Peppers are really taking off, picked the small jalepenos today, will have a bunch of thai dragon seedling peppers and sweet heats in the coming weeks. Snow White Cherry tomatos and the first Royal Burgandy beans round it off.
Pretty zinnia and so jicama beans growing. I can see the ground mounding around its roots, hope to pull some big jicamas out soon.
Cranberry hibiscus flowers are so pretty. Bigger than the roselles, but they don’t get the large calyxs. I wonder if you can cross them to get the pretty leaves and the big calyxs.
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Damn bro! My plants are like 12 ft tall and never a hint of a bloom still
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They just started this week. Not really sure what caused it. Could have been stress from the pre-hurricane trim, the chilly nights we had a couple weeks ago, or something to do with time of year.
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I was more attentive this year than previous years on how and what ways hedge trees vary from tree to tree. Some have huge 5.25" fruits some have 2.5" fruits.
Some have almost no stem and grow the fruit around the branch and some have a 3-4" stem.
Some have very juicy fruit, some dry pithy; different ripening times; huge leaf size variations; squat vs upright growth. Haven’t tasted much to tell much about flavor or if it’s ripe. I’ve wondered about breeding them for like having a giant, juicy, sweet fruit for juicing by possibly hybridizing with che, or breed for seed size and quantity like for eating nuts(out too see if there’s much seed size variation).
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Somewhere in this forum someone tells about cutting thick slices of Osage orange, grilling with olive oil and seasoned using balsamic vinaigrette.
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Wonderberry (Solanum burbankii) fruits. Thimble-sized fruits that taste alot like a blueberry tomato. Super small plants less than a foot tall.
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We have a Meyer Lemon that provides many lemons, which are just starting to be ripe enough to take off the tree. It is growing in a funky little greenhouse that my husband built years ago. We also have a Persian Lime, which would probably do much better if it wasn’t such a crowded growing space. I don’t think it gets enough light. I can’t convince my husband that ‘less is MORE’ . . . and the greenhouse is ‘his thing’ - so I’m happy to have the lemons each year and the almost daily lemonade that they provide. 
Happy Thanksgiving, EveryBody!
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Pigeon peas have finally started for their fall crop. They don’t flower till days are shorter, so its really late here in Central Florida. These ones are pretty yellow.
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Roselle flowers are stay smaller when its cold. Always very pretty. Making jam today with the calyxs.
Harvested my sugar cane about a week ago. Left one shoot in the ground, and have the green ends for seed shoots. The really skinny one was my original shoot from last year that I bought before winter. Grew a little bit, but transplant shock plus the dry season really stunted. Its pups did great though.
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Two full houses. I have to find somewhere to plant this lemon tree it’s far too large to move. May plant the starfruit also, it was so rooted into the ground that I had to prune off much of the fruit. If it lives it lives
Needless to say I’m done buying trees for a while.
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Bucketful of jicama. Most of them are like a small fist sized, but I got a couple of big ones. Seperated the cracked ones to eat soon. Never had fresh jicama, pretty excited.
Bad sweet potato harvest. No pest or disease issue. I don’t think I started them soon enough. They were also alot deeper than from what I hear, they were a foot and a half deep. None were peaking through the soil.
Edit: Today became an overall harvest day.
My volunteer ground cherries have a much more tomatoy taste then the original. And have the bad upfront taste my Physalis angulata had. Some of them have a tinge of red/purple and taste better. Regardless, going to be used for a salsa mix with jalepenos and yellow currant tomatoes (and whatever else tomatoes fruit over winter).
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You can make a savory pie with those ground cherries, peppers, tomatoes, gooseberries etc.
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Kersting’s Groundnut harvest. First time growing a groundnut (peanut), so I have learned some things: I planted too many in one pot. The flower buds at the base of the plant, so if they fill the pot you don’t see them. I started too late/harvested too early. I need a better place to dry them.
Pretty happy with them overall though. The undried ones taste like a nutty cucumber. Can’t wait till they are ready!
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Are the greens edible? I thought they were some type of dwarf pea until I saw the second picture.