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I really enjoy my garden. I am putting effort into planting edible greens as much as possible. Simply because I want kids and kitties to play safely in it. And it's nice to watch it grow and harvest. Fruits, peppers and green herbs.
The plum tree in my garden is carrying many fruits and they are ready to be picked this weekend.
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Yes please. They look yummy!
I have an apple tree in my yard, it's not a crabapple tree but I have no idea what kind they are. I guess I should find out before I go on a picking spree.
 
They sure do look good. I had thought about growing a vegetable garden this summer but got lazy and didn't do it.

My mom used to have one for years until her 80s, then arthritis affected her legs that she wasn't able to stand for long periods anymore.
 
Kaat72 said:
I really enjoy my garden. I am putting effort into planting edible greens as much as possible. Simply because I don't want kids and kitties to play safely in it. And it's nice to watch it grow and harvest. Fruits, peppers and green herbs.
The plum tree in my garden is carrying many fruits and they are ready to be picked this weekend.
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What, have you set some traps to deal with the local kids? And I was under the impression you liked your kitties...

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Here's an orchid in the back yard here, I actually took the pic a number of years ago.

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They were flowering last week but I'd forgotten how short their flowering period is and haven't taken any photos of them this year. There are others out so will take some photos tomorrow to post.
 
Kaat72 said:
I really enjoy my garden. I am putting effort into planting edible greens as much as possible. Simply because I want kids and kitties to play safely in it. And it's nice to watch it grow and harvest. Fruits, peppers and green herbs.
The plum tree in my garden is carrying many fruits and they are ready to be picked this weekend.

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Your plums look good.

Our Victoria plum tree cropped well but we've had a lot of problems with brown rot. The greengage, Oullins gage and damson didn't do anything this year. Apples (Bramley, Bardsey, Scrumption and an old "unknown" type) are doing well. The crab apple did nothing.

Soft fruit: black currants were good and raspberries reasonable.

Veg garden: most things got off to a slow start and might have done better but we have had nice bits to eat starting with asparagus in May. Leeks and sprouts to look forward to later in the year and I'm hoping our sweetcorn will ripen soon.

Greenhouse: Aubergine/eggplant (Hansel) and Sweet Pepper (Topepo Rosso) very good, tomatoes OK.
 
We've had some of our apples and I think the rest of the Bramleys could do with "processing" (stew, bag and freeze) about now. I don't think we'll be picking the "unknown" tree until early October.

We use the unknown apples for apple juice which we freeze. They give a delicious pink coloured juice which I think is much better than the stuff we get in the supermarkets.

Here's a picture I took of some of these a couple of years back.

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And on waiting for the trees to grow and getting good crops, I'm a bit frustrated with our Oullins gage. We planted it three years ago and we have yet to see a single fruit. Still, the tree looks healthy and (unlike our old greengage - that variety is supposed to be a bit sort of "delicious fruit WHEN you get them" in the UK) is supposed to be a reliable cropper so maybe next year...
 
And a couple of general shots of the veg, etc. area. My parents rent a small strip of a field that the farm doesn't use because of a pipe running through it. It was all overgrown with brambles when my mother and one of my brothers (he did most of the hard work) took it on about 15 years ago. It's lovely out there, even more so when they have barley growing in the field.

Here's a general view of the veg plot. The Vistoria plum is bottom right. The damson and greengage are behind the silver birch in the background.

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Here's the old unknown apple tree. It's sort of intertwined with a holly tree.

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Here are the greenhouses.

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Clementine_3 said:
I have an apple tree in my yard, it's not a crabapple tree but I have no idea what kind they are. I guess I should find out before I go on a picking spree.
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Actually thinking about that one: I'd think just try them. There are for example events in the UK where you can take an apple to people who will attempt to identify it and I'd imagine other countries have similar but, while I'd like to know what our own "unknown" is, we still haven't got to one and there is no guarantee of an identification (and apples don't grow to a type from seed - what if someone just planted a pip and it grew?)..

In the case of our unknown, it is a sweet eater in October but it bruises very easily and is a poor keeper. Turned out to be a great juicer though.

Whether it turns out to be cooking, eating or juicing or a combination of uses, I'd think you'd probably find you enjoy them for something.
 
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