Fruit

Surprise Breakfast

by bdunn on May 13, 2011

in Fruit

I finally caught on this morning that the reason I’ve been seeing so many birds flapping around our giant fig tree is because figs are coming ripe, duh. It caught me by surprise because the main crop from this tree ripens in July and, duh, this is May. What we have going on is a [...]

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Attack of the Alien Fungi

by bdunn on May 7, 2011

in Fruit, Nature

Yard chores have kept me busy the past few days, chief among them clean-up in the aftermath of the Attack of the Alien Fungus. It started when two of the many trunks on our oldest and hugest fig tree died last fall. Upon inspection, I found a large, spreading gray fungus with white edges, attached [...]

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Stuff You Don’t See Every Day

by bdunn on April 20, 2011

in Fruit

The feijoa is a slow-growing subtropical spreading bush native to foothills in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, which produces small lovely and edible flowers and egg-sized green fruit said to taste like the combination of guava and pineapple (although Feijoa sellowiana is related to neither). Thus it’s more commonly known as the pineapple guava. I [...]

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Fruitless So Far

by bdunn on April 18, 2011

in Fruit

At first it appeared that the bad freezes we suffered this just-past winter had spared developing loquat fruits, but no. We have three big loquat trees, all purchased at the same time from a retail nursery that claimed they were three of the same variety. Actually, they’re three very different types with very different fruit [...]

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If A Banana Falls In The Forest…

by bdunn on March 3, 2011

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When I was a boy, I imagined I might become several things, but none of them was a banana lumberjack. Yet such I’ve become, each year a few weeks after nature’s frosty-freeze wipes out the largest of the banana plants – those with fruit that ripened too late, or an even later flower in lieu [...]

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Wind Blows

by bdunn on February 28, 2011

in Fruit, Garden

When I decided to gamble and plant a few vegetable plants early this year, I only planted as many tomatoes as I had spare plastic trash cans. Heavy plastic trash cans are useful in such a plethora of ways that I couldn’t help myself a few years ago when, upon entering the garden section of [...]

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Goodby to the Pomegranates

by bdunn on February 17, 2011

in Fruit

Update: It turns out some of the assumptions on which I based this months-old post were, as assumptions are wont to do, false. Thanks to Ed Laivo whose comments below shed much-welcome light on pomegranate naming conventions and the like. I didn’t enjoy sawing down the two pomegranate tree/bushes and then digging up their roots, [...]

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