Thanks for checking out our video about our flowering quince, it was fun to make and we're really looking forward to seeing what we can make with this tiny harvest. If you have any tips let us know 😀 - Cameron
Here, in new zealand we make jelly out of the quinces. Nice place! We have built up our garden beds a little different. First carton, then a thick layer of (untreated) sawdust, layer of pea straw and then compost on top. Everything started growing immediately. We have a cottage garden, also vegetables and fruit trees. It's so nice to see your garden growing eating your own vegetables and fruit! Do you make also cuttings? Here we share a lot of plants, cuttings and seed with each other.
We're just getting started but, fruit trees and veg are all in the plan. We have a lot of basic work to get the garden established first though. Sharing cuttings is something we're planning on too 😁
I still really need to try quince jelly! For the fruits, I think you might be familiar with the more traditional garden quince (Cydonia oblonga Mill.) which is usually more of a tree with much larger fruits that are also sold in shops in some places. The plant I have is the flowering or ornamental quince (Chaenomeles sp.), which is related, but does produce much smaller fruit. It comes from more temperate parts of the world so is likely to do better in Scotland than the normal larger quince might. - Stina
@@BrambleCottageMiniHomestead that’s probably right, I wonder if those little quinces taste the same. I love the jelly if you can get enough you should try it
i grew up in stranraer and have family around the area you are living in. its a beautiful part of the world. i now live in australia and the weather is definitely better but i do miss home. looking forward to watching your videos and reminiscing
We love the west side of the country, it's all so beautiful and green. I think it has to be something about the light here, but it's all so vivid. We're yet to do a proper tour of the whole of D&G but we're looking forward to spring to take a chance when things are just starting to get growing :D
I have a quince and tried processing them once but they were so hard I've never done it again! However, I shall put this year's in the freezer. Thanks, I didn't know you could do that.
how lovely to find your account, am enjoying journey so far and look forward to your plans, etc. Great you can move some plants from old house to form a new garden. :) you can use the fruit to make some marmalade or type of jelly. God bless you
It's so nice to not lose everything that was already built up in the old property, just wish it was a little faster, we really need the plants here lol
Thank you so much. Yes, the soil here does seem to be pretty amazing - I guess that might be one of the few benefits of living on a flood plain. It's just a shame so much of it is currently covered in gravel and concrete, but we're looking forward to uncovering as much of it as we can in time. - Stina
How do you feel about creating a chicken wire fence around/under the garden? It's easy with raised beds, but you might have to do it under every bed. Rabbits and moles are certainly the down side to country gardens. I have a neighbor who uses a very low voltage electric tape around her gardens which encourages the critters to look elsewhere for lunch. She hasn't killed a critter yet, so I'm assuming it works well.
Funny you should mention it.... We're not currently planning that around the raised beds as they're that bit easier to protect in a modular fashion, but I DO really want the larger area of garden to be rabbit and cloche free, so pretty much our next project is to start putting in some fencing so that I can gradually get that area sectioned off. I'm just hoping it works. - Stina
Thank you for this, I just bought one of these as a tall ball topiary the other day, It's in flower now Southern Hemisphere, so Im looking forward to the fruit.
That's fantastic! I'm so pleased to have discovered the one we have here, and also looking forward to adding another at some point (they're self-fertile, but two can help improve pollination and yield). Of the books/resources I've looked at, I found Martin Crawford to be the biggest fan of this plant in a food forest and he offers up a simple lemonade recipe. - Stina
Years ago, I had quince “ cheese” as a dessert in Santiago de Compostela. It was vaguely unpleasant - what we would call “wersh” in Scots. The only thing I can compare it to is a Rowan jelly I made years ago. It was kind of almondy- but not in a good way.🥴
Do you have a horticulture degree? You can pronounce all of those botanical names. Also, I have a quince shrub that has thorns and flowers pink. Is the fruit edible?
It's true, I did study horticulture once upon a time, but all they really taught us was "Say it with confidence!", because Latin is a dead language, so no one really knows how it should sound anyway. Re. your pink-flowered quince - I'd be very reluctant to suggest any plant is definitively edible without having seen and confidently identified it myself. Nevertheless, all Chaenomeles species I know of do have edible fruit (once processed), but I'm only familiar with those that grow in the UK. Plants for a Future (pfaf.org) is a great sight to look at for edible plants if you want more info about any particular species.
Thanks for checking out our video about our flowering quince, it was fun to make and we're really looking forward to seeing what we can make with this tiny harvest. If you have any tips let us know 😀 - Cameron
Here, in new zealand we make jelly out of the quinces. Nice place! We have built up our garden beds a little different. First carton, then a thick layer of (untreated) sawdust, layer of pea straw and then compost on top. Everything started growing immediately. We have a cottage garden, also vegetables and fruit trees. It's so nice to see your garden growing eating your own vegetables and fruit! Do you make also cuttings? Here we share a lot of plants, cuttings and seed with each other.
We're just getting started but, fruit trees and veg are all in the plan. We have a lot of basic work to get the garden established first though. Sharing cuttings is something we're planning on too 😁
Good that you are doing the No Dig method, and I like it that you put up the names of the plants and tell us about them.
Quince jelly is just lovely, but I have never seen such tiny fruits before. Quince jelly or jam is divine in gravy or with cheese or meat.
I still really need to try quince jelly! For the fruits, I think you might be familiar with the more traditional garden quince (Cydonia oblonga Mill.) which is usually more of a tree with much larger fruits that are also sold in shops in some places. The plant I have is the flowering or ornamental quince (Chaenomeles sp.), which is related, but does produce much smaller fruit. It comes from more temperate parts of the world so is likely to do better in Scotland than the normal larger quince might. - Stina
@@BrambleCottageMiniHomestead that’s probably right, I wonder if those little quinces taste the same. I love the jelly if you can get enough you should try it
I have found that the best use for quince is marmalade, it is delicious.
I agree
i grew up in stranraer and have family around the area you are living in. its a beautiful part of the world. i now live in australia and the weather is definitely better but i do miss home. looking forward to watching your videos and reminiscing
We love the west side of the country, it's all so beautiful and green. I think it has to be something about the light here, but it's all so vivid. We're yet to do a proper tour of the whole of D&G but we're looking forward to spring to take a chance when things are just starting to get growing :D
I have a quince and tried processing them once but they were so hard I've never done it again! However, I shall put this year's in the freezer. Thanks, I didn't know you could do that.
Stina seems confident that it'll help to soften them a bit, we'll see how it goes.
how lovely to find your account, am enjoying journey so far and look forward to your plans, etc. Great you can move some plants from old house to form a new garden. :) you can use the fruit to make some marmalade or type of jelly. God bless you
It's so nice to not lose everything that was already built up in the old property, just wish it was a little faster, we really need the plants here lol
What lovely rich soil..love your gardening videos..
Thank you so much. Yes, the soil here does seem to be pretty amazing - I guess that might be one of the few benefits of living on a flood plain. It's just a shame so much of it is currently covered in gravel and concrete, but we're looking forward to uncovering as much of it as we can in time. - Stina
How do you feel about creating a chicken wire fence around/under the garden? It's easy with raised beds, but you might have to do it under every bed. Rabbits and moles are certainly the down side to country gardens. I have a neighbor who uses a very low voltage electric tape around her gardens which encourages the critters to look elsewhere for lunch. She hasn't killed a critter yet, so I'm assuming it works well.
Funny you should mention it.... We're not currently planning that around the raised beds as they're that bit easier to protect in a modular fashion, but I DO really want the larger area of garden to be rabbit and cloche free, so pretty much our next project is to start putting in some fencing so that I can gradually get that area sectioned off. I'm just hoping it works. - Stina
One of my ornamental quinces had fruits nearly the size of proper quince. May make some jelly with it!!!
That sounds amazing! Let us know if you do it, and how it goes. I've still never tried quince jelly. - Stina
Thank you for this, I just bought one of these as a tall ball topiary the other day, It's in flower now Southern Hemisphere, so Im looking forward to the fruit.
That's fantastic! I'm so pleased to have discovered the one we have here, and also looking forward to adding another at some point (they're self-fertile, but two can help improve pollination and yield). Of the books/resources I've looked at, I found Martin Crawford to be the biggest fan of this plant in a food forest and he offers up a simple lemonade recipe. - Stina
Years ago, I had quince “ cheese” as a dessert in Santiago de Compostela. It was vaguely unpleasant - what we would call “wersh” in Scots. The only thing I can compare it to is a Rowan jelly I made years ago. It was kind of almondy- but not in a good way.🥴
I love to try new things and foods so the "Cheese" would be an interesting test, sadly not even close to enough quince this year, though we'll see.
Do you have a horticulture degree? You can pronounce all of those botanical names. Also, I have a quince shrub that has thorns and flowers pink. Is the fruit edible?
It's true, I did study horticulture once upon a time, but all they really taught us was "Say it with confidence!", because Latin is a dead language, so no one really knows how it should sound anyway. Re. your pink-flowered quince - I'd be very reluctant to suggest any plant is definitively edible without having seen and confidently identified it myself. Nevertheless, all Chaenomeles species I know of do have edible fruit (once processed), but I'm only familiar with those that grow in the UK. Plants for a Future (pfaf.org) is a great sight to look at for edible plants if you want more info about any particular species.
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