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Richard
03-13-2008, 09:33 PM
My "MidKnight Valencia" orange tree has been in the ground 3 years now, so it is about 5 years old. Today I harvested the first crop of sorts, about two dozen smallish, slightly sour oranges. This was expected, next year the fruit is likely to be much sweeter.
I also trimmed and picked fruit from my Eureka lemon. Lemon bars, coming up!
:woohoonaner:
MediaHound
03-13-2008, 10:57 PM
Great thread! I didn't harvest any fruits today, but I just stuck this thread!
bencelest
03-14-2008, 08:35 AM
I harvested more than hallf of my Dancy tangerine. And before long, my Washington Navel orange. Next will be cara-cara.
bencelest
03-14-2008, 08:43 AM
Great thread! I didn't harvest any fruits today, but I just stuck this thread!
What about "grafting"?
I suppose there are not too many interested in this subject.
I've been grafting so many citrus,apples, plouts and plums since 2 weeks ago.
mskitty38583
03-14-2008, 09:51 AM
i find it facinating. when and if i get all my stuff planted and moved around i would like to graft a citrus or two. any one know what you would have to graft to get blood oranges? this is one tree i must have. and what kind of stalk to use? it will be a long while before i can do this grafting thing. hopefully when i get to my botony classes we will have to do a project.....this would be excellent for a project. im not too much into apples( i dont eat them) but i do love the flowers on them. and i would like to graft my own weeping peach tree, or weeping mulberry tree. so hey im game for the grafting thing. something new to try.:o
Richard
03-14-2008, 11:55 AM
For more information on grafting, see http://www.bananas.org/f8/what-did-you-graft-today-4018.html
As for harvesting, this morning I picked about a dozen "sequoia" variety strawberries for my cereal! These are a hybrid with the wild strawberries native to the area of trees of the same name - they are not a large berry but rather medium size, very productive and sweet, and produce spring through fall because they are day-neutral.
bencelest
03-14-2008, 12:29 PM
MsKitty:
The most knowledgeable guy I know and the one who taught me how to graft in person of different ways is Joe Real and some other people in the other citrus forum 3years ago . Now I considered my self very accomplished grafter and Joe called me an 'expert'. I've been harvesting many fruit cultivars now from my grafts. You just said you just want to graft 2 or three but once you get the know how and it's very easy you will be addicted to it and think of many ways to do it again and again.
Once I have time I will refer you to where you can learn pictorially and I am willing to bet your first try will be a success.
Imagine how thrilling you will be when you cut a 1 1/2 inch branch,attached it to another branch and viola in 2 to 3 weeks or less you see a new bud's forming and don't be surprised in another month flowers formed and harvest them in another 8months.
Richard
03-14-2008, 01:15 PM
For more discussions on grafting, please post here http://www.bananas.org/f8/what-did-you-graft-today-4018.html
As for harvesting, what are you picking now?
banana berserker
03-15-2008, 06:16 PM
lemons! I can taste the homemade lemonade right now! :)
Richard
03-15-2008, 06:47 PM
lemons! I can taste the homemade lemonade right now! :)
:woohoonaner:
Do you have an ice cream maker? Check out the recipe for lemon sorbet.
island cassie
03-15-2008, 10:00 PM
Meyers lemons and lots of them - almost the only lemons available on an island full of limes!! And these babies are destined for margaritas!!!!
Cassie
mskitty38583
03-15-2008, 10:19 PM
congrats on the great harvest!!!:2559: and having the best limes!:woohoonaner:. destined for margaritas...oh im hurt now. LOL!
Richard
03-15-2008, 11:04 PM
Meyers lemons and lots of them - almost the only lemons available on an island full of limes!! And these babies are destined for margaritas!!!!
Cassie
O.K., now I have to tease you about the Meyer Lemons! Did you know they are really Lemon x Orange ? I would agree that the "Meyer" is great in drinks. However, cooks are taught use the Eureka or Lisbon for that robust lemon flavor. (Lisbon is just a seedless Eureka).
:2783:
CookieCows
03-15-2008, 11:35 PM
Hmm ... that's interesting. Have you by any chance done a taste test to see how big a difference it is?
Richard
03-15-2008, 11:52 PM
Hmm ... that's interesting. Have you by any chance done a taste test to see how big a difference it is?
From healthy trees, the difference is very noticable; similar to the difference between Ruby grapefruit and Cocktail grapefruit -- the latter being a Ruby with orange crossed back into it.
bencelest
03-17-2008, 12:19 PM
I harvested the rest of my Dancy tangerine thinking that it will bud new buds soon.
Richard
03-17-2008, 01:15 PM
I harvested the rest of my Dancy tangerine thinking that it will bud new buds soon.
Good idea on your young tree. Although a mature tree has no problem "holding" fruit and budding.
bencelest
03-17-2008, 03:38 PM
Thanks! And they taste good too even though not fully ripe yet.
jpfloors
03-18-2008, 09:52 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=8740&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=8740)
Yesterday I got to try the first taste of my first ponderosa lemon off a tree I planted this past Dec!!! Very nice balance of sweet and sour! It was over 3" in diameter!!!
Richard
03-18-2008, 10:38 PM
Yesterday I got to try the first taste of my first ponderosa lemon off a tree I planted this past Dec!!! Very nice balance of sweet and sour! It was over 3" in diameter!!!
Congratulations! :ropingnaner:
bencelest
03-19-2008, 12:45 AM
Talking about lemon. I have a Eureka that bore exceptionally large fruit. I am harvesting it tomorrow.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=8748&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=8748)
STEELVIPER
03-19-2008, 03:34 PM
Purple passion fruit. Had lots of flowers and fruit this winter. Getting more blooms big time again! :eek:
Richard
03-19-2008, 04:12 PM
Purple passion fruit. Had lots of flowers and fruit this winter. Getting more blooms big time again! :eek:
Congratulations!
:woohoonaner:
lorax
03-19-2008, 06:24 PM
I've been away, but here's what I pulled in in the last week or so.
Canna lily leaves for making humitas
Lantana camara berries for making jam
Fresh figs
Fresh tunas (red prickly pears)
Guavas (the red kind)
Limes
Lemons
Mandarins
Palm berries
Taxo (passionfruit)
Granadilla (passionfruit)
Longstem red roses
Tomate de arbol
Uvillas (cape gooseberries)
Beans
Beets
Summer squash
various herbs and spices
Cinnamon leaves (from a friend's tree)
Sambucas
Mulberries (white)
Agave flowers (for salads)
Richard
03-19-2008, 06:43 PM
I've been away, but here's what I pulled in in the last week or so.
Canna lily leaves for making humitas
Lantana camara berries for making jam
Fresh figs
Fresh tunas (red prickly pears)
Guavas (the red kind)
Limes
Lemons
Mandarins
Palm berries
Taxo (passionfruit)
Granadilla (passionfruit)
Longstem red roses
Tomate de arbol
Uvillas (cape gooseberries)
Beans
Beets
Summer squash
various herbs and spices
Cinnamon leaves (from a friend's tree)
Sambucas
Mulberries (white)
Agave flowers (for salads)
:woohoonaner:
Yum!
lorax
03-19-2008, 06:44 PM
I love the variety - I'm originally Canadian, and the sheer novelty of picking figs in March blows me away sometimes.
Richard
03-19-2008, 07:03 PM
I love the variety - I'm originally Canadian, and the sheer novelty of picking figs in March blows me away sometimes.
And that's just the spring (breba) crop, you should also have another crop of white & brown figs in the Fall !
Your town sure looks like a beautiful place. I hope to visit the area someday with my spanish speaking daughters.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=8768
banana berserker
04-04-2008, 06:36 PM
:woohoonaner:
Do you have an ice cream maker? Check out the recipe for lemon sorbet.
If your still reading this no I don't have an ice cream maker used to but it stopped working so I threw it out. Might buy one soon as it's getting hot and lemons grow fatter and juicier every day! Thats one thing I love about my tree sometimes the lemons hang on for years! Only growing bigger every day! Once I harvested a lemon bigger than a grapefruit! It was one mocho lemon!
bencelest
04-04-2008, 08:25 PM
All the cara-cara and Trovita oranges.
Richard
04-12-2008, 09:56 PM
Fresh Strawberries! :2181:
I bought these plants in Exeter Calif. two years ago. They are a day-neutral variety, but otherwise unmarked.
island cassie
04-12-2008, 10:07 PM
O.K., now I have to tease you about the Meyer Lemons! Did you know they are really Lemon x Orange ? I would agree that the "Meyer" is great in drinks. However, cooks are taught use the Eureka or Lisbon for that robust lemon flavor. (Lisbon is just a seedless Eureka).
Sorry for the delay in replying Richard - and I can't do the quote thing properly, but yes I did know it was a cross - but so thin skinned and juicy that I can forgive it!
Cassie
island cassie
04-12-2008, 10:24 PM
Lorax - what do you do with your granadilla (assuming we are talking about the same thing - 12 inches long with a thick rind and not much flavour in the fruit)? All that comes to mind is candying the rind - not enough fruit to juice unless you have a superior type. Do you cook the rind as a vegetable? My p. vitifolia has taken off to such an extent that I am almost afraid to plant more varieties ( 60ft before I took the machete to it!).
Cassie
bencelest
06-05-2008, 01:53 PM
Prince Ranier cherries
bencelest
06-07-2008, 09:18 AM
Stella Cherries
Eureka lemons
Calamondins
bencelest
06-07-2008, 09:19 AM
Clemenule from Spain
Richard
06-07-2008, 10:13 AM
Congratulations on the continuing harvest Benny!
bencelest
06-07-2008, 10:34 PM
Thanks! Richard.
Richard
06-27-2008, 11:51 AM
This morning I picked almost 3 gallons of apricots. I'll probably have the same amount ripen each day for the next 2-3 days. Coming up in a few weeks: ripe Green Gage Plums.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10716 http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10717
Richard
06-28-2008, 01:04 AM
With those apricots, my wife Sue made 1/2 gallon of apricot sorbet and I made a quadruple-size apricot pie in a large broiler pan!
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10738
mskitty38583
06-28-2008, 02:11 AM
oh that looks yummy!
island cassie
06-28-2008, 12:54 PM
Richard - ripe apricots taste wonderful - can't grow them here of course, but when we lived near Johannesburg, the peaches, nectarines and apricots were everywhere.
I'm with Sue on the sorbet and ice cream too - but mine are passion fruit and mango as we are at the height of the season - fruit everywhere, pineapples too.
Cassie
Richard
06-28-2008, 02:58 PM
...
I'm with Sue on the sorbet and ice cream too - but mine are passion fruit and mango as we are at the height of the season - fruit everywhere, pineapples too.
Cassie
Hmm ... my passion fruits won't be ripe for quite awhile. But today I did harvest more apricots, two ambrosia muskmelons, and a connecticut field pumpkin. This afternoon we'll make apricot jam and tomorrow pumpkin pie.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10740 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=10740)
Lagniappe
06-28-2008, 03:25 PM
Delicious sequoia and quinault strawberries ! :2216: And a zillion seed heads from several varieties of ornamental sunflowers .
PT DUffy
06-29-2008, 02:24 PM
'Furry Yellow Hogg' Tomatoes
Suyu Nishiki Cukes
Kamo and Cambodian Giant Eggplants
Limon ,Jalapeno and Italina Frying Chilis
Litchii Tomato(disappointed. Not returning to next yrs' garden!)
Thai Golden Melon(")
Cheers,
Pat
Richard
06-29-2008, 02:47 PM
Way to go, Pat!
Richard
06-29-2008, 08:13 PM
From the apricots picked yesterday (Saturday): 6 pints and 2 half-pints of apricot jam!
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10801 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=10801)
Richard
06-29-2008, 11:23 PM
This evening I went back to check on the Apricot tree and picked 10 gallons worth (50 pounds!). I guess I'd better get busy removing the pits ...
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10819 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=10819)
mskitty38583
06-30-2008, 09:58 AM
ok now my mouth is really watering....apricot jam....oh so yummy.
Richard
07-01-2008, 12:21 AM
This evening I went back to check on the Apricot tree and picked 10 gallons worth (50 pounds!). I guess I'd better get busy removing the pits ...
Pitted, sliced, and packed with a bit of lemon juice: I now have 4.5 gallons of fruit in the refrigerator for Tuesday's cooking extravaganza! :D
Greenie
07-01-2008, 01:08 AM
good job!
Richard
07-02-2008, 11:03 AM
So far I have canned a total of 14 pints of jam, made 6 pies (1 double and 1 quadruple), 4 quarts of sorbet, 2 coffee cakes, and have 8 pints of sliced fruit packed with lemon juice in the refrigerator that I'll probably turn into jam today. The remaining ~10 gallons of fruit on the tree will likely end up in the food dehydrator. It looks like the peaches will be keeping me busy next.
:woohoonaner:
Richard
07-05-2008, 02:50 PM
7 gallons (50 lbs !) of tree-ripened peaches. :D
PT DUffy
07-05-2008, 03:01 PM
Way to go, Pat!
Thanks! Today I got my 1st 'White WOnder' Watermelon to ripen which was the 1st watermelon I've ever got to this stage! A nice White-fleshed Heirloom "Icebox" with a slightly tropical flavor. An the Figs are going gangbusters!
Cheers,
Pat
bencelest
07-05-2008, 04:57 PM
Finally got my internet back an hour ago after 3 weeks.
Harvested almost half of my Prince Ranier cherries today and yesterday.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10947&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=10947)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10948&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=10948)
island cassie
07-05-2008, 06:14 PM
Richard - that is just incredible. And all you champion fruit-growers are such show-offs - up to your armpits in fruit!!!!! (Good work though and it's only my envy showing!)
Cassie
chong
07-05-2008, 07:58 PM
Richard - that is just incredible. And all you champion fruit-growers are such show-offs - up to your armpits in fruit!!!!! (Good work though and it's only my envy showing!)
Cassie
I second that! As things are going, we in Seattle are probably 2 and a half months from our fruits getting ripe. That is, if we can get some decent weather here. Like yesterday was around 70°F, right now it's 65°F. Oh, well! At least we don't have to turn the air conditioner on. Just have to wear heavy clothing.
Greenie
07-05-2008, 10:08 PM
will those Rain cherries grow here in Fl.?
bencelest
07-06-2008, 01:39 AM
Greene:
I don't think so. Cherries have to satisfy some chilling requirements during the winter when they are dormant in order for them to fruit.
I thought here in Salinas we didn't have enough below freezing weather but I tried it and was successful because I did not see a single cherry tree in the neighborhood.
heynow
07-06-2008, 08:31 AM
Going to pick my first pineapple. It looks ready to me.http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10979&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=10979)
mskitty38583
07-06-2008, 10:22 AM
great idea with the chix wire, ill have to remember that. looks yummy!:bananajoy:
island cassie
07-06-2008, 10:26 AM
Yep - that pineapple looks ready to me too!!
Cassie
Richard
07-06-2008, 11:15 AM
Going to pick my first pineapple. It looks ready to me.
I like the cage! Congratulations on the ripe "fruit treat".
:woohoonaner:
heynow
07-06-2008, 05:10 PM
Picked it and going to cut it up! http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=10997&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=10997)
lorax
07-06-2008, 05:43 PM
Yup, that's ripe! What colour flesh is it?
Today, I harvested Figs (Breva-type), Lantana Berries (yum, jam!), and some wild ginger root.
Greenie
07-06-2008, 09:59 PM
...congrats!
Greenie
07-06-2008, 09:59 PM
Greene:
I don't think so. Cherries have to satisfy some chilling requirements during the winter when they are dormant in order for them to fruit.
I thought here in Salinas we didn't have enough below freezing weather but I tried it and was successful because I did not see a single cherry tree in the neighborhood.
i thought so....keep up the good work!
mskitty38583
07-06-2008, 10:43 PM
i picked 14 cherry tomatoes off of plants i got from sandy.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=11017 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11015&ppuser=1341)
bencelest
07-07-2008, 12:34 AM
More of prince Ranier cherries and some of green gage plums.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=11019&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11019)
Richard
07-07-2008, 01:26 AM
will those Rain cherries grow here in Fl.?
How many winter chill hours do you have in Miami? (check with a reputable nursery, or perhaps someone here knows)
You might be able to grow the cross-pollinating pair of ultra-low chill (~250 hrs) cherries: Minni Royal + Royal Lee.
bencelest
07-07-2008, 04:23 PM
If you really want to know, drive around your neighborhood and see if there is one yard growing them or perhaps the next city.
Richard
07-07-2008, 09:07 PM
45 more pounds of peaches, plus 20 pounds of Green Gage Plums.
mskitty38583
07-07-2008, 10:46 PM
if i ever get back to cali....i know of a couple of yards i want to raid.....and dont worry ill bring a steak of two for the dogs!
Richard
07-07-2008, 10:47 PM
if i ever get back to cali....i know of a couple of yards i want to raid.....and dont worry ill bring a steak of two for the dogs!
Oh don't bother bringing a steak for the dog ... he'll help you!
bencelest
07-08-2008, 08:05 PM
3 apricots I harvested the only three apricot fruit on the branch.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=11060&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11060)
So you see, last summer I grafted it to a flavored king plout but I was surprisedit fruit but only three. But when I saw one with bird bite on it I plucked them and ate it. It was so good to taste for the first time.
One has to notice on the other branch is a grafted white peach .
Luckily, on other branches, there are some white peaches that fruited also but only two fruit. It should be ready in a few days.
bencelest
07-08-2008, 08:17 PM
And here's the white peach I am talking about. Notice also an apricot branch at the bottom of the fruit and fruit plouts scattered around .
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=11067&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11067)
And I have many branches that I grafted apricots and plums on one plout tree.
Richard
07-09-2008, 09:31 PM
15 pounds of Green Gage plums and 30 pounds of Saturn Peaches. This will become about a dozen jars of plum preserves (no sugar added), and 1 dozen jars of peach preserves, 2 pounds of dried peaches, plus assorted pies and breads.
island cassie
07-09-2008, 10:02 PM
Richard - you are lucky I can't climb over your fences at night - you do great!!! Likewise Benni - good work!!
Cassie
island cassie
07-09-2008, 10:04 PM
Heynow - how did those pineapples taste? I bet they were the best ever!! lol
Cassie
mskitty38583
07-09-2008, 10:40 PM
if i ever get back to cali....i know of a couple of yards i want to raid.....and dont worry ill bring a steak of two for the dogs!
cassie ill meet you in texas and well go together from there. lol!:goteam:
bencelest
07-11-2008, 11:17 AM
some prince ranir cherries and green gage plum
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=11234&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=11234)
Richard
07-12-2008, 12:38 AM
Nice harvest Benny!
mskitty38583
07-12-2008, 01:10 AM
thats a pretty pic benny!
bencelest
07-12-2008, 09:27 AM
Thanks for your complements Cassie, Mskitty and Richard.
Richard: Do you put pectin to your jam preserves?
If so, where can you buy them?
mskitty38583
07-12-2008, 09:44 AM
benny if you want pectin you can get it at the grocery store. go to the baking isle and its in a box called sure jell. i posted how i do it on the other thread.....i harvested 4 and 1/2 pints of strawberry jam last nite. fixing to harvest peach jam. lol.:ha:
Richard
07-12-2008, 09:52 AM
Thanks for your complements Cassie, Mskitty and Richard.
Richard: Do you put pectin to your jam preserves?
If so, where can you buy them?
Here's how my family (father's side) has looked at it for generations:
A preserve is just preserved fruit -- nothing added except some lemon juice as a preservative and perhaps some tapioca or arrowroot powder if you don't want to stir for an extra half-hour to thicken the mixture.
A jam is a sugar-laden treat.
My recipe for preserves is here: http://www.bananas.org/f259/preserving-harvest-heat-pasteurization-5161.html#post43643
bencelest
07-12-2008, 12:44 PM
Thank you Richard for letting us know your family secret.
Richard
07-12-2008, 03:00 PM
Thank you Richard for letting us know your family secret.
Aww shucks, twas nothin you won't find in Joy of Cooking.
island cassie
07-12-2008, 08:09 PM
Sam - you bring the steaks for the dogs and I'll bring the shovel !! 50/50 split on the spoils!! Start your wish list now girl!
Cassie
Richard
07-12-2008, 10:02 PM
Sam - you bring the steaks for the dogs and I'll bring the shovel !! 50/50 split on the spoils!! Start your wish list now girl!
Cassie
Hmm, time to start training my Kei Apple (Dovyalis caffra) along the top of the fence ...
http://www.plantoftheweek.org/image/dovyalis.jpg
mskitty38583
07-13-2008, 12:40 AM
Sam - you bring the steaks for the dogs and I'll bring the shovel !! 50/50 split on the spoils!! Start your wish list now girl!
Cassie
wahoo im game! i do get a discount at the clarion inns.....we could stay there and hord our prizes!
bencelest
07-13-2008, 09:20 AM
Ha-HA-Ha ......................!!!!!
You guys are hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Richard
07-13-2008, 10:05 AM
Just when Sam and Cassie need less encouragement ... This morning I picked 5 gallons of plums and another 5 gallons of peaches!
:woohoonaner:
island cassie
07-13-2008, 11:20 AM
Sam - thick gloves too - have you seen Richards kei apple? The next dark moon seems to be about the 15/16th August!! Hope they still have something unharvested! At the rate they are going, it will be a close call!!
Cassie
mskitty38583
07-13-2008, 11:47 AM
yeah and hear i told benny to open a booth at the farmers market....geesh what was i thinking. LOL! my mom got 2 bushels of peaches off her tree. the ones i was gonna make jam with are going in the freezer for cobblers and when i get back from va im gonna go rob her tree again. and dads blackberry bushes. lol. cassie i have some cowhide gloves, that should do it. rotflmao!!!
Richard
07-13-2008, 12:33 PM
... cassie i have some cowhide gloves, that should do it. rotflmao!!!
Cowhide won't help with Kei Apple. Elephans, Boars, and Tigers all give it a wide berth. It is used as a living fence throughout Africa. The fruit is also very tasty. I'm growing mine (male & female) intertwined on a tall and wide flat wire mesh to make the fruit more accessible.
http://www.southbroom.org/kei_apple.jpg
(picture from Southbroom, Hibiscus Coast, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (http://www.southbroom.org/))
island cassie
07-13-2008, 12:37 PM
Hey Sam - there must be something we can do to get over Richard's fence - trampoline???
Cassie
Richard
07-13-2008, 01:47 PM
Inspecting the vegetables, I picked one 8-ball zucchini, 4 enormous summer (peter pan) squash, 1 pound of stringless green beans, and one 16-inch diameter pumpkin. See the recipe for Pumpkin Pancakes - Bananas.org (http://www.bananas.org/showthread.php?p=44310#post44310)
magicgreen
07-14-2008, 12:51 PM
picked 5 banana peppers!
bencelest
07-14-2008, 01:38 PM
picked santa Rosa plums and green gage plums
Richard
07-16-2008, 09:25 PM
Picked the last 6 Saturn peaches :(
Picked two ripe Babacos, the plant has gone into year-round production :confused:
Still picking Sequoia strawberries - 1 pint :)
Still picking Bababerry raspberries - 3 pints :)
Still picking Green Gage Plums - 5 gallons :)
Picked the first half dozen Panamint Nectarines :D
Picked the first Cherokee Purple Tomato of the season :D:D
mskitty38583
07-17-2008, 01:10 AM
Hey Sam - there must be something we can do to get over Richard's fence - trampoline???
Cassie
i got a rope ladder,we get to the otherside and pull it over and we have our escape route.....:nanadrink:
Richard
07-17-2008, 03:04 AM
i got a rope ladder,we get to the otherside and pull it over and we have our escape route.....:nanadrink:
Most people just knock on the door ... ask sunfish!
mskitty38583
07-17-2008, 09:46 AM
LOL!!!!!:woohoonaner:.
Richard
07-17-2008, 03:28 PM
I'm in!! I'll even drive.. I guess I should bring the long bed...ROFL.. You guys better watch...I use to live in Ga and I know how to get there...:ha::ha::ha:
I can see that next summer we need to have a festival of fruit and world championship put-put tournament at my place.
:goteam:
Richard
07-17-2008, 10:58 PM
3 gallons of Green Gage plums.
3 gallons (10 bunches) of Flame Grapes.
1 pint of Sequoia Strawberries.
My location is not warm enough thoughout the day for Flame Grapes to ripen uniformly -- which they do in places with warmer days and nights. So a "bunch" from my orchard is 1/3 ripe, 1/3 under-ripe, and 1/3 over-ripe. I toss the over-ripe ones since they are starting to mold. Some of the remainder are eaten fresh but the majority are made into jam. Just make preserves (http://www.bananas.org/f259/preserving-harvest-creating-sterile-jars-preserves-5198.html), but add 1/4 cup sugar to each 4 cups of fruit. For my grapes, this is a necessity because the unripe grapes are too tart when boiled down into a plain preserve.
bencelest
07-18-2008, 12:10 AM
A few of my Clemenule from Spain. Superb. And some white peaches and sweet nectarines. And green gage plums and Santa Rosa Plums.
mskitty38583
07-18-2008, 02:59 PM
about 150 lbs of weeds.:ha:
bencelest
07-18-2008, 07:39 PM
Mskitty:
Ha-ha-ha!
I never thought of that!
I had more than 2 foot long weeds in my sloopy backyard that my 3 kids and I pulled but only maybe 40 lbs. It's been neglected so long.
Richard
07-18-2008, 07:49 PM
about 150 lbs of weeds.:ha:
O.K., but are you going to eat them? :D
mskitty38583
07-18-2008, 08:43 PM
you could....there was polk weed and wild onions.....
Richard
07-19-2008, 09:32 PM
Picked a quart-size bowl of lima bean pods, plus the usual assortment of berries.
:woohoonaner:
paradisi
07-20-2008, 10:13 PM
black russian tomatoes
ceylon spinach
chives
parsley
onion leaves
nasturtium
passionfruit
granadilla
lemon
made a salad for lunch :bananas_b
Richard
07-20-2008, 10:45 PM
Paradisi, congratulations on the Harvest!
Today I picked:
Last 2 gallons of Green Gage plums :(
3 gallons of Panamint nectarines :D
1 pint of Bababerry raspberries :)
The plums will probably be eaten fresh.
The nectarines will be dried.
The raspberries are already gone!
mskitty38583
07-21-2008, 10:07 AM
The raspberries are already gone!
thats how that one goes here as well!:ha:
paradisi
07-21-2008, 10:17 PM
Today we got one nectarine.
nothing special except I live in Australia and we are in the middle of our winter. We only ever get fairly mild winters where we live, but for a nectarine to ripen at this time of year is very very strange. Its at least a month earlier than last year (which was extremely early) and I would guess its thanks to global warming.
We've even had to cover our tree to protect it from fruit fly - something we normally don't have to do until september.
Richard
07-22-2008, 03:27 PM
...
Today I picked:
Last 2 gallons of Green Gage plums :(
3 gallons of Panamint nectarines :D
1 pint of Bababerry raspberries :)
...
The plums not eaten became 1/2 lb dried and 3 pints of preserves.
The nectarines became 5 pints of preserves.
I'd make raspberry preserves but they never make it in the house :ha:
mskitty38583
07-22-2008, 08:30 PM
2 days ago i froze 20 lbs of peaches till i get more canning jars then its peach jam time! and yesterday i froze 2 and 1/2 quarts of blackberries. all the blackberries but a handful went into the freezer....i had to taste test them. all of the fruit came out my parents yard.
Richard
07-22-2008, 09:36 PM
2 days ago i froze 20 lbs of peaches till i get more canning jars then its peach jam time! and yesterday i froze 2 and 1/2 quarts of blackberries. all the blackberries but a handful went into the freezer....i had to taste test them. all of the fruit came out my parents yard.
Oh yum! Freezing is so much easier than canning anyway. Our peaches are freestone, so my wife just cuts a great circle around each one, twists, and presto, two peach halves! There's already bags of frozen peach halves in the freezer. Come winter, it will be vanilla ice cream with sliced frozen peaches and chocolate sauce.
mskitty38583
07-22-2008, 10:16 PM
thats what these were the freestone. very easy to pit! im gonna do the peach jam. it just mad me mad the recipe that i use calls for 6 lbs of peaches and only makes 5 and 1/2 cups.....thats 2 and 1/2 pint jars. so i had to wait till i had more peaches to do 2 or 3 batches. btw they are easier to peel also. i made a peach cobbler and ate a huge piece. oh boy was it yummy!
Richard
07-22-2008, 10:27 PM
thats what these were the freestone. very easy to pit! im gonna do the peach jam. it just mad me mad the recipe that i use calls for 6 lbs of peaches and only makes 5 and 1/2 cups.....thats 2 and 1/2 pint jars. so i had to wait till i had more peaches to do 2 or 3 batches. btw they are easier to peel also. i made a peach cobbler and ate a huge piece. oh boy was it yummy!
Hmm ... I never peel mine. If making jam or preserve, I use a large knife to cut wedges out right over the pot. I like the flavor of the skins in the preserve. By the time it boils down, they have fragmented into unrecognizable little pieces.
mskitty38583
07-22-2008, 10:32 PM
i peeled the skins for the ones in the cobbler not for the frozen ones. the skin stays on those. jam wouldnt be jam without the skins.
island cassie
07-22-2008, 10:41 PM
Years ago we lived in Africa up on the high veld where the air was very dry, and the peaches, apricots and nectarines used to grow like weeds and you couldn't give the fruit away because everyone had them. So people used to spread them out to dry and the flavour was really concentrated. This was when people didn't always have electricity for freezers, and it was a common sight to see yards covered with corrugated iron sheets which were in turn covered with halved pitted fruit drying in the sun. If they had trees you could bet they would have strips of jerky (biltong) drying there - and we ate them all with never any ill effects!! Even now we eat from roadside vendors with impunity.
Sorry didn't mean to hijack this thread - got carried away.
Cassie
paradisi
07-25-2008, 02:50 AM
lemon, parsley, celery, tomato
had them with some mako shark
Dean W.
07-25-2008, 05:53 PM
Cherry tomatoes and jalepenos.
Richard
07-28-2008, 10:12 PM
The last 10 nectarines :(
1/2 pint of strawberries :)
The first Sugar Pie Pumpkin :D
Did someone say "pumpkin jam" ?
:woohoonaner:
mskitty38583
07-28-2008, 10:22 PM
im sure pumpkin jam might be interesting, my mom has made pumpkin butter( like apple butter but with pumpkin)....but i like pumpkin pancakes...yummy yummy!
Richard
08-02-2008, 10:39 PM
6 1/2-pound Better Boy tomatoes :)
The 1st yellow Azoychka tomato of the year :D
paradisi
08-03-2008, 07:53 PM
passionfruit (panama red), celery - baby stalks used as a last minute addition to a soup, harvested some frozen bananas from the freezer the other day - to put into a carrot cake, the recipe called for a cup or two of water - and I thought that was boring so I grabbed a couple of lady finger bananas, let them get soft and mushed themin their plastic bag and added that to the cake mix......took an extra 45 minutes to bake but well worth it
sandy0225
08-05-2008, 04:33 PM
We harvested our first mexican lime day before yesterday from our little tree. And today I harvested my first artichoke ever, an Imperial Star.
paradisi
08-05-2008, 05:34 PM
today I picked two paw paw - or papaya - they're on the kitchen window sill finishing off ripening,.
had to pick them just when they started to turn yellow otherwise our local family of possums would have them
Richard
08-05-2008, 07:38 PM
today I picked two paw paw - or papaya - they're on the kitchen window sill finishing off ripening, had to pick them just when they started to turn yellow otherwise our local family of possums would have them
LOL! Papaya is a perfect meal for possums! Also thanks for clarifying they are papaya, and not one of the North American Paw Paw's (Asimina species, especially Asimina triloba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba)).
We harvested our first mexican lime day before yesterday from our little tree. And today I harvested my first artichoke ever, an Imperial Star.
:goteam:
paradisi
08-06-2008, 04:02 AM
I almost had a triloba growing here - the seedlings were about 60cm tall - and then the wife found out about the smell of the flowers and their propensity to become a weed over here - so I had to pull them out.
That's why I know those on the other side of the pacific like paw paws to be called papayas:02:
BTW - am I missing much as far as the taste of your paw paw is concerned??
Richard
08-06-2008, 09:35 AM
... BTW - am I missing much as far as the taste of your paw paw is concerned??
Given you can grow papaya and all the other fruits you already have, I think you are not missing out on much. The plants become large and invasive over time -- esp. in your environment. Your space is quite limited. Even if your growing area was larger, say 1000 square meters (1/4 acre) I think there are other fruits you would enjoy more in both taste and behavior.
Richard
08-10-2008, 10:30 PM
3 Pettingill apples, about 8 oz. each :)
1 12 oz. Mr. Stripey tomato :)
1 12 oz. Celebrity tomato :)
2 10 oz. Azoychka tomatoes :)
10 12 oz. Better Boy tomatoes :D
about 50 Sun Gold cherry tomatoes :D
Richard
08-14-2008, 09:28 PM
One Babaco ;)
One Connecticut Field pumpkin ;)
Five Sugar Pie pumpkins :)
Five Celebrity tomatoes :)
Two 1.5 lb plus three other Mr. Stripey tomatoes :D
Four 1 lb Cherokee Purple tomatoes :D
5 pounds of Sun Gold cherry tomatoes :D
15 pounds of Azoychka tomatoes :D
27 pounds of Better Boy tomatoes :goteam:
Time to "jar" tomatoes!
Dean W.
08-14-2008, 09:40 PM
One Babaco ;)
One Connecticut Field pumpkin ;)
Five Sugar Pie pumpkins :)
Five Celebrity tomatoes :)
Two 1.5 lb plus three other Mr. Stripey tomatoes :D
Four 1 lb Cherokee Purple tomatoes :D
5 pounds of Sun Gold cherry tomatoes :D
15 pounds of Azoychka tomatoes :D
27 pounds of Better Boy tomatoes :goteam:
Time to "jar" tomatoes!
:woohoonaner:Show off!
Richard
08-17-2008, 09:57 PM
One Pettingill apple :)
1 lb Sun Gold cherry tomatoes
2.5 lbs Mr. Stripey tomatoes
5 lbs Azoychka tomatoes
3.5 lbs Cherokee Purple tomatoes
8 lbs Celebrity tomatoes
12 lbs Better Boy tomatoes
:woohoonaner:
Richard
08-22-2008, 09:00 AM
Another 50 lbs of tomatoes!
:woohoonaner:
Dean W.
08-22-2008, 01:00 PM
Wow,:woohoonaner: 50 lbs, how many tomato plants do you have?
Richard
08-26-2008, 07:33 PM
Wow,:woohoonaner: 50 lbs, how many tomato plants do you have?
I have 10 plants, 6 of which are currently cropping heavily. Speaking of which, I harvested another 50 pounds this morning! :D
Dean W.
08-26-2008, 08:07 PM
:woohoonaner::goteam::woohoonaner:
lt_eggbeater
08-26-2008, 11:19 PM
3 lbs lemon guavas
1lb strawberry guava
10lbs of snake cucumbers
10lbs bush cucumbers
5lbs lemon cucumbers
2 jack o lantern pumpkins
1 35lb moon and stars watermelon they are all huge
1 2lb cantaloupe
Dean W.
08-27-2008, 08:36 AM
lt_eggbeater,
You must have a good size garden.:goteam: Post some photos when you get a chance.
lt_eggbeater
08-27-2008, 10:39 AM
lt_eggbeater,
You must have a good size garden.:goteam: Post some photos when you get a chance.
Its about 100ft by 35ft most of the stuff has been rabbit attacked lol!
the melons zukes and cucumbers seem to have been attacked less. I put in "rabbit" fencing but they seem to jump through the top holes. I guess I will
have to chicken wire it, and see if the smaller stuff will make it next growing season. I just started some hydroponic systems in doors up in the tower room
of my house. We wil see how it goes.
Dean W.
08-27-2008, 12:32 PM
Sounds like a good sized garden. Sorry to hear about the rabbits. Darn critters love to eat their greens. My cucumbers and zucchini didn't do much this year. I guess to hot and lack of water. Your in the desert, how do you grow so much? Lots of water I guess? What do you plan on growing with the hydroponic system? The hydroponic systems are pretty pricey aren't they?:bananas_b
lt_eggbeater
08-27-2008, 03:09 PM
Sounds like a good sized garden. Sorry to hear about the rabbits. Darn critters love to eat their greens. My cucumbers and zucchini didn't do much this year. I guess to hot and lack of water. Your in the desert, how do you grow so much? Lots of water I guess? What do you plan on growing with the hydroponic system? The hydroponic systems are pretty pricey aren't they?:bananas_b
I have alot of drip irragation, I have my own well so I take advantage of that.
The cucumbers zukes and melons have been huge. As far as the hydroponics goes currently I am attempting to grow watermelon,6 varieties of hot peppers, 4 varieties of sweet peppers, about half a dozen types of tomatoes, snow peas, corn and some cucumbers. Don't know if it will work or not... Not sure I can be bothered to keep that tight a control on the ph and everything. I'm using ebb and flow I have 2 2x6? units I think. and one 1x1 and 1 6x6? I think. So a decent amount of Hydroponics. But like I said I'm not too good about monitoring ph and all the other tedious hydrponic stuff.
lt_eggbeater
08-27-2008, 03:12 PM
Oh and yes the hydro systems are a little pricey I guess.
Richard
08-30-2008, 10:50 PM
Today I picked about 20 pounds of Celebrity tomatoes and an Ambrosia melon. Sue also made 10 pints of tomato soup preserve from the tomatoes I picked yesterday.
:woohoonaner:
Richard
09-02-2008, 09:40 PM
More Tomatoes!
from top to bottom:
Better Boy;
Celebrity;
Hillbilly, Momotaro, Azoychka;
Sun Gold Cherry;
Cherokee Purple, Persimmon.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=12928 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo= 12928)
bencelest
09-03-2008, 09:13 AM
Nice harvest Richard.
I harvested the last of my clemenule mandarin but I left the second batch of fruit that are not ripe yet. And I noticed there are more flowers coming.
Richard
09-03-2008, 04:15 PM
Nice harvest Richard.
I harvested the last of my clemenule mandarin but I left the second batch of fruit that are not ripe yet. And I noticed there are more flowers coming.
More flowers !!!
:woohoonaner:
Richard
09-07-2008, 02:57 AM
Chironex -- a garden raider from North Las Vegas stopped by today (Saturday) and made off with 5+ pounds of tomatoes. :D
Not a problem, later on in the day my wife and I picked another 50 pounds from the 10 plants. My wife canned about 2 dozen pints of "all things tomato" today, and I think she has another dozen planned for tomorrow.
:woohoonaner:
sandy0225
09-08-2008, 08:33 PM
I made 26 pints of cucumber relish (sweetish pickle relish for hot dogs, etc) today, so I picked cucumbers, peppers, onions (they were already pulled), and had to go to the store and get celery.
Richard
09-10-2008, 12:01 AM
Way to go Sandy!
I harvested about 35 lbs of tomatoes today, including a 1.75 lb Cherokee Purple -- the largest I've grown so far.
:woohoonaner:
mskitty38583
09-10-2008, 08:35 AM
congrats guys!!! i went to walley world the other day and bought the last box of pint jars they had. gonna make some more pulm spiced jam and some peach jam.
Richard
09-13-2008, 01:01 AM
10 pounds of Janice-Kadota Seedless Figs :D
30 pounds of Cherokee Purple Tomatoes :D
25 pounds of assorted tomato varieties :D
:goteam::woohoonaner::goteam:
bencelest
09-15-2008, 12:58 AM
Some Fuji apples.
Richard
09-18-2008, 10:50 AM
Another 50 lbs of tomatoes, about 1/3 Cherokee Purple and 1/3 Momotaro;
Half dozen chili peppers;
2 Italian Rose eggplants.
:woohoonaner:
momoese
09-20-2008, 07:44 PM
One 3.5 pound Sugar Loaf Pineapple with a tripple crown that came off the fruit in one piece! I let it ripen completely before picking and boy was that the right thing to do! It's the sweetest pineapple I've ever tasted! I'll post pics to my gallery when I get a chance.
Richard
09-23-2008, 10:49 AM
10 lbs of Momotaro tomatoes + 10 lbs of assorted other tomatoes :)
12 lbs of Janice-Kadota seedless figs :D
2 ripe Pimentos :goteam:
island cassie
09-28-2008, 05:40 PM
Coconuts!!! Over 120 nuts - enough to fill a pickup! Kept about 8 and gave the rest to the gardeners. They can sell them if they like and earn a few pesos that way. Not a bad haul off 3 trees.
lt_eggbeater
09-28-2008, 07:09 PM
2 watermelons, about a dozen armenian cucumbers, a load of lemon cucumbers, 7 pumpkins, and the carcasses of three javalinas that were unfortunate enough to be caught breaking through my garden fence last night. Over the last few days they have stomped about 70 percent of the melon and pumpkin patch flat, and eaten about 75 pumkins and 20 or 30 watermelons canteloupes and honey dews. I hope they enjoyed em!
island cassie
09-28-2008, 10:18 PM
hey lt - what are javelinas?
Cassie
xavierdlc61887
09-28-2008, 10:55 PM
wild pigs...boars
lt_eggbeater
09-28-2008, 11:12 PM
wild pigs...boars
yep like wild pigs or boars, technicaly a peccary, not a pig but related to pigs.
lt_eggbeater
09-28-2008, 11:16 PM
hey lt - what are javelinas?
Cassie
They can also be very aggressive towards humans. They have musk glands so you can smellem from a good distance.
island cassie
09-29-2008, 09:29 AM
Wow! glad we don't have them here.
Richard
09-29-2008, 01:57 PM
15 lbs of tomatoes
8 lbs of figs
an assortment of peppers
1 huge babaco
Coconuts!!! Over 120 nuts - enough to fill a pickup! Kept about 8 and gave the rest to the gardeners. They can sell them if they like and earn a few pesos that way. Not a bad haul off 3 trees.
Wow, that's great!
Richard
10-16-2008, 11:43 AM
The pineapple guavas are beginning to ripen. I found 3 on the ground today, two from 'Lickvers Pride' and one from 'Nazemetz'. I ate the latter, slicing it long ways into 6ths and then eating the inside but not the hard skin. Wow, it has an awesome flavor!
:woohoonaner:
chong
10-16-2008, 12:44 PM
hey lt - what are javelinas?
Cassie
Javelina is the name used in the SW US for a species of wild pigs called the "peccary ". It is a small growing swine, typically, weighing around 40 pounds, probably no more than 90 pounds. In the SW US, they are normally on the smaller side. Here are links with description:
Peccary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peccary)
New Species Of Peccary -- Pig-like Animal -- Discovered In Amazon Region (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071105153607.htm)
Apparently, they are not entirely like the common pig, and they are difficult to domesticate.
island cassie
10-16-2008, 11:35 PM
Good on the bbq? - sounds as if they are about the right size! Went to a bbq tonight (first dry night for a week) with a 40lb pig - good music too from a jam session with visitors from Colorado, with the local American vice-consul on harmonica. Huge moon rising behind the palm trees - doesn't get much better!!
Cassie
(sorry to hijack the thread!)
I've hunted Boar warthog etc and have been told Javelina taste terrible. They are not like the wild or feral boar found in other areas of the country. Which can be delicious.
Richard
10-21-2008, 08:39 PM
Its been warm here in southern CA. Late this afternoon I picked:
20 lbs of various tomatoes
8 lbs of white seedless figs
a couple handfuls of chili and pimento peppers
bencelest
10-22-2008, 12:58 AM
Some fuyo persimmons and Fuji apples and eureka lemons
Richard
10-22-2008, 04:19 PM
On the subject of tomatoes, these folks have 3 harvesting machines which each are capable of picking 45 tons per hour!
Morning Star Tomato Harvesting (http://www.morningstarco.com/ms/harvesting.htm)
.
lt_eggbeater
10-22-2008, 04:38 PM
I didnt eatem! Just disposed of them! People do make jerky out of them though.
saltydad
10-30-2008, 08:40 PM
You guys still harvesting really make me jealous! Today I pulled my water lilies out of the pond. This is an exercise in idiocy, as the weather temp today was mid 40's, and water temp not much higher than that. Here I am bedecked in my red swimsuit, old sneakers and a t-shirt wading through the pond. If I tell you my voice went up an entire octave you'll get an idea how uncomfortable this was. I trimmed all the lilies to the potline, then put the hardy lilies back in the deep section of the pond....BRRRR. The tropicals are now in an aquarium in my rec room. Tomorrow I start on the marginal plants. The nanas are doing fine despite nights down to the mid 30's. The leaves are really ragged, though, from the high winds of our last rain storm a few days ago.
edit- are there any members out near Long Beach, CA? I'm going to be there for a wedding from 11/5 through 11/11, and if so I'd love to see some nanas! PM me.
Richard
10-30-2008, 11:24 PM
You guys still harvesting really make me jealous! Today I pulled my water lilies out of the pond. ...
Well, for what its worth I picked about 10 pounds of Janice-Kadota figs this morning -- which turn a golden yellow this time of year as they ripen in the "cool" (50 F) evening temperatures; plus 20 pounds of pineapple guavas the size of baseballs, an 8 pound pineapple papaya (aka Babaco), some chili peppers and "rose" eggplants. I sold nearly all of these at a farmer's market in the community of Valley Center today.
edit- are there any members out near Long Beach, CA? I'm going to be there for a wedding from 11/5 through 11/11, and if so I'd love to see some nanas! PM me.
Long Beach CA is about a one hour drive from northern portion of San Diego County, and around an hour and a half drive from pitangadiego's place [provided of course you make the commute during sane traffic hours]. Depending on your schedule, I might not be able to come visit because I'll be further north in the Sacramento area the 6th through the 10th. However, MsKitty and the girls will probably fill you in on the garden-raiding mission to my home during my absence.
island cassie
10-30-2008, 11:31 PM
Oh Richard - you just want to be pillaged! Ooh! Er! did I mean that!
Richard
12-01-2008, 12:01 PM
Some of my tomato plants are still producing in the cool weather. This weekend we harvested a dozen Cherokee Purples and Persimmon-variety tomatoes -- all weighing a pound or more, plus 10 pints of Sun Gold cherry tomatoes. The cherry tomatoes sold for $2 a bag at my Farmers' Market stall.
:woohoonaner:
bencelest
12-01-2008, 02:10 PM
I have been harvesting my Fuyo persimmons and Fuji apples at intermittent days to give to our friends since I'll be gone for 3 weeks starting Decemer 8.
Richard
01-22-2009, 11:33 PM
Another pineapple papaya (babaco) and a few pineapple guavas.
sandy0225
01-23-2009, 07:44 AM
a couple of key limes, a naranjilla, and a few dwarf cherry tomatoes. Overall, not too bad for January in Indiana!
It makes you feel like you "pulled one over" on Mother Nature!
Richard
01-23-2009, 03:41 PM
I went up into the orchard looking for some extra masonry bricks. Didn't find the bricks, but ended up filling a 3 gallon bucket with ripe purple passion fruits (Frederick variety).
:woohoonaner:
bencelest
02-01-2009, 11:49 PM
I harvested all of my satsuma tangerine and most of my navel orange today. I made fresh orange juice for breakfast and got some fuji apples.
Richard
02-02-2009, 09:11 PM
2 Pineapple Papaya (Babaco) !
:woohoonaner:
bencelest
02-04-2009, 04:08 AM
More fuji apples
hondoharry
02-04-2009, 06:45 AM
A gallon of nonis to go into the fermenting jar.
Richard
02-04-2009, 10:23 AM
A gallon of nonis to go into the fermenting jar.
What are "nonis" ??
jnstropic
02-18-2009, 05:52 PM
The Noni is a fruit to will cure any problem that you might have. It helps your arthritis, gingivitis and even hemorrhoids. It works like Arnica. Noni works better then Arnica because it is more expensive. The plant will grow in the south Florida and I saw one about 15 tall with a large crop of fruit in Key West. Some ripe dropped on the street and it smell very bad to me. I have osteo-arthritis an friends made me try both of them. I can't say that either did anything for me. But if you are interested about Noni go to: Google Image Result for http://coconutgirlwireless.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/noni.jpg (http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://coconutgirlwireless.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/noni.jpg&imgrefurl=http://coconutgirlwireless.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/noni-the-stinky-magical-lifesaver/&usg=__jMH_w0wZcic_ZEXulZFUw7stwYk=&h=302&w=302&sz=155&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=lPPPnYKT3PYECM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnoni%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox%26rls%3Dcom.ubunt u:en-US:official)
Richard
02-18-2009, 08:15 PM
O.K., I was kind of hoping for a biological name.
buzzwinder
02-18-2009, 08:30 PM
O.K., I was kind of hoping for a biological name.
Noni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noni)
Personally I don't care for the bottled Noni that a friend of mine was selling, just tasted really bad to me! hard to explain without getting funky!
island cassie
02-18-2009, 10:05 PM
We have a lot of noni here both wild and cultivated. Yuk - looks like something dead! Extensively sold for it's healthy attributes. Not tried it myself but people swear by it.
island cassie
02-18-2009, 10:07 PM
Hondoharry - what do you use it for? Lots of people swear by it's good effects.
jnstropic
02-18-2009, 10:24 PM
I have jabotacaba coming out of my ears. This is the first crop of the year. My wife has made two batches of jelly and one of the members of banana org. came over and picked few pounds and took home the jelly recipe. If anyone of the group wants to pick some fruit email me.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=15741 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=15740&limit=recent)
Richard
02-18-2009, 10:56 PM
Noni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noni)
Personally I don't care for the bottled Noni that a friend of mine was selling, just tasted really bad to me! hard to explain without getting funky!
O.K., I edited the first paragraph in the "Uses" section of the above Wikipedia article to accurately reflect the citation (#16).
Caloosamusa
02-19-2009, 05:26 PM
jnstropic,:woohoonaner:
Awesome Jabotacaba fruit!! Even last years harvest did not look quite that good for me!!!
What I harvested today does not even compare, Papaya and some Passion fruit.
I have one ripening Jabotacaba fruit and hundreds of very small green fruit.
Best wishes,:jalapenonaner:
bencelest
02-22-2009, 03:35 PM
Harvested all of my navel oranges today . 2 bucketful.
Caloosamusa
02-22-2009, 06:58 PM
:jalapenonaner:Today I harvested miracle fruit and Passion fruit. The one Jabotacaba fruit that was almost ripe was harvested by the birds. The Jabatacaba is just about to bloom heavily.
Bencelest, congratulations on the harvest. Here in Florida it is an early season fruit that is very good November through December. After that the fruit begins to dry out, and by Febuary is very dry with little juice in it.
I had large fruiting trees in central Florida, among them were Washington Navels and the Cara cara or Red Navel. They were great!
Best wishes to my California friends,:abajo:
Richard
03-01-2009, 02:00 AM
3 Pineapple Papaya (babaco) !!
Caloosamusa
03-13-2009, 03:09 PM
:abajo: Today I harvested papaya, passion fruit, and miracle fruit.
Soon it will be time to harvest two stalks of bananas that made it through the freezes! Ice creams and Cavendish!:2239:
Caloosamusa
03-16-2009, 08:14 PM
:2200:Today I harvested more passion fruit and more papaya!! :-)
I have another banana, that is about to set its first hands!! It is not the type I was told it was, and now I will have evidence to figure out what it is!! :2239:
Richard
03-16-2009, 11:11 PM
My papayas are not ripe yet but I did pick up almost 5 gallons of purple-skinned passion fruit!
Caloosamusa
03-19-2009, 04:00 PM
:scroll:Miracle fruit, papaya and passion fruit.
Patty in Wisc
03-19-2009, 07:18 PM
Caloosa, I'm so jealous I could cry :(
Happy for you!! :)
Caloosamusa
03-19-2009, 09:37 PM
:abajo:Thank you Patty, It was frustrating growing pineapples and other things that would sometimes freeze, where I once lived further north. Now that I'm down here my green thumb is really beginning to produce. Our family and friends eat alot of the fruit.:2200:
Thank you and best wishes:2239:
Caloosamusa
03-29-2009, 12:37 PM
:2200:On Friday the 27th I harvested 6 papaya, 2 quarts of Jaboticabas, passion fruit, a stalk of dwarf cavendish bananas, and a pineapple. I split the harvest between my mother and in-laws. They were greatly appreciated, as they cannot produce these in zone 9 and 8b.:2239:
Best wishes to all and good growing!!:bananaflipflop:
Caloosamusa
04-04-2009, 09:26 AM
:scroll:Ice Cream bananas, and large sweet peppers! :2200:
I had hand pollinated these but the "father" plant was an AAA. The Blue Java(Ice Cream) is a female fertile banana, when they ripen sufficiently I'll search for a seed. I don't expect much but we'll see.:2239:
Lagniappe
04-13-2009, 03:55 PM
One big black tomato from a mixed heirloom seed pack and two golden girls from the same.
Floridagal88
04-13-2009, 07:00 PM
pineapple guava, jujube tree (first time, excited about this), fig tree, and growing green beans, and tomato's. Wish I had time for more
Caloosamusa
04-17-2009, 03:05 PM
Green, soft seed mangos!!! :2239:
Caloosamusa
04-21-2009, 08:35 AM
Barbados Cherries, only a few. The local critters like my place! :2239:
Caloosamusa
04-26-2009, 08:34 PM
Red Mulberry (Morus rubra)! I purchased the tree at Fairchild Gardens plant sale. It is a Kampong Sweet. It is the best cultivar for South Florida I have seen grown and tasted. It is very sweet. :2239:
Caloosamusa
04-30-2009, 10:17 AM
A long sweet pepper, and a few mulberries. :2239:
momoese
04-30-2009, 11:25 AM
Strawberries for breakfast!
Caloosamusa
05-03-2009, 07:49 PM
Today I harvested green soft seed mangos. The tree is a seedling from a known cultivar, but the fruit is small as not as good as other cultivars. Last year I attempted to graft it but local vandals tore off my grafts. I have now put up a fence.
This mango, when soft seed, is very sour making it great for a pepper mix. Good growing! :2239:
Caloosamusa
05-04-2009, 08:36 AM
Today I harvested Gandules, Mulberries, and Papaya. :2239:
Caloosamusa
05-06-2009, 12:35 PM
Mulberries and Barbados Cherries! See pictures in photo gallery other plants :2239:
Caloosamusa
05-07-2009, 08:56 PM
More Green soft seed mangos!! :2239:
island cassie
06-06-2009, 01:09 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18033&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18033)
The cashew apples have really grown and ripened
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18032&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18032)
They are very juicy, fairly sweet and with a delicate flavour. I have frozen them for processing later into desserts or ice cream
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18034&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18034)
I haven't decided how to process the nuts - atm I favour cracking them under water using latex gloves and eye protection as I can't find anyone who has processed them on an amateur basis
Caloosamusa
06-07-2009, 07:31 PM
Today I harvested a very large peached colored passion fruit. It was excellent! :2239:
Caloosamusa
07-04-2009, 09:19 AM
Today I harvested a very nice Large papaya! :2239:
Dalmatiansoap
07-04-2009, 09:22 AM
Im sad to admitt that I didnt even see most of these fruit here:(.
:woohoonaner:
Caloosamusa
07-04-2009, 11:58 AM
Ante,
Check out my photogallery! I also just harvested some Miracle fruit! :2239:
Dalmatiansoap
07-04-2009, 05:54 PM
Im going nuts whan I peek in your gallery. And Im just hopeing that one day I might have something like that!
:woohoonaner:
Bch Grl
07-06-2009, 08:23 PM
Blueberries are just ripening...just enough for breakfast!
Margie:waving:
Scuba_Dave
08-03-2009, 08:30 PM
Picked my 1st tomato today
Of course it was a cocktail tomato - no bigger then a dime
I've picked maybe 4 cukes, 2 summer squash, 2 pts peas
Did I mention the miserable wet Spring into summer?
Hard for things to grow without sun - only 4 days without rain in June
sunfish
08-12-2009, 02:10 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=21065&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=21065&ppuser=2868)
Passion fruit Frederick's
Caloosamusa
08-19-2009, 07:44 PM
Vitus rotundifolia, Wild Grapes, They tasted Good! I have been snacking on them for over a week when I'm out on my Farm site! :2239:
Caloosamusa
08-22-2009, 07:48 AM
This morning I harvested more Simpson Stopper, Myrcianthes fragrans. This plant is Native to South Florida and is an edible fruit. It grows as far north as South Carolina. My personal experience is that it can take 22F wintertime weather. :2239:
guerich
08-22-2009, 08:13 AM
Swiss chard, and roma tomatos for salsa.:ha:
sunfish
08-22-2009, 04:37 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=21468&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=21468&ppuser=2868)
Caloosamusa
08-25-2009, 06:29 PM
Long Red Papaya! It tasted very sweet! :2239:
Richard
09-05-2009, 10:20 PM
A quart each of Cayenne, Chile De Arbol, and Ring Of Fire peppers; plus a pint of Pasilla Bajio peppers.
browndrake
09-06-2009, 02:24 AM
a couple quarts of green beans, some tomatoes, and some sweet corn
aaron
Richard
09-06-2009, 09:02 AM
a couple quarts of green beans, some tomatoes, and some sweet corn
aaron
Yum!
After I was done picking peppers (without Peter Pipers help), my wife came in from the orchard with 3 gallons of blackberries and 7 gallons of passion fruit.
:woohoonaner:
browndrake
09-06-2009, 06:07 PM
my wife came in from the orchard with 3 gallons of blackberries and 7 gallons of passion fruit.
I am jealous... I love berries.. Can't wait until next spring, when I will be getting a bunch of blackberry plants. (Not sure which variety they are..thornless, huge berries, and wonderfully sweet... getting starts from friend's)
aaron
Richard
09-10-2009, 09:51 PM
Today I went crawling around under the other side of my passion vine and brought in 5 gallons of fruit.
Rmplmnz
09-10-2009, 11:46 PM
Today I harvested a very large peached colored passion fruit. It was excellent! :2239:
Sweet...have to get some cuttings from that plant...:woohoonaner::woohoonaner:
Caloosamusa
09-11-2009, 05:31 PM
Miracle Fruit!! :2239:
sunfish
09-11-2009, 05:42 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=22807&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=22807&ppuser=2868)
More Passion fruit. Blooming for the second time this summer.
Patty in Wisc
09-11-2009, 09:52 PM
WOW, all that passion fruit? I couldn't get one bloom this year from store bought fruit planted last year!
I did pick all my concord grapes today. I only have one vine growing along fence but I got 7 lbs of grapes. I did not fert them this year & only watered them once, but I did spray 2 -3 times with Joe Real's AZ41 so I'm happy w/ what I got. Tomorrow I'll get the rest as it was getting dark out & I couldn't see. Here comes grape jelly & juice!
momoese
09-15-2009, 11:36 PM
Mangos! Totally awesome flavor from small ones that are falling off the tree. The larger ones are still hanging on.
SeriousBan
09-17-2009, 12:10 AM
I'm not certain what forum I'm in. If it's bamboo, I found that the Heights, a good-size area a couple miles from downtown Houston, is loaded with it - skinny to very tall. I'd always considered bamboo fairly rare in Houston, but not in that area. Some bananas, a fig now and then, and almost nothing from the peach-plum-pear-apple line. Just not enough chill anymore, nothing like 20 years ago, a sign of the times. And the forest around Houston has both wild pears and wild plums - a couple varieties. Bradfords are cute, but wild pears are so much earlier and beautiful while flowering.
If the topic is Praying Hands, then let me say it is the grandest of all my pads, simply towering over all others, a breed apart here in Houston, and with fruit too.
As for flowering, that's it, I don't know how they figure out when fall is - they grow very well, but generally do not flower after August. The grove will be noticeably higher end October than it is right now. When you have a number of pads, it's true that you can tell when a stalk is going to flower - it simply reaches a certain girth. Right now is the drolls - nothing to fertilize, nothing to cut, no new pods. We get to eat a few now and then. The action has really gone to the figs - waking up, new leaves, fruit is starting to appear. These things get loaded with a fall crop, their second in a year, but the cold usually keeps us from eating many. You can grow an easy 10 varieties in Houston, that's ten distinguishable by their fruit, but just for summer eating, and oddly, they grow very slowly, inches a year, except for Celeste (I believe) which accounts for all the giant plants you see around Houston - can be as big as a small two-story house.
For the moment, the bananas just stand there being pretty; actually, probably sweating a bit over this record cold winter we're supposed to have. But, just like low-chill peaches, just give them an excuse, two warm days, Dec-Jan., and they spike green. Very nice.
Cheers, SB
Richard
09-20-2009, 11:51 PM
5 gallons "Frederick" passion fruit
3 gallons "Pettingill" apples
3 gallons "MidKnight" seedless valencia orange
2 gallons "Eureka" lemon
Richard
09-21-2009, 03:24 PM
About 10 large pineapple guavas from "Nazemetz" cultivar.
Eggplant--Ichban and Green
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=23519&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=23519&ppuser=5736)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=23520&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=23520&ppuser=5736)
Jalapeno peppers
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=23529&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=23529&ppuser=5736)
soundofthemusic1
09-21-2009, 11:08 PM
Love those passion fruits. I was able to harvest only a few grape tomatoes. All of my cherry tomatoes and big tomatoes were eaten by my deer friends. I wonder whether passion fruit trees are deer resistent. But the deer in my neighborhood are so hungry that they will even eat my canna flowers.:0517:
Richard
09-24-2009, 12:52 AM
2.5 gallons of "Black Satin" Blackberries! :woohoonaner:
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