I don’t get a big beautiful bud break in spring like the temperate growers do, but I do get January fruit and flowers. So I figured lets start the next years thread!
Sharpblue is apperently a very early blueberry. It has had buds since our cooldown in November, and it looks like its going to bloom late Jan/early Feb. Hopefully they don’t ripen till the songbirds go back north.
Almost time to harvest some pigeon peas. Very big harvest from 5 of the trees, 1 is being shy. I was thinking about waiting till they were dry peas, but I think I am going to pick a couple meals worth green and freeze them (other than the ones I eat first!) Fresh they kinda have a cucumbery taste, almost like a bean thats sweet.
Canistel and groundcherries from one of the high school food forests we put in. The canistels are probably a little overripe, they were on the ground. Don’t see any bugs though.
Everytime I see one of those bizarre fruits I’ve never heard or seen before, I always look up if there is a close cold hardy relative, and dream of of there is even a slight possibility of a hybrid😁.
I have a few mulberries… checked them all today. Gerardi (pic above) had the largest most swolen buds… Lawson dawson was next… Oscar, Kip Parker and Silk Hope were still quite small.
That is one of the scaffold branches on my improved kieffer pear… that I trained to grow horizontal. Assume those are fruit spurs/buds ? This is year 3 for it. Is it likely to bear fruit this year ?
Walking onions and some garlic … they stay green all year here… or at least they have the last two winters. A 12F like our low this winter will burn the tips some… but they keep on growing.
