I looked and didn’t see a thread on gardening, but I thought there was something on here. May have been on that other site…
Anyway, here goes. I said earlier that I had peaches, grapes, muscadines, and figs. The deer demolished my peaches and are working on my grapes and muscadines. I thought the birds would be having a field day on my figs, but so far so good. I’ve been picking figs every other day, and getting about 1/2 gallon to 3 quarts at a time.
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Fresh figs are awesome! My Florida avocado tree that I grew from seed flowered for the first time this April and has a handful of fruits growing. That tree has been through a lot and took a beating last hurricane season.
These photos are about a month and a half old, they are about the size of haas’ now!
Edit* 07/27
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My Satsuma and Myer’s lemon trees got freezer burnt after our record snow this past winter even though both were double-covered. Slowly coming out now but no fruit. I need to try an avocado!
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They take forever! I took this seed from the next door neighbors tree about 7 years ago. Cleaned it and threw it in a pot. It took months before it germinated and they say they can take up to 14 years to produce fruit. Very rewarding seeing it finally fruit though!
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I’ve got an orange tree that my wife bought 3 or 4 years ago. I had it in a large pot so that I could bring it inside in bitter cold, but it outgrew the pot and is now in a permanent spot. Last winter we had a late frost and no blooms or fruit this season. Last year we actually had 3 or 4 small oranges…and this in NE Ga, 8A planting zone.
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My daughter has been taking them and fixing them with prosciutto and balsamic vinegar. I’m just munching on fresh. There will probably be some preserves before it’s over.
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Man, our figs never make it to ripe before the squirrels wipe them out. My wife has been gardening for years and every year she gets better, but it is definitely a battle.
We have done surprisingly well with orange trees even this far north in NC and are finally getting some decent limes.
I think our goal has been to make our whole yard edible.
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Good goal! And love seeing everybody’s trees….I’ve got a container orchard going in the one reasonably sunny scrap of my yard.
Nam Doc Mai, Pickering and Julie Mangos
Clementine
Meyer, Eureka, and Ponderosa lemons
Key Lime
Lula and Tonnage Avocados
And a handful of pineapples and other odds and ends
I’d really love to get everything in-ground but finding a long-term home in the Keys isn’t exactly easy. Surprisingly to me everything but the avocados has produced small quantities of fruit over the past two years. Islamorada climate certainly doesn’t hurt.
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That’s great man!
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Awesome ya’ll! Glad ya started this @fishnpreacher! We had some bumper crops of various veggies this spring. Drought and a mismanaged drip irrigation system cost me most of my peaches, nectarines, plums, and apple crops for the season but I’ve since located the issues and resolved them! Praying for some nice pickin’s next spring!
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Talk about changes in latitude and what all of you are growing. Looks awesome. Chanterelles are popping up in the woods up this way. My wife saddled up her mule and rode behind the house and picked a mess. She made homemade ravioli stuffed w ricotta and the mushrooms served it up with a lemon zest butter and herb sauce. Man it was good. So proud of all her skills.
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Man, thats the coolest thing I have ever seen. Always wanted to hunt wild mushrooms (not the make you a psycho kind). Where in the country are you?
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My great grandparents (they were Amish. Amish!) had citrus groves in Bay Minette, AL. A couple bad freeze years in a row put them out of business. I understand farmers are planting small groves again in North Fl?
Piedmont Virginia.
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My mango tree really produced this year. I started this from a seed from a tree on Little Gasparilla. Took 7 years to produce and I think this is year 11. I made the decision to pick them all once the squirrels got the first ones. Great decision as they ripened great.
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I’m gonna start gathering these soon…
I had six around my grape vines tonight, another 4 across the road, and others in my backyard. Probably 12-15 at one time.
Sorry for the quality, picture taken from my bedroom window through a screen.
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At the ranch in South Texas, we have two huge fig trees and we always make preserves from the figs. We also have tons of wild Texas persimmon trees all over the ranch. If we feel up to it, we make persimmon jelly. It’s lots of work getting all the seeds out of them but it’s worth the effort.
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@JCDesigns let’s see that garden!
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