fruits.im
The fruit-growing hub

Plant a tree, pick the fruit.

Fruit varieties, growing guides, unusual fruits and printables for gardeners, allotment growers and families. Every fact here links to its source. Warm up with the game: can you name the fruit from one clue?

Which fruit?

8 clues. Pick the fruit each one describes.

Press start for your first clue.

Ten fruits

  • Apple
  • Quince
  • Strawberry
  • Fig
  • Lemon or lime
  • Blueberry
  • Cherry
  • Peach
  • Blackcurrant
  • Plum

Each clue in the game is one of the facts on the fruit file. After you pick, the full fact and its source appear. The orchard drawing is our own.

What is fruits.im?

fruits.im is a small hub for growing your own fruit, from apple trees to a pot of strawberries on the patio. Each fruit will get its own site with sourced growing facts, a little history, games and printables. Some true things to start with:

The easy one

The RHS calls apples probably the easiest and most popular tree fruit to grow, giving harvests for decades. [source]

Not a seed in sight

The “seeds” on a strawberry are its true fruits, called achenes. The red flesh is an enlarged part of the flower, the receptacle. [source]

Flowers on the inside

A fig is really a hollow, fleshy receptacle with lots of tiny flowers inside. [source]

Good things come to those who wait

A black mulberry tree can take around eight years to start fruiting. [source]

Open the fruit file

Coming soon

Ten fruit sites are planned. The two marked “First wave” come first.

  • ApplesFirst waveapples.fruits.im

    Planned: choosing an apple variety, rootstocks for pots and small gardens, and the apple’s long journey from the mountains of Central Asia.

    Coming soon
  • StrawberriesFirst wavestrawberries.fruits.im

    Planned: summer-fruiting, perpetual and alpine strawberries, runners, pots and hanging baskets, and the “seeds” that are really fruits.

    Coming soon
  • Quincesquinces.fruits.im

    Planned: growing a quince tree, cooking the hard fruit into jelly and membrillo, and why you so rarely see quinces in shops.

    Coming soon
  • Figsfigs.fruits.im

    Planned: figs on a sunny wall, boxing in the roots, figs in pots, and the strange fruit with flowers on the inside.

    Coming soon
  • Citruscitrus.fruits.im

    Planned: lemons, limes, kumquats and calamondins in pots, and keeping them frost-free through a UK winter.

    Coming soon
  • Blueberriesblueberries.fruits.im

    Planned: acid soil and ericaceous compost, blueberries in pots, spring flowers for pollinators and fiery autumn leaves.

    Coming soon
  • Cherriescherries.fruits.im

    Planned: sweet cherries for eating and acid cherries for cooking, self-fertile varieties, and cherries for a shady wall.

    Coming soon
  • Peachespeaches.fruits.im

    Planned: peaches and nectarines, fan-training on a warm wall, pollinating early blossom by hand, and the peach houses of old walled gardens.

    Coming soon
  • Blackcurrantsblackcurrants.fruits.im

    Planned: planting blackcurrant bushes, late-flowering varieties for cold gardens, and the yearly winter prune.

    Coming soon
  • Plumsplums.fruits.im

    Planned: plums, damsons and gages, protecting early blossom from frost, and the plums that become prunes.

    Coming soon

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