TOP 5 Fruiting SHRUBS to plant in your Garden or Permaculture Orchard!

This is my top 5 list of Fruiting SHRUBS for your Garden or Permaculture Orchard!

Yours may be different so let us know in the comments below, what are your top 5 and why?
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This video was filmed & edited by Zack Zane

[huzbum]

Recap for those of us with poor data retention:

5) Red Currant
4) Haskap
3) Black Currant
2) Rhubarb
1) Gooseberry

[sashavasko]

In old Soviet Union many people had small private gardens. All of your top 5 were indeed the staple of those gardens. Kind of takes me to my childhood

[songofthemist]

I have planted strawberries, black currants, rhubarb, raspberries, thornless blackberries, tayberries, blueberries, cranberries, haskap, sea buckthorn, dwarf sour cherries as well as herbs and nuts interspersed among fruit trees and covered the ground with a thick layer of wood chips. Everything appears reasonably happy at year two of our efforts. The birds have really moved in for all the nice worms and bugs and berries, lol.

[mikkeljylland]

1: Gooseberry, 2: Rhubarb, 3: Red currant, 4: Raspberry, 5: Aronia,

6: Blueberry, 7: Blackberry, 8: Yellow goumi, 9: black currant, 10: Sea buckthorn (small variety).

[lucheeese]

preach my man, gooseberry is da goat. years ago when I had never tasted a gooseberry I bought one and placed it in the back of my garden and honestly completely forgot about it's existence, now after buying 5 more bareroot I rediscovered the secret present from me to me from the past and am very pleased

[Skashoon]

Haskap is also known as Honeyberry in the USA.

[prenumbrastone]

1. Cherry trees. 2. Red currents 3. Grapes 4. Blackberries 5. Strawberries. I would like to have more and more but I have only a small garden. Your garden is so beautiful and impressive. I love it!!!!

[terricovill]

I LOVE this guy! He has so much knowledge about why you get certain pesky insects or weeds. Plus the plants he recommends are mostly northern cultivars, which is perfect for me as I live in West central Wisconsin.

[rjiggy]

My Grandmother grew White Current berries. The jelly was to die for! It was very clear and had the most wonderful flavor.

[nigelkay]

1. Gooseberry
2. Black Cap Raspberry
3. White Currants
4. Golden Raspberry
5. Jostaberry

Is anyone here growing Mulberries, Goumi, Autum Olive, or Sea Buckthorn ?
Growing in Pacific North West Region

[kennethnormanthompson]

Can you come to Yorkshire and explain to the blackbirds that they don't eat currants.

[blackbirdsinging]

I found your channel by chance an hour ago and Im loving it! Gooseberry is my number 1 and I leave mine to go soft and pink in the middle. Then eat straight off the bush- yummy.

[tallcedars]

Gooseberry, Red Currant, High Bush Cranberry, Wild Raspberry, Rhubarb.
The High Bush Cranberry is a nice one in muffins with all their different colors, love them!

[Gandalf-The-Green]

I totally agree with you on the Gooseberries, and I especially love the two Hinnonmaki cultivars, the yellow one has a pineapple or apricot taste and the red one gets very sweet when you let it ripen to dark red. Both are very compact shrubs. Also in my Top 5 would be Blackberry cultivars, when you have mild winters (Zone 7 or 8) they are great for natural fences or dead hedges. I love the erect, thorny varieties like Kiowa, which has huge fruits.

[fredfrond]

My two favourite are goji berries and haskap berries. They have my number one, two, and three requirements 1. Hard to kill 2. Super fruit in terms of antioxidants 3. Cold hardy.

[mikaellindqvist]

In Sweden i would say main use for the black currant is to boil it into lemonade. Another wellknown product here would be black currant jelly that is popular with meat often wildgame.

[sebastienfox]

Haskap has become a favorite of mine, I planted 3 cultivars last year and am interested in adding one or 2 more in spring.
I personally find raw black currant is delicious on it's own, the ones I got from you.
I think I should plant some gooseberry next!

Thanks again Stefan; you are such an inspiration and a source of wisdom.

[Kurtlane]

Black currants are delicious. Straight, as juice, or as jam. I have no idea why they are not popular in North America.

I haven't had gooseberries so long, I forgot the taste.

[ummlittlemuslim]

i love blackcurrant. At first i didn't get them because they smelled toxic to my nose but they grew on me and they make the best jam ever. Glad my eastern european Canadian husband put it in the yard. I contributed a mulberry byt thats more of a tree. I love my Illinois everbearing mulberry. Im considering getting a gooseberry as per your recommendation.

[chaya]

Best rhubarb I ever grew was in the shade under a cedar. It produced right through until fall!