Fruits and Nuts: Fruit harvest - breakfast anyone?, 1 by krowten

krowten wrote:
Darius, My plants are still pretty small, but both Blue Moon and Blue Forest produced a fair amount of berries, maybe equivalent to blueberries in quantity/size for some blueberry varieties I have. OneGreenWorld sells a lot of different varieties of honeyberries divided into two categories, one earlier blooming than the other. My experience has been that the bees are not active when the early bloomers bloom here, so fruit production with them has been spotty. However, the later blooming ones, such as mentioned above, produce more reliably.

Still, when you consider that my first crops of the year are asparagus and honeyberries, followed by white strawberries and juneberries, honeyberries have their place. Also, I think Edible Landscaping is a warmer zone than here and these plants really like the cold weather. I have some dieback and some minor plant losses during the late summer which I've come to expect as typical. It might be that you just need the find the right variety for your area. However, I think that a fruiting plant that produces as early as honeyberries should be developed and will have a place in my garden.

Here's a pic of my Blue Forest this year. Not the best pic, but you can get an idea of productivity.