Paw Paws (or other gardening questions by others)

[mosquito]

Anyone know WHERE the paw paw patch is....



Anyway.... Paw Paw is a native tree to Ontario and quite rare and I have heard of them occasionally lately and it sounds interesting
https://www.ontario.ca/page/pawpaw








Anyone know anywhere they can be bought or can get a plant or even have/had one?

If you got any other garden/plant questions I started this thread with that in mind since the odds are no one has seen or had them.

[greatwhite]

I already bought Blueberry bushes and Honey berry.

Why didn't you tell me about Pawpaw last month. Now I am going to have to figure out where I can a few of these.
They say it won't grow past Southern Ontario, but I checked and it can handle -25C.

Probably need 3 or 4 since you cannot determine the sex until it flowers or doesn't flower and take 2 - 6 years to produce fruit.

Lived in this house for 15 years now and kept putting off planting stuff but have to hurry now and try and plant everything I want before I'm to old to enjoy.

[JoePa]

My son who lives next to me planted a couple of these Paw Paw trees several years ago - a bunch of trees grew up by themselves either from the seeds or from the roots - anyway he has about a dozen of them now - he gets so many that the whole family gets all they want - my grandkids like them but I'm not that crazy about them - if you got room the thing to plant are blueberries - I got about 20 plants and get all the berries I can eat and freeze - I eat some blueberries just about everyday - froze around 50 quarters last fall and am still eating them now -

The other thing - I always plant a big garden and the one thing I make sure I plant enough of are bell peppers - they are easy to grow and can be frozen without blanching - I always freeze enough to have them all year - I cut them up into small pieces and freeze them in quart plastic bags - I was in a food market the other day and saw peppers were priced at 3 for 5 bucks -

[Sharon]

Exactly. Every year I think that this is the last year I'll be able to garden(Parkinson's) , but I'm at it again this year- choosing more perennials than annuals this year though.

[mosquito]

I already bought Blueberry bushes and Honey berry.

Why didn't you tell me about Pawpaw last month. Now I am going to have to figure out where I can a few of these.
They say it won't grow past Southern Ontario, but I checked and it can handle -25C.

Probably need 3 or 4 since you cannot determine the sex until it flowers or doesn't flower and take 2 - 6 years to produce fruit.

Lived in this house for 15 years now and kept putting off planting stuff but have to hurry now and try and plant everything I want before I'm to old to enjoy.

A month ago I didn't know they could be grown in Ontario. The Golden raspberries do real good and from Bamboo plants I got some Goji and Haskap that are doing good,the blueberries I tried a couple years didn't survive more than 2 years, some made it through 1 winter but never 2, even with screens, blood meal and coffee grounds the rabbits would get in and reduce it to stubs... dead stubs.

[greatwhite]

How many raspberry canes did you plant. How long did it take for your Haskap before they started producing.

A month ago I didn't know they could be grown in Ontario. The Golden raspberries do real good and from Bamboo plants I got some Goji and Haskap that are doing good,the blueberries I tried a couple years didn't survive more than 2 years, some made it through 1 winter but never 2, even with screens, blood meal and coffee grounds the rabbits would get in and reduce it to stubs... dead stubs.

[mosquito]

How many raspberry canes did you plant. How long did it take for your Haskap before they started producing.

The goldens were 3 or 4 plants and have been doing good for probably 15 years now and I have to reduce atleast 20 runners and are probably 20+ plants, plus 10 at the cottage, plus the second patch......, I have maxed out the friends and relations that want them. :-) The rabbits maul them ever winter even with the screening and coffee grounds and blood meal and they do kill a few, but the raspberries still have some intact through the winter and come up en masse. Before the end of July they will start producing and I will still be eating the odd one right until hard frost. June bugs were terrible on them last year, the trap had hundreds in it.

I planted both spring last year and Goji was a few months and I was drying probably 50 at a time last fall and it looks good this year and the haskap I planted last year too and it looks like they did good and by the flowers are a small crop this year.

This year the garden work is already a pain... or should I say itch, absolutely terrible mosquitoes, time for the mosquito magnet to go out. If anyone is going out for turkey or bear, you will need to use a thermocell or spray your clothes (a couple threads on that from earlier years)