My Ceanothus americanus is flowering and absolutely crawling with insects. Below are pictures of the star-shaped flower buds before bloom and then some more of the blooms themselves
We’ve also harvested a ton of cherries this week, along with snap peas and a second round of lettuce. Our trap tomatoes are growing a little slowly but our production ones are beginning to set fruits.
What’s growing on with you all?
I had planted various fruit trees in the gaps of a nearby secondary forest that had been logged over years ago, and they were really growing well. Mainly jackfruit, engkala, pulasan, and a few smaller native fruit trees and shrubs where there wasn’t as much space. Yesterday some people came and clear-cut that entire patch of forest (probably to plant grass), and there is now no sign that the fruit trees were ever there. The birds who used to perch in the trees over there seem very upset. Fortunately whoever cut down the forest hasn’t been able to burn it yet due to all the rain, but it’s only a matter of time.
I harvested 5 big jackfruits yesterday though, and I also recently received seeds of a strange funky fruit from a friend in the Amazon. We have no idea what it is, and Jim West can’t tell from the photos that my friend sent to him either. There was a delay in getting the seeds here, but I stuck them in some soil two days ago, and they are already starting to sprout, so they seem like survivors!
If anyone knows what this is, please don’t hesitate to comment.
Damn that sucks. Why are they planting grass? For cattle? Who owns the land?
I don’t know who “owns” the land, but no humans live there. They haven’t planted the grass yet, but that seems most likely since that’s what people do around here. The grass would most likely be for cattle pasture, though some people also plant maize for pig/chicken feed for a year or two before converting to pasture.
Do you think this could be Sapote?
Definitely not.