cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21789538
Not necessarily your favourite fruit to eat, but what is/are your favourite fruit tree(s) to grow based on survival rate, fruit yield, ease of maintenance, ease of harvest, grass-killing prowess, and any other combination of factors? What is/are your least favourite? If you have photos or diagrams to illustrate your point, even better!
(If you provide your region and/or Köppen-Geiger or Trewartha climate zone, it will help others to know what to plant or what to avoid!)
Yes, that is a bush. What do you like about it?
The fruit yield, mostly. I think it might grow up to three full sets of blue berries in a year. Also it is very easy to maintain and delicious.
I also have black berries, which have the same properties. But they’re thorny and grow everywhere you don’t want them.
Continuous harvest is the best! We can’t just stop eating when the plants stop fruiting, so having successive fruiting seasons in a year is really helpful. If durian fruited year-round… monoculture would be tempting.
Do you trellis the blackberries or just let them sprawl everywhere?
I cut my blackberries every two years, except for some main branches that cover the hedge between my garden and my neighbour. It gives a good coverage during the winter when the hedge looses some thickness.