I sometimes get complaints about poor performance in raspberries. The most common complaint by far is reduced fruit quality: yields have decreased, and the fruits have become smaller, less sweet, and even less flavorful. I have noticed that most often this complaint comes from older raspberries. The reason for this is because raspberries tend to [...]
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Strawberries 101
Strawberries are one of my favorite things to have in the garden. There are many varieieties of strawberries, but essentially they all fall into one of three categories. 1 – Everbearing: this is a bit of a misnomer. Everbearing strawberries do not bear fruit throughout the growing season as their name would suggest. They typically [...]
Creating ‘Seedless’ Fruit: the Odd-Diploidy Plant
Seedless fruit rarely occurs in nature. This makes sense, of course: Nature is in the business of creating and furthering life. The seedless fruit you will find in the grocery store is the result of an interesting breeding manipulation developed by geneticists years ago. Now for some science: Different organisms have differing numbers of copies [...]
Dwarfing in Fruit Trees
A lot of fruit trees these days are sold as miniatures, dwarfs, or semi-dwarfs. The reasons for the production of reduced-size fruit trees are many: 1) they’re easier to maintain in general (you have less tree to prune, fertilize, water, etc.), 2) they produce fruit sooner and more often, 3) they produce superior fruit altogether, [...]
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