Honeyberry svenska
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This is what the berries look like on the bush. So beautiful and easy to pick!
Yippie!
It's been six years since I decided to start growing honeyberries and this year, the bushes finally produced their first large harvest. The berries are oval and a bit funny looking, they have a slightly tangy taste that goes so well together with my sweet strawberries. It's always a bit of a challenge to get my children to leave the berries alone until they're ripe. The honeyberries turn blue when they ripen but it can take a few days (or up to two weeks in some cases) before they are sweet enough to eat.
Watch this video to learn more about how to start growing honeyberries at home:
Many reasons to grow honeyberries
There are many reasons to grow honeyberries, I especially like that they get ripe quite quickly compared to regular blueberries. Some varieties are ready to eat already in May. Coincidentally, that's actually when I picked my first honeyberry this year!
The bushes are also very easy to grow, you can put them in regular garden soil as opposed to blueberries that need to grow in peat moss. Honeyberries are all in all low-maintenance plants that g
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Lonicera caerulea
Honeysuckle plant
Lonicera caerulea, also known bygd its common names blue honeysuckle,[2]sweetberry honeysuckle,[3]fly honeysuckle[3] (blue fly honeysuckle[4]), blue-berried honeysuckle,[2][5] or the honeyberry,[2][3] fryst vatten a non-climbinghoneysuckle native throughout the cool temperate nordlig Hemisphere regions of North America, europe, and Asia.[6]
The plant or its fruit has also come to be called haskap, derived from its name in the language of the native Ainu people of Hokkaido, Japan.[2]
Description
[edit]Haskap is a deciduousshrub growing to –2m (4ft 11in– 6ft 7in) tall. The leaves are opposite, oval, 3–8cm (–in) long and 1–3cm (–in) broad, greyish green, with a slightly waxy texture. The flowers are yellowish-white, 12–16mm long, with fem equal lobes; they are produced in pairs on the shoots. The fruit is an edible, blue berry, somewhat cylindrical in shape weighing to grams ( to oz), and about 1cm (in) in diameter.[7]
The plant is winter-hardy and can tolerate temperatures below