Blood-red fruits with a tart, sweet aroma and many important vital substances – sour cherries are enjoying increasing popularity in home gardens. The tasty fruits, which we include the sweet cherries in the rose family, are originally native to Europe, Asia Minor and the Caucasus. The rather undemanding plant shows itself as a tree with a broadly…
Melons are annual crops with large, juicy and very aromatic fruits that are berry fruits. A distinction is made between watermelons and sugar melons. The latter also includes honeydew melon, which is said to be the most aromatic of all. The cultivation of these plants is not unproblematic in this country due to the climatic conditions, but it…
Fruit is healthy, and Cape gooseberries are healthy, but unfortunately they are not cheap when you buy them from us. If you like to nibble on the physalis and also find it so beautifully decorative, you could also simply grow the delicious decorative fruits yourself in the garden or on the balcony. Cape gooseberries are actually quite…
Peaches are delicious and healthy. Thanks to new breeds, you can even grow a peach tree in our latitudes. It doesn’t always work, but it does happen quite often. The problem is not to cultivate the tree, but rather that you can harvest ripe fruit. It’s not easy to keep a peach tree, but it’s not impossible either, unless…
Many people know and like lychees, the fruit that can be found in the supermarket. Most of them do not know which plant these originate from. The lychee tree probably comes from southern China, northern Vietnam and Malaysia. You can no longer say exactly, because this tree has been cultivated for too long. There are three subspecies of the…
Our neighbors also have two grapevines. They don’t cut at all, on the contrary, they pull the tendrils along the scaffolding for meters. Even so, they still harvest a lot of grapes every year. These do not grow on the long tendrils, but not far from the “heart” of the stick, but there are many. The foliage is sick…
Orchards are an old cultural asset, but they are becoming increasingly rare. To our detriment: The villagers can no longer get fresh fruit on the edge of the village, the townspeople no longer come home from the country party with new experiences and delicious harvests, a handful of a few thousand apple varieties are still available…
In terms of habit, this exotic bird of paradise resembles the native apple tree, but does not have the pronounced winter hardiness. Therefore, the persimmon tree is mostly cultivated as a container plant in the local regions. One of the most popular refined cultivated forms produces the well-known Sharon fruit, the skin of which is softer and…
For the ancient Egyptians, the pomegranate was the symbol of fertility and stood for eternal youth, attractiveness and femininity. If the pomegranate is cultivated as a tree, it is usually thorny and densely branched and can reach a height of three to five meters. But the ornamental shrub also cuts a fine figure as a container plant…
Due to strict requirements and the breeding of higher-yielding varieties, many old apple varieties have been forgotten. Without the help of lovers who specialize in cultivating old varieties, many of them would have died out. However, other varieties were able to assert themselves in international trade despite higher-yielding and more resilient new breeds. Old apple varieties are rich…