Looks like I might be able to make a traditional Thanksgiving gazpacho this year!
What have my tomatoes been waiting for? I’ve got like 10 greenies left, and it’s 38 degrees out.
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More than likely, that’s Musa basjoo, a pretty cold hardy banana, grown mostly for foliage, and the cool-looking flowers. The fruit’s inedible and I’ve never heard of anyone eating the flower “hearts” or cooking with the leaves. many Banana types are bitter or very astringent. It has been used for fiber, paper making.
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Ahh! MIL says bananas aren’t part of the equation here, but there are so many plants around!
FIL and the neighbor have both moved many plants in and out of the garage on wheels.
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FWIW, there’s a stand of banana trees in Capitol Park in Sacramento. I have never seen bananas on them, though.
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Green thumbs on both sides of the family!
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Persimmons from my physical therapist!
Peas have sprouted
Lettuces
Collards and chard
I am soaking Persian Star, Metechi, and Creole Purple garlic tonight, and hope to have them in grow bags tomorrow. I am hoping to have fewer problems then I had in buckets, but I don’t know why I should have hope. I’m looking for ways to preserve the cloves I am not planting. Probably confit, but I wish I could keep it indefinitely.
I am waiting on the potatoes for a few weeks. Hopefully they will “chit” while I wait.
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Did your therapist grow those fuyu persimmons? They’re some of my favorite fall/winter fruits. I know they can survive the cold, so I’ve often thought of getting a tree. But the reality is that I have so many trees I would want, it’s impractical.
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His neighbor did, and he said he had about 50 pounds. Lots of folks grow them around here. I have seen them in vacant lots.
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We went to HMart yesterday after visiting with my MIL, who I adore, and they had some lovely Hachiya persimmons, which I bought a bunch of. I love all persimmons, even the slightly gross midwestern ones that have to fall off the tree before they’re edible. But I like the Asian ones much much more. And our pineapple guavas are falling off the tree, if you eat them before they turn soft, they are absolutely wonderful.
Also,after I ate the ONE tomato from this year, I’ve seen a few others since it got a little bit cooler. They appear to be the blue-top ones. The one I had I ate, and it was pretty tasty, unlike the last time I grew the blue ones, which were absolute soldiers during the hot hot summer, but they tasted like grocery store tomatoes. Maybe even more bland
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Good idea! It’s been years since I ate from our tree. When I first moved here we sent boxes to someone who was missing them. Last few years I haven’t gotten many, but this year they are falling like many years ago. I will try to get a good one.
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my envy knows no bounds!
I want to ravage it! Oh wait… maybe pillage. No. Harvest. I want to harvest it.
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That’ll make a lot of:
• juice to freeze (off season fresh lemonade, iced or hot)
• preserved lemons
• lemon zest
•limoncello
•lemon bars
• etc. etc. etc.
Wish I had access to that tree!
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I just scrounged around and found just a few tiny ones
They were pretty good! I won’t overlook this tree next year!
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My SIL has a lemon tree that cranks out fruit like nobody’s business, I’m certain that it has tapped into their leaching field, same with their fig tree. One year the lemon was cranking out gobs of softball sized lemons, whatever wasn’t picked fell off and rolled down into the wash at the edge of their property. And Brad has their fig cut down to about a foot in winter (he’s not so good with plants or trees in general) and it still gets ten feet tall and wide every year.
My lemons are on the west side of the tree, not sure why. The Meyers are doing okay, and the limes gave us a decent harvest. They need to be planted in the ground, but i don’t really want to do that.
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Interesting! Does the fig live where you do? Does it get irrigated or fed?
One of my trees is doing better than usual.
What is a “leaching field”?
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In a septic system, where the waste water is separated from the solids (usually a concrete tank), the leach field is where the liquids rise to the top and run out through irrigation piping. Engineered systems are similar; the liquid has to go somewhere.
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