Honeyberry is an edible fruiting bush that is in the Lonicera genus. This bush is also called Haskap. They are the first ripe fruit of the year and birds take advantage of that.
Category Archives: Fruit
Asian Plum Flowers
The Ussurian Plums have started to flower. 2nd year in a row this tree has been loaded with flowers.
Nanking Cherry Spring Show
The Nanking Cherries(Prunus tomentosa) are some of the earliest flowering bushes around. They were full of flowers this spring.
Collecting Wood for Grafting
I collected various apple and pear scions for grafting. Avenarius apple and Turnbull pear are a couple examples of what I will try to graft later this spring.
5 Gallon Jalapeno
This year was the largest harvest of Jalapenos I’ve ever had. What I do not use fresh I dry and use throughout the year.
Asian Pear
The Giant Asian Pear is finally producing fruit now after many barren years. The brown fruit is similar in size to the apple on the right.
Bird Berries
There are a lot berries that are not edible for me, but birds love. Devil’s Walking Stick(Aralia spinosa) berries and Multiflora Rose(Rosa multiflora) Hips and Pokeweed(Phytolacca americana) berries.
Orange Watermelon
Watermelons grew alright this summer, more than some years, less than others. So far orange, yellow, and pink watermelons have been grown here.
Best Peach Day
The best day of the peach harvest would yield 100 pounds of peach fruit. In all, there was over 1,100 pounds of peach fruit this year.
Joy Cherry
Joy and Joel Cherry are sour fruits that look like sour cherries. They are not actually a cherry, but similar. They are very ornamental with spring flowers, red fruits in late summer, and good fall color, too.