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🍏🍎 What’s the Difference Between Apples and Crab Apples? 🍏🍎 Ever wondered why some apples are big and sweet while others are tiny and tart? Both belong to the Malus genus, but here’s what sets them apart: 🍎 Apples (Malus domestica) – The ones you know and love! Large, sweet, and perfect for fresh eating, baking, and cider. They grow on cultivated trees and come in endless varieties. 🌿 Crab Apples – The wild cousins! If the fruit is smaller than 2 inches (5 cm), it’s a crab apple. They’re often too tart to eat raw but make amazing jellies, preserves, and even cider. Plus, their spring blossoms are stunning! 🌳 Bonus Tip: Crab apples are fantastic pollinators for apple trees, attracting bees and boosting fruit production. If you love apples, consider planting a crab apple tree nearby! Do you grow apples or crab apples in your garden? Share your thoughts (or your favorite crab apple jelly recipe!) in the comments. 👇✨ #Gardening #Apples #CrabApples #FruitTrees

"Learn the secrets to growing abundant bottle gourds! 🌱🥒 Continuously prune the main vine, pinch off the top at 5 leaves, and selectively nurture lateral vines. With our tips, you'll soon be harvesting plenty of delicious bottle gourds! #GardeningTips #BottleGourd #HarvestTime 🌿"

Easy-to-grow summer favourites: Beans, Okra, Tomatoes, Lettuce, and Capsicum. From crunchy salads to savoury stir-fries, your garden will be overflowing with flavour and freshness all season long. 🥗✨ Tips to Remember: 1. Provide ample sunlight and water for healthy growth. 2. Ensure well-draining soil to prevent waterlogging. 3. Start seeds indoors or sow directly into the ground after the last frost. 4. Support climbing plants like beans and tomatoes with stakes or trellises. 5. Keep an eye out for pests and diseases, and take preventive measures. 6.Harvest regularly to encourage continuous production and maintain flavour. Ready to plant all these seeds? Order seeds now. Click on the link mentioned in the bio. 🌱🌿 . . . . . . . . . . . .#allthatgrows #summerveggies #easygardening #homegrownharvest #greenthumbtips #seedtotable #freshflavors #gardenjoy #growyourown #summerbounty #veggiegarden #gardengoals

Winter is bare root season... Planting bare root plants this season will allow them to establish themselves before the growing season begins, taking advantage of cooler temperatures and natural rainfall to promote root growth. This method is preferred for its cost-effectiveness and ease of transplanting compared to container-grown plants. 🌳 Plant your deciduous fruit trees such as apples, pears, plums, peaches, nectarines, and exotic varieties. 🥕 In your veggie patch, sow spinach, carrots, sweet peas, broad beans, celery, potatoes, garlic, and radish. 🌿 In the herb garden, try your hand with coriander, chamomile, and nasturtiums. Whatever you're cultivating, enhance it with Verasoil Organic Worm Castings to promote the health, growth, and flavour of your home-grown produce! Find out more at www.verasoil.com.au #VegGarden #FruitTrees #HomeGrown #OrganicFood #WinterGardening #Verasoil

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Wondering when to source the freshest fruits? 🍊🍓🍋Timing is everything when it comes to peak-season produce! Our newly updated Fruit Harvest Season Chart makes it easy to see when different fruits are at their best—so you know exactly when to reach out and plan your next project. 🌿 Visit our website to access or download the chart and ensure you’re getting the freshest, highest-quality seasonal fruits available. Have any questions? Our experts are happy to guide you! #fruitharvest #harvest #seasonalfruit #beverageindustry #fruitsolutions #nwnaturals

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Superabundant dispatch: Cedar-yuzu koshō and this week’s news nibbles OPB’s “Superabundant” explores the stories behind the foods of the Pacific Northwest with videos, articles and a weekly newsletter. Every week, Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland-based culinary historian, food writer and ecologist, highlights different aspects of the region’s food ecosystem. This past week she offers a recipe for yuzu koshō (Japanese citrus chile paste) with cedar fronds. By Heather Arndt Anderson It’s the first newsletter of 2025 and for me, it’s New Year, New Projects. After a few years of noticing that my neighbor has a living, fruiting citrus tree in her front yard, I finally got up the nerve to ask her what kind it is. (OK, that’s a lie; I asked my kid to text her kid and when I found out it was a yuzu, I plotzed.) I’d said hi to this neighbor a few times over the years, chatted in friendly, small talk about gardening, etc., but now I had an excuse to knock on her door, jars of fig jam and peach butter in hand, to ask if she’d up for a trade. If you don’t know what a yuzu is, it’s probably because you’ll almost never see them in mainstream (or non-Japanese) grocery stores. That’s a shame because the juice and zest of this knobby citrus will brighten anything they touch, turning regular soy sauce into ponzu and giving soups and stews a stimulating pop of sunny color and aroma. Plus, they’re a cool-looking fruit, thought by molecular botanists to be a cross between a mandarin and a papeda. What is a papeda? I’d never even heard of those before, but it turns out two species of papeda are somewhat more familiar in the US — do you know what they are? Read on to find out! Click on the following link for the Superabundant newsletter and news nibbles: https://lnkd.in/gDZMBNZq #superabundant #pnwfood #yuzukosho

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is an evergreen shrub with a milliard if uses; culinary, medicinal and ornamental. If it isn’t in your kitchen as a dried or fresh herb, it should be in your garden. It’s a hardy, drought tolerant plant that’s easy to grow. Add a few of these shrubs into your garden and you’ll have a perpetual supply of this herb while it serves as an ornamental shrub in your garden. #Knowyourplant #Landscapearchitecture

Food prices are climbing—why not grow your own? 🌱 The time is now to start your garden and save while eating fresh. DM for a garden consultation and let's get growing today! 🍅🌻 #GrowYourOwn #GardenLife #GardeningAndBeats