About the Author

Krista Behr is a lifelong gardener passionate about growing fruit, vegetables, herbs and more in zone 4 America. In addition to a massive outdoor kitchen garden, rambling herb beds, berry patches, a mini orchard and more, she has dedicated years of time, energy and research into cultivating a potted “windowsill garden” of subtropical fruits and spices – container-growing tropical trees, shrubs, vines and plants indoors to survive the northern climate. She has first-hand skills and expertise in growing potted fruit trees and spice plants including citrus (lemons, lime, orange & tangerine), pomegranates, pineapple, avocado, olives, coffee, black pepper vines, vanilla vines, curry, and much more.

Krista lives in the rural foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York with her family, dogs, chickens, ducks, geese, and a bazillion plants. 

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In a nutshell, I am a northern-zone gardener that is passionate about growing fruit (among other things). This blog is not a nursery sales site, nor is it sponsored by any garden supply companies. This is simply me myself, giving brutally honest advice in a site that grew out of reviews of fruit trees, canes, and other plants I bought for my garden – what they looked like when they arrived, how they survived the winter, and how they continued to grow and produce throughout the years. (And occasionally how I accidentally killed the poor things. Oops.)

I do not accept garden nursery sponsorships simply because I want to keep my objectivity. You may run across affiliate links here and there; as an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases when you click on product links within this article and this website. Any articles containing affiliate links will be marked at the top of the post. If you connect to my Pinterest account, I do post some affiliate-linked items there, which means that if you click a link and buy, I get a small financial kickback as a referral fee.

PRIVACY POLICY

I.e., all the Legal stuff they told me I had to say

Here’s the skinny, folks: I write and manage this blog entirely by myself. I do not collect your personal information in any way shape or form… however, if you sign up for auto-email alerts, I assume there’s probably a way I could see your email address if I tried (I never have. Don’t understand technology unless it was made to garden with). All I get are stats that say how many visitors from what countries, browser types, what websites they arrived from, etc. Any information you deliberately leave in the comments is a whole separate ballgame – that info I CAN see – so please choose carefully what you decide to disclose there. I don’t share it, but keep in mind comments are public so I don’t have to for other folks to see it.

That’s MY personal use. Now the fine print:

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This privacy policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated in August 2022. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me through the comment section of the blog.