@Luisport
WOW. That is a beauty! 
@resonanteye
Anji I can tell you are an artist when I look at your tray of fabulously arranged home-grown ‘stuff’. That is very beautiful.
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I will try to get you some this winter my Great Grandfather had that were thinner shells and still great tasting. I’ve tried grafting them last two years with no luck so far.
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I’d be curious how they compare🙂.
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Tiny Katuk flowering to my shock
Ponkan sizing up
Fukushu starting to color up
Starfruit bursting with flowers
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Nice HR raspberry harvest this evening and a few CHE.
Another reason to visit the grandaughter !
TNHunter
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Not a fruit. But a fall favorite. Its called a peanut butter tree, but weve nicknamed it a ‘jasmine tree’ for its star shaped flowers and wonderful smell.
It’ll bloom till frost.
Slow growing and dies all the way back due to cold first few winters.
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The myoga ginger growing under my Prok is starting to put up the put up its edible buds. I should probably harvest these soon, but this is the first year growing and I don’t have a lot of them. If I harvest and put these in the fridge to wait and see if more pop up before pickling them, does anyone have any idea how long they’ll keep in the fridge?
These were gifted to me by a kind forum member and seem to make a great companion for growing in the wood chips under fruit trees since they like a little shade. Hardy at least through zone 6, particularly if you throw some extra mulch over them when they go dormant.
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Ton of guava on the ground this morning. The tree isn’t too tall so they don’t get too damaged falling into the straw mulch
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Loot from the park!
Picked up the none goo’d drops.
And saw a ton of chestnuts on the ground, so I grabbed some of those as well. Do people roast them in the shell? Never tried them before.
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Yeah, you make a little notch with a knife so they don’t explode while roasting them!
And then a medium low fire or some coals and let them roast
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Another nice bowl of Herritage Red rasp.
My granddaughter went picking with me… she ate her fill… and we still got a nice bowl full.
We have had a few nice rains lately.
I pick fall rasp… normally every other day.
Works well.
TNHunter
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small melons; green young tasted ok but not great. past ripe were sour and just awful
sorghum coming ready
two baskets yesterday. marrowstem kale stems for soup maybe? might just roast them split underneath a bit of beef. corn is a disappointment as usual; popcorn variety snuck in this year and apparently pollinated everyone.
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Ate my last watermelon today. I picked it about 3 weeks ago and left it out a bit forgotten. Still tasted nice. First year growing Orange Crisp.
The seeds are small enough to eat.
I didn’t have a great year for the watermelons as something ate several of them.
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My trees seem to be a bit confused about the season, found these flowers this morning. Also just tried my first Cox’s Orange Pippin from the farmers market. Giving snapdragon a run for its money as my favorite apple. Out of space for more trees, will have to try grafting come spring…
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Roselle flowering after getting cracked and hald a stressed out. Got the branches to root and make me some pretty flowers.
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(Clockwise from bottom left):
- Beauty of Kent, the mis-identified tree
- Beauty of Kent, true
- Assorted fruit
- Weissrosenapfel
- Safran Pepping
- Bohnapfel, mis-identified, may be Roter Eiserapfel
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I was able to save some pomegranates from trees covered with black-fungussed ones. My floor is littered, underneath my big trees - with disgusting destroyed fruit. I’ll be picking all of those up tomorrow - must be at least 100.
However . . . for some very strange reason - some of the fruit is not completely trashed.
And the variety, Phoenicia - ??? - no fungus on any of the fruit. Just the small dark spots. No internal damage, whatsoever.
That is a very tart one, though. But, hey! - I’ll take tart over NONE. Does anyone know what might have saved this one variety? A real mystery to me.
Here’s a photo of the fruit. And the tree.
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