I’ve heard that some cultivars are very sweet with almost no tartness to them. I think ‘Indigo Treat’ and ‘Aurora’ varieties are two of the higher sugar/lower acid, and I personally think they’re sweeter than blueberries. But you can also harvest them early and get a real blast of yummy tartness instead

They’re sweet and tart, with a little bit more depth of flavor than I find in blueberries

Nothing yet, our cherries just started flowering this past week. Same for the haskaps, and the plums should be flowering in the next week or two. Our patch of ramps has grown again, which is nice.

We have one rule here at Beehaw, which is to be(e) nice. There are several other comments that were posted before yours, whose creators managed to call out that it’s ai without running afoul of this rule. I would advise you to emulate them with any further comments you choose to make.

🤷 sometimes I’ll just post the things that my wife sends me saying “this is you”

I’ll cop to using the tractor for bigger things but we do something very similar

I would totally use those chairs to bask under this beauty

What did you do with the rest of them?

Yay peas! I planted ‘sugar snap’ and ‘sugar anne’ today after picking up some hog panels for trellising. Hopefully the other seeds get with the program!

For the blueberries - remove any flower stems back to where they branch from the larger stem this first year. You want them putting their energy into leaves and roots. They appreciate a more acid soil and easy access to water. Top dressing with sulphur, or even the occasional diluted apple cider vinegar will help them create the subsoil conditions they prefer.

Very cool! I applaud the coarseness of the mulch you’ve used

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I’m now up 40 echinacea and 15 lilacs and 40 assorted elderberry (not pictured), with mulching of the pots still to be done after I sift the mulch.

Everything in the low tunnel is starting to take off too! There’s about 20 feet / 6 meters of space under this greenhouse poly - the pallets are keeping the pvc frames in place and the potted trees that are too vig to fit under the cover are keeping the poly in place very nicely. They seem to be quite happy receiving the ambient heat from the low tunnel, which is getting to some nice summer temperatures even on our chilly days.

No, but I’ll try to keep this conversation in mind the next time I go and ask

I am not really a cucumber enthusiast, but ‘Longfellow’ might be worth growing. The seed core looks fairly robust for these, and it’s the only one I’ve spotted where the description talks about the flesh being melty

It’s in the area, but our nursery friend’s trees have been unaffected so far. It’s possible that the other batch came from an improved stock / from transgenic trees but I don’t seem to have confirmation in my notes

So far it’s all spring onions for us, but I’m seeing the sorrels I split last fall coming back as of the past few days.

They’re american chestnut, several given to us by a friend without any kind of cultivar information. We’ve also got another nursery owner who’ll sometimes give me a bag of horse chestnut seeds when the trees that line his property have a good year

Very cool!

The snow we’re getting today doesn’t seem to be sticking but our lows tonight and tomorrow are definitely NSF wee plants