Blackberries Ripening
Added 2017-04-07 12:40:56 +0000 UTCThese will be ready in June. Blueberry season has already started!
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I've started tracking growing seasons across the continent by when we get different things in stores here. Florida strawberries came before Mexican ones, and we won't have California ones for at least a month. Local ones will be even later. Citrus is interesting. The lemon tree outside my apartment in grad school always had fruit on it, so I wondered if all citrus was technically seasonless. But I think of tangerines as winter only, and clementines similarly but with a slightly longer season. And of course, none of them will grow in Pennsylvania except indoors. (Well, with sufficient burlap and such, one might nurse a dwarf tree through the winter, but I don't think it would bear fruit.) On the other hand, we need winter's cold to get good apples, so there's a definite trade-off. (And the humidity down there would kill me long term, so I'll just have to enjoy the bounty from a distance.)
Erin Hartshorn
2017-04-07 14:13:04 +0000 UTCEverything here starts much earlier! And we have growing season year-round, with citrus being nearly the entirety of the year (with a break for summer) and strawberries, blueberries, cantaloupe, watermelon, guavas and mangoes processing from January into autumn to keep them company. (There are vegetables growing year round, too, but who's keeping track of that. >.> )
M.C.A. Hogarth
2017-04-07 13:24:35 +0000 UTCI have never seen neat and tidy blackberries before! In California, they sprawl and spread, a truly invasive plant. My father-in-law used to keep their patch trimmed with a small tractor (bigger than a riding mower, smaller than a farming vehicle). And peak blueberry season here is July. The city's blueberry festival tends to coincide with my son's birthday, for which he is grateful.
Erin Hartshorn
2017-04-07 13:22:12 +0000 UTC
