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For fruit, I got a few strawberries and blackberries this year, we have some small watermelons!, and we used the only sweet pepper that grew on the pizza.
Great!
I too have have blackberries, besides mulberries and gooseberries - all three are also found everywhere around me.
I live besides the Ganga (big river) and Watermelons are quite famous here,but I don't grow them. I get them from my farm where they (I rent my farm on an annual basis because it's far from where I live) grow it in along with cucumber, muskmelon and long melon before monsoon.
I went to school in a town that had mulberry trees all over the place. I miss being able to pick and eat them on my way to and from class.
Wow!
I also went to a school in Jaipur where around the school there were so many many mulberry trees. It was kinda fashion among the residents there to have mulberries and sapodillas.
I miss how we used to climb those boundry walls and eat those until we were full. Many a times it was almost stealing but those were times when people didn't mind kids stealing some fruits.
You know (Holy) Basil is almost grown in every house in india. It's actually worshipped here. I use the raw leaves now and then but we don't use them in cooking. I also have mint leaves.
Yeah, hot peppers is used in almost every curry and dish here except for sweets. I have them too.
We don't have parsley, but we have Bishop's weed as replacement.
Cilantro doesn't grow at this time here but every winter I have them.
For oregano, we use mexican mint. I grew them once but not anymore as we don't get good crop for it.
We don't have deers but we have monkeys and they do a lot of damage o the garden.
I also have some fruits like mango and guava and we have to do a lot of efforts to secure the crop.
Yeah one special herb I have is Parijat (Tree of Sorrow) which has exceptional medicinal properties in curing and preventing a lot of diseases.
One more that I have is sweet neem, we use it in curries. It gives a mild sweet-sour flavour and is also exceptionally medicinal.