What is your favorite fruit to grow?

[Chris]

I am partial to blueberries.

[Lori]

I totally believe you Alison. We lose a lot of stuff to possoms, bandicoots and parrots. I grow longans which the birds just love (and I don't) in the hope that they will eat them and not my other stuff.

[Sue W]

Black (or blue) plums have done very well in my garden in Eastern Ontario. Very short season, but the tree is now 6 years old and for the last couple of years has produced more fruit than we can deal with. I have to get more organized to dry the fruit or bottle it. The variety was labeled "Italian Prune." Excellent flavour fresh and cooks very well without going mushy.
Very easy to pick - just shake the tree or branch and the ripe fruit fall off into a tarp that we spread underneath. We do this every few days and get buckets and buckets of plums. I think we calculated that we got more than 70lb (35 kg) last year.
We get a lot of small caterpillars in the fruit but it's not particularly objectionable. They seem to have flown away by the time the fruit has matured, so it's not a big deal.
Incidentally our cat helped with the harvest. When the tree was young she scratched it with her claws resulting in badly split bark (we now put a fence around it). It seems that this stimulated the tree to produce very heavily the next couple of years. Old country folk in England used to beat nut, pear and plum tree to get a better harvest. There was a horrible old saying: "A woman, a boy and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be."

[Sarah]

Definitely blueberries - they're plentiful and delicious! I bought two small plants from a local, natural nursery late summer of last year and everyone loves them!