Anyone can recommend a cover crop for a small garden (in PNW). I like the idea of having better soil for next planting season.
this is the one I shared last month and again yesterday and deleted.
Iâd been holding out on picking my single fruit this year to be sure it was ripe. Well today I went to check on it and it was gone! I found a fruit below the tree, the wasps had started in on it, but it was still more than half good.
It was definitely fully ripe, could have picked it a week ago. It was no longer crisp but still meaty. Very good - and seems to ripen fine here.
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Interior color looks much better than what I got.
Edit: why did the plant just make single fruit?
I plant Austrian field peas and fava beans in September. The fava beans yield me a nice crop in June.
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Iâm planting fava and rye, but that is because I want to eat fava and rye (the fava is from hume seeds and the rye is from Great Lakes staple seeds)
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My neighbor has a tree that is not tended at all: no irrigation, fertilization, pruning. The fruit every year is abundant and so so sweet.
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It was a bad year for Japanese Plums, presumably due to the weather. Splash set 40% or less of normal which was still plenty, I got 0 Geopride and 1 Emerald drop from the same tree.
I usually get hundreds of Shiro but this year there were less than a dozen, for instance.
The Flavor Grenade limb is runted. Probably some combination of location on tree, graft effectiveness, and relative vigor.
Iâve grafted a separate tree to Flavor Grenade because it seems very promising. Hopefully it will set more reliably. Itâs on Hollywood roots. I donât recall what the 4 in 1 pluot is on, if I ever knew⌠Probably same as yours since they are likely Dave Wilson trees.
thanks, I thought this year was nicer since we had warm season coming in early compared to late June/early July last year.
they are on citation.
Thank you.
Thatâs why I like âEarly Goldenâ. Even with a hard freeze during bloom this year it still set enough fruit to bend its branches to the ground. I was able to get away with not thinning the fruit on it this year. Most years it needs thinning. It is highly self fertile.
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We had a warm spell followed by hard freeze.
I think this may the first year since it started bearing that Shiro didnât have a significant crop.
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Horrible year for japanese plums. I got zero Shiro this year. I am starting to wonder if something bad didnt happen to the tree.
Thatâs great to hear. How do you like the taste of Early Golden? Is it similar in taste to Shiro?
In terms of Asian plums, my Kuban Commet produced less fruit this year but we didnât mind since the fruit tends to be bland. This is the first year that Shiro and Obilnaja produced. Both had a decent crop and were very peasant in terms of taste.
I donât grow âShiroâ. I did taste âShiroâ before but didnât find it to be all that similar to âEarly Goldenâ. I prefer to eat my EG fresh, but theyâre also amazing for cooking; make great sauces, pies and cakes. In pie they taste like pie cherries, but fresh taste more like mild plum with occasional hints of apricot or peach.
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The fruit looks amazing! Whatâs the secret to getting them this large? Did any of them produce a Brenda crop? The only main crop that is ripening for me right now is Lattarula/ Italian Honey they are the size of your Smith. The breba crop on it was much larger.
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