It’s Time For A Conservative Purge

[roamer_1]

Obviously, yours are the ones they refer to as Western huckleberries.

Edit to add that the ones that we have down here grow in shady low places in the woods. Doubt they would do well in a cultivated environment anywhere.

@Bigun
I am probably going to give em another shot - I do Back to Eden gardening now... The garden is a little too new right now, but once I get a year or two more on it, and the loam under the wood chips gets deep, I think I will try again. It's the craziest thing about wood chips... Everything just grows. PH don't matter... just shove any ol thing in the ground, any ol where, and off it goes.

[Bigun]

@Bigun
I can't wait for the plums... That's what they are for - Plum jam or plum butter... Apples and pears are about last... They go heavy to apple and pear butter around here... Though a family friend makes a caramel apple jam that about turns any ol hunk of bread into pie, I swear... That's my favorite time... the apple harvest is all of what you'd figure... everywhere you go there's apple pie, and apple cobbler, apple fritters, and more pie... *THE BEST*

I hear tell of folks weathering through and getting two harvests... planting early and then late... not here, as we get about one shot at it and then we're done. That's good though, as that leaves us open for hunting season 

@roamer_1

LOL!  LOVE me some apple pie!  Especially the deep dish ones!  We get some wild plums around here but for some odd reason, I just don't care for them so I leave them for those that do.

Never tried nursing Mater plants through before. Usually just put out new plants around the middle of August for a fall crop but these (Arkansas Traveler variety) are so nice I just had to try it.  The produced great this spring and still have plenty of blooms on them but won't set any fruit until the nights cool off a bit more.

[Bigun]

@Bigun
I am probably going to give em another shot - I do Back to Eden gardening now... The garden is a little too new right now, but once I get a year or two more on it, and the loam under the wood chips gets deep, I think I will try again. It's the craziest thing about wood chips... Everything just grows. PH don't matter... just shove any ol thing in the ground, any ol where, and off it goes.

   Look forward to hearing how that works!

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe

Maybe the winters are too harsh for them to survive there or perhaps the soil isn't acidic enough to support them.

Found a site that sells plants if you should care to give it a try.  https://www.tnnursery.net/wild-huckleberry-for-sale/

Thanks, and bookmarked for later review. I notice they consider November "Fall",. when here, whatever you call it, it sure feels and looks a lot like winter (subzero temps are not uncommon). They may not be hardy enough for this climate.

[jmyrlefuller]

@jmyrlefuller, I like the new avatar photo.   

Heh. If there's one thing I have in common with my fellow millennials, it's that I've mastered the art of the selfie.

Besides, anything was better than the Tom Jones flatulence gag that was there before.

[Sanguine]

Heh. If there's one thing I have in common with my fellow millennials, it's that I've mastered the art of the selfie.

Besides, anything was better than the Tom Jones flatulence gag that was there before.

I'll agree with that last sentence!

[corbe]

   I like it also, @jmyrlefuller you'e a handsome guy, if I had a VJJ I'd date you.