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They are not all ripe at the same time, but there is always something ready. On the patio, in pots are Mangos(5), Jaboticaba, Miracle Fruit, Papayas, Cucumbers, Peaches, Nectarines, Apples, Lychees, Cherry of the Rio Grandes (4), many Citrus, more Bananas (10), more Mameys and Sapodillas. In the alcove is my Ae Ae banana and the Cacao. If anyone wants to hear about the side yard and back yard plants, let me know(G). The dream of having a steady tropical fruit/veggie supply in my own yard is rapidly becoming a reality. Having control over how my edibles are grown, is a comfort. We have limited space, so I have mostly small/dwarf varieties. That backfired on us, when the hurricanes took 90% of our mature trees, so now we have harsh sun and no shade. In time, the new, bigger trees, Tamarind, and Sapotes, will offer some shade. I'm trying to plant in a pleasing manner to create a good-looking garden, not a static "orchard" look. Please tell us about your edible landscaping! Lisa |
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- Posted by nebancsvirag 10fl (My Page) on Fri, Jan 20, 06 at 12:02
| Lisa Your garden sounds like a delicious slice of heaven. I have tried everything i could think of, and so far, i have lost the battle of keeping any of the Macadamia Nuts, Mango's and most of the Locuats. There is a nice looking avocado tree, I planted in 2000, had fruit on it when still in pot, no evidence of it willing to bear anything since, in spite of regular feeding. If she does not shape up and put out soon, she will be put out for sure. I do have some large cluster of Mysore bananas, producing for months now, very sweet, and a treat to be sure. The carambolas look like they have been on steroids, they are huge, plumb and delicious. Running toward the end of grapefruit, honey bell tangerine and ugly fruit. They were so delicious, i wish the trees were larger. The Strawberries i the 2 jars are not living up to expectations. but i still have hopes for them. I would love to plant some bushes of blueberries and raspberries this year. The tomatoes and peppers are outproducing themselves, along with all the green beans etc. There are fields of caralabe,onion, radihes, dill, chives,parsley etc. planted to feed the neighbourhood. Mother will be returning to Europe soon, and she wants to make sure "we don't starve to death". Still, it is fun to run outside, get a handful of assorted crispy lettuce leafs, a tomato or two and toss together a great salad. Irene |
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| Let's see... Right now I've got two mayhaws, 5 satsumas (Owari and Armstrong Early), one kumquat, one loquat, one goumi, three pawpaws (Mango, Pinapple, LA Native), two jujubes (Lang, and Sherwood), two Medlars (Puccimol, Large Russian), two pears (forgot the names...), 700ish rabbiteye blueberries (Climax, Premier, Powderblue, Tifblue, Ocklocknee, Austin, Brightwell), 100ish southern highbush blueberries (Legacy, Jubilee, Magnolia), two peaches (Texstar, Sam Huston), and three Kiwi's (Saaniction, Elmwood, and one male). Also a bunch of fig cuttings and one celeste fig tree affectionatly named Philip the Fig. Our 'front yard' is most of our 17 acre property. To be honest though, the jujubes and medlars are in the side yard. Most of them are fairly young and have yet to reach bearing age. Katrina took about 100 of our pines, which has given us a lot more open space to put edibles, although I miss the 80ft + pies very much. Lisa, |
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- Posted by gcmastiffs z10 Florida (My Page) on Wed, Jan 25, 06 at 9:33
| Irene, what happens to your Macadamias, Mangos and Loquats? I have not had much luck with Avocados-they seem super sensitive to everything and drop leaves at any excuse. My Wurtz Avo flowered last year, looked quite good after I had ignored it for a year, so I moved it to the patio. It is now just a stick with a few leaves.. Sigh.. Blueberries are fun to grow, but I sure don't like the thorns on my Raspberries. Thornless Blackberries are much easier to work with and taste wonderful! Sounds like your veggie garden is doing great! I agree with your Mother, that growing your own food is important, and fun(G). Idogcow, I would kill for 17 acres! Wow! You have some great varieties of edibles that we can't grow down here. I miss my pine trees too:(. You could sure grow dwarf Mangos in containers, and get fruit. Papayas would be more difficult, they need lots of heat for months before they fruit. Okay, you asked for it(G). Side and back yard plants: Fuyo Persimmon, Moro Orange, Navel orange, Temple Tangelo, Robinson Tangerine, Brown Turkey Figs, Celeste Figs, lots more Bananas, Julie Mango, two Mia-1 Jackfruit trees, 2 Carambolas, 9 Peach trees, 20 Apache Blackberries, a whole bed full of different Blueberries, American Beauty Dragonfruits, Black Sapote, 7 Pear Trees, 11 Apple trees, 3 Lemon Trees (Bearss, Eureka, Meyer) 3 Lime trees (Persian), Pummelo, Ruby Red Grapefruit, Thompson Seedless Grapefruit, Winterset Persimmon, 7 varieties of Grapes, Satsuma Mandarin, 3-4 more varieties of Tangerines, Fairchild Mango, Brewster Lychee, another Macadamia Nut tree, 3 more Plum trees, 5 big Peaches and Nectarines in containers-(to be planted this week), Chayas, Neem, Cinnamon, Raspberries, lots of seedling Cherimoyas, Sugar Apples, Sapodillas, Mamey Sapotes, and the overflowing veggie gardens. Sounds like a lot, but with mostly dwarf trees, many in containers, we have plenty of grassy lawn area left. I use Dave Wilson's ideas of intensive plantings and my 11 Apple-tree-orchard is a very small area, with the trees in open-bottomed whiskey barrels. I'm making a screening planting of mixed fruit trees to run along the west side of the property, this week. Hopefully it will be pretty as well as productive. Lisa |
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- Posted by nebancsvirag 10fl (My Page) on Wed, Jan 25, 06 at 10:42
| Good Morning Lisa My macadamia nut tree is filled with nuts each year. It looks SO good, until the squirrels come, and overnight the tree is empty of fruit. Same holds true for the mango, with the exception, that under the tree is covered with fruit, from which a bite has been taken. Loquats are mostly the birds. There are so many of them, that i get only a taste of the fruit. I actually don't mind the locuats so much, only because the number and variety of birds living off of the fruit is wonderful to see. Listening to so many birds singing in the morning is a thrilling experience for me. The avocado never looses any leaves, looks lush, and is growing like a weed. Nevertheless, my patience only goes so far, and the disappointing lack of avocados is not acceptable. All the citruses, including the pomelo has outproduced themselves and i just love that. the research i have done regarding the blueberries makes me think, i need at least 3 variety, but i am still not sure which one they should be. |
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| Lisa, Wow. Thats a lot of fruit. I haven't even heard of some of those :P You're making me wish I lived in the tropics :P I'd love to put in some blackberries though, although we have enough each year since brambles cover a decent percentage of our property. Not as tasty, though. How is Apache as far as taste is concerned? It's thornless, right? |
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- Posted by gcmastiffs z10 Florida (My Page) on Wed, Jan 25, 06 at 20:21
| Dear Irene, I'm so sorry about you losing your fruit/nuts to the wasteful tree rats! I have terrible problems with them too, and do my best to reduce the population with gun/traps/dogs. I wouldn't mind sharing, but as you described, they take it all, and ruin (don't even eat) much of it. So far, they took all my Peaches, Apples and Macadamias last year, except those from trees in pots on the patio. With the loss of so many pine trees, I expect them to be less of a problem this year, since they can't reach my fruit trees via an overhead route. They will have to get on the ground, and if they do, my little Jack Russell Terrier will catch them. I'm also going to make wire cages to completely cover the orchard trees. No HOA here, so I can do as I please. (G) So far, nothing has eaten the Mangos or Loquats. I check my trees daily and pick the ripe fruit, to try to beat the critters. The catbirds are really hurting the tomato crop now- they peck big holes in them as soon as they get a little color. They have not bothered the yellow or green striped ones, only the red and pink ones. My Blueberry bed is a mix of all the low-chill varieties I could get. They are great fun to grow, and oh so good to eat. You will have to net them to prevent theft by birds though. Lisa |
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- Posted by gcmastiffs z10 Florida (My Page) on Wed, Jan 25, 06 at 20:32
| Idogcow, every zone has its pitfalls-ours is year-round insect/pest problems, lack of chill hours, too much or too little rain, burning sun and of course, hurricanes.. I would love to grow Kiwis, Apricots and true Cherries. Yes, Apache is a thornless Blackberry, very easy to grow and delicious! The canes are upright. I missed your Pineapple question. They are really easy to grow from a top twisted off a grocery store fruit. They are slow growing, like rather dry soil, and get very large! Some of the ones grown here in the sand get 4' across and about 3' tall. They can be grown in a pot, but I don't know if you could get one to fruit in zone 8. They love heat and full sun. Do you like Citrus? There are lots of choices that do well in containers and will produce for you indoors. What are you going to do with all your Blueberries? |
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- Posted by gcmastiffs z10 Florida (My Page) on Wed, Jan 25, 06 at 20:53
| Oops, sorry Idogcow, I reread your original post and saw that you already do have citrus. I have 2 Satsumas, that I like very much. Do you like sour citrus at all? My favorites that are small trees are Ponderosa Lemons and Persian Limes. Both grow and produce heavily in containers. An excellent source for dwarf (condo) Mango varieties is Pine Island Nursery. Mine are blooming now. Lisa |
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| I suppose your right about every zone having it's pitfalls, although 8 seems sort of shoved in the middle of two worlds. Too hot for some things, too cold for others. We can't grow cherries, except for the Native black cherries. Or apples. That pains me the most, I love apples. I might try anyhow, the problem is our ridiculously humid summers that fungi seem to enjoy so well. I'd also have to find a variety with very low chilling requirements. I looove citrus. I'm so glad I can grow satsumas here, since they're my favorite citrus fruit. We don't have them in containers either, we just throw blankets over them when it gets under 27 degrees or so, which is usually just a couple nights a year. Thanks for the pineapple info. We plan on selling the blueberries at the farmer's market. Whatever we can't sell there we'll send to the wholesale co-op in Mississippi. After I finished high-school a couple years back I decided to ditch the idea of college and help my Dad start a small, diversified, sustainable farm. The blueberries were our first commercial investment. We also have started raising pastured chickens. We've been keeping them in our orchards to help fertilize the trees. We're also experimenting with a bunch of other commercial crops. Shiitake mushrooms, market gardening, etc. I'd really like to grow Pawpaw's commercially, I think they have a lot of potential. We're just getting started, really. Once we have more confidence in our ability to actually do all this, we'd like to turn it into a CSA. Until then, we're just going to sell at the local farmer's markets. The family thinks we're crazy, but I shudder at the idea of having a full-time job that kept me away from my garden for so many hours a day :P |
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- Posted by nebancsvirag 10fl (My Page) on Thu, Jan 26, 06 at 12:12
| So THAT is what happens to my tomatoes!!!! I am forced to pick the 2-3 days before they would be perfectly ripe, or somehow big bites are taken from each of them. The fruit trees are a case of the agony and the Ecstasy. As much as i would like a little dog, my asthma forces me to love them from afar. My husband does go out with his Bebe gun, and chases the critters away. I laugh, and call him my "big brave hunter" -for obvious reasons. Thank you both for the recommendations of blueberry variety. I will try 4-5 of them. My husband and i cant get enough of them, and they are also very good for us. What a bonus. Idogcow, Your way of raising chickens will result in a taste unknown on most American tables. I hope you will have some way of putting together a simple marketing package, and let the chefs in better restaurants know of what will be available from you. Irene |
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- Posted by gcmastiffs z10 Florida (My Page) on Thu, Jan 26, 06 at 13:29
| Idogcow, why can't you have Apple trees? It is awfully hot and humid in S Florida, and my 5 varieties do very well here. We get too few chill hours some years, but all I have to do is hand-strip off all the leaves (easy on dwarf trees) and the trees are fooled into thinking it is time to come out of winter dormancy. All my low-chill varieties produce heavily and early, so by the time the worst of the summer rains and hurricanes start, they are all done. I have all of my Apple trees in containers. The ones in the orchard are in half whiskey barrels with the bottoms knocked out. The rest are in containers on my patio. I prefer small trees for ease of care, so I prune in summer and winter, and buy on dwarfing rootstocks. The worst problem I've had with my apple trees is theft of the fruit. They have been disease free and easy to care for. Bay Laurel has fabulous Apple trees, as does Just Fruits and Exotics. I loved reading about your plans for your farm! I wish I could do the same thing, and I guess I am, on a much smaller scale. When my tropicals get up to full production, I will be going to the Green Markets to sell excess fruits. How do you protect your fruit from birds and other pests like squirrels? Lisa |
Here is a link that might be useful: Apple tree and Palms
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| Hmmm...I didn't see that you had apples until now. Hmmm. Well, I guess if you can grow apples down there, there's no reason I can't...Everyone I've talked to down here has had very pessimistic things to say concerning apples, so I didn't ever try. What varieties do you have? Do you have any of those columnar apples? They look pretty awesome I haven't had many pest problems, since most of the trees have yet to reach bearing age. The birds probably eat some of the blueberries, but not enough to make a difference. I asked one blueberry grower what he does about birds, and his answer was "Well, someone has to feed them". Another grower I know has a purple martin house in between his orchard and CSA garden, and he says they chase all the other birds away, as well as dining on insect pests. I also plan to plant some mulberry trees around. I hear the bird will eat them before many other more valuable fruits. Now with the veggie garden, I've had lots of pest problems. Primarily spotted cucumber beetles. Flea beetles as well, but the weirdest problem I've yet to run into was birds pooping on my tomatoes. Never ate them, just perched on the cages and turned the leaves and new fruit from green to white...Weird. Irene, On farm marketing has been gaining popularity, and it sounds pretty simplistic. I know this one guy in Alabama who raises pastured chickens- like 15,000 a year- and sells them all right off his farm. He was a goodly distance from any large cities too. I'd love to be able to sell right off the property I've talked to some caterers about buying from us, they weren't overly enthusiastic. I'm going to have to check into a few resturants. I'm not too far from New Orleans, but the future of resturants down there is pretty uncertian, I expect. BTW, I keep hearing people talking about loquats. I didn't know anyone called them that until recently. I grew up around New Orleans and it was a popular landscape tree, but everyone called them 'Japanese Plums'. Was that just a local thing? Or do people call them that elsewere? While on the subject of loquats, most of the ones I've seen are seedling grown, but I've heard of some grafted varieties that were selected for smaller seeds. I think one of them was called 'Advance' or 'Advantage' or something. Ya'll ever heard of these? James |
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- Posted by gcmastiffs z10 Florida (My Page) on Thu, Jan 26, 06 at 19:43
| Hey James, I was also told that I couldn't grow Apples here. That was 5-6 years ago, and they were dead wrong. I have Tropic Sweet, Anna, Ein Schemer, Pettingill, and Dorsett Golden. If you get them on dwarfing roostocks, you can prune them into any shape you want and keep them under 8'. The columnar Apple varieties I've seen offered are too high- chill for me. Plus, I really like the looks of a normal Apple tree, with regularly spaced branches, loaded with fruit. I sure hope the birds don't like Mulberries too much-I want all those sweet berries for myself! I picked a few handfulls today- they were super! Birds here will eat all the Blueberries, but I only have about 30 plants and it is pretty easy to cover them. Please send some tomato-pooping-on birds to me, and I'll trade you my tomato-eating birds... I'd rather wash the fruit than work around the beak wounds(G). There are quite a few Loquat varieties. Mine is a grafted one that tastes like juicy Apricots. It has flowers, new fruit and ripe fruit all at the same time. I do not remember the variety. Do you grow any regular low-chill Plums? I have 7 of them and they are nice trees with delicious fruit - easy to grow. Lisa |
Here is a link that might be useful: Loquat info
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- Posted by gardenpaws_va z7 NoVA (My Page) on Tue, Jan 31, 06 at 22:20
| FWIW, I've been able to reduce bird damage on tomatoes (when I only had a small number of vulnerable ones) by bagging them in the net bags from lemons or onions. As you note, the birds are most interested in the red ones, so yellow, green or light orange bags seem to confuse them. As I recall, I just used a big twisttie to attach a bag, then moved it to the next fruit in need when the first was ready for harvest. |
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| Front yard only: passionfruit along the fence - got 4 kilos in the first year of fruiting olive tree - small and having its flush of flowers bush lemon - a seedling about 50cm tall garlic ceylon salad plant loquat longan - another seedling coping quite well marigolds and I'd have more if there was more space ;-) |
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| 2 apples - red delicious and grimes golden 5 female kiwi (4 Anna 1 Ken's Red) 5 males too Canadice Grape 6 pawpaws (3 seedlings, 1 Rappahannok, 2 Shannandoah) 3 Passion flower Incarnata 10 Red Raspberries 4 Golden Raspberries 3 Loganberries 1 Boysenberry 3-5 Black Raspberries 1 Illinios Everbearing Mulberry 3 Seaberries (adding 1 sweet variety this spring) 8 cherry bushes (6 nanking, 2 Hansens) 2 Goumi bushes 1 Hardy Chicago Fig 1 Panachee Fig (potted) 2 White Texas Everbearing figs (potted) 5 blueberry bushes 5 serviceberry bushes 1 serviceberry tree 2 Manchurian Apricots 2 hazelnuts 1 Harry Lauder's hazelnut 1 Japanese plum 5 Red Currants (Red Lake) 3 White Currants 1 Pink Currant 1 Rubarb 15 yellow Wonder strawberries ??? Jerusalem Artichokes 3 Fruiting Rugosa Roses I'm sure I'll remember something else later...I do also have some really great tasting daylilies ...A banana in a pot...7 varieties of passionflowers in pots... Adding this year....Asian Persimmon.....Che......Clove Currant....Magnolia Vine...Wyeberry....Autumn olive....Yellowhorn... ~Chills And I've only got an eighth of an acre |
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| Remembered I had forgotten these...So add these to the above list... 1 Gooseberry Pixwell ~Chills <---who still may not be done yet. |
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- Posted by central_cali369 z9 CA (My Page) on Tue, Mar 7, 06 at 1:33
| at the moment, i have lots of fruiting trees/vines/plants although some were planted this year and wont be fruiting until next year. i have a citrus area, where i have honey murcott mandarins (2) i also have a corner of my yard where i have a mexicola avocado and i am ready to plant the following fruit trees which i have grown myself: Loquat (4) Other fruiting plants i have mixed into the landscape include Giant Granadilla (Passiflora Quadrangularis) im looking foreward to eating all those goodies in the summer! j
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| In my yard now is 5 dwarf citrus-2 murcotts, dream navel, hamlin, valencia 3 reg. citrus-cara cara, meyers lemon, honeybell 1 dwarf ice cream mango kiett mango tice mulberry weeping mulberry unknown mulberry ordered pakistan mulberry ordered 5 triple crown blackberry 2 aparaho blackberry 1 jaboticaba ice cream bamama praying hands banana raji puri banana nino banana kru banana randia formosa-blackberry jam fruit 4 pineapples tomatoes bayleaf raspberry 4 large (15gal)blueberries miricle fruit I think that is it. |
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- Posted by mommystuff z9/10 Cent FL (mommystuff@yahoo.com) on Thu, Aug 31, 06 at 14:39
| Good Afternoon, We have 1 1/3 acres. The front east side of our property is my "stone" fruit grove (even though some of these are not stone fruit). I have the following trees there: Apple I have just ordered additional trees for this area including: Apricot Our front west yard is our citrus grove. There we have: Pink Grapefruit I have in pots ready to be planted: Finger Lime The east side of our house which has a creek running along it has: Bay I am looking for a carambola to add to this area as well. Our east rear yard which backs to the golf course has: Passionfruit Our back west yard is my berry area. We have: Blackberry I just ordered for this area to be shipped in January: The west side of our property has: Mulberry Our entire front yard, which is about 1/2 acre is ready for relandscaping. We anticipate using that for our nut trees. I have almond, pistachio, macadamia, pecan and date palm in mind. We are working with a landscaper to have our circular driveway lined with coconut palms. In my herb garden I have: In my earthboxes I have tomatoes and beans. I still have space for about 20 additional trees and am trying to figure out what to put where. About 1/3 to 1/2 of our trees are mature. The others are anywhere from 1-4 years old. It is my overall plan to have the vast majority of our property landscaped with edibles within the next year or two. We have lived here for almost 10 years and have been working on it during that time. It's my wish to have all of our trees producing before our children are grown. I'm happy to share seeds from fresh fruit that I have producing right now, including key lime, barbados cherry, pomegranate, etc. Blessings, Kelly
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| Hi, I enjoyed reading about the edibles in everyone's yard. You folks put us to shame. We have 21 acres and you have tons more fruit than we do but we're working on it:-) We have: 12 apple trees 6 plum trees 2 peach trees 5 cherry trees (Lapins, Sam, unknown varieties) 2 Cornus mas 1 Cornus kousa 20 or so blueberries 20 or so grapes red and purple raspberries blackberries strawberries gooseberries (Hinomaki Gold and Achilles) red currants white currants 2 pear trees hardy kiwis-Anna, Michigan State and males asparagus We have planted pawpaws and American persimmons but the deer ate them. We need to try again now that we have a big dog and the deer don't give us so much trouble. I would also love to have a fig and some dwarf citrus. We would have to bring them inside during the winter. anotehr thing I want to get is a white mulberry. You all are making me hungry!! |
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- Posted by chris_chico 10A (My Page) on Wed, Sep 17, 08 at 21:53
| Nothing bearing fruit as of yet, but patiently waiting for Avocado Brown Turkey Fig Soursop 3-Unknown Bananna Ice Cream Bannana Countless muscadine Brazos Blackberry Hybrid TyTy Boysenberry 2-Star Blueberry 2-Sharp Blue Blueberry 2-Misty Blueberry 2- Dragon Fruit 1- Pineapple 1- Pumello 1- Hap Ki Lychee 1- each Bell peppers, yellow, red, green 1- cherry tomatoe 4 - Everberry strawberries 1- Rosemary 1- Tarragon 1- Stevia 1- Lemon Balm 1 -Parsley 12- varieties of Chiles |
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- Posted by chris_chico 10A (My Page) on Thu, Sep 18, 08 at 8:45
| Lisa- I am so happy I found this post since I would have never thought that we could grow apples, nectarines or peaches here in the Palm Beach area. We are in Loxahatchee around the corner on 1.3 ac. I listed what we have going on now above and want to increase that by double to become more self sustaining. Oh, I forgot we have a Pom also. I checked out your photo album and website. We have a Bull Mastiff and an American Bulldog. Always were American Bulldog owners and due to the constant health issue no matter how well we scrutinized the line we decided to try the Mastiff. Love her to death, but damn are they "Bullheadead" ;-). I noticed you have used wire fencing or mesh to create berms around some plant or patio areas, is that to keep the dogs off? Our Bullmastiff Kaya is a plant lover and NOT in a good way. She picks flowers - TO EAT THEM, she helps in the garden by removing plants she feels are not worthy and proceeds to transform them into compost ;-). She is so bad that she will stand up on her rear legs like a bear to eat saw palmetto berries off the palms! No fruit for her to pick yet, but I am sure she is getting excited...lol. I love that you feed RAW, but have no idea how you can afford that with so many large dogs!!! We have tried with 2-3 100+ lb. Amer. Bulls and it was just not feasible. Even supplementing got hard to afford. We compromised by feeding Timberwofl Organics, but these days that has become unaffordanble at $70 per 32 lbs.! Anyway, I know I am off subject for the forum so onto gardening. Do you have so many of your trees in pots due to being gun shy after the hurricanes we had? I am still somewhat gun shy, but am starting to get some things out of pots and in the ground. I will up plant most plants now since the wet ground killed more than the wind did, the pines are another story. I went on Just Fruits and Exotics site and will order 2 of the apples there and probably a Tropic Snow peach since it seems to be working so well for you. They do have many varieties and some with lower chill hour requirements than that that one, why did you pick it? Where did you get your nectarine since I do not see yours on their site? Lastly, Do you garden organically? If so, I will have more questions and maybe some info to share. Thanks again for sharing, hope all is well with the garden, dogs etc. since this post is a bit dated. |
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- Posted by central_cali369 z9 CA (My Page) on Sat, Oct 11, 08 at 23:25
| Hey there! sounds like you all have a ton of edibles in your yards. I am blessed to live in a warm climate where i can grow many fruits, but certainly not all that i would like. These are the edibles that i grow in my yard now: Musa "cardaba" And i have the following seedlings in pots: I'm sure our lists will just continue to grow with time! |
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| I have 20 citrus trees planted in the ground, several more still in pots: nagami kumquat (mislabeled as a meiwa from lowes), honeybell tangelo, honeybell tangerine, ruby red grapefruit, flame grapefruit, duncan grapefruit, a seedling grapefruit that I started from seed, blood orange - unknown variety, red naval orange, pink variagated eureka lemon, persian lime, hamlin orange, sambokan lemon (aka sambo grapefruit), ponderosa lemon, 3 meyers lemons, and a few varieties which I'm not sure of. I've got four mayhaws: one thornless seedling, one thornless reliable?, big red, and one masons. Two different varieties of blueberries (can't remember) and probably a wildblueberry of unknown variety which I'm trying to produce cuttings from. Southern bababerry, dewberries, unknown trailing pie blackberry, black satin blackberry, apache blackberry, navajo blackberry, thornless boysenberry, arapaho, ouchita, and kiowa blackberries. kiwis: ken's red, anna, elmwood, tomuri. Apples: anna, ein shemer, fuji, unknown seedling, golden dorsett, chenango strawberry, and cinnamon spice. edible palms: Pindo/jelly palm, Micharo palm Pears: pineapple, comice, baldwin Persimmons: giant fuyu, tanenashi Plums: santa rosa Peaches: Floridaking, Floridaprince Nectarine: sunsomething? not doing very well Figs: brown turkey, black mission Pomegranates: wonderful Grapes: at least 8 different varieties of muscadines and four types of southern bunch grapes Pawpaws: Seedling varieties Others: Pineapple guava/feijoa, chinese magnolia vine, Sweet olive tea tree (well, kind of edible, they use it to put in teas to make them fragrant, and they smell just like apricots), dandelions (most people consider it a weed, but I make teas out of it often - it can be made into wines or eaten with salads, even fried with bacon they say) Nuts: unknown pecan varieties, dunstan chestnuts Mulberries: White mulberries, red mulberries, pakistan mulberry |
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- Posted by mudflapper Z8 PNW (My Page) on Tue, Feb 24, 09 at 0:00
| Lets see what I have, Hum! 16 different varieties Blueberries. 7 different currants. anything more than one is a different variety O.K. 4 Gooseberries 2 Honeyberries 1 Arona 1 Autumn Olive 1 Azarole 3 Sea Berries Yellowhorne Three trees 1 Wolfberry 5 Sweet Cherries 4 Peach 1 Goumi 3 Mulberry 2 Pineapple Guava 10 Plums 5 Apples 24 Grape 5 Raspberry 15 plants 1 Prinsepia 2 Quince 1 Golden Silverberry 2 Chestnut 2 Heart nut 6 Filberts 1 Wallnut1 1 Black Walnut 1 Chilean Guava 1 Cranberry 2 Elderberry 1 Gaulnettya 5 Kiwis 1 Magnolia Vine 1 Ogeechee Lime 1 Chinese Strawberry Tree 1 Sassafrass Three Trees 5 Strawberry about 100 plants and I just know I'm forgetting a few. Ken |
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- Posted by southsounder USDA 8, Sunset 4/5 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 10, 09 at 4:09
| Wow Mudflapper, that's impressive. If you live in the South Sound, maybe you could hook me up with some Currant cuttings next fall :) Here is what perennial or self seeding annual edibles I have currently: 9 varieties of Blueberries |
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| Add some more (too bad you can't edit your posts): Paw Paw 'Mango' Going to the flea market this morning to see what other types of citrus they have today. Hopefully, I'll be able to get in another order or two online before the shipping season is up as well. |
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- Posted by mudflapper Z8 PNW OR (My Page) on Mon, Mar 16, 09 at 22:19
| Southsounder, thanks for the complement... and I would name names but many others have far more than I, but give me a few years! anyway I live in Oregon, west of Salem. If you are ever down this way you would be welcome to stop by and see if there is anything you would like. Ken |
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| Well I just got started a few months ago and can only buy stuff on occasion due to finances. I live in SW Florida, Cape Coral to be exact. Here is my humble list. Black Sapote (chocolate pudding fruit) I plan on adding at least 3 more varieties of Blueberry, 2 of Blackberry, Raspberry, Sylas Wood Sapodilla, low chill apples and plums, Miracle Fruit, and maybe a Mamey Sapote. Some others I may add as well but I am waiting to sample the fruit. Room is limited due to the dang swimming pool. Maybe I will fill it in and turn it into a planter hehe. |
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| A few more additions: 1x Marsh white grapefruit |
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- Posted by hoping4better (My Page) on Mon, May 11, 09 at 23:06
| Wow - you guys astound me. I live in the middle of Los Angeles and am just now trying my hand at a few things. 1 Satin black blackberry that is doing surprisingly well - several fruit ripening 1 willamette raspberry that looks small and probably won't bear til next year, but seems healthy 1 sunshine blueberry that we bought with fruit, but is already flowering again - the fruit is not yet ripe 1 sharpblue blueberry that is still small and probably won't bear until next year 7 tomato plants, 3 eggplant (2v) depending on my luck I may try something new and more exotic next year - we'll see. You guys are an inspiration! |
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- Posted by mommystuff z9/10 Cent FL (mommystuff@yahoo.com) on Fri, May 22, 09 at 20:13
| This is an update to my 2006 list. We've added many more varities and most things are fruiting now. FRUIT & SPICE TREES Acai Palm HERBS Allheal WATER PLANTS Bacopa, lemon I'm working on a website with photos of our property in all stages of bloom and slowly working on a book for zone 9 edible gardening. We've had luck with almost everything we've tried. I'm happy to answer any questions about growing in tropical zones. Happy growing, Kelly |
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- Posted by padma_2009 z9 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 4, 09 at 19:31
| Hi Mommystuff, I live in Phoenix, Arizona. i have just started my backyard with only edible plants. And I seem to be having some problems already. I have used dry cow manure (got from a farm) as mulch and fertilizer, which I spread a week ago and I see some small, white live worms and earthworms now. Is it safe for my plants or do I need to remove the manure? The temperature is above 100 F these days. So i water my plants (fruit) everyday as I transplanted them to the ground 2 weeks ago. I got a curry leaf plant from a friend some 3 months a go but the container did not have a hole so the plant started to drop leaves, it was more than a month by the time i figured out the problem. I changed the container but my plant has still not made any progress. The main stem just above the soil is still green inside when I scratched it a little. Can u tell me what I need to do to save it. I desperately want it to survive...:) Padma |
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- Posted by emcalister1 7 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 5, 09 at 2:10
| Hi Padma, I'm not Mommystuff, but I may be able to help you out here. First, I'd post your question in the vegetable gardening or organic gardening forum. That said, there's a couple of problems with using cow manure directly on your garden. If it was made using sawdust, the sawdust will turn into a carbon sink. The sawdust should be well rotted and well on its way to becoming soil before being put out in the garden. I only use manure on my compost pile, as a nitrogen source. The nitrogen will help heat up the pile, which then helps to break down the sawdust into humus, which is crucial to healthy plants. Another bad thing with the manure directly applied is that it can heat up the soil itself as the high nitrogen content cooks off. This could easily kill off any sown seeds and hamper germination. The sawdust issue is the real problem. If you used a manure containing sawdust it could easily hamper growth for a couple of years until it fully decomposes. sawdust is also from trees, which generally make the soil more acidic which then can hurt the ability of fegetables to absorb nutrients. of plants that need a neutral soil |
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| Hello , Read that someone might have yellow Jaboticaba seed and wonder If you would consider parting with a few seeds Ursula culejools@yahoo.ca |
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| Current edibles in my yard: Cherry tree x2 (bing and something else) |
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