Shoots and leaves...
The whims and woes, highs and lows, of trying to grow fruit and veg in Nordic latitudes.
Tom is here for the weekend so we have the Incredible Hulk we needed to install a fence around the saskatoons. It's a huge job but we had all the materials: fencing, posts and the staples and the gates mostly acquired secondhand from various sources (mostly online). Now that everything is in place, I am tempted to move a few wooden boxes in there and grow some lettuce and radishes too! The jury is still out on whether the fence will keep the rabbits out. I think not. But if we can keep the deer and the elk out, then maybe we'll get some berries this year. When we had finally finished erecting the fence, we were able to remove the plastic tubes from the saskatoon plants and discovered that many of the bushes were flowering. Fantastic! Brilliant! The stems looks really strong - they have had to fight back from the devouring forces of the local fauna for several years. Now, at last, they can thrive without the plastic tubes. So why are we growing saskatoon berries? Well, they are suited to Nordic conditions and they are an excellent source of vitamins and anti-oxidants. They may not be native to Finland (neither are potatoes), but they do well here and they taste so good. I think the flavour is similar to cherry. They are also easy to grow, low maintenance (if you don't count installing the fence) and, as far as we know, are disease resistant and very hardy.
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