Edible Plants

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Shop edible plants for your yard: fruit trees, berry bushes, grapevines and nut trees, grown on our Tennessee farm since 1959 and shipped straight to your door. Filter by growing zone to find edible plants that will fruit where you live. Buy Edible Plants Online From a Tennessee Nursery The best fruit you’ll ever taste is the kind you pick from your own yard. A few well-chosen fruit trees, berry bushes and vines can feed a family for decades, and they look good doing it. Spring blossoms, summer shade and fall color are a bonus on top of the harvest. TN Nursery has grown plants in McMinnville, Tennessee, for three generations, so every edible plant you order comes from a family farm rather than a warehouse. How to Choose Edible Plants What’s your growing zone? Use the zone filter above. Fruit trees need enough winter cold to set fruit, but not so much that it kills their buds, so zone matters more here than anywhere else. How much sun do you have? Nearly all fruiting plants need at least six to eight hours of direct sun to produce well. Do you need a pollination partner? Some fruit trees need a second, different variety nearby to bear fruit. Apple, pear, pecan and pawpaw do best with a partner; peach, apricot, fig and grape are self-fertile. Check each product page before you buy. How long can you wait? Berries fruit in one to two years, most fruit trees in three to five, and nut trees can take longer. Fruit Trees for Your Backyard Peach and Apricot trees are self-fertile, so a single tree can bear fruit, and they usually start producing within a few years. Apple and Pear trees produce best with a second variety nearby for cross-pollination. Fruiting Plum and Fig round out a home orchard. Short on space? The Dwarf Patio Peach grows in a large container on a deck or patio. Browse all fruit trees . Native Edible Plants Some of the best edible plants are native fruits most people never get to taste fresh. Pawpaw is the largest fruit native to North America, with a cream