nanking Cherry
Nanking Cherry Ripe
Red and white Nanking cherry:
Goumi Time
Carmine goumi is considerably sweeter than Red Gem and Sweet Scarlet goumi, also much larger, more pulp, less skin. Carmine is like a small red grape with one big long seed in the middle, shape of a skinny football. Unless dead ripe, goumi will have some tartness to it. Again, Carmine is significantly sweeter and… Continue reading Goumi Time
accidental 100 percent rooting
Six and a half months ago, in mid November, I cut this Emerald Strawberry (UCD 143-36) scionwood, about 50 cuttings. I bundled them with vinegar-water soaked paper towels and wrapped them inside of a couple plastic grocery bags. I put them on the cement floor of my attached garage and forgot about them. After a… Continue reading accidental 100 percent rooting
Maxine Thompson’s Maxie Haskap Variety
Tart-sweet flavor when picked at this stage pre-ripe with green pulp. Fully ripe fruit would have purple pulp and be sweeter. Maxie variety of haskap propagated by Maxine Thompson:
Goumi Color and Size
Carmine goumi large size (near ripe green and early ripe orange), Red Gem goumi medium size (near ripe green, early ripe orange, ripe red), wild seedling goumi very, very small not ripe (at least I hope it is wild goumi seedling which is what it was sold to me as rather than Autumnberry, which is… Continue reading Goumi Color and Size
Haskap Ripe Mid May
A few haskap ripe a week ago, mid May.