Winter didn’t kill this perennial even though it dipped below freezing. The fruits grown from seed are highly variable and mine taste like sugary battery acid.
Well, it’s fruiting this summer and I was letting the birds have it (even they rejected it). The berries ripened until they fell off the plant. I tried the fallen berries and there is almost no caustic taste. Yay?
Easy to grow tree, but will get aphids when brought indoors in winter. See AltText for further growing details.
Leaves taste slightly peppery, and are very nice in salads. Can be juiced, cooked and stewed. Also dried, it tastes mildly herbal, tea-like. Can be ground easily into powder for soups and baking.
Cold hardy to 28F/-2C, can be grown in a pot. Fruits 4-5 yrs from seed.
It’s the fruit that makes it so special. The peel is very sweet and chewy and the fruit inside balances it with a nice tartness. And bc you eat fruit+peel, it’s very nutritious.
I sell seedlings for $15 plus shipping available in early spring. Open to reservations now.
My pitangatuba produced a total honker of a berry. See almost ripe berry behind for scale.
Eugenia selloi. Smells like juicy fruit candy, tastes like a tangerine. Everbearing in warm sunny climate. Bring indoors in winter if temps dip below freezing.
Easy to grow tree. Fruits within a few months with cloning. Lots of delicious fruit - the birds agree. Tastes like almond joy candy if it were jammy and didn’t contain HFCS, just cane sugar. Doesn’t tolerate sustained cold temperatures. Bring inside in winter. Water hog. Gets big. Pest resistant.
Brass cast little sculpture of a wood cube showing tunnels carved by a woodworm. Of course the tree was already firewood when I found it, I only cut it into a rough cube. And the woodworm was long gone: Wherever you are, I hope you're OK, it was nice making this collab with you.
Remember when I posted months ago about putting together a #cacao nursery?
The plants have grown like mad & are slowly finding their way to permanent homes. And they are thriving. It's exciting to see the new growth they put on as soon as they're out of their nursery bags. Some of them are already over a meter tall!
Not a banana, not a plantain - this is a topocho (at least that's what they're called in Venezuela).
So what do we do with a glut of ripe topochos? Dry them down, of course. Dehydrating fruit is one of the best ways to preserve flavor and nutritional value. Plus, they taste divine. I actually enjoy eating them dried down more than fresh off the plant!
Our work begins in the dilapidated ornamental garden. First we create a “nursery” bank to temporarily place any plants we can save. Because our soil is so heavy in clay and we are no-till, we first lay down cardboard, then wood fines and finally some rich compost. As the cardboard breaks down over the years it will eventually meld with the soils ecosystem below. (I’m not explaining that very well 🤷♀️)
Those of you that grow your own produce, what prompted you to start? Mine was my Dad, memories of him sitting in his greenhouse tending to his plants, and getting me to pick the peas and beans that were growing low down in his allotment when I was little. The wonder of growing food successfully never grows old, the taste of the produce is sublime, and getting to cross things off your supermarket list is a great feeling!! #GrowYourOwn#gardening#organic#tomatoes#nature#HomeGrown
Last peanut butter fruit of the year (Bunchosia glandulifera). I have more hanging on the tree but not sure if they’ll ripen in the garage.
That time of year again, bringing hundreds of plants into the garage and sunroom. What’s wrong with me?? Why do I do this to myself?? 😩🥹 #gardening#fruit#GrowYourOwn#jardin#plantas#organic#fruta@plants
Tolle Unterkunft! Es hat alles reibungslos funktioniert. Gut gefallen hat mir auch, dass es #Bio Seife gab, dass das Haus eine #Wärmepumpe hat und die Eigentümer eine E-Ladesäule haben (wobei Konstanz recht viele Landemöglichkeiten bietet und es nicht weit von der Unterkunft öffentliche Landeplätze gibt). Von der Unterkunft kommt man ganz gut zum #Bahnhof und zur #Altstadt. #EAutos zum Mieten gibt es z.B. beim Carsharing von Stadt-Mobil Südbaden, welche Netzwerk von cambio und co sind. Renault Zoes gibt es z.B. in der Jakobsstr., Zähringer-Höfe oder bei der Alemannenstr.
Das Bett knarzt ein wenig. Mich hat es nicht gestört. Der Kühlschrank ist manchmal etwas laut, wobei der lässt sich für die Nacht bestimmt ausschalten.
Es gab Luftentfeuchter im Zimmer und im Bad, die empfand ich nicht als störend.