Cold Climate Gardening » Fruit

If you like strawberries and have tried growing them, then you’ll recognize this scenario. You find a strawberry plant loaded with fruit in the garden center. While your mouth waters and vision...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2014/05/10/how-to-enjoy-tasty-cold-climate-strawberries-and-book-giveaway/

A guest post about Meiwa kumquat trees for a blog about gardening in cold climates? Oh, yes. If you have a sunny spot in your yard in summer and a south- or south-west-facing window in your house...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2014/02/25/what-every-cold-climate-gardener-should-know-about-growing-kumquats/

My first introduction to Clayton was his comment on my post about cold climate seeds. On his recommendation I checked out the links in his sidebar. That’s how I found out he grows edible blue h...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2010/01/26/edible-blue-honeysuckle-a-fruit-for-cold-climates/

Many gardening books for children take what I think of as the art project approach: here’s what you need, this is what you do, isn’t that cute?, now show it to Grandma. Very few books out the...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2008/11/18/three-gardening-books-for-children/

We have three apples trees. They came with the place. That is how I know the secret to good apple pie and crisp is to start with delicious baking apples. When I started using these apples in the ...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2008/09/25/our-best-apple-recipes/

When we moved to this land, there were some grape vines already growing here. They were slipskin grapes, and if they weren’t Concord grapes, they certainly were similar to Concords. That’s no...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2008/09/10/what-to-do-with-concord-grapes/

Faithful readers of this blog will remember Rundy’s struggles with the brush mower, his love of fruit trees, and his fist-shaking frustration with animal pests. Those of you who are relatively ...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/01/28/rundy-publishes-his-first-book/

It was April. I had just come back from a cabin-fever-induced tramp over our field and through our woods. I had noticed this red-leafed vine growing all over:If our field is 5 acres, then this wa...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2006/09/06/is-it-could-it-be-poison-ivy/

Early summer is the time when I pass from the state of “getting behind” into the state of “being behind.” It is a time when there are a lot of beautiful things I might tak...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2006/06/16/594/

Sometimes, it’s better not to think about certain things. Sometimes it’s better to pretend you didn’t see, to not think about it. Sometimes one might wonder how there can be such moral quan...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2006/06/13/mow-the-field-mind-the-blueberries/