Yesterday we got our first plum from the Kinumei in the Food Forest.
I set only one fruit that fell on the ground when it was fully ripe. Luckily, I found it in front of insects and birds. We were able to taste it. delicious! Sweet, almost slightly lemony. I thought this tree was a seedling, but then I reviewed an old video and realized it was probably one of two plum trees that I planted in my previous groceries row garden in a house we rented when we first returned to the state. I can’t find the graft, but it will probably grow on it and make the department invisible.
This followed the seedlings’ nectarine heels and harvested about 10 pounds from the garden trees in the current groceries row.
They got very tender when ripe and didn’t work on the counter, but they were tasty. Rachel made tasty nectarines and wild blueberry crumbles.
We chose blueberries in the forest from early-producing species with very black fruits of small, sweet tart. The combination with the nectarine was incredible. Rachel only added a little sugar, which was bursting with a sharp, sweet tart crumble with a fresh fruit flavour. Also, along with our various Arkansas bushes blackberries, this year has become quite a crazy amount. I also got some gummy berries from the bushes of the food forest.
Another first was the greenhouse jabotiti baca blooming, setting dozens of delicious black fruits.
The next ripe fruit should be peaches from seedlings. Currently I have three roles. One has a strange almond-shaped fruit, the other has a small orange peach, and the other has a very large white and orange fruit with reddish spots.
After the peaches, get the rabbiteye blueberries from wild bushes in the forest. There are also some ripe purple plums in the food forest. After that you will need to get some apples. The grocery row garden has honey crisps with one apple and several apples on another tree that lost its label on Apple Orchard.
Then the muscadine grapes enter, and figs continue to be old enough for the Perimmons to produce in our one tree at the end of summer. Then, in autumn, we get pecans from the big old trees around our home.
The trees are still young this year, so we don’t get a lot of fruit, but we’re getting more than last year. It’s fun to see new trees endure every year. The food forest is almost three years old and everything is really beginning to grow.
Some of our pomegranate and chestnuts bloomed this year, but we have not set anything. But that’s a good sign. Probably next year. Some of these trees are so tall that we may get pears again next year. Satsuma should also be produced.
Related news is that this spring we were able to graft Kiefer’s pear calf wood into Bradford’s pear seedlings and grow it at the cutting edge of the groceries garden. I looked at it for over a year, established it, then cut out the entire top and grated it. You can watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj8omayanee
Watch that Scion grow!
The rate of clavicle growth in established rootstocks is surprising. It was almost my height and I only grafted about a foot from the ground! And that was within three months.
If it continues to grow like this, pears will be able to withstand it again next year.
A few years later, our homes should lay baskets and baskets of fruit. In addition, this year we planted about 30 more trees. The goal is to have so many fruits that we can’t manage all of it. Isn’t that fun?
