What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

I am begging you to post at least the strawberry rhubarb jam on the bakers thread.

I don't use sugar & use only Pomona Pectin so my jam recipes come from them. https://pomonapectin.com/category/recipes/

 

[chickengr]

I had to get a Bayer insecticide from Home Depot, I forgot the brand name, but its the only one to mix with water and pour around the fruit trees drip line or in a container. The tree absorbs the insecticide and kills what ever eats its leaves. They give the wait time for fruits and vegetables. The bugs in my area always attack my avocado leaves, I got tired of spraying.

I am thinking I should plant fig trees at my new place. it seems nothing attacks their leaves. any other hot climate no spraying fruit trees?

 

[WthrLady]

I found a treasure at the thrift store today, an unused Squeezo food mill!!! It's all there. They still sell them new for $215 from the Squeezo site. The recipe book in this one is 1982. WHOOT! I paid $2.50.

 

[Elyrian1]

I am thinking I should plant fig trees at my new place. it seems nothing attacks their leaves. any other hot climate no spraying fruit trees?

Could look at loquats and persimmons. They grew wild where I grew up and never needed spraying.

 

[chickengr]

Could look at loquats and persimmons. They grew wild where I grew up and never needed spraying.

I don't like loquats but I love persimmons! thank you.

 

[CNJ]

I am thinking I should plant fig trees at my new place. it seems nothing attacks their leaves. any other hot climate no spraying fruit trees?

I had a fig tree before but took it out and replaced it with a semi dwarf mango tree. I had an abundance of figs yearly, but we have fruit flies where I live, so a lot of the ripe figs had worms. I probably could have put a small fruit bag on each fig, but they didn't sell them before.

Now that you mention it, I am also thinking about planting one again.

 

[WIchickMama]

I did.....nothing.....except ate the first 3 berries and enjoyed a quiet morning with a gentle rain. Next comes the heat over the next few days and with that weeds...so I will be weeding but nothing today.

 

[CNJ]

I am thinking I should plant fig trees at my new place. it seems nothing attacks their leaves. any other hot climate no spraying fruit trees?

I recommend planting a Surinam cherry tree, but only the sweet purple fruited one, the red fruited ones are sour. I eat a few every morning, it has a lot of vitamin C in it. They grow well under the hot tropical sun.

 

[Elyrian1]

Greece is mostly flaming hot and dry right? I went to college with some kids that had lived there and they said Florida was cold by comparison. So... I'd imagine any fruit trees that do well in equatorial regions could do well there, with proper watering etc. Guava maybe?

And, you're welcome! (I don't like loquats either honestly)

 

[chickengr]

I recommend planting a Surinam cherry tree, but only the sweet purple fruited one, the red fruited ones are sour. I eat a few every morning, it has a lot of vitamin C in it. They grow well under the hot tropical sun.

never heard of them.