Home Orchard Society
Growing Good Fruit at Home
Berries
Of all cultivated fruits, blueberries are one of the best for the home garden. The beautiful bushes blend well into landscaping, growing four to eight feet tall with small, white urn-shaped flowers in spring followed by big crops of blue berries and lovely autumn foliage. Nutritional research... More
Haskap berries are native to
Hokkaido, the northern Island of Japan. Historically, wild-growing plants
provided one of the few fruits available to the Aniu people, the indigenous
population on this island. They appreciated their taste and also recognized
their high nutritional value. In... More
According to most sources, trailing berries (i.e. Marion, Logan, Boysen, Cascade) should be planted 6 to 8 feet apart with 8 to 10 plants for a family of 4. For those of us living in cities, this requires too much space. Yet these luscious, soft, juicy, not easy to ship and store berries, are a... More