Directory

Fruit site directory

Every fruit on fruits.im will get its own site. Here’s the plan for the first ten. None is open yet; apples and strawberries come first.

Open now

This hub, fruits.im. The fruit sites below will be listed as open, with a link, on the day each one goes live.

Coming soon

• 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

How we chose the ten

We ranked well-known fruits by how many people read about them online over a year, then kept the ones the RHS has a full grow-your-own guide for, so every site can be grown in a UK garden or greenhouse. Apples came out top, so they come first. Growing guidance is UK-based.

Independent, not official

Our growing facts come from the RHS, Encyclopaedia Britannica and the National Fruit Collection. fruits.im is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any of them.

How the network works

The list of sites lives in network.json. This page and sitemap-index.xml are built from it, and only open sites go into the sitemap index. Each fruit site will have a link back here at the top of every page.

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