kinds of nuts

Hazelnuts, walnuts and chestnuts do well in the garden.
NutsNuts are also among the fruit crops. Hazelnut and walnut (or walnut) do well in our climate. Chestnut wears better in a warmer climate. Nuts for small gardens on the large side.
HazelHazel (Corylus avellana) is a shrub that is several meters high and wide. For a wind hedge, as boundary and bird bushes is a beautiful shrub mix. Special fruit varieties questions cross-pollination. 'Webb's Prize Cob' gives a lot of great notes on a small shrub.
Tips!

    The hazel grows on any ground and tolerate considerable shade.
    Can a regular basis to be pruned close to the ground as coppice.
    Nuts Keep refrigerated after drying.
WalnutWalnut or walnut (Juglans regia) is a beautiful tree, which the Romans brought from Asia Minor. This tree is common on river dikes and farms.
Walnut is ripe when the shell cracks.
Several varieties of walnut fruit for sale, including 'Broadview' and 'Buccaneer'. Both have a relatively modest growth, so about 15 m² is sufficient. This is also the soil together.
Tips!

    The leaves give a bruise in the heat and aromatic dust, the name has flies and mosquitoes at bay.
    Under planting of walnut is not always successful by shade and drought, but also because the material that roots secrete juglone.
    The walnut grows best on clay or loamy, rich soil and requires full sun. Prune as little as possible, only in the summer. Harvesting the green shell burst, dry and cool place.
Sweet chestnutChestnut (Castanea sativa) is free flowers to decorate the tree until June. As a result, the chestnuts of this tree a short growth period in our climate and often without husks. Usually grows on sandy chestnut tree-like and only a few meters high and wide.
Somewhere warm and damp, humus-rich or sandy loam soil is best for the chestnut.Pruning is not necessary! chestnuts, origin, name, attributes, types, use of wood and chestnuts
Culinary tip!Roasted or roasted chestnut is very tasty. Boil or simmer and puree with butter and sugar: for with game, poultry, or sprouts. Remove the brown sheet, which is bitter.

Types + berry recipe

Small fruit: berries with their types and taste a delicious fruit salad + Tips
Useful facts about soft fruit:

    Soft fruit is very fragile and must be handled with care.
    Strawberries come in different shapes and sizes (oval, round, large, small). The species Elsanta is the best known.
    Actually it is a false one strawberry fruit: the seeds on the outside are the actual fruits.
    The preservation of strawberries is a cool place between 8 and 10 ° C. Soft fruit must be between 1 and 3 ° C stored.
    Soft fruit is very rich in vitamin C, contains a lot of fiber and low in calories.
Strawberries:Known typical sweet fruit with sour or sweet taste.Top supply between March and October.

strawberry
Red berries:Long bunches with small berries.Slightly acidic taste. Supply especially in July and August.
White berries:White version of the red berries.The white berries taste somewhat less pronounced than the red berries.

White and red berries
Raspberry:Soft fruits, both in texture and flavor. Without stalks are sold. Supply during the summer months: June, July, August.

raspberries
Blueberries:Round berries with a blue-black color and spicy flavor. Are often used in sauces or drinks (cassis).Supply especially during the summer, peaking in August to apply.Blueberries
Spine Berries / Gooseberries:Can green or light red color, have a sour aftertaste.Peak flow in July.Gooseberries grow
Blackberries:Soft fruit with very sweet taste. Imports increased from May and runsuntil September.
Crab salad with berries
Ingredients:250 g mixed berries (red, white, blue), 100 g strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, radicchio rosso kropjes 2, 200 g of freshly cooked green beans, 100 g of freshly cooked peas, 1 sprig of icicles, 1 can of crab. Tuna, salmon, seafood or shrimp can also be added.
For the dressing: 50 grams parsley, spinach 50 grams, 50 grams chervil, 6 tablespoons green olive oil, 2 tablespoons fruit vinegar, 1 teaspoon liquid acacia honey,1 tablespoon pine nuts.
Preparation of bessensla with crab:

    Chop the cleaned parsley, chervil and spinach very fine with the food processor. Add the oil, vinegar, honey and pine nuts and cook for just running until you get a nice green mousse.
    Divide among 4 plates cleaned radicchioblaadjes and arrange the drained and crumbled crab, beans, icicles, peas and all the fruit with red berries on it. Pour the green sauce and serve with bread.

The best fruit you will recognize the Flandria label. Under the Flandria label are many types of soft fruit, like strawberries and various berries. Enough choice for a delicious summer meal ready. You are always sure of quality, taste and freshness.

types of berries

There are many different types of berries

berries
There are many small fruit and the varieties and each year it introduced a new hybrid. Most of them do not really break through, but some, such as loganberries, have been a conquered own place in the orchard. Often the hybrids to the intersections between blackberries and raspberries. Well known are the currants, red, white and black currant.


Red currant (Ribes rubrum)
This species likes light, humus-rich soil that may contain some calcium. All varieties are self-pollinating. They bloom in April-May The harvest of the bunches of red berries in fall from June to July and differ by race. The shrubs should be pruned properly. They bear fruit on short side branches to the twigs and branches, the fruiting wood. Good varieties that have proved their worth, for example, "Esquire van Tets '(large, deep red, firm berries),' Stanza '(large, dark, free sour berries)," Rotet' (large clusters of bright red berries), 'Around' (dark red, firm, free sour berries), 'Rosetta' (large, bright red berries).

White currant (Ribes rubrum)
This is a white variant of the red berry that is generally less acidic fruit. The aroma is slightly finer. One advantage is that the berries are not easy to spot birds. They can buff color of the fruit of the magazine distinguished. Good varieties are 'White Pearl' (juicy, yellow-white berries) and "White Dutchman '(pale yellow, sweet berries). The fruits of the white berry are generally slightly smaller than the red berry and some more vulnerable.
Black currant (Ribes nigrum)
This is clearly a different kind than the white and red currant. The black currant grows like in heavier soil. The bushes bloom in April-May and give strong dark fruit bunches to the one-and two-year wood. The shrubs should be pruned differently than the red and white berry. Older branches are removed each year. The fruits of cassis made ​​known. Fresh is not good, but delicious jams. Good varieties are fairly late flowering 'Black Reward' (the fruit in this race until July-August harvest maturity), 'Baldwin' (quite late harvesting) and the former 'Wellington XXX' (harvest in June-July). The vitamin C content of blackcurrants is very high. "Tenah 'and' Tsema 'are harvested early.

Gooseberries (Ribes uva-crispa)
The gooseberries grow like to nutritious, humus-rich soil. They can tolerate some light shade and cooler stand. Choose as many or few varieties not susceptible to mildew (the great plague of gooseberries). There are varieties with green (white) and red fruits. The taste of ripe fruit is generally full and delicious. Also, the gooseberry is unclear origin, there is no wild type was known. The plants flower in April, the harvest starts in July-August and slightly varies by race. Good red varieties include 'Achilles' (purple), "Rosko" (bright red, almost hairless fruits) and 'Whinham's Industry' (dark red, very hairy). A good white (green) variety 'White Smith. 'Golda' is yellow, rather smooth berries.

Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)
This kind of acidic ground, is also called American Blueberry or Blueberry. They are beautiful shrubs that even a brilliant fall color development. The plants are blueberry-like berries, but three times as large as those of our native blueberry (Vaccinium mytillus). The bushes in some breeds may be two meters high. The harvest starts in July-August-September, flowering in May-June. They pollinate themselves. The color of the fruit varies from light to dark race. Good varieties include the early harvest ripe "Weymouth", "Bluetta ',' Earliblue 'and' Spartan '. Ripens a little later, "Ama" (Herma 1) and 'Coville' is a late variety. Some varieties should be harvested regularly since the ripe fruits fall easily.

Bilberry / cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)These blueberry-like plant is native to northwestern Europe and grows in acid soil. The shrubs are evergreen. The red berries are from September to November at the plant. The rather inconspicuous flowers falls in May The berries are up to jam and jelly processing. A good variety is' Perle d'Amour ".Cranberry / cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)This plant in North America is bewildered at the islands of Terschelling and Vlieland. There is even a whole industry has sprung up based on these berries in the nature of the dune valleys are harvested. The flowering in June-July. The berries are harvested in September-October. The plant grows well on calcareous sandy soil. The berries are used primarily in jams, compotes and the like processed and red meats in sauce as given.
Blackberries (Rubus fruticosus)Blackberries grow well in any average garden soil. There are very thorny and thornless varieties. The branches and twigs should be guided. The flowering period of May-June to July to August. The fruits of the harvest times vary. 'Black Satin' is an early bloomer from July to October fruits. The yield is pretty decent. "Himalaya" is growing very strongly and also delicious fruits from July to September. The thornless 'Thornless Evergreen' large fruit can be picked from August. "Thor Free 'is a late variety (harvested in September-October), whose branches are quite fragile.
Raspberry (Rubus idaeus)This is a native species that is grown for many centuries. The plants are usually guided by wires, where the shoots are tied against it. Every year new fruiting shoots appear from the ground. The old annual shoots are pruned away. The plants may be far from the roots 'run away'. The bloom of summer raspberries falls in May-June, from autumn raspberries in July. Good varieties are the early 'Glen Clova' (harvest in July-August), the middentijdse "Jochems Fame '(August-September) and the slightly later' Schönemann (late August to September. There are also varieties with different fruit colors, such as the yellow 'Fall Gold' whose major fruits harvested in August. A good herfstras is "Heritage" (harvest in September-October), but the autumn races "Zeva Herbsternte 'and' Baron de Wavre" are widely cultivated.
Japanese wineberry (Rubus phoenicolasius)
This species grows about as a burr with long branches with red glandular hairs making it a very decorative plant. You can use the branches and tying the best result. The plant can be very high. Clusters of white flowers appear in June, then the fresh-tasting, hollow fruit that you can pick from July to August. They shape with blackberries or raspberries think. The Japanese wineberry likes moist but well drained and fertile soil.

Strawberries (Fragaria x ananassa)
When the strawberries you can choose from several groups: delicious tasting wild strawberries, once bearing races and fruits are carriers until the frost. Also, extra strong trailing varieties like 'Ostara' is offered as climbing strawberry. The choice of breeds is enormous. Once-bearing varieties (harvest in June-July) include "Gorella ',' Elvira ',' Senga Sengana 'and late (July)" Tago "and" Bogota ". Good bearers include 'Rapella' and 'Ostara'. You can choose to taste the best races. Which varies widely, as the fruit size.   

Blueberries

Different types of plants with strikingly beautiful blue berries adorn the gardens
Special decorative blue berries.
In the fall besheesters constitute an important element in the garden. Everyone enjoys the colorful fruit, which does not always have real fleshy berries. But they all are decorative. Most species are besheesters twice a year nice when they bloom and again when they bear fruit. It is recommended that in any planting one or more besheesters to take. Forget the types of blueberries, because black gives a special touch to a garden and if it's not just the leaves or flowers.

Blueberries are very special
Berries and fruits that are red or orange, are quickly discovered by the birds as they are delicious, they disappear in no time from the trees and shrubs. But is it red fruits between red leaf, as in some cherry, they see not. It is striking that birds also white fruit between green leaves hardly see. White currants remain long suspended, while the red berries around quickly be eaten bare. Also black fruits are common: in privet, ivy (Hedera), the black hips of the wild-rose (Rosa pimpinellifolia), the berries of elderberry (Sambucus nigra) and black currant (Ribes nigrum). Purple is also fairly common, eg in the berries of Callicarpa bodinieri 'Profusion' and Pernettya. Blueberries are very special. They occur mainly in bushes green, white or yellow flowers.

Beautiful blue enough fruits
Think blue not only hurt and plums (Prunus species), although often beautiful blue. Maybe you shoot the first blue grapes in mind (Vitis vinifera), where Atalanta butterflies love.
Beautiful frosted blue berries of the American blueberry or blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) that acid soil and which keeps the berries are much larger than our native wild bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus, with blue fruits) that much vitamin A. B and C contain. Juniper (Juniperus communis) are blue. In the ornamental shrubs are mainly mahogany shrub (Mahonia aquifolium), with its fragrant yellow flowers Berberis julianae and several Viburnum species adorned with blueberries. Very nice fruit on Viburnum davidii are and V. tinus 'Gwenllian'. It is not generally known that the blue berries of the mahogany tree are edible. Of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) knows it does. So out of hand, they are not good, but processed into jams they taste delicious. Also edible, the striking blue frosted pods (not berries) of the special, to 2 m high bush pickles (Decaisnea fargesii).

Care
The different varieties of fruits blue-bearers are so different that they do not care to detail can address. In connection with unhindered flowering and fruiting is usually only corrective pruning required. Give besheesters during flowering extra potassium-rich fertilizer. That promotes fruiting.

The garden in October
The leaves fall. Remove them from places where they can cause slippery or evergreen plants can choke (perennials, lawn). Again they are out of the pond. Choose your besheesters they now bear fruit. They can now fine plants. Bulbs and tubers of plants and non-hardy species of harvest. Mowing grass in so long it grows.