Celt, I was not including veggies. You can help yourself to the groundhogs, but the turtles are off limits.

I can give some cherry tree info for zone 7a (Virginia). It has taken quite a few tries to get varieties that work with the heat and humidity here. Here is the list of trees in ground that have produced and still look good after 6 years.

SWEET on colt and g5 rootstock
1. Black York- best looking trees taste the most like bing to me
2. White gold- taste ok not a fan of the light cherries
3. black gold- better tasting than white gold but the trees get leaf spot
4. Black tartarian- tree looks rough but good loads of sweet soft cherries that don't crack. Does get black rot if you don't pick as they ripen

SOUR
1. Meteor- almost the same as mont. Taste wise.... Better looking trees
2. Montmorency- not as healthy as Meteor
3. Surefire- look good so far only in ground for 2 years

Bush cherries
1. Carmine jewel- about 6 feet tall good taste not much fruit

Losers for me
Bing
Rainer
Van
Sweetheart
North star
Jan -bush
Joy- bush
Joel- bush

Hope that helps.

ive heard mixed things about the carmine jewels, i was thinking about getting one of those. are they really sour or just a little sour? how do they compare to sweet cherries? any other input on them?

Some of these:

I also grow Carmine Jewel cherries, but no fruit yet. I forgot to list that and nanking cherry, no fruit there either.

Thomas black walnut - heavy bearing of large nuts

Here is what I can tell you about Carmen Jewel bush cherries. They are tart. They get less tart the longer they hang on the tree, but they are tart. They make a great pie. I haven't got enough to make a batch of jam, but it would be good. The bush needs to be out of direct sun or it gets leaf problems. May be why I don't get as much fruit. I like tart cherries. Can't wait to dry them!

i grow few plumeria. nothing i can eat, but it smells wonderful. i'll probably increase that next year in number.

pete

Looking for cuttings of grape to buy. Please PM me.

There are a few OT threads about rooting mulberrie cuttings. 

i can't really say that I am growing anything, it's really more like I am trying not to kill what we currently have:

• Fig (3)
• 20th Century pear
• Bartlett pear
• Big Jim loquat
• Giant Fuyu persimmon
• Navel orange
• Unknown orange
• Bearss lime

• Blueberry (several)
• Satsuma orange
• Pineapple guava
• Bing cherry
• Crabapple (several)
• Bearss lime

Linda
I am sure you are not killing them intentionally. 
I would guess you are just not taking enough time to get to know your green friends..LOL

Let's see, what else do I grow?

I'm upto 9 potted fig cultivars  (with several more curantly rooting)
Apples (8 cultivars)
Pears (2 European, 4 Asian)
Nectarine (4 cultivars)
Apricot (1 cultivar)
Plum (5 European, 7 Japanese)
Peach (3 cultivars)
Goji Berry (1 cultivar)
Strawberry (6 cultivars including Pine Berry)
Raspberry (6 cultivars)
Aroina Berry (1 cultivar)
Honey Berry (2 cultivars)
Grapes (2 cultivars)
Banana (1 cultivar)
Pineapple (1 cultivar)
Aspirigrass (1 cultivar)
And whatever I can stuff into my 2500 and 1600 sq ft gardens and anywhere else that there is space. 

I also have an addition 13 trees ordered that will be in sometime this spring, a mix of Cherry, Pear, Apple, Nectarine, Peach, Apricot and couple of interspecific cultivars.

No, oh my no! I like my job and would like to keep it! !!!!

Legalities between state and federal differ greatly.

I'm working on creating a mini-orchard/edible landscape on my 1/3 acre with as much variety as I can get (biodiversity and a long harvest season). I'm trying to grow low/no spray varieties when possible. Everything planted in the last 2.5 years, so I haven't really gotten to full cropping on anything except raspberries.

I have planted...

Trees
- Apples - 2 trees, grafting over several branches in spring.
- Pears - 3 trees, grafting over several branches in spring.
- Shipova and Baby Shipova
- Plums - 2 trees, grafting over several branches in spring.
- Peach - 1 tree
- Pawpaws - 2 seedlings, hoping to graft some named varieties on. Starting lots of seeds too, will probably plant another couple seedlings as the deer don't touch them and they do well in part shade.
- Persimmon - Planting 1 D. kaki in spring, hope to start seed and graft over other D. kaki and virginiana varieties.

Bushes/Berries
- Figs (of course) - 7 in ground and lots in pots/rooting. More to plant next year.
- Blueberries - 8 or so bushes
- Raspberries - A patch of red and yellow and and patch of black. Also a dwarf variety grown in containers.
- Blackberries - 3 bushes
- Strawberries - in big pots
- Serviceberry

Honorable mentions
- Bearberry
- Mahonia repens - if the deer didn't kill it

Fruits are my favorite, but I also have a vegetable garden with the standard fare (tomatoes, peppers, cukes, and zucchini) every year. Going to try growing some dwarf melons this year too.

Mixed in are plants to feed birds (winterberry, viburnums, bayberry etc) and a mostly native pollinator garden for bees/butterflies.

I'm slowly converting my 1/4 acre suburban yard into an edible landscape.  I've been working on it on and off for a little over 3 years (when the kids allow).

What I've managed to plant/grow so far:

• Blueberries - 6 varieties
• Raspberries - 12 varieties
• Strawberries - 3 everbearing varieties, 1 June bearing, pineberry, and yellow alpine strawberries
• Blackberries - 3 bushes, 2 types
• Juneberries - 3 varieties
• Goumi
• Goji
• Jostaberry
• Gooseberry - 2 types
• Currant, white
• Paw paws - 3 cultivars planted as hedge
• Elderberries - 2 varieties
• 2 unknown figs in ground, 5 in pots

• Razz and Bonus blueberries
• Caroline, Fall Gold, and Niwot raspberries
• Purple Passion and Jersey Knight asparagus (starting from seed)
• Ichi Ki Kei Jiro persimmon
• Sunflower paw paw
• one more Juneberry
• Kokuso mulberry
• 2 Jujubes
• Arctic kiwi
• Bush cherry
• a dozen-ish varieties of fig cuttings

I'm always on the look out for the next edible I'm going to add to the yard.  As you can imagine, my little 1/4 acer lot is rather full and finding a place to put the trees and plants is certainly harder than finding the trees and plants. I'm going to have over 50 none fig fruit trees after all of my orders come in this year and many of those trees are multi-grafted trees.  Additionally I've moved from 4 fig trees to now 9 plus tree plus I have over 20 cultivars curantly rooting.

Peony? Any members have rare varieties to share information?                 

We grow many varieties of Citrus, many varieties of wine grapes, pomegranates, persimmon, Pakistan Mulberry, Macadamia, Avocado, Walking Onions, Tomatoes, Jalapenos, Anna Apple x 2, Olives x 2, Nasturtiums for Salads, and a whole bunch of Fig Trees.

Suzi

5  kinds` of figs  , 4 apples two apricots two pears` , plumcot. pecotum , almonds`, kiwi, black berrys , raspberrys ,  gooseberrys currents . sweet cherrys , sour cherrys . grapes Neptune

I'm in hot and humid Zone 8b Georgia.  I grow plums.  Believe it or not Green Gage is doing pretty good here for me while some of the disease resistant varieties died of the diseases they were expressly bread to be resistant to.  Go figure.  But I also have Robusto, Mariana, a heirloom but very nice Chickasaw plum, a Byron Gold and a Spring Satin Plumquat.  In addition I grow what locals call huckleberries (Vaccinium elliottii) just dug those up from near the Ogeechee River in SE Georgia.  I have rabbit eye blueberries of various varieties.  To me they are all so similar to one another it's hardly worth identifying their names.  What might have become my favorite fruit are my muscadines.  Of these I have Late Fry, Supreme, Ison, Pam, Black Beauty, Big Red, Nesbit and Early Fry.  I have six mature figs:  Green Ischia, Negronne, Black Mission, Celeste, Alma, and Texas Everbearing.  My young figs are Nero (don't know which one, but it's from Just fruits and exotics, if you know which one that is, please fill me in.), Smith and Italian Black, on order I have coming Ronde de Bordeaux, Raspberry Latte, Green Greek, and Deanna.  God bless.

Marcus 

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