In this episode of Fruit Talk! I finalize quite a bit we’ve talked about in prior weeks. Specifically what citrus tree varieties I’ll be going with, a much greater insight into my garden plans for 2021 and what my ideas are for better strawberry production and to avoid critter damage.
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I'm excited to expand out to some other plots as well. Tricky not being able to take care of them equally, though. Smart planning the plants that are low maintenance, at the community garden. I'll be focusing mostly on trialing figs in 5b and planning to have a lot of food for storing at the end of next season. Making hoshigaki was surprisingly easy. I love making sauce with tomatillos but I picked up some tomarillos seeds from Baker Creek and I'm excited to try those out. Looks like a nice, dark red colored berry.
I gave away 400sf of strawberries this year. Growing them without pesticides in Charleston just wasn't possible. Hope you have less pest pressure!
Great talk again Ross… one question, I have raspberry bushes that fall over all over the ground. Is it advisable to cut the canes annually and when? Thanks!
Yellow tomatillo from baker creek is amazing, tastes like cheetos, eat fresh!
Good Citrus choices
Another thing that's great about Citrus is that you can leave the ripe fruit hanging on the tree for months and when you pick it, it's fresh. So once your tree produces enough, you can harvest them over a long period. Possibly even year-round.
I’m outside Philly like you. My mature in ground figs still have sap flowing. Do I still prune w the snow coming or wait? Thx
Merry Christmas Ross From BRIAN And LINDA ! Great video
Woodlanders.net has some great cold hardy citrus trees.
I treasure my calamansi trees, and would consider getting more. Filipinos squeeze them onto fish and other dishes, and they add great flavor. Pancit, a noodle dish of many varieties, absolutely improves with calamansi. Calamansi juice is much tastier than lemonade, but we don't get enough of them to afford that extravagance… yet. We have three small calamansi trees. We also have three Nagami Kumquat trees and two ruby red grapefruit trees, each of which is bearing fruit … in zone 5B. Of course I bring them indoors before the first freeze. The fragrance of all those citrus blossoms is very much like Arabian Jasmine, called Sampaguita in the Philippines. The Calamansi are considered good luck plants, and are popular gifts from Asians at Lunar New Year. That was how we found our first one, in our local Asian food store at that time, two years ago. The store sold at least 60 of them, in flower or even with fruit, within a week, and the Asian population is not heavy in our area, Manchester, NH.
Any strawberries that have a heirloom old-fashioned taste?