Hot July in 
Williams Pride
Gold Rush
Wambugu
Cinnamon Spice 2nd Blossoms
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you look like that apples startled you haha
they’re gorgeous though
the tiniest cucamelon. OLIVES!! on my potted olive tree. tromboncinos doing the things they do, at eye level even. the big black cap raspberries are coming in and they are really good this year.
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how did your toka do this year, did it hold any? I cut my branch way back, maybe it’ll make a few next year
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Not my fruit but I am at Niagara Falls and we stopped at Cherry Avenue Farms to pick cherries today. What a wonderful area for fruit. Lots of cherries, peaches, plums, apricots and grapes everywhere.
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Don’t eat too much, as it contains oxalic acid. But should be fine in moderation.
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You’d have to eat more than 10 cups…unless you are prone to kidney stones, most people don’t need to worry about oxalic acid in their daily diet.
That being said, with cherries that look that good, I might be able to eat more than 10 cups!
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Those photos are fantastic.
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A nursery was moving and was selling begonia for $1.50. I bought a few but now I wished I had bought 20. These grow on north side of house with no sun.
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@resonanteye Anji, I took pictures of my Toka tree, which finally woke up after almost 10 years! It is covered in plums. Quite small. Skin is very very tart. Beautifully colored, though.
I think that having successful grafts of other plums, on the Toka, helps with pollenization . . . a LOT. I have posted about my Shiro grafts, here, before. They are very easy to graft and a very prolific plum. They went nuts this year - and simultaneously I had hundreds of tiny Toka plums developing for the very first time.
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Ambrosia sweet corn… wont be long now.
Okra producing nicely now… pick every other day. Love it.
Big beef tomatoes.
TNHunter
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My records show I picked Toka last year August 24th in zone 7 NY. A very good plum when fully ripe. Mine are still green.
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oh they are beautiful!!!
mine pollinated very well- I have about 6 or so plum varieties that overlap bloom times, but the graft dropped every plum! not one held on to get ripe. maybe next year- it’s a few years old graft
I’m not sure but I think these are the blooms from toka graft?
I had hopes, they were dashed
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Random pictures from this week:
PAF blackberry
Sugar cube cantaloupe
These are either Wyldewood or Pochahontas but they got mixed up when I transplanted them
Luffa gourd
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Raspberries, my raspberry checker, some beautiful lace cap hydrangeas. Saw a bunch of sweat bees on my hydrangeas and it made me happy yesterday. Currants don’t taste as good…
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I learned that my cherries were ready last night.
I took these off today after evicting the thief with a stick.
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does the very tart skin change to be less tart as toka gets more ripe? how is the texture and flavor of toka?
A few Hoshi pulled off when lifted. I have two larger than these…one might be twice as big. I netted the small tree so I’m hoping I get it unblemished.
Shots of my 7 Errante Noir grape vines. The one in the foreground is second year. The rest I planted this spring. I just prunned them a bit down low and removed smaller spurs not intended for the cordons. Next year I’ll at least let the older vine produce as the caliper is big enough.
I have not put up the middle and upper wires for training. Will do this winter.
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The TOKA texture inside changes, when good and ripe, to a softer feel. I don’t know what word to use exactly - not ‘stringy’ - but not the solid that the plum is when not ripe. The skin stays tart - just not as tart as when not ripe.
Mine are very small, but at all different stages of ripeness. The colors reflect that.
Dubbed the ‘Bubble Gum Plum’ . . . this is a stretch, but a fun name. If you concentrate on trying to pick up on the bubble-gum-ness - you can detect it. But it’s not a screaming flavor!
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Two more of those beautiful baskets. These are great, Anji.
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