The fruit Orchard - page 2

Blackberry is one of the most prized berries for jams. Thornless varieties make the pleasure even more appealing! Here are

Cherry trees are among the most common fruit trees found in our orchards.

The bigarreau cherry tree produces beautiful cherries, sweet and fleshy and firm, and its productivity is abundant.

The chestnut is definitely a fruit that symbolizes fall. Available from mid-September onwards, there’s a six-week time frame during which ripe chestnut can be harvested.

The acidic soil-loving chestnut tree is much appreciated for its round silhouette, its resilience, and most of all, its fruits! Chestnuts share an incredible abundance of nutrients, not to mention the delicious honey bees produce from the flower’s nectar.

Tasty and vitamin-rich, currant is the chance to cook up delicious jelly.

The fig tree isn’t reserved to hot-weather climates in the South. Some hardy varieties make it possible to harvest these sweet fruits even in regions up North.

The fig tree is an amazing fruit tree with very unique leaves.

Fall and Winter are the time to apply various treatments that will help eliminate parasites and fungus from fruit trees. This will reduce risk of disease in Spring.

Black goji is a a different species than the more famous red goji berry, but it shares similar growing habits and its berries give the same

Why not try your hand at growing grapes? Fall is the best season to plant a grapevine, why not start now?

The pruning of a grapevine is an important step that determines proper fruit formation and harvest.

Corylus avellana, better known as the common hazelnut and more rarely aveline,  is a shrub fruit tree that is very interesting for its blond or green hazelnuts.

Hazel is a fruit shrub that is sought after for its delicious green or blond hazelnuts.

So you’re bored with the usual apple sauce or strawberry jam, these are sooo conventional. Why not innovate and try a new fruit – quince?

The most commonly cultivated species, Moringa oleifera, is a smallish tree that grows fast. In temperate climates, it can only survive indoors.

Want to discover how enjoyable it is to sink your teeth into an apple from your very own garden? Planting a formed apple tree is the first step, and you’ll know that crunchy bite as soon as next fall!

The ‘Beurre Hardy’ pear tree is one of the earliest fruits for harvest in orchards at the end of summer.

Plum tree is magnificent from spring to fall, and offers abundant harvests of plums.

Raspberry is easy to grow and the harvest is abundant.

Raspberry, black currant, red currant: to ensure a plentiful harvest of small fruits in the following summer, plant in fall.

Picholine olive is a special olive variety native to southern France. Consumers are often unaware of the fact: olive oil from Nîmes was awarded in 2004 the title of “controlled designation of origin“: Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée (AOC) in French.

Olive tree, both potted and planted in the ground, certainly is a kind of tree that garners much attention these days.

September is a generous month, harvests are plentiful: apples, pears, walnuts, chestnuts… Sometimes, when we don’t know how to keep them, we don’t even try to harvest them and let them go to waste.

Acerola, also called Barbados cherry, is a red-colored fruit renowned and appreciated for its high levels of vitamin C.