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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off the top of my head the ones that we grow and are fruiting (New Zealand):
Fejois (tons of em), persimmons, guavas, bannana, lemons (just started), avocados (nearing the end), quinces (gotta make jelly today), apples (we have picked golden delicious and cooking apples will be ready soon, I’m going to make some cider), figs (nearing end), Casimiroa, tamarillo, rocoto chilli. I think kiwi fruit are fruiting too but we don’t grow any.
That is impressive. Apples and bananas in the same place? What elevation?
I’m not quite sure what you mean by elevation, But elevation would be only slightly above sea level and plantmaps.com says I live in zone 10b.
We live on the very limit for apples, only golden delicious and some cooking apples seem to do really well, other varieties we have don’t produce much and are vulnerable to pests. I hope climate change doesn’t skrew my apples over in the future but I think it might.
That’s like Florida… wow. If you’re already on the limit for apples, then further warming of the winter will probably put an end to them, but it’s still impressive that you have them at all. Do you know if cherimoya fruits well there?
Yea they fruit great, we haven’t harvested any yet but they should be ready soon. (Or now I better check). They are so delicious
Nice! Cherimoya and lúcuma are the two cold fruits that I wish that I could grow.
Yea we can grow lùcuma here to (my uncle grows some), but Im not a big fan of it. Though I haven’t tried one since a kid so I should try it again (lots of my other food preferences have changed). How do you like to eat them? I’ve heard they are best in smoothies?
I’ve only eaten them out of hand, unadulterated. That’s how I eat almost everything. It’s like cherimoya: rip it open and have oral-sex-at-a-distance with the tree, but don’t eat the outside green part or the seeds. Sometimes they don’t ripen perfectly, so they can be a bit dry or bland, but a good lúcuma has a texture between canistel and mamey sapote and a flavour almost like caramel. (I’ve never actually eaten caramel, but I can imagine.)
Pretty much nothing that I’m aware of, other than my neighbor’s greenhouse grown tomatoes.
What about your greenhouse-grown tomatoes? Are you really going to let the neighbour win?
Spring just started here. We might get green grass in a week or two!
Kill it before it can reproduce.
I think my dogs already do a great job at that lol.
Good doggies. Now plant trees.
I am allergic, funny enough. Poplars kick my butt. We do have lots of other trees, though! I love trees, my body just likes to self-destruct I guess.
We have some apple trees that are awesome, though.
It’s almost stone fruit season in California!! My local farmers market was selling the very first batch of peaches last weekend, which means they’re coooming!
Can’t explain how excited this gets me. If you haven’t tasted a fresh pluot or some of the huge variety of hybrid stone fruit, you’re missing out on one of life’s greatest pleasures. They’re colorful, they’re sweet, they’re subtly sour, they’re juicy, and they have the most satisfying crunch. There’s so much variety, and some amazing genetic combos. You ever had a peach that looks like a green apple on the outside and is the color of a beet on the inside? Well that’s my most favorite goddamn fruit on the planet. Fuuck I’m getting too excited…
At the peak of stone fruit season, sometimes I’ll just chop up a bunch of different kinds of pluots and that’s my meal for the day. Not kidding. When I first moved here, this shit changed my life. Best fruit I’ve ever tasted.
That’s beautiful. Great fruit is always exciting! When the quality is high enough that one meal can keep you flying for the whole day… wow. Does the green and purple peach have a name?
Yeah, I never thought fruit could taste this good.
I have trouble remembering the names of the specific hybrids, but I believe that variety is called “Dapple Dandy” or “Dinosaur Eggs.” When I was was trying to find the name, I came across this photo of some of the varieties of hybrids. It’s wild how different they can be.
“Dapple Dandy” or “Dinosaur Eggs.”
I’ll look it up!
Yeah, I never thought fruit could taste this good.
Have you ever tried durian?
No, I don’t think I’ve tried durian. I don’t recognize the name, but the fruit itself looks familiar, so I’ve definitely seen them around. I’ll pick one up the next time I see it!
Durian in California? I highly doubt that that would be fresh. If it’s your first time, I recommend finding one that fell from the tree fully ripe that same day.
I’m sure I won’t find a fresh one, but I remember seeing something that looked like that at one of the local Asian supermarkets I spend way too much money at.
Frozen? Probably a ‘Mongthong’ harvested unripe in Thailand. I highly recommend going to Malaysia or Borneo and trying a fresh durian instead. You only get one first durian, and you owe it to yourself to try a good one.
My mom sent me a video of my dad and daughter picking oranges and avocados yesterday
Do those produce year-round where you are, or is this the main event? In some places, if you have enough trees that aren’t all clones of each other, it’s possible to harvest oranges and avocados pretty much all year!
Denmark, so … none? 🤔
If we’re counting foraging for plants, there’s ramsons, garlic mustard, dandelions and ground elder. Probably also a bunch of edible flowers. Ground ivy springs to mind, but don’t know much about the others.
Sounds like those things would help to mask the flavour of store-bought banana if nothing else.
Yeah, banana harvest in Denmark is still a few years off, but not that many I think! 😑🍌 /s
Apricots, Apples, Pears, Peaches, Nectarines, tho’ not all are in my garden.
Sounds pretty abundant for a colder climate!
It’s mostly all about Spring Flowers, right now! I’ve got a campout., then after that I’ll start planting in earnest. The new one this year is growing fenugreek, the leaves are called methi, and they grow pretty easily. I try to grow as much as I can, but it’s really hard to grow all one needs. Mostly I add variety thru gardening and foraging. What is ripening around you?
Never grown fenugreek or heard of anyone using the leaves. Do you eat them?
Three important tricks for growing all of your own food:
- Live in the non-seasonal equatorial zone and/or invest heavily in food-preservation infrastructure that doesn’t require constant connection to the electric grid.
- Learn to eat what grows well in your area.
- Focus on high-calorie staples and plant smaller amounts of everything else.
In the last few days, I’ve harvested mostly mandarins, but also bananas, papayas, cacao, araçá, capsicums, tomatoes, rangpur (mandarin limes), and… badea and naranjilla… and probably other things that I forget, but it’s a bit of a lull in the jackfruit right now, and the birds get almost all of the jaboticabas, and I’m still struggling to keep up with eating a recent plantain harvest. Oh, and there’s noni. Always noni. No shortage of noni. The neighbours hate noni.
They are a mild green leafy vegetable sort of thing. Not as tasty as the seeds, or the sprouts.
The way you are talking, I’m thinking I should call my kungfu brother who disappeared off to Costa Rica. Cheers!
Nothing right now, but we’ve got raspberries, gooseberries and strawberries. Also grapes, but they tend to be late in the season. Most of the time we will not be there when they’re ripe somehow, and since our chickens are free ranging parts of the gardens, they tend to eat the gooseberries, and most of the leaves from the raspberries (not the raspberries self though). Most years we will also give them the grapes, since they’ll be ripe all at once. Sometimes I’ll try to make some wine from them though.
I picked a couple hand fulls of mulberry while doing yard work this weekend. Still too early for most stuff here in the southern US, but this wet warm weather has stuff coming in fast.
Mulberries seem to fruit pretty much anywhere. :)
Nothing really, for now, we’re just high enough that spring comes late. But the raspberries are doing amazing, the apple trees looks like clouds, my kid has been weeding and cleaning the huge strawberry patches, the wild strawberries are everywhere, the baby fruit trees are growing. It’s gonna be lovely!
What are the babies? :)
Mostly pear and cherry, with some plum and one walnut.
Nothing yet, our cherries just started flowering this past week. Same for the haskaps, and the plums should be flowering in the next week or two. Our patch of ramps has grown again, which is nice.
Do the haskaps taste like anything? I have been told that they have almost zero flavour.
They’re sweet and tart, with a little bit more depth of flavor than I find in blueberries
Interesting. How does the sweetness compare to blueberries?
I’ve heard that some cultivars are very sweet with almost no tartness to them. I think ‘Indigo Treat’ and ‘Aurora’ varieties are two of the higher sugar/lower acid, and I personally think they’re sweeter than blueberries. But you can also harvest them early and get a real blast of yummy tartness instead
Those sound yummy! I really enjoy a high-quality, sweet blueberry, so I would probably enjoy those. I won’t be growing them here, but anyone reading this who has the climate for them, give them a try!
