7 Delicious Fruits You Can Grow in Hanging Baskets

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Instead of flowers and ferns, you can start growing fruits in hanging baskets. It is possible, and there are not just one or two but many great-tasting fruit plants perfect for your porch, patio, balcony, or rooftop.

Best Fruits to Grow in Hanging Baskets

1. Strawberries

USDA Zones: 3-11

Best Hanging Varieties: Tristar, Tribute, Mara des Bois, Evie, and Albion

Fresh strawberries are delightful in flavor, so aromatic and juicy that you would like to pick them again and again. And the best part is that you can grow strawberries in hanging baskets in limited space.

How to Grow

Just click here! You can grow strawberries indoors as well.

2. Blueberries

USDA Zones: 3-10

Best Hanging Varieties: Midnight Cascade Blueberry

Sweet and tart blueberries are part of the summertime memories of many, and don’t be surprised when you come to know it’s possible to grow them in your apartment in hanging baskets.

The Blueberry plant is a visual delight when it is at its prime, producing clusters of juicy blueberries with bright green leaves in the backdrop!

How to Grow

Just read our article on growing blueberries here.

3. Raspberries

USDA Zones: 3-9

Best Hanging Varieties: Ruby Falls, Shortcake Raspberry

Raspberry bushes are short, and cultivars like raspberry ruby falls are even shorter. Being a rose family plant, they’re not difficult to grow either.

How to Grow

You’ll need a large hanging basket, bigger than 12 inches, and a less windy spot for growing raspberries in a hanging basket. Our guide will help you.

4. Blackberries

USDA Zones: 4b-10b

Best Hanging Varieties: Black Cascade, Baby Cakes Blackberry

Blackberries may not be the most delicious berries, but they’re very nutritious. Also, these compact varieties suggested above can be grown in pots and baskets easily.

How to Grow

A 10 to 12-inch hanging basket should be fine for a black cascade. You’ll need a larger size for other varieties. Here’s how to get more harvest.

5. Citrus

USDA Zones: 8-11

Best Hanging Varieties: Unknown

There are many dwarf citrus varieties available that you can grow in 12-24 inches size hanging baskets. Besides the fruits, you can enjoy highly aromatic and ornamental citrus flowers, so it’s a win-win.

How to Grow

Growing most of the citrus types is similar to caring for a lemon tree.

6. Cherry Tomatoes

USDA Zones: 4-11

Best Hanging Varieties: Basket Boy Red, Suncherry Premium, Sakura, Gardener’s Delight, Tumbling Tom, and Sun Baby.

Botanically, tomatoes are fruits, and growing them in hanging baskets is quite easy, just like strawberries. This way, they grow vertically, and you receive fresh homegrown cherry tomatoes for salad and cooking.

How to Grow

Learn it here! If you are using a big basket, you can also grow herbs like basil, chives, and mint.

7. Cranberry

USDA Zones: 2-7

Best Hanging Varieties: Pilgrim Cranberry, Stevens Cranberry, Ben Lear Cranberry

Growing Cranberries in hanging baskets is pretty easy. Choose a low-growing variety like ‘Pilgrim’ that will cascade nicely over the edges of the basket and water it well–because these fruits have shallow roots and dry out easily.

How to Grow

Cranberries thrive in acidic, moist soil, so get such a mix. Also, you’ll need a big hanging basket that’s about 12-14 inches wide and quite deep as well.