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Years ago, my doctor buddy diagnosed me as OCD, which I have now embraced. I never gardened until about 7 years ago when my daughter Felicia began eating and loving fresh fruits and vegetables. I'm now up to:
36 varieties of non-citrus "tree" fruits (27 fruit trees)
26 varieties of citrus trees (46 citrus trees)
30 varieties of berries (39 berry bushes + well over 50 strawberry plants)
My non-citrus fruit tree collection includes:
4 Stone Fruit "Cocktail" trees (2 Esplaniered, 2 "norm" grafted) with peach (Red Haven & Frost), apricot (Puget Gold), nectarine (Hardy Red) and plum (Yellow, Green Gage & Italian)
1 Santa Rosa Plum (NEW: Sept. 25, 2015)
3 Nectarines (Independence, Hardy Red, Flavortop)
1 Oscar Pear
1 European pear combo tree (Seckel, Flemish Beauty, Anjou, Comice)
2 Fuji apple
1 6 variety Apple esplaniered tree
3 Cherry combo (4 varieties each tree)
1 Asian pear combo (Chojuro, Hosui, Kosuri, & Shinseiki)
1 Chojuro Asian Pear
1 20th Century Asian Pear (NEW Sept. 25, 2015)
3 Fuyu persimmon (1 in my greenhouse, 1 outside, 1 rescue)
2 Izu persimmon (NEW Oct. 1, 2015)
1 Desert King Fig tree
1 Negronne Fig tree (NEW SEPT. 2015)
1 Arbequinna Olive tree (NEW Oct. 1, 2015)
Now my citrus collection consists of:
LEMONS:
3 Ponderosa lemons (8 years old from cuttings) - all have fruit
4 Improved Meyers - fruit (2 NEW RESCUES SEPT. 2015)
3 Eureka - fruit
LIMES:
1 Australian Finger limes (rarest type of citrus in Canada)
1 Bearrs
3 Key limes - fruit
2 ****** - fruit
1 Palestinian Sweet Lime
1 Unknown Sweet Lime (RESCUE SEPT. 2015)
SWEET ORANGES/MANDARINS/SATSUMAS:
1 Washington Navel
1 Weeping Washington Navel
2 Cara Cara (1 NEW SEPT. 2015)
2 Owari Satsuma - fruit
1 Okitsu Wasa Satsuma - fruit
1 Page Mandarin - fruit
1 Kara Mandarin -fruit
4 Kishu seedless Mandarin - fruit (1 NEW Sept. 25, 2015)
2 Tangerine (both rescues)
MISCEL Citrus:
2 Pomelo (1 NEW RESCUE from neglectful owner SEPT. 2015)
5 Yuzu ichandrin (2 NEW Sept. 25, 2015; 2 NEW Oct. 3, 2015)
2 Calamondin - fruit
1 Melogold Grapefruit (rescue)
2 Saduchi ichandrin (1 NEW 2015)
BERRIES in my collection include:
16 Blueberry bushes (Duke, Elliott, Pink Lemonade, Bluecrop, Reka, Brigitta)
2 Black Currant
2 Red Currant
2 Thornless Blackberry
1 Thornless Raspberry
1 Yellow Raspberry
2 Red Raspberry
1 Cranberry
2 Gooseberry
2 Cape Gooseberry
1 Lingonberry
1 Elderberry
1 Mulberry
1 Loganberry
1 Tayberry
2 Boysenberry
1 Huckleberry
Countless strawberries (at least 8 varieties)
I have a large (by Metro Vancouver standards) backyard, but in my mind, I have "acreage"
:bigsmile:
I'll be starting my seedlings soon and then I'll be planting several varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, squashes, Chinese vegetables, lettuce, potatoes etc. This mild winter has allowed my Swiss chard, Rainbow chard and Brocollini to survive and now we're already harvesting and eating fresh garden veggies from my backyard.
Anthony
36 varieties of non-citrus "tree" fruits (27 fruit trees)
26 varieties of citrus trees (46 citrus trees)
30 varieties of berries (39 berry bushes + well over 50 strawberry plants)
My non-citrus fruit tree collection includes:
4 Stone Fruit "Cocktail" trees (2 Esplaniered, 2 "norm" grafted) with peach (Red Haven & Frost), apricot (Puget Gold), nectarine (Hardy Red) and plum (Yellow, Green Gage & Italian)
1 Santa Rosa Plum (NEW: Sept. 25, 2015)
3 Nectarines (Independence, Hardy Red, Flavortop)
1 Oscar Pear
1 European pear combo tree (Seckel, Flemish Beauty, Anjou, Comice)
2 Fuji apple
1 6 variety Apple esplaniered tree
3 Cherry combo (4 varieties each tree)
1 Asian pear combo (Chojuro, Hosui, Kosuri, & Shinseiki)
1 Chojuro Asian Pear
1 20th Century Asian Pear (NEW Sept. 25, 2015)
3 Fuyu persimmon (1 in my greenhouse, 1 outside, 1 rescue)
2 Izu persimmon (NEW Oct. 1, 2015)
1 Desert King Fig tree
1 Negronne Fig tree (NEW SEPT. 2015)
1 Arbequinna Olive tree (NEW Oct. 1, 2015)
Now my citrus collection consists of:
LEMONS:
3 Ponderosa lemons (8 years old from cuttings) - all have fruit
4 Improved Meyers - fruit (2 NEW RESCUES SEPT. 2015)
3 Eureka - fruit
LIMES:
1 Australian Finger limes (rarest type of citrus in Canada)
1 Bearrs
3 Key limes - fruit
2 ****** - fruit
1 Palestinian Sweet Lime
1 Unknown Sweet Lime (RESCUE SEPT. 2015)
SWEET ORANGES/MANDARINS/SATSUMAS:
1 Washington Navel
1 Weeping Washington Navel
2 Cara Cara (1 NEW SEPT. 2015)
2 Owari Satsuma - fruit
1 Okitsu Wasa Satsuma - fruit
1 Page Mandarin - fruit
1 Kara Mandarin -fruit
4 Kishu seedless Mandarin - fruit (1 NEW Sept. 25, 2015)
2 Tangerine (both rescues)
MISCEL Citrus:
2 Pomelo (1 NEW RESCUE from neglectful owner SEPT. 2015)
5 Yuzu ichandrin (2 NEW Sept. 25, 2015; 2 NEW Oct. 3, 2015)
2 Calamondin - fruit
1 Melogold Grapefruit (rescue)
2 Saduchi ichandrin (1 NEW 2015)
BERRIES in my collection include:
16 Blueberry bushes (Duke, Elliott, Pink Lemonade, Bluecrop, Reka, Brigitta)
2 Black Currant
2 Red Currant
2 Thornless Blackberry
1 Thornless Raspberry
1 Yellow Raspberry
2 Red Raspberry
1 Cranberry
2 Gooseberry
2 Cape Gooseberry
1 Lingonberry
1 Elderberry
1 Mulberry
1 Loganberry
1 Tayberry
2 Boysenberry
1 Huckleberry
Countless strawberries (at least 8 varieties)
I have a large (by Metro Vancouver standards) backyard, but in my mind, I have "acreage"
I'll be starting my seedlings soon and then I'll be planting several varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, squashes, Chinese vegetables, lettuce, potatoes etc. This mild winter has allowed my Swiss chard, Rainbow chard and Brocollini to survive and now we're already harvesting and eating fresh garden veggies from my backyard.
Anthony