So far, no clear differences in color between regular and “early” sport. Let’s see when these fruits ripen up
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I picked the first peach this year. It’s one of only a few Glenglo from a small tree. It was pretty tasty!
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Lunch hour picking… started off with blueberries… but then covered them up with cherry tomatoes… and then almost covered them up with blackberries.
My illini blackberries putting out some very nice sized berries now. Mmmmm.
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waiting on squashes is the hardest thing for me.
also some strawberry seeds turned out better than I expected.
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Looking so good. What variety is it ?
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Sauzee Swirl
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My first Ajvarski pepper, and finally my first Cayenne from this year sowing.
Musquee de Provence, from last year seeds, I hope it’s the true type. I only want one large pumpkin this year. This variety doesn’t have mildew.
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I don’t have any this year. 
Glad yours did well!!!
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Could you please elaborate on your plans with the sumac? How do you plan on using the berries. I have a ton of Rhus typhina that grows around me and have heard of people making “lemonade” from the ripe berries, but never tried anything with them myself. I did experiment this year with root cuttings and had success just pushing them in the earth in early spring. May be a cheap and easy way to grow your patch.
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the ripe berries, you put them in hot water and then squeeze all the juice out, add sugar for sumac “lemonade”.
I let them dry out on the plant then crush them into powder, mix with white pepper for a spicy “lemon” pepper. I go through a ton of sumac powder in cooking so I’m really happy to have some ready in the tree
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My mother is house-sitting for my brother in south FL, and she sent me a massive mango from the enormous old tree in their back yard, which they suspect is seed-grow. They are in a traditionally Haitian neighborhood, but I’ve got no idea what cultivar it could be. This is not even the biggest one to ripen this year (she said the tree is just starting to ripen now, so it’s a pretty late variety), but clocks in over 3 lbs:
(Its cousin the ataulfo is in the second photo for comparison)
She usually lets them ripen on the tree, but picked this one early to make sure it would survive the cross-country trip. Hopefully it’ll still be tasty once it ripens up!
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Are you sure that’s a mango . . . and not a papaya?
Guess you would know for sure, since the trees look sooooo different. I’ve never seen a mango quite like that - and I grew up in Miami. That Ataulfo looks great!
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