island cassie

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

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

hey lt - what are javelinas?
Cassie

xavierdlc61887

wild pigs...boars

lt_eggbeater

yep like wild pigs or boars, technicaly a peccary, not a pig but related to pigs.

lt_eggbeater

They can also be very aggressive towards humans. They have musk glands so you can smellem from a good distance.

island cassie

Wow! glad we don't have them here.

Richard

15 lbs of tomatoes
8 lbs of figs
an assortment of peppers
1 huge babaco

Wow, that's great!

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Richard

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!

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chong

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
New Species Of Peccary -- Pig-like Animal -- Discovered In Amazon Region

Apparently, they are not entirely like the common pig, and they are difficult to domesticate.

island cassie

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!)

Bob

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.

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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

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bencelest

Some fuyo persimmons and Fuji apples and eureka lemons

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Richard

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
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lt_eggbeater

I didnt eatem! Just disposed of them! People do make jerky out of them though.

saltydad

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.

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Richard

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.

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.

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island cassie

Oh Richard - you just want to be pillaged! Ooh! Er! did I mean that!

Richard

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.

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