cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21477992
What did you harvest recently? Post photos if you like, and brag about what you grew or foraged.
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Everything is still frozen. The grass is brown, no leaves, the forecast is 25cm of snow this weekend. I’ll get back to you in July.
…Well at least there’s no grass to chop.
Bananas coming in. Harvested maybe… 40 lbs last week. Should have two more bunches about the same size over the next 1-3 weeks.
Soursop should be ready soon. Vanilla is still flowering. Cacao is coming in, but my main producing plant wasn’t planted in a good place so I had to dig it up and move it. It will take a few months/ years to get back to production, but thats a bummer because I was getting a couple pods a week. I did, however, take some pods and germinate them and have about 40 seedlings ready for planting, and another 40 on the way. I have a friend who just bought a farm that had been abandoned and they need plants.
Papaya (pawpaw) is coming in strong. Harvesting edamame soon. Calamondin, mexican lime, and bayers lime all coming in continuously now that we’re leaving the cool season, although I did a skeleton trim on my calamondin last year and it really hasn’t recovered like I had hoped. Its mexican neighbor responded far better to the pruning. I’m afraid I may have disabled it, because I was getting almost an entire fruit box of limes off that calamondin before I trimmed it, but it had a low fork and I was afraid it was going to rip its self apart as it got bigger. Eggplant, and asparagus also coming in stronger now that its warming up.
I traded some pizzas last weekend for about 3 five gallon buckets of mangos. About half were ripe so those all got cut up and frozen. Then the other half, the green ones, we cut up and pickled. But I don’t like li hing powder so we’ll do something else.
bananas from a few weeks ago:
breakfast:
Nice! I’ve never seen anyone cut rambutans in half like that, but you do you. Are those longans I see?
EDIT: Citrus trees are hard to kill, so as the weather warms up, your calamondin will probably recover. It might be disfigured, but it should regain its strength with time.
Nice! I’ve never seen anyone cut rambutans in half like that, but you do you. Are those longans I see?
The cut of the rambutans was a point of contention. I kept them as seed and in-spite of their perhaps, less than optimal cut, I did get plenty seedlings. And yes, longan and lilikoi and soursop.
On the calamondin, I think its at least partially due to it being a little more “wild” than the mexican lime and its planted near which got trimmed on the same day. The mexican lime “loves” being trimmed; it responds with almost extraordinary growth every time I trim it. The calamondin, well, its languished, and I literally planted them both on the same day, fertilize them same amount each time, trimmed them same day, everything same (even both 1 gallon plots when planted).
I think it might be more to do with how “bred for captivity” the mexican lime is compared with the more wild calamondin. Prior to the skeleton trim, the calamondin was far outperforming the mexican lime.
I guess rambutans can’t be stopped from making too many babies! 😆
I’ve never grown calamondin, so I can’t say for sure, but it’s possible that you really did stunt it… How much of the tree did you cut off?
EDIT: What elevation are you growing both soursop and longan? Do you have a dry winter there?
All basically sea level. I was in a longan & rambutan grove last week, with some trees as old as 80 years.
I don’t want to ask for your exact location, but longan at sea level is… unusual. Don’t take it for granted. Cherish it.
Yeah I wouldnt expect the elevation to be an issue? I’ve always found it growing at sea level/ warm climates. My understanding is that it can’t withstand cool temperatures. Its for a friends farm, but we don’t expect fruits for decades.
In order to flower well, longan usually needs a “winter” season with min temps <12°C and/or less rain. While fruiting, hot and wet is best. At sea level in the tropics, the low temps usually don’t occur, and even if the winter is dry enough for longan to flower (but not dry enough to kill it), the other half of the year usually doesn’t get as hot as subtropical summers, so the fruits might not develop properly. Either you have a strange tropical breed of longan, or you are very lucky to have the right conditions where you live.
My spring garden is done, and summer one going in soon. So not much. But the last of the fennel just got harvested last week.
Putting in butternut squash, eggplant, jalapeno, tomato, sweet potato (Stokes Purple). Later will add okra and watermelon and basil.
I might try growing okra again someday. When it’s good, it’s good.
Bruh, we don’t even have much in the way of leaves growing yet.
Hey, some trees fruit so hard that they lose all of their leaves…
Hmm. That can’t be good for them.
If it wasn’t clear, I just live somewhere cold, and it hasn’t stopped frosting for very long. The only things that are really abundant are raspberries and crab apples. Some people manage to grow other berries, too; saskatoon berries are a local specialty.
I just live somewhere cold
That is unfortunate. Are the raspberries fruiting now? How long until saskatoons?
Loquat. Once you pick them they go bad after about 2 days. But they are sweet and can go with a lot of things.
It does very well in very hot climates like mine. Ive made preserves (canning + sugar). Ive also made fruit leather (kinda like fruit rollups) with a small amount of honey with them. They make for some good toppings and snacks for a good 2 months of the year.
I may get a loquat, love them. My neighbor has one they trimmed like a bush, so all are in reach, I’d like to try that.
We had a longan tree at the old house but the wasps loved that tree so much we couldn’t harvest.
Our loquats are still tiny little buds. I love 'em and can’t wait for 'em to come in…
