Paw Paws (or other gardening questions by others)

Anyone know WHERE the paw paw patch is....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C3RMTeb62I


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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4aRMd5oj3k


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoHTBiiS9Y4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17sT5FaTrwY

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.

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.

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 -

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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)