I'll be really interested in the crosses you end up with from this. Hopefully you get something sufficiently vigorous and tasty that it just seemingly comes back on its own to treat you and hubby each season.
Hope the donkeys are still settling in well also. Loved the recent podcast about tuberous peas as well.
Even if it's just pleasantly smelly sweet water, I have a soft spot for delicious fruit that requires 0 effort. I'm forever grateful to the cockatoos and bats that shit out passionfruit and guava seeds all over the place so I only need to walk down the road to the creek to pick passionfruit in February and again now until June + guava from March all the way through to the end of the crop in early May.
Guavas picked just as they start showing yellow and ripened inside on the bench have extremely low rates of fruit fly larvae in my experience and are just as sweet as tree ripened. Now we're getting cooler nights most of the ripe yellow fruit that hangs on the later fruiting trees have no larvae so I can be even lazier picking them + the bats and birds have moved on so the vertebrate pressure has subsided. I don't know why people bother netting them in SEQ.
The Surinam cherries have been slow to flush properly again since Christmas, just sporadic fruiting here and there whereas last year there was a solid 2 crops after new years. I found one tree, which from it's placement is obviously bat or bird planted, that has sweet, red, low resin fruit even when not quite fully coloured up. It's near the local shops so I don't always get to it at the perfect time but even slightly immature fruit are great. The winter crop is a fruit fly free, aromatic delight. Better even than a fully ripened black variety. I've started a few seedlings from it.
I have some slender celery (cyclospermum leptophyllum) seed for you and I could also send some seed from the sweet Surinam if you're interested.
The donkeys are making steady progress, but are still very green with a long way to go. Interesting to hear there is a harvest window/technique for guava. They are growing wild here and I will have to try to imitate your approach. I look at my clothes covered in cobblers pegs and desmodium seed and say thank you for all the time they save me spreading them by hand. The donkeys are developing a taste for both of these, just have to introduce them slowly to avoid bloat.
I'll be really interested in the crosses you end up with from this. Hopefully you get something sufficiently vigorous and tasty that it just seemingly comes back on its own to treat you and hubby each season.
Hope the donkeys are still settling in well also. Loved the recent podcast about tuberous peas as well.
Even if it's just pleasantly smelly sweet water, I have a soft spot for delicious fruit that requires 0 effort. I'm forever grateful to the cockatoos and bats that shit out passionfruit and guava seeds all over the place so I only need to walk down the road to the creek to pick passionfruit in February and again now until June + guava from March all the way through to the end of the crop in early May.
Guavas picked just as they start showing yellow and ripened inside on the bench have extremely low rates of fruit fly larvae in my experience and are just as sweet as tree ripened. Now we're getting cooler nights most of the ripe yellow fruit that hangs on the later fruiting trees have no larvae so I can be even lazier picking them + the bats and birds have moved on so the vertebrate pressure has subsided. I don't know why people bother netting them in SEQ.
The Surinam cherries have been slow to flush properly again since Christmas, just sporadic fruiting here and there whereas last year there was a solid 2 crops after new years. I found one tree, which from it's placement is obviously bat or bird planted, that has sweet, red, low resin fruit even when not quite fully coloured up. It's near the local shops so I don't always get to it at the perfect time but even slightly immature fruit are great. The winter crop is a fruit fly free, aromatic delight. Better even than a fully ripened black variety. I've started a few seedlings from it.
I have some slender celery (cyclospermum leptophyllum) seed for you and I could also send some seed from the sweet Surinam if you're interested.
The donkeys are making steady progress, but are still very green with a long way to go. Interesting to hear there is a harvest window/technique for guava. They are growing wild here and I will have to try to imitate your approach. I look at my clothes covered in cobblers pegs and desmodium seed and say thank you for all the time they save me spreading them by hand. The donkeys are developing a taste for both of these, just have to introduce them slowly to avoid bloat.