Friday, July 16, 2010
Figs Ready Now
The figs are just starting to ripen. My in-laws Celeste figs began to ripen last week. I have a cutting from it, but it is still too young to make fruit, although it is trying. Our Texas Everbearing is just starting to have harvestable fruit now. The LSU purple is still a couple of weeks off. The combination of varieties should provide fruit here over a 4 to 6 week period. Nothing is better than a fresh fig off the tree. I have to say, that of the ones I have or have access to, the LSU Purple is by and far the taste winner. I have an LSU Gold, but regretfully have never tasted its fruit. Bad site, hurricanes, you name it. It will be transplanted to a better location in the fall. Then we will see.
New Dawn Gains the WolfBerry
Got a new addition to the gardens. Who can't love a fruit called a Wolfberry. Next full moon, I'll have to do my howling next to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfberry
en.wikipedia.org
Wolfberry, commercially called goji berry, is the common name for the fruit of two very closely related species: Lycium barbarum (Chinese: 寧夏枸杞; pinyin: Níngxià gǒuqǐ) and L. chinense (Chinese: 枸杞; pinyin: gǒuqǐ), two species of boxthorn in the family Solanaceae (which also includes the potato, toma...
Transition Time
Even though it is mid summer, it is time to transition to the fall garden. I pulled the frames out from the raised tomato beds. Next out will be the tomato stakes, and then arrives the tractor mounted tiller. Wouldn't normally need that here, but I am breaking new ground. No till worked OK for the spring, but I'll be bringing in the tractor now for some cropping for the fall, and then for the winter crops as well. I'll do no till again next spring, but I will need far more Oak leaves than I had this year, 2 to 4 times as many. This is due to the fact that not only did I not have enough last year, but also because I am doubling the size of the vegetable garden.
Pictures to be added later.
Pictures to be added later.
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