Technically I have had a honey berry. Exactly one. From the two bushes that have been growing in my front garden for four years now. ONE BERRY.
Deer are the problem. The first couple years the little twigs I planted weren't big enough to fruit anyway. After the deer ate them down to the ground a couple times that first year, I realized I had to protect them, so I encircled them with mesh fencing and things seemed okay for a few years. Last spring they bloomed and set fruit, and I had maybe 10-20 berries ripening on them.
But my mesh fences didn't have a roof. And just before the berries were ready, some deer came in the night and stuck their snoots right in there and ate all the new growth. They missed one berry.
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Date: 2022-04-23 08:04 pm (UTC)Deer are the problem. The first couple years the little twigs I planted weren't big enough to fruit anyway. After the deer ate them down to the ground a couple times that first year, I realized I had to protect them, so I encircled them with mesh fencing and things seemed okay for a few years. Last spring they bloomed and set fruit, and I had maybe 10-20 berries ripening on them.
But my mesh fences didn't have a roof. And just before the berries were ready, some deer came in the night and stuck their snoots right in there and ate all the new growth. They missed one berry.